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Some more estate sales!

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dawndie

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The past couple of weekends have been great. Last Sunday was a little cottage with a bunch of cowboy art and memorabilia. I got a signed Roy Rogers and Dale Evans postcard -- I talked to the woman running it (her dad's place? not sure) and she got it in a lot from an autograph dealer friend, so as far as she's concerned it's legit. I love it and want a cool cowboy frame for it.

 

I also got 10 Siesta Ware mugs for $15 -- glass mugs with wooden handles, 1960s and real Western-looking. I've always liked them and would see them pop up in TV shows and on eBay but never bought a set. Now I have 10 in all different colors, and one has a Longhorn steer on it! I also got some free mini-souvenir plates (maybe 3" across instead of 10") for a few places like DC and Chicago. The entire lot was $40. Score!

 

Yesterday was crazy, we ended up spending at least an hour at one woman's place. She had TONS of stuff crammed into this teeny house, and we met her on the porch (she hired estate sellers to handle the process). Among the huge stacks of books and weird kitchen gadgets, she had hundreds of souvenir plates! They were stacked everywhere. We ended up with 10 for $38.50: California, Hollywood (Grauman's! Movie studios!), New Orleans, Ohio, New Mexico, NYC, Wyoming (where DH's dad is from), Winchester Mystery House, Victoria BC and the kicker: DISNEYLAND! I found one for Walt Disney World and DH ended up finding a Disneyland one in a stack on the floor. That one is my favorite! :)

 

So I'm motivated to display them like the Snarks are doing, maybe in the dining area! They'd look fab.

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SCORE! What wonderful finds. Even without the plates (but c'mon... plates!) those are all great finds (and neat places in which to find them).

 

When you figure out how to mount those wee-ickle three inch plates, let me know. We want to line them up above door-and-archways, but I don't want to set up a bunch of tiny plate shelves and the plate hangers I've found don't go that small... super glue?!?

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How funny, that we were just talking about souvenir plates, and then we walked into this lady's house and they were EVERYWHERE! DH was suggesting hanging them above the kitchen cupboards, and I said, "but, but, I can't see them way up there!" :eek: I think I may have swayed him into doing a collage on the wall like you're doing.

 

I'm thinking Michaels for the plate hangers, and I'll see if they have teeny hangers. But super glue might work -- you could get a little metal bracket (like a ">") and glue it onto the back, big enough for a nail head.

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