This house doesn't need another fancy plate or basket, but my favorite thrift shop, The Discover Store, had a 50% off everything sale this weekend and these items were too unique to pass up.
The plate has an "Abigail" stamp, which according to Google, is an old southern family business selling high quality pottery. I don't know anything about ceramics, but reduced down to ten bucks, hard to resist.
I've always wanted to learn pine needle basket making, but the class I signed up for was cancelled. That coil basket has thousands of individual needles-- imagine the work! I wonder who made it, and then who gave it away to the charity shop. If only things could talk.
At the West Seattle Sunday Market, the person in front of me paid a shocking $7 for a single heirloom tomato. He didn't even blink. (Same price as the pine needle basket.)
And the ultimate bargain: free. The house across the street put this perfectly good chair out on the sidewalk and I grabbed it.
Seattle can be a strange place.
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