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A warm close-up from the Easter market in Tábor, where a hand-carved wooden spoon with a simple smiling face stood out among handmade kitchenware and soft background bustle. I wanted to capture the charm of traditional craft, the cozy atmosphere of the stall, and the quiet personality hidden in an everyday object.
My wife loves to browse kitchenware at Williams Sonoma. So when we went into this store, I saw these cute Santa mugs and a X'mas tree outside the store. I decided to compose a shot here as my camera was equipped with the Meyer Optik Trioplan, which is famous for its bubble bokeh. It was fun using this lens. My wife likes this lens too as it smoothens her skin.
Lens: Meyer Optik Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm F2.8 II
Shopping in the past: the old “Maruni Shoten” Kitchenware Store. Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, Koganei. Tokyo, Japan. © Michele Marcolin, 2023. K1ii + MOG Trioplan 35+ 35mm f2.8.
This is a household goods store built in the early Showa period (1926-1989). It was originally located in 3-chome, Kanda-jinbocho, Chiyoda Ward. It features a front wall covered in small copper plates ingeniously combined, while the interior is a reproduction of how the shop was in the 1930s. Tenement houses have been moved to the back of the shop to produce the street atmosphere that existed in those days.
I do not really polish this copper kettle as such other than the occasional run over with half a lemon which brings back some of the pink gleam as you see here.
The kettle has sat on that small side plate of the stove for over a year and has never boiled dry.
Traded!
I realized after buying this that I already have the 472, and I in fact need the 471 in this pattern.
Picked this up from my favorite antique store, This n That.
It's not really a kitchen but let's pretend. ;-) It's a repainted cheap fashiondoll closet filled with food stuff and kitchenware. Timmy loves to drink juice, and likes to play, so his kitchenware is very colourful and funny.
Most miniatures are from ReMent.
WEEK 33 – Carrollton, GA, Target (IV)
Somewhere in the general area of the kitchenware and home goods departments – I think at one of the little cut-through areas between them, as a matter of fact – I spotted another one of these classic Target handbasket corrals, except unlike the one I showed you previously, this one actually shows an icon of a Target handbasket. Both are neat in their own right, but obviously I think I lean towards liking this one better. Which one do y’all prefer?
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Mostly 1/12 scale, so the largest pan and colander are about 1". Kate really loved the tiny cupcake pan.
Lumen print on Emaks Kx 102 PE 18x24 cm.
July 16, 2023.
A day in Swedish summer light.
Egg Slicer and Grater.
Scanned without further treatment.
I have been working so hard last few weeks, therefore I believe it is ok to buy me something luxury! something I wanted so long from a local zakka store.
They are just great!!! I love the soft blue color, enamel material,rose pattern, what can I ask for more for the kitchenwares?
And that little pure linen cross stich table cloth, love it love it love it.!
Owls for my friend Zeina's owl collection. The bag was made by the lovely and talented Lisa Solomon aka dressform. The owl cookie jar and the musical owls came from e-bay.
WEEK 33 – Carrollton, GA, Target (IV)
This overview shot will serve to close us out for this week, looking back over health and beauty (on the left), kitchenware (on the right), and grocery (in the back). Those aisle markers we discussed are once again visible in this view… I bring them up again because I just saw this photo from our friend [https://www.flickr.com/photos/159030934@N04/], which appears to show a similar style of aisle marker in use at yet another P17 Target store – except they’re flat instead of tri-sided, and in a department that’s not groceries! Indeed, the grocery department in that store got the usual P17 aisle markers… very interesting. If any of you react in the same way, feel free to discuss in the comments below. If not, well then I suppose I have nothing more to say than I hope you stick around for more photos from this store, uploading two weeks from now!
NEXT WEEK – the welcome wall awaits us for our final farewell from the Oakland Kroger…
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Well, this was a test shot after i charged the battery, that's inside my kitchen..a non cooking bachelor's kitchen...sad life...
I love birds! :-)
I FINALLY found the blue 043 oval casserole so to celebrate I photographed some of my birdies. Took this photo a while ago but just got around to posting it.
and some times those little things add up!
Oh! You have NO idea folks!
This is just the tip of the iceberg!
Another long shelf full, up in the computer room.
The shelf full of Black Shafford Cat kitchenware in the kitchen.
And BOXES of more cat figurines out in the garage.
There are collections within the collection.
There are wooden cats, metal cats, long-necked cats, black cats, absract colorful cats, vintage cats.
