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Covered Wagon Planter
This little covered wagon planter was made in Japan circa 1950’s. The colors are nice and bright and I love the painted cactus on the ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1960’s Church & Funeral Fans, Wienerschnitzel and The Color Purple
I bought my first African American church fan in the late 1970’s but my collection really kicked into gear after I worked with James B...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 35 – August 2010)
All cars should have one of these sitting on the dashboard! Allee has the most incredible collection of picks I have ever seen. I think I wa...
Nacho and Salsa serving dish sombrero
This was something I didn’t even bother to take home from the dump. It stayed behind and as soon as I was done photographing it, someo...
Mostly Post 86 Fiesta
This is mostly Fiesta Ware produced by the Homer Laughlin China Company after 1986 aka contemporary Fiesta that is microwave and dishwasher ...
Walnut Salt & Pepper Shakers
Loved these salt & peper shakers made out of real walnuts – at the Alameda Point Antiques Fair...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 29 – August 2010)
Featured on “Kitsch of the Day”, these disco mugs are, by far, the best example of disco kitsch. I didn’t ask but I do hop...
The Leaning Tower of Lunchboxes
This tower of vintage lunchboxes stands in Track 16 at Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station art gallery complex. It’s not really R...
Turkey Gravy Boat
I did not buy this. This is a gravy boat made in Italy....
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Bagels and lox in Texas, 1979
Every Sunday morning growing up the ritual was to go with my dad to the deli and buy bagels, lox, cream cheese, tomatoes, onions and white f...
Farmer Pig cookie jar
American Bisque Farmer Pig cookie jar with Straw Hat. I think he’s adorable!! Instead of cookies, I put our Nespresso coffee capsules ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950’s Tiger Paw Vibrating Back Scratcher
I used to love back scratchers as a kid, the long skinny brittle plastic kind that the hand snapped off of if you jerked them along your bac...
Double decker bottlecap ashtray
I was in Boise this week, and happened to see this curious ashtray. It’s made of bottlecaps and other common hardware. It could be cal...
Hang keys on chalkware chicken…
Standing about 6″ high, an adorable chalkware chicken key holder. Too good to pass up in A+ condition....
ACRYLIC GRAPES HAVE ARRIVED!!!!!
This is one complete sculpture. This was $5.00. the smaller green cluster was $7.00. Wood sculptures, acrylic grapes and my Ipod docking sta...
Denny’s Adventure’s in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 19 – August 2010)
I have never seen so many fabulous S & P shakers. I used to have some good ones but the ones featured in these pics are out of this worl...
Spooning for you in Tahoe Squirrel Souvenir
Great old googly-eyed measuring spoon holder souvenir...
Giant Wooden Male & Female (?) Sculptures
This is my favorite couple. They never argue and they are impeccably dressed. I love the casual decoration on the leg and the stylish caps. ...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 22 – August 2010)
These are not all of the coffee mugs at “Willis Wonderland” as I can almost guarantee that there are probably many more that are...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Lipstick Camera and Greg Gorman’s Retrospective Last Night at the Pacific Design Center
. Anyone who knows me knows that there are two things I never leave home without, my lipstick and my camera. I always carry at least two of ...
Saguaro Kitsch
First some facts about saguaros: The giant cactus tree often associated with the West grows only in the Sonoran Desert here in Arizona and M...
My Monkey Mat
I step on this fuzzy monkey’s face every time I get out of the shower. He doesn’t seem to mind – he just keeps on smiling....
Barrel Cookie Jar
I didn’t stress about the size of the pic as it is quite obvious what this is. I almost gave into temptation and purchased this until ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – African Lady Ashtray
Made of heavy metal and showing signs of many smokables ground out on her head, this petite 3″ long ashtray is one of my favorite piec...













