I've been meaning to share a couple of things I ran across this week.

I've been very much missing garage sales and the Salvation Army. Without them, I don't know how or where to get my cheap clothes, cheap furniture and cheap thrills. Therefore, I think I need to make Saturday official Dumpster-Diving Day. Sunday is trash day for the area of the city in which we live, so there is always the most inviting stuff on the sidewalk. And since Saturday is Shabbat and there isn't as much foot-traffic on the street, you don't cause the kind of scene you would on a weekday when you rifle around in someone's trash.

Anyway, I found this awesome faux wood pencil holder on the street last Saturday. It looks super-good on the white bookcase.



So, way (way!) back in mid-October when I visited the TA Museum of Art, I totally fell in love with a book at the museum bookstore; I was looking for a break from errands on Monday, so I went back to see if they had any copies left (it was an exhibition catalog from 2003, so I was a little worried). They did, and the book was marked down to $5!!! I had to get it, and I'm so glad I did. (P + JR -- they still have three copies left, so email me if you want one!)







The book, How Many Is One, is about one-off jewelry, made entirely from cast-off jewelry hardware parts. Generally I'm not keen on one-off "art" jewelry (it's usually awful craft fair fodder or else super-high end nonsense), but the pieces in the book were pretty interesting, both aesthetically and materially. I thought the way the pieces elevated hardware (which were originally designed to be thrown out or melted down) was really cool.