Comments on: iwantiwantiwant

By: shari

shari — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:20:34 +0000

What? Isn’t that why you’re inviting me along?!? To carry the end-table?

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:40:25 +0000

Claire: [hangs head] No. No, I haven’t framed any of those things. But I do have the albums sitting on my mantel!
Dee-Dee: Yay for festivus! Yay for asian bobbleheads!
diane: OOOOH! Thanks for the tip – I’m pretty sure I’ve been past that store, but figured it would be insanely overpriced, like every other antique store in Chicago. Cool!
shari: I’m SO there! Although, I don’t think I like the “only buy what you can carry” rule. What if I find the perfect end table? Hey – then can we go gambling, too?

By: shari

shari — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:18:24 +0000

OK, so when you come to visit, we’re going to the Antique Mall, and the Gilded Lily Antique Home, and a couple of other places that don’t have identifiable store titles but have awesome rooms of what otherwise might be termed junk, but you and I know to be possible treasure. But, like when going gambling with a friend, we will only have a pre-determined amount of cash-in-hand, no debit or credit cards allowed, and we’ll go on foot so we’d have to carry whatever we buy. Ooooooh, this is going to be fun!!

By: diane

diane — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:08:41 +0000

Not QUITE as impressive, but if you haven’t yet, definitely check out the Ravenswood Antique Mall on N. Damen in Chi-town. It’s intimidating when you peer in the window, but the prices are not so daunting and the place goes way, way, WAYYYYY back to the very back of the buildling!

By: dee-dee

dee-dee — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:46:21 +0000

i will buy you the fan for festivus this year and those bobble heads must be bought…regardless of price.

By: claire

claire — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:32:56 +0000

Have you actually framed and hung any of the frameable stuff you’ve bought? If you’ve done even a third of them, I’d be impressed.
Sometimes the unidentifiable stuff is the most fun to get. I would have trouble with that mantra.
The barber chair looks cool. When I was driving cross country, I saw these large iron ore carts that I thought would look fantastic in my parents’ garden. There was that brief flash image of towing it behind my car in my mind, but they were so expensive I never pursued the towing idea. (I’m sure my car is thankful!)

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:26:11 +0000

elle: Note to self – do not go near an antique mall with elle…
PSass: Really? See – I must have instinctively known that someone needed it!
hap: Ooh – hadn’t really thought about the oil part. The weight was definitely an issue – and the $400 price tag!
heather anne: Yes, you win one set of asian bobblehead kissing dolls! (oh, wait – looks like they’re already being snatched up…)
Dee: Are you really going to buy them? They were awesome, but I never checked a price. YES I WANT THAT FAN! No wait. Don’t. YES, BUY IT. No, don’t. PLEASE GET IT FOR ME! I JUST DON’T KNOW! (yes, please get it.)
Tracy Lynn: Junk, you say? Like perhaps the four discarded windows I garbage picked several years ago, thinking I would someday make art out of them? Only to later set by the trash when I moved to Chicago? Only to later regret trashing once I saw a bunch of cool paintings done on old windows? ARGHHH! It’s a sickness!

By: Tracy Lynn

Tracy Lynn — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:59:18 +0000

I’m not allowed to go into antique stores for the next eight months, until I move, simply because I can’t be trusted. I don’t limit myself to antiques, either, embracing a wide variety of outright JUNK that could be transformed if one knew how.
I have the knowledge, but lack skill and patience. Believe me when I say you NEED skill and patience.

By: dee-dee

dee-dee — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:31:00 +0000

I am going back to buy those asian bobble-head dolls after seeing the picture…I forgot how great they were…do you want me to pick up the fan?

By: heather anne

heather anne — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:35:59 +0000

I was so close. I guessed gangsters, but my second guess was going to be Jenny. Do I still win a prize?