The Drought has Dried up and Off we Go!

The past few weeks the pickin’s have been mighty slim.

Today was a much better day.

I went to a local church rummage sale and at first as I wandered about – nothing.

Then I found this absolutely fabulous folk art – outsider art – primitive style needlepoint.

It is not for sale.

It is on my wall at home already.

Look at Mr. in his green sweater and is that a hint of a bolo tie, perhaps?  And those old man glasses and piercing blue eyes.

Mrs. has red hair and green eyes and that fair complexion with a blush on her cheeks.

Cost?

$1.00

Value?

Priceless.

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At the same sale, I spied a Danish Modern sort of table with a drawer that was really a basket.

Weird and cool, and expensive for this sale.

I looked at it a couple of times and the crazy price put me off.

I went back to work.

I decided to do a little research on the table and then Wham!

I locked up the office and went back to the sale and paid the crazy price!

Here is what I bought:

Turns out that this is a mid century sewing table designed by Hans Wegner.

It is a Good Thing.

A Very Good Thing.

I put it on craigslist this afternoon.

I priced it about 1/2 of the going rate or less because it sure could use refinishing.

I am a good finder – not a good fixer…

Wish me luck!

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* * A suspicion and an exacto knife and the kitchen counter * *

I saw this tonight at the Goodwill store.

I go to Goodwill about every day – and I know how to read the codes on the tags that say what day items are put out for sale.

This came out on the floor last week.

How did I miss it?

At least someone was kind enough to put this in the FRONT of the pack of Target store art wanna be cast-offs, and dead Grandma flower prints.  Otherwise I might not have seen it.

I put on my reading glasses and got out my cheesy plastic magnifying glass and I was pretty certain in was not a print.   I decided to pay the paltry sum and if it turned out to be nothing – I would just enjoy it.  It has that mid-century eames era sort look to it.

After dinner tonight – I located my exacto knife – placed this upside down on the kitchen counter and carefully tried to cut the brown paper off the back.

The cheesy matte covered up where a name would be – so I had to pry the cardboard filler in the frame up in order to reveal the bottom of the print.  Oh, yeah!  There was a nice penciled signature.

F. Fujita  1963 A.P. (artist proof)

I googled the artist and saw that he has made some really nice wood block prints.

They sell for about $250- ish .

Not a bad day for shopping.

(Heck, when IS it a bad day for shopping?)