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May 2, 2010 by Jaci Dawn

(Or what we bought at yard sales)

The only way I could get a photo of the lithograph without having a glare of reflection was to sit it on the floor in the hallway… So, yes, it’s a weird angle. The good news is that Michael’s had a 55% off custom framing coupon in the newspaper today. Oh wait, JoAnn’s had a 60% off coupon and Michael’s will honor that… so this is getting reframed ASAP with non-glare glass and a nice wooden frame. Paid $5 for it and found one online that just sold at auction for $50 – same lithograph series, but “nicely framed”. So I don’t consider that this is worth $50 (but it will be after I get it custom framed this week). It is titled “Mount Hood’s Reign” and is #315/1,000. It is also autographed down on the matte by the artist, John Paul Braman.

I love yard sales like that.

The first yard sale we hit had a lot of strange stuff and boxes of “free” stuff, wherein I picked up a CD of Gregorian Chants (I know, strange – but it’s actually kind of relaxing) and a little St. Anthony pendant on a silver chain. I’m not anything close to Catholic, but I liked the chain & it was free. I also picked up some clothes there: a couple nice blouses and a pair of Italian leather shoes that have hardly been worn.

But the big find was a certain pedestal bowl. I saw the same bowl at work last week when a co-worker brought hers in to serve fruit in. I coveted that baby! But I neglected to ask where she found it so I could look for one like it. Enter the yard sale. I looked up and Donald had this in his arms:

Well, sans the fruit. He just had the pedestal bowls in his arms and looked quite protective of it. I was just floored: it is identical to the one I was drooling over at work last week! $3. How did Don know I would love that?? It’s so perfect.

A silly montage of some of our finds – the pewter tea pot is pretty cool. It was marked “antique” but I don’t know if it is or not.

That is the only identification mark on it.

The tin square was one of those things that the seller tossed in to a yard sale and didn’t expect to actually sell. But I knew where it would go in my yard the moment I spotted it.