Skunked, and a Few Other Things