I walked into the shop today and found surprises! I love it when the antique cupboard has beauties like this bracelet. This pendant looks like it rose from the sea. Walk into the next room and the long, middle table holds a different kind of surprise. Games! The whole table is filled with them. This one comes right out of a medieval city in France called Carcassonne. I was there, many years ago. Can you hear a bugle blowing? Walk through that gate and you'll find scenes right out of the 1400's. At the end of the room you'll find this jacket. Click on it and you'll see some delicate tracery at the bottom. Truly unusual, the color is one that could go with just about any thing: navy, black, brown. Beautiful! I have the feeling some five year old (hello Theo!) would love these dinosaurs. They are guarding the games. Talk to them nicely and maybe they'll let you buy one! It's February and we have the usual, amazing dollar rack! Enjoy!
The Turnabout Shop is located in El Cerrito, California, at 10052 San Pablo Avenue—our telephone number is 510-525-7844. We are open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to four. The shop has a very interesting background and I plan to devote one of my upcoming blogs to that history. I was born in Minnesota in 1933, moved to Wisconsin with my family in my twenties, collected a Bachelor of Science degree in Childhood Education, left for California for a teaching job and met my husband. We have been married for 47 years and have two sons and two grandsons, age six and a half and almost three. I love thrift stores. Where else could you find a grotesque Paper Mache mask with weird decorations? Weird can be wonderful! This one nearly caused a divorce: "Either that goes or you go!" We have a dog—an Akita mix called Plato—named for the philosopher. He is a very bright dog. I still have family in Wisconsin and the memories of a wonderful brother who I'm grieving. Take some time out of your busy day and come visit me.