Save me from having to go to Hobby Lobby

[jmowreader]

I drink Red Rose Tea. LOTS of Red Rose Tea. Red Rose Tea comes with a little ceramic figurine imported all the way from England in every box, and since I drink so much of their tea I have a shitload of these figurines. I want a curio cabinet to hold...oh, about a hundred of them. Hobby Lobby would be the obvious place to look for things like this, but I don't want to shop with those people if I don't absolutely have to. I've looked online and the ones I see are generally in the $400 range - which would be okay if I was displaying the Hope Diamond next to the Peace Ruby, but it's a bit out of line for displaying figurines you get free with purchase of a $3.50 box of tea. Any ideas?

[marzipanni]

1. Etsy has a bunch

http://www.etsy.com/search?q=knick-knack%20shelf&view_type=gallery&ship_to=US

You'd be supporting a person who has a little business at home.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Try searching 'display cabinet' or 'curio cabinet' on ebay. n/t

[Phentex]

3. If we don't talk to you about Hobby Lobby, who will?

I like the etsy idea!

[Wait Wut]

4. Check craft stores...

...like Michael's.

Antique stores
Thrift stores
World Market
Pier 1

Don't limit yourself to 'curio'. I found one that would probably work for you listed as a 'shot glass display cabinet'

[marzipanni]

5. If, in the end, you must go to Hobby Lobby

A pop-up ad just told me that they're having a 40%-off-one-item sale now. Are they RW like Michael's?

[kath]

8. Hobby Lobby is way,WAY right-wing fundie.

I'm not sure about Michael's, but I've never heard them described as such.

[RiffRandell]

6. This is really funny.

My husband and I used to be huge tea drinkers and only liked Red Rose....Lipton yuck! I collected most of the figures and then gave them to my daughter to play with....we still have a bunch. They were so cute.

I would check Ikea.

[OriginalGeek]

7. I would google "How to make a curio cabinet/display case/etc.."

then watch a thousand youtube videos of varying degrees of helpfulness and then decide if I thought I really could do it. Then I'd look at how much the tools cost to make it and ask myself if I can honestly say I'd use them for other things too.

Then I'd either make it myself or hire it done or buy one already made from the many suggestions above here.

That's how I now have 200 dollars worth of leather-working tools. I'm still practicing on easy stuff but my custom sporran is in the realm of possibility. To give myself some added impetus, I ordered my hand-made, 8 yard, 100% wool kilt earlier this week. It'll be ready by mid-November so that's how long I have to make a kick-ass sporran. OR, at least, a suitably not-ridiculous sporran that will do until I am better at sporran-making.


I would add that I'd also ask here on DU but you've already done that so you're ahead of the game no matter how you slice it.

[Heddi]

9. Try local thrift/antique stores for Printers Tray

What what you probably want is a printers tray, the boxes that held the letters for the printers back during printing times. I see them at antique stores in Seattle frequently in the $20-50 range.

I think they're called letter press box or printers tray
look on Ebay too

?w=620

[jmowreader]

11. They're called Type Cases

These are the reason capital letters are called "upper case" and minuscule letters are called "lower case." A typesetter would have his letters separated into two cases, and would put one above the other on a rack. The capitals, as you guessed, were in the upper case.

[Heddi]

12. I couldn't think of the word for them

My friend has a room full of them nailed to the walls with all of her doo-dads and nicknacks tucked away. I think it looks awesome

[raptor_rider]

10. Try

An consignment shop, or a used shop. We got our grandfather clock 7 yrs ago from a consignment shop, and it cost half.