Things I Bought At the Auction

I saw this bird dog print decoupaged onto distressed pine, it has all the effects of the stuff we decoupaged in the 60s/70s--you know burned edges on the print, distressed edges on the plaque. And I have this thing for bird dogs. My daddy raised and trained them. I have pictures of him and my brother with the bird dogs that he trained. It called out to me. I had to have it. Mine for $2.50.

I also had to have this picture, it too called out to me from across the room. And after I won it--low and behold it's a very very vintage and somewhat primitive original water color. And it perfectly matches the flowers in the guest bedroom. Love it--$2.50.

And this little sweet thing, was hiding inconspicuously on the floor and I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I had one of the helpers open it for me and guess what--most of all of the original stuff is in there. It is a child's Gilbert toy microscope. Eight of the chemicals are there and the instruction book which is dated 1955. Nobody wanted it--mine for $2.50!!! Should I keep it or try to resale it on eBay?

I saw this lamp on the auction's web site. I thought it would look good in the other guest bedroom. And so it does. Miss Tyler Wentworth likes it too. Mine for $5.00

These high ball glasses are the same color as my kitchen--yes my kitchen is sorta turquoise and besides they are very heavy and have gold rims. Mine for $3.00.

I have a weakness for dolls, red-headed dolls, red-headed dolls with skates. Seymour Mann doll, mine for $6.00--more than I wanted to pay, but I wasn't letting the lady bidding against me get her!


This is the first thing that I bought. It is a vintage hand-tooled leather bucket purse with the word Mexico tooled into the leather. One of the straps is broken and the other is quite worn. Should I have it fixed--or leave it as it is? When you open it up the inside flap has a mirror on it. Love it love it. Mine for $8.00.

So what do yawl think? How did I do?