Thriftshop treasures from all over the world 🌍

Wandering trough a triftshop relaxes me.
It makes me think about my childhood by seeing things that we used to have in our home back then.
Sometimes I buy something, but just looking can be enough as well.
Today I found these two plates, we used to have the whole crockery set. You could get it by saving points you got by buying food from a special brand. When my mother died en we emptied the house most of it was gone because we children dropped it by accident.

I have found many more triftshop treasures :hugs:
I’m curious about yours!
Let’s share our finds!

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Oh I loooove kringloops (triftshops)!
Will definitely post here

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Kringloops? I love this word! I will have to use it
From now on. I have a friend who loves to thrift shop with me, I can’t wait to tell her this new word!

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It’s Dutch :hugs:

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I’ve been in the presence of Dutch speakers in the Caribbean, most notably Curaçao and Bonaire. Fun language to try to learn! If I can figure out how to upload photos effectively, I will share.

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Loved this original piece, a ceramic vase inside a basket.

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Beautiful, not easy to make I guess.
With things like that I always wonder how they do it. At first that ceramic vase that I’ll get but then making that basket fit tight around it? :thinking:

For me I think Dutch sounds angular and blunt, if you understand what I mean.
If I would have chosen my birth language it would be Spanish ore Italian. That languages sounds really like music for my ears :grin:

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Nice bag! Is that the Union Jack?

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And I like your map of the world as well, is it an old one?

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I found these two old ladies a few months ago.
They are somewhere from 1920 ore 1930 I was told. When we visited my grandparents ages ago they where in the room where I slept.
These two are simulair like them.


I found out there was a whole set of those. All boy and girls dressed in Dutch traditional costume.
They remind me of the flat of my grandparents. Nice and cosy and filled with sigarette smoke :blush:

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I have no idea, no-name :slight_smile:
It’s perfect bag when I go with boys to library cause books all size can fit in (those books for kids are sometimes huuuuge :sweat_smile:)

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Unfortunately no :slight_smile:
It’s from Xenos if I remember good

But it’s an old style one, Russia is Soviet Union here, we have Dutch East Indies etc

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Lovely! Do you know who the artist was?

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Hmmm, looks like the British flag? Nicknamed Union Jack.

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I thought you mean company name :see_no_evil:
Yup, I’m an idiot :sweat_smile:

Hah! No, you’re no idiot! Maybe I am, I only speak one language!:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Yes, I googled on it but I do not remeber it right now. I wrote it up somewhere. It isn’t a real painting though (I wish! :blush:). But something people bougt as a souvenir back in the old days I read somewhere. People collected them because of the many different trational costumes it shows. There are at least 14 of them to collect.

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Found a silverplated dish to put the stone tealightholders on :confetti_ball:
The green old Chinese ginger jar I found in a triftshop earlier. We use it for the burned matches now.


Did you find something nice lately?
It’s almost an addiction for me to wander trough a triftshop and find something cheap I like :blush:

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Nice! I too am addicted to this hobby. I edited out the picture, it just won’t load.

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