But, sometimes, those drummers are a matching pair. *wink* A fabulous vintage kitschy pair of planters, a drummer boy and a Majorette girl, illustrate my point! Image credits: Pigtunia’s Plunder.

You accept a vintage pottery pig as payment for your work. I happily received this vintage cold-painted piggy bank as my fee for consulting work. I adore her sweet face and the red roses that decorate her — butt but it’s the curly tail that charmed me the most. So this little piggy came wee-wee-wee [...]

Picture it… A vending machine filled with glassware, china, and porcelain figurines… You insert a coin, a piece of fragile china slowly moves forward — only to fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking. Calm down — it’s only art! A set of three interactive sculptural pieces by Yarisal and Kublitz. Called Passive/Aggressive Anger [...]

I purchased this vintage wall pocket awhile ago simply for it’s whimsy; what’s not to love about a pirate duck? It simply has to ‘quack’ you up — or you’ll be forced to walk the plank, arr! It’s a vintage ceramic piece, made in Japan, rather nicely painted under the glaze with additional spots of [...]

One of the first things that people usually ask me when they find out I’m a dealer of vintage collectibles is, what do you collect? My answer is usually short and sweet – “Anything that is chipped or cracked!” My shelf in the kitchen holding my misfit kitchen collectibles – lots of chips, cracks and [...]

When I was a kid, I had a number of vintage spaghetti figurines — mostly poodles. Sadly, I sold most of them at family rummage sales as I got older. So when I spotted this black poodle with the familiar ceramic spaghetti fur for just $2 at a local thrift shop I had to take [...]