Trash...Or Treasure?...We Found Out From The Best!

(Vintage Wicker Basket from Luncheonettevintage)

     When I'm talking about whether something is trash or treasure, I'm NOT talking about this wicker basket (in the header photo)! Clearly this is a treasure! In fact, it's treasured so much that someone has it reserved on their wedding registry!

      

      And I'm not talking about this necklace...

 (Crocheted Fabric and Bead Necklace by katrinshine)

      Again...this is clearly a treasure...as crocheted jewelry naturally is! ^_^ ...Okay. So I'm a little bit biased on the crocheted jewelry subject. :-))

      No, what I'm talking about is the vintage love seat and 1968 RCA color TV hubby and I own. Hubby is determined to get them out of the house! So we decided that we needed to know what they were worth before we just tossed them!....Enter the Keno brothers, Leigh and Leslie! 

      If you don't know who they are, you probably don't watch "The Antiques Roadshow". They are the antique furniture, collectible experts on that show...

        We found out that they had an email address where you could send them pictures and info about your items and they would tell you their value. So yesterday we took pictures of our "treasures"...

        We have two of these old, not in very good shape, reupholstered love seat chairs. (They were given to us somewhere along the way.)...

       And this old RCA TV...

      We were prepared to wait two weeks for an answer back, if need be..Imagine our surprise when we got an email back within a few hours. It said that as far as they knew they were not valuable. :-(
      Then later on we got another email from Leigh directly. He apparently had found out that the RCA TV, if it was working, was about $250!...The love seats?....We need to chuck 'em! LOL...Thank you, Keno brothers! :-) Now I can stop giving hubby a hard time about throwing out my "money"! ^_^ ...Sooooo, anybody wanna buy an old RCA TV?!! LOL


      Thankfully I still have lots of color in my life to keep me occupied, so that I don't do too much whining over lost love seats! :-] What am I talking about now, you ask?!....My newest crochet project of course!...

      It's a 'Ugly Wuglyee' brooch...

      As I've been crocheting my tiny applique flowers I've had small bits of the different colors of thread left over. And since I don't like to waste anything, I've been just saving them until I thought I had enough to make something else out of them. Yesterday I made this!...

      When I finished it I only had one little strand of orange left! ^_^ Makes me very happy!

     It makes me so happy that I might now even sell this one! :-] I'll put a back on it and add a necklace or a pin.....and then I'll decide....It's too pretty to be called an 'Ugly Wuglyee' though, don't you think?! ^_^
      It's more like the 'happy residue' from some of these...

      :-) I'm having entirely too much fun making these tiny flowers!!...But what else is there to do with tennis on day in and day out?!! ^_^ ...Answer?! Prepare for the meeting tonight!! O_O Yep! I've got some studying to finish...Have a good day, Everybody!...Treasure it! :-)


Antique and Collectible

Antiques and collectibles,
with their stories hid in time,
unlocked and displayed by me
in verses set in rhyme.

Worn and leg-less tables,
pottery and cuckoo clocks;
Paintings and some old tin cans,
coins, baskets, rocks.

What could be the story
why we gather this old stuff?!
And why appreciating aging
of ourselves is not enough!

I know, for me, I see
the symbolism of it all.
That 'Old' does not mean 'useless'.
It's just time, slowed to a crawl.

Antique and collectible,
is what I want to be,
so when I'm old, the folks I love
will hold and value ME!

Rocks Have Nothing On Me!

     This weekend was wonderful for hubby and I. Mostly because, with the new dryer, we didn't have to spend time thinking about wet clothes, laundromats, running from store to store comparing prices,.....or time. We didn't have to think about wasting time. We just enjoyed our time! :-)
     I think I had almost too much time on my hands. That's never good for this brain of mind! LOL Thus....the rocks! The rocks are some of the possessions of a idle-brained collector of sorts...Yeah, I'm talking about me! LOL

      I found this group of rocks laying on the ground all together a few years ago, and I just had to have them! Aren't they interesting?! Just like me, they're solid in the middle, smooth on the outside, full of age and substance,...but with a few cracks here and there...*giggle*

       I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that maybe I have more cracks in me than these rocks do!! LOL Well, hubby thinks that sometimes too! As a matter of fact, the day I picked these rocks up off the ground hubby was adamant that I leave them there. He said: "What are you doing?! They're probably just some rocks somebody dumped out with the water when they were getting rid of their old fish tank or something!!" 
      I thought about that for a second....then I realized it didn't matter! I loved them and they were going home with me!...And here they've been ever since. In this basket...

       And herein lies my real story...the basket!

      I saw an episode of Antiques Roadshow over the weekend that had me on a Google search for wicker baskets. Could it be possible that my little basket that I've been keeping my rocks in.....{my "fish tank rocks", according to hubby}...is actually a valuable collectible?!!

     It's definitely old! :-)

      It's very soft though...{Hmmm...Old, soft, a round bottom, and slightly colorful. Sounds like me! ^_^} 

      My Google search didn't produce much information for me, but that could be because I don't know how to search. But, from what I did find, it appears that it could be native American...Again, like me! (I'm part Cherokee Indian) If any of you know anything about baskets or antiques and vintage items ,and you know something about this, please help me out. I'd love to know if I should take my 'prehistoric natural diamond encased rocks' out of here! ^_^ Hey! We all have our own ideas about the stuff we collect!
    Clearly, from talking about my rocks and my basket, I can see that I collect things for a particular purpose. I can see myself in them!...Like my basket, with it's twines, I'm strong enough to create something useful, but soft enough to be pleasant to the touch; I have some chewed up edges, but I'm also quite colorful...not to mention I also have a round bottom...*giggle*
    And the rocks have nothing on me either! I can be smooth when I want to be, but hard....hard....hard....if you rub me the wrong way! 
      Do any of you collect things. And if so, what do your collectibles say about you?! I'd like to think I'm not the only one that thinks about stuff like this! ^_^
      Yeah, I had too much time to think this weekend!!...But I also had some time to just sit and have some fun last night too. I watched some of the...

      I say 'some of' because.....I fell asleep!....Somewhere around the time Taylor Swift was singing her new song "Mean"! ^_^ 

       I guess that's another thing me and the rocks have in common...if you get us too comfortable...we'll drop!! And we'll just lay there until somebody picks us up...or, in my case, wakes me up! *giggle*  
    Okay, I'm off to start my busy week. Despite the rain I think it's gonna be pretty fabulous! {I'm planning a more personal post for tomorrow....that's your warning! :-)} Have a good day everybody!!

Antique and Collectible

Antiques and collectibles,
with their stories hid in time,
unlocked and displayed by me
in verses set in rhyme.

Worn and leg-less tables,
pottery and cuckoo clocks;
Paintings and some old tin cans,
coins, baskets and rocks.

What could be the story
why we gather this old stuff?!
And why appreciating aging
of ourselves is not enough!

I know, for me, I see
the symbolism of it all.
That 'Old' does not mean 'useless'.
It's just time, slowed to a crawl.

Antique and collectible,
is what I want to be,
so when I'm old, the folks I love
will hold and value ME!

{Attributions of the above photos: The 46th Academy of Country Music sign photo was from rihannanow.com; Taylor Swift performing was from aceshowbiz.com (Ap photo/Julie Jacobson); and the 2nd Taylor Swift photo was from setanchor.com}