Collecting Mystery #1 - Metal Cow Figurine

If you shop enough- you will find some very interesting things that you know nothing about.

Like this

I have googled and googled trying to figure out if this is from a cartoon or old movie.
No luck.

There is a clue, however. Here it is: E.L.K.

I keep thinking, Clarabell? Daisy Bell?

More mysteries to follow....

Sock Monkey arrives in the Mail.

Mable is excited to meet a new friend!

There he is - he seems kinda tired from the journey.

Yikes! He is a Fresh One, indeed!

I put him high up on a shelf for safety's sake.

I consider ebay, paypal and Ken, the mailman - all to be enablers!

cat on a hot danish sofa

I got this neato Danish Modern sofa at a local sale for only $30.00 -

I felt like I won the lottery.

Stubby, the cat seems to like the new couch - but just won't admit it...

The sofa has a definite "smile" to it - the cat -
not so much...

I admire mid century clean lines in other peoples homes!

I really did not "need" this piece of art. It was at the local Goodwill that I haunt everyday ( yes, everyday - more about that later..) and just look at that face.... So, for $3.99 it had to come home and find a place on my shelf.

Finding a place on my shelves is no easy matter.

I have been a collector since I was a child and I try to limit what I collect - but there are SO many interesting things out there!

Lately, it has been NW pottery that has caught my eye.

Just yesterday, at sale at a retirement home, I picked up a bowl and turned it over and saw it was signed Coleman. It was porcelain and I was pretty sure it was Tom Coleman and for $3.50 - I wanted it anyway!

I stopped at my office to use the computer and found out that I was right. Tom Coleman. Lucky me!

I also bought a mid-century ovoid sofa with teak accents along the front. So the old sofa went to Goodwill this morning. Adios, old sofa - I knew you were just an interim sofa anyway...

I mostly buy things to resell - hence, the daily trip to Goodwill. But Goodwill has their own feeble website now and they pull much of the desirable items and sell them online.
People pay stupid prices, prices they would not pay on ebay or at a mall for items on the Goodwill website. Lucky them.


As I said, I MOSTLY buy things to resell - but now and then - I find it too hard to part with something. There is a Glidden tray I found this morning and I am considering keeping it - but may just put in on ebay tomorrow... Oh, the indecision! :)