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akirluLast night's dinner expedition left us a very short hop from the local Value Village, and since one of the many fine things about V² is the way they keep normal retail hours, Hal suggested we go poke about for a little while as he was maybe in that sort of mood. It appears to have been a good day for V².
While I was pottering around the housewares, finding a tiny Corning Visions saucepan with its lid (perfect for microwaving frozen vegetables -$2.99), and a new-looking English bone china cup-and-saucer with blue forget-me-nots and gilt rims($6.99), and deciding that the asparagus pot wasn't of a good enough original manufacture to fuss with the burnt-on gook at the bottom of pot and basket, Hal ambled off and found a chocolate brown suede barn coat for himself that fits beautifully, with lots of pockets and no obvious wear at all -- for $20. The cream on that one is that its label says "Made Exclusively for HBO" -- H-B-O are in fact Hal's initials.
Now, I would have been really very satisfied with any one of those finds, but we were not, evidently, done yet. After rounding up another jacket and shirt, Hal wandered away to the books where he found a copy of the freely illustrated Private Palaces: Life in the Great London Houses, by Christopher Simon Sykes for $3. Which turns out to be out of print, too. I didn't even know I wanted this book, but my God, it's all full of photographs and drawings of the insides and outsides of these palatial London townhomes, dating back to the 17th century, and it looks to be a wicked good reference for writing any kind of historical set in London society. I am expecting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
athenais to be Deeply Jealous.
And then (no, still not done), while Hal was looking at some used laptops, I discovered that our local V² gets used saris. Ah. Of course it does. And so there was the best of them, an emerald green and purple thing with heavy gold medalion work, which might just possibly be silk or a blend thereof, was also $6.99. For a full-length sari. Oh, it's got some runs in the ends, which is why it's no good for a sari any more, but might make up rather nicely into a rather spectacular salwar kamiz set. Not sure what I'll do with it yet, but the colors do make me think ofmarykaykare so possibly it needs to belong to her...
While I was pottering around the housewares, finding a tiny Corning Visions saucepan with its lid (perfect for microwaving frozen vegetables -$2.99), and a new-looking English bone china cup-and-saucer with blue forget-me-nots and gilt rims($6.99), and deciding that the asparagus pot wasn't of a good enough original manufacture to fuss with the burnt-on gook at the bottom of pot and basket, Hal ambled off and found a chocolate brown suede barn coat for himself that fits beautifully, with lots of pockets and no obvious wear at all -- for $20. The cream on that one is that its label says "Made Exclusively for HBO" -- H-B-O are in fact Hal's initials.
Now, I would have been really very satisfied with any one of those finds, but we were not, evidently, done yet. After rounding up another jacket and shirt, Hal wandered away to the books where he found a copy of the freely illustrated Private Palaces: Life in the Great London Houses, by Christopher Simon Sykes for $3. Which turns out to be out of print, too. I didn't even know I wanted this book, but my God, it's all full of photographs and drawings of the insides and outsides of these palatial London townhomes, dating back to the 17th century, and it looks to be a wicked good reference for writing any kind of historical set in London society. I am expecting
athenais to be Deeply Jealous.And then (no, still not done), while Hal was looking at some used laptops, I discovered that our local V² gets used saris. Ah. Of course it does. And so there was the best of them, an emerald green and purple thing with heavy gold medalion work, which might just possibly be silk or a blend thereof, was also $6.99. For a full-length sari. Oh, it's got some runs in the ends, which is why it's no good for a sari any more, but might make up rather nicely into a rather spectacular salwar kamiz set. Not sure what I'll do with it yet, but the colors do make me think of
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Date: 2006-06-17 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-17 05:56 pm (UTC)*jealous jealous jealous*
It's so nice that you didn't have to pay much for it.
*jealous jealous jealous*
I have plenty of nice books on Stately Homes already.
*jealous jealous jealous*
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Date: 2006-06-18 02:35 am (UTC)--claire
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