MidCentury is Go!

Hello gang. Last day of work today. Yippee. Hope it is for you to. You know my mantra, stick it to the man and leave early.

 I've been getting my Mid-Century On lately and here's a little look-see for you. A couple of weekends ago, a group of capital 'L' Ladies gathered at another capital 'L' Lady's abode for some vintage swapping and general raconteuring.

I was lucky enough to come home with boxes of delights including the above Norwegian glass vase, and that cute little brown vase of unknown origin. Most of my treasures came from the very generous Jo of the Desire to Inspire blog.

Helen threw some ittala glasses our way. I've ditched the melamine tumblers and the Solid Gold Dancers have gone all sophisticated and have been knocking back some Water Cocktails in frosted Finnish glass.

The piece de resistance for me, however, is the large Arabia Ruska platter and brown West German serving dish. Brown. Brown. Brown. They're both being lathered in coconut oil and heading to the Coast for Christmas.

Meeting up with these Ladies appears to becoming an annual event and the group gets larger and larger and funnier and funnier and the rugs get shaggier and shaggier. I feel quite The Fraud because they're all Capital 'C' creatives and I deal with dead people's legal quandaries. Nothing conversation-worthy about dead people's legal quandaries. Let me tell you.

Here's some of the vintage treasures that (mostly Jo) brought along. Brown. Brown. Brown. As far as the eye can see!

And of course, I wouldn't be anybody if I didn't make an appearance the California Design Exhibit at the Queensland Art Gallery. I left the Solid Golds outside to ponder the Studebaker and lounge about on some expensive Eames furniture ... like they do that everyday ... while I enjoyed myself Solo.

Here's some visuals for those of you who can't make the Exhibition. I must say I enjoyed meandering around by myself and pondering things in silence.

I got swept-up in the Eames movie which is really just a fillum of stills ... but I really felt at-One with Ray and Charles and really dug where they were coming from photowise.

You know what the below planter is saying to me? It says, make me into a Pyssla decoration for the Christmas tree why don'tcha?

What do you want for Christmas? Done all your shopping? Excited? What time will you finish work? How much do you reckon an Eames coffee table would be? Do you usually answer the forced questions at the end of blog posts which are only there to encourage reader participation?