There's A New Man At My House!

And his name is Herbie :)

My husband was with me when I found Herbie and even tho he was not really excited about me bringing a new man home with us....He has grown quite fond of Herbie himself!

When Herbie first arrived at our home, he checked out the living conditions....

Introduced himself to some of the others who live with us (Dude this one's for you :)

Investigated some small spaces....

Even managed to get himself into a tight situation!  This one required a rescue...just saying...

He was starting to get bored so I put him to work as my prop person in some of  my photos for our shop...

I guess I overworked him because the other day I found him like this!!!!!  OH NO!!!!

We immediately sent him off on a bus trip for a nice relaxing vacation...And he gets to drink all the tea he wants...but now he says he needs some scones, strawberries and clotted cream....sigh...

He is supposed to be back from vacation soon, I wonder what his next adventure will be ???  Men can be so exhausting!


VE

Here is Some of the "Stuff" We Buy...

As antique and collectible dealers one question that we are frequently asked is "what kind of items do you buy and sell?"  Our answer is always... interesting or different "stuff"!

We just went on a mini visit to the Las Vegas, Nevada area and of course had to check out some of their antique malls, here is some of the "stuff" we brought home with us...

We are always looking for typography, of any kind....so when we spotted this bright red marquee channel letter "A" we added it to our pile of goodies....

I also love books, if they have wonderful color pictures I love them even more :),  this 1927 Nature Encyclopedia with 700 illustrations, 200 in full color, was also added to the pile!

A new interest of ours is anything Industrial that can be used as home decor....look at this huge Industrial light that was waiting for us :)  We love it!

An old interest of ours is architectural salvage items.....Mr. B believes these once added interest to the corners of buildings....I love them "just because"  they look awesome!  There must be something fun to do with them..

Pepper was with us on our treasure hunt, she found a large box of sewing items, but what she really wanted was the 3 bags of yoyo quilt pieces in it...(those little bits of round fabric were everywhere in that box!)  We split the cost of the box and I took the fabric pieces I found interesting...the rest will be donated...here is my "pile" of fabric and some packages of vintage seam binding I found in another mall booth....

 I also have a weakness for vintage Hartman suitcases, the more leather on them the harder I fall....so of course when I spotted this one, it had to come home with us...

We have bought and sold antique Indian Clubs (the exercise kind) for years but they are getting much more difficult to find....when I spotted these in a corner of a booth my heart almost stopped...when I showed them to Mr. B...so did his...LOL!

You have probably noticed my last find since he is in most of my photos...my little vintage man...how could I leave him?  Even if Mr. B is not as intrigued with him as I am.....He is my newest favorite photo prop...

Well, that is some of what we buy...how about you?  What tickles your fancy?

VE