It started when I was a kid. I had ONE shelf in my bedroom with a little collection of bone china kitties...........and from there, the collection kept growing.
Years and years of trolling Flea Markets and Thrift Stores,
and the countless cat themed gifts from friends.....it sort of boggles the mind.
At one time, I had this crazy vision of shelving the entire wall of one room and putting the whole army out on display.......but that was a long time ago......I mean, who's gonna dust all of that now?
So, it's probably pretty obvious to you all by now, that I have been battling from a severe form of O.C.D. (Obsessive Cat Disorder) for years now....besides suffering from the urge to want to adopt every cat in distress I come across, this disorder can have other side effects, like picking up every cool looking cat effigy I see and bringing it home.
I rarely pick one up these days. It has to be EXTREMELY unique. After all this time, I think I might finally be starting to get some control over my obsession.!
It has been a fun hobby, but I'm thinking the time has come to start unloading a large majority of them . No sense in keeping them tucked away where nobody can see them.
I'll keep some of the more unique pieces to give to Chloe.
WEEK 39 – Covington Kroger Closing, Set 2
I was super-duper excited when I discovered this piece still hanging around the store: it’s the classic Kroger kitchenware décor! Northwest Retail and I were discussing at his blog the other day whether or not décor stuff is still made out of real wood these days; jury’s out on that one, but where this piece is concerned, just looking at it I’m pretty darn sure that this is the real thing. In turn, that also probably suggests its age to the uninitiated; and if you wanted to confirm, you could just flip back to l_dawg2000’s photos of the Southaven Goodman/Getwell Kroger prior to its remodel/expansion, and see that yep, it dates to at least as early as 2004 (assuming the store did, in fact, open with it).
I’m not entirely sure if this store had millennium décor prior to the script remodel – more on that a few photos from now – but if it did, then it’s likely the piece was installed at that point in time. If it didn’t, there’s still the possibility that it was installed new with the 2007 script décor remodel… I’m really not sure on what the exact timeline for this piece would have been, especially since I’m only familiar with it from photos: the Hernando store was evidently too small to have one, and all others have been pretty steadily removed in any remodels. Hence, long story short, why I was very excited to stumble upon this one here – a nice, unexpected surprise :)
Now… I can’t say I absolutely love the font choice, haha! But it’s still a cool piece all the same, with its nice dark wood and many crossing lines creating a neat overhang for the department. It’s worth noting that that Southaven store actually had three of these things in the kitchenware area (not identical, but close), plus an additional supersized one for the reading center (I’d forgotten about that one!) Likewise, what I believe to be the very earliest 2012 décor remodel in our region also has what’s clearly a late evolution of these signs (and is just as clearly made of fake wood – lending credence to our earlier argument!), indicating that they lasted a good long while before finally being retired. While not here in Covington, other stores that had this signage over the years also featured alongside it some hanging pots and pans, which is cool.
Unfortunately this is the only photo I got of it on this visit, for whatever reason. That said, definitely don’t forget it. I want you to keep this thing solidly in mind for when we return in the future for our Naifeh’s post-conversion tour… ;)
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
The left view is an unposted one taken just prior to the Sears Laurelwood closing sale starting, and mere days after the closing was announced. The gift registry décor on the floor to ceiling post is very similar to what can be seen in the right view, only not the exact same post. Memphis Retail *did* happen to get a before view of what I believe is this same post my right view is showing, his photo obviously taken well after the closing sale had started. I should have went to the other side of the store (where the blue Land's End posts would have been!), but as stated before, that end is nearly impossible to photograph now. (I think people would frown on me stopping in the middle of Perkins, even in the turn lane, for photos!) And form these views, it looks like that east side of the store may have been gone already anyway :(
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Sears, 1957-58 built (closed April 2016), Poplar Ave. at Perkins Ext., Memphis
Retail Retell reports these accent signs in produce are from the Artisan décor package. Thanks Kroger, for making good on my prediction that at least a little bit of Artisan would make it into this remodel!
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Kroger, 2004-built, Goodman Rd. at Getwell Rd., Southaven, MS
A good guess would be kitchenware, small electrics, and/or related furntiure recently occupied this area near the front right corner. I looked (very briefly, and half-heartdly at that!) for an online store directory, but didn't see one, and it had been many years since I had last been in the place.
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Sears, 1968-built (closed March 2017), S. Caraway Rd. at E. Highland Dr., Jonesboro AR