What I Bought, What I Passed Up...A Game

Now that I have sold a few more things in my newly re-stocked Etsy shop, I'm kind of obsessed. I'm having trouble passing by a thrift store, yard sale or church sale without just "taking a quick peek."

And I've been peeking, and buying, but also passing up on some choice weirdness.

So I thought it would be fun to play a game I'm going to call "What Did I Buy and What Did I Pass Up?"

Did I buy this hand-painted Ransburg Cookie Jar I happened to spot in a cart full of things waiting to be put on a shelf at Goodwill (possibly squeaking a little at finding it perched on a pile of plastic dishes and nabbing it before the Goodwill employee could turn around and put it on the shelf)?

Or did I buy this fancy Victorian cat?

Hint: I do love a cookie.

Did I purchase this trio of carolers made of Paper Mache sometime in the mid-century?

Or did I put this wide-eyed, frazzled little man with the rosy cheeks in my cart?

 

Hint: Fa, la, la, la, la...


Did I purchase this Phyllis Diller snow-lady?

Or pass her up for this ceramic terrier on a blue book? 

Hint: Dogs and books...two of my favorite things.

Did I stroll right past this one-eyed coconut dude?

To grab this ceramic flowered canister?

Hint: You betcha.

And finally...do you think I passed up this antique embroidered prayer made for a nursery,

to nab this headless angel?

Hint: No, I did not.

I was worried my digression back into stocking My Etsy Shop again would distract me from my writing, but I'm having such a good time, it has actually energized me and I had a very good writing session yesterday. 

So happy treasuring hunting, my friends, whether that be in life or a thrift store, there are always good things to be found among the weirdness -sometimes it even is the weirdness (although probably not a one-eyed coconut dude).