Welcome to Is This Available? by Dana and Maria, our weekly blast about something we find on Facebook Marketplace.
New York
Today, I’m bringing my daughters on stage. You might be saying, but Maria, you are famously 28 and childless? Besides that, you spend way too much time looking at your phone and generally dilly dallying to be the current guardian of a beautiful baby girl let alone girl(s)? Well these are my daughters who were immaculately conceived (gifted to me by my sweet and thoughtful boyfriend):
In some countries they’re Calico Critters. In others they’re Sylvanian Families. They’re perfect, divine even. Mine came with miniature plastic trumpets and little paper song books. But to share such preciosity in this photo felt somehow profane.
I’m not really a collector of trinkets. In fact, the idea of having many small and easy to bump into or lose or move for the rest of my life objects stresses me out. But every once in a while a certain miniature object strikes me in this weird emotional place that is hard to articulate. Maybe it’s an unrealized maternal ennui? A mild fear of the fragile and fleeting nature of life in the material realm? A little opening in my generally curmudgeonly attitude toward all things woo woo?
I digress! But I’m sharing some FB marketplace finds today that unlock that same portal in me.
Antique Miniature Wall Mirror (Brooklyn, NY) – Something about looking at yourself in a bite-sized mirror surrounded by flowers says This Is A Home Where a Beautiful Woman Lives.
Mini Le Creuset (Brooklyn, NY) – Crème Brûlée, the platonic ideal of a two texture food for two? Yes please. Hand for scale.
Kissing Cats (Deer Park, NY) – Love ain’t dead!!
Tea set (Brooklyn, NY) – the daughters are BEGGING for this one. They, like mommy, are searching for a “perfect and lovely visual experience.”
Mini Bathtub (Brooklyn, NY)– crying in my uber to Carroll Gardens because I noticed the mini lighter for scale.
Until Next Time..
Dana’s miss of the week: Nothing more precious than a BIG purchase for a SMALL amount of money. Might fuck around and buy this boat for $1,800.