The new additions

(Still not done with Frost Flower. Maybe tomorrow).

Here are a the things I mentioned from the antique shops yesterday. Two new tree ornaments and the vase.

Here's the carousel. I think it's pretty wonderful. I don't know for sure how old it is, I suspect it could be as early as the early 1970s and as recent as a year ago because I know Herrschner's and places still sell kits for sequinned tree ornaments:



Still, I tend to associate that gold braid (it typically had sticky on the back) with the early to mid 1970s, that was a very common craft item then.

(Eventually I am going to break down and get a larger tree. This one, I can't put all the ornaments I have on it, and also, it's 15 years old and starting to shed/lose its color)

I also found a really TINY wooden and fabric ornament of a boy on a sled:



It's hard to tell from that photo but it's about an inch and a half tall.

And also, well, I might as well have a photo of the Rainbow Dash ornament I bought the other day. I think it's really cute and am trying to think if there's some way I can mount a little hook somewhere so I can keep her out after the holidays:






These are the bird vases. The biggest one - the one with the orangy tree stumps - is the most recently purchased one. I think all of them, save for the smallest one with the shiny glaze (second from right) come from the same factory - there is the same stamp ("JAPAN" in orange, plus what looks like the Mercedes-Benz symbol). And stylistically they're similar.

I haven't ever really used these (I don't have flowers in the house much, because allergies) but I like having several similar ones and I don't doubt that, if I find another example in the future I will wind up buying it, too.

(They don't say "OCCUPIED JAPAN" so they are either pre-1940s or post-1952. I'm guessing post-1952.)

Edited to add: maybe could be as early as the 1920s, if this site is correct. Cool.  (Unless mine is a knock-off, though the smaller vases I have - see the one on the far right - are pretty much identical to the one on that website and the mark is the same. But I can guar-an-darn-tee you I didn't pay $49 for my vase - it was more like $6. I paid $12.50 for the one I bought yesterday.)