Post #744923 by swizzle on Mon, Jun 15, 2015 3:03 PM

So i've been back in the U.S for just over three weeks now and i think i've done pretty well for myself so far. Here's all the stuff that i've found up until now in pretty much the order i bought them.

First a Coco Joe's from a swap meet and the two wooden carvings from two different antique stores in Bisbee. The one on the right is half of a S&P set from Samoa.

All of this was found in the same store and cost me a total of $39.82. Very happy with this haul.

Book from a second-hand bookstore and the bobble head, which was too tacky to leave behind, from a Goodwill.

This was from a day thrifting. The two shirts and the Coco Joes were from an antique store and the books and pineapple bowls from couple of different thrift shops.

Very cool pewter pineapple bowl from a thrift store.

This book i had read about a long time ago but never tried to hunt it down. I was fortunate enough to find it on the shelf in a second-hand bookstore.

From the same Goodwill i found the bobble head. Yes i know they are really tacky, but for $5 each i wasnt going to pass them up. I'd never find anything like this back in Australia so a couple of corny tiki torches for the garden at that price is OK by me.

I absolutely love this pineapple cushion. Same thrift store as the pewter bowl. I didn't buy it when i bought the bowl but decided i really wanted it. I went back twice and they were closed both days. Fortunately it was still there the next time i went back.

A small souvenir outrigger canoe from a thrift store.

These two i got at a yard sale for $3 for both. The thing on the left is an alarm clock and the little tiki drummer bangs out a great drum solo on the skulls. Probably my most favourite find so far.

And last but not least, i found a Jenny Haniver at a second-hand bookstore. Very surprised to come across this, and although i'd love to keep it i'm not sure it would get through customs when i go back home so i'm in negotiations at the moment to trade it.

I'm here for another 9 weeks so hopefully i'll find a heap more stuff that i can post here.

P.S. I also found two other aloha shirts thrifting and was at a private party in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago and there was a guy doing live painting who liked my pendant i was wearing (one of the ones i make) and i offered it to him for a trade and he gave me these two prints for it. Was pretty happy with that.

[ Edited by: swizzle 2015-06-15 15:06 ]