11 Things I Thrifted In August

Rain, leaks, COVID...a carefree-summer it was not. Thankfully, the thrifting was reliably 🔥 AF.

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We are upstate working on Future Cottage, and being it’s a No Camp month, grabbing stolen hours here and there to work where/when we can ain’t always easy. Yesterday, I was hiding out at Bartlett House, working on this very edition, when a lovely person came over to my table and told me she loved…this newsletter🥹. I pointed to my screen and told her I was writing it “like right now!”…and, I swear, it completely made my summer (THANK YOU, kind person).

Bartlett House yesterday when my salad arrived, right after someone came over to my little table and Made My Day.🌻😬

A summer that has not felt much like Summer at all. We had RAIN and a few leaks to go with it. A whole A/C system to replace (+ a mini makeover). A surprise visit from COVID (HI👻). And, now Mercury is retrograde…🤡. But as someone who is not of this particular season, my expectations for summer are always generally low. Like, if I manage to wear a swimsuit only once and catch a sunset with a drink (not made by me) in my hand, I’m winning.

See ya, Summer! Winning with an armful of vintage Japanese kitchen things and a vintage Ralph Lauren rugby shirt…fall, you have my ❤️.

BUT…in the absence of Carefree Summer (whomst is she??), salvation/solace/sunshine shall always be found in the form of estate sales, thrifting road trips, and regular drive-by’s at my favorite therapy spots. Because I’m currently stockpiling goodies for a special project up here (stay tuned, it’s awesome😎) AND my follow-up Brooklyn yard sale with Stacy London (September 30, details on the way), I’ve managed to accumulate…THINGS. A lot of them. So, it wasn’t so easy whittling it down to just 11 here. But, you know, we do what we must, friends….xxCb

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1. I spotted these abstract paintings at the Hudson Antiques Warehouse about a month ago in my friend Anna’s section. I researched the artist, Dennis Byng, who passed away in 2008 and was a former art professor at SUNY Albany. Going a little deeper into his work, he mostly made sculpture out of plastic blocks, experimenting with different brightly colored glazing…mesmerizing. These paintings are less common for him, which makes me love them all the more. The folks in the portraits below definitely approve.