Showing posts with label collectibles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collectibles. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2009

Estate sales = gotta love'em

Went to another estate sale today. If you are in the area, get yourself on the Marin Estate Liquidators mailing list. this sale was a classic, 75+ yr old lady's house, filled to the brim with goodies. I had to hold back.

Shown here are my treats. Two sheets from a photo album that i found under a chair. Lucky me! If they had the whole album, i'm sure it would have been expensive. just two sheets were cheap!
I also picked up a book of haiku poetry with woodblock illustrations, and another falling apart, beautifully aged and yellowed poetry book. Then for fun a few novelty items: a game called Jack Straws that i never heard of, but has cute little items that would work well in collage. A set of round tarot type cards with bad illustrations, but that could be turned into something cool, and a set of nice wine charms. Finally a pretty white lidded porcelain thing - with sculpted flowers on top. I sort of have a collection of white objects - so i thought i'd add it to the pile. Here is my shelf of altered books. You can see some of my white stuff used to prop open the books.I bought a couple of things not pictured - a wooden pizza peel - you know, the thing to slide a pizza onto the stone in the oven, and to get it out again. And i replaced the middle size corning ware casserole that i broke years ago, after receiving the set as a wedding shower gift. I have the very 80's set with the lavender lilies on the side. You just never know what you are going to find!