Baribocraft Salt & pepper Mill

We use this badboy every day. It's got better action than the Quistgaard mill we scored at the same Pembroke Value Village. This was cheaper ($1 vs. $2), and it's Canadian, so it's much cooler. That's that.

Midcentury Steel & Teak Tea Set

 

Another tea set! This was a $19.99 eBay purchase. I think it's actually meant for coffee rather than tea.

Memphis Sottsass 80's Deco Tea Set

We picked up this nice looking unmarked tea set at Value Village off Bank St. in Ottawa for $5. It kind of reminds me of Ettore Sottsass Memphis designs

1958 Raymond Loewy Le Creuset French Dutch Oven cast iron casserole

We scored this great cast iron dutch over in the wilds of Abbotsford BC a few years back. Sonya (the sharp-eyed cutie) spotted it, and like a magpie drawn to something shiny, this badboy came home with us. It was $2.

Since then we figured out this was a Le Creuset dutch oven, designed by Raymond Loewy in 1958. This is the '25' size, and from what I can  gather, turqouise/aqua is one of the rarest colours that was originally produced (I couldn't find another anywhere online), and this colour wasn't re-issued with the new Raymond Loewy-Le Creuset collections. I just love the shape and colour, it makes me happy every time I walk past it in the kitchen.