Brain Frog

 I have been in a funk with listing lately. I have been keeping up with one or two a day - which actually isn't that much worse than my targeted 5 - and the death pile is enormous. See my cat (my daughters cat) on the orange MCM chair (from my Mom's estate - I have four of them). 

This is my work area. The Christmas tree held captive in the corner? It's been there for about 3 years now. It's the  third Christmas. I can't get to it to take it down. And even if I did I have nowhere to store it. 

On another note, the storage keys are lost AGAIN. I am ashamed to ask for another lock change.  I have two storage units filled with the death pile stuff. I began to weed it down and take loads of stuff to the Goodwill but it is still out of control.

I thought I was going pretty good this month with not sourcing as I am recovering from Covid. But I manage to still spend way to much and then sit on it. The doll auction was my biggest expense and accounts for approximately 50% of the months acquisitions. Then I got nuts with an on-line auction thinking it had some pretty profitable stuff for me and spent about 156$.

 I am not even going to include the 52$ I just threw away on some perfume store displays which I misinterpreted as store sample bottles and now I am stuck with two huge Volupe bottles. I will try and sell them on Facebook Marketplace. I have a few large items I need to unload on Marketplace. 

I have spent some on the estate sales I am addicted to,  and have listed some things from the hauls but not much. I have positioned on the light box several pieces from the Primitive Estate Sale on Cherokee Rd that I kept going back to because it was fascinating. It felt like the Architectural Salvage place I love to go wander around in.   

I have been pretty lucky with locating misplaced or mislabeled items. Box D-8? Nope - not in there. I have to methodically go thru each box until I find the item. I was lucky yesterday, only had gone thru half the boxes on the table (I don't even dare take a picture of my garage) until I found it. A major victory! When I couldn't locate the John Wayne stamps I had to hunt down thru Google pictures the date I took the pics and then drill down with the other pictures until I found the box. It's exhausting to be so disorganized.

Some items from S-ville. Due to brain "frog" ( which I keep saying instead of brain fog) I left behind three items. And they can't locate 8 of the 15 Dickens collection from 1800's I bought. Damn it! Stuff happens.

Early figurine from a factory which eventually was switched over to Lladro. I kind of love the research part. I use to really love it. Research.

An artsy photo of an Artisan pot from North Carolina. See the texture? That was what I was aiming for. The earth colors of terracotta, blue and green are so beautiful.

  

I love this Tara Buddha brass figurine head. She represents peace and harmony. 

 

Old Fenton perfume bottles.

The Dickens books of which I only received 7 out of the 15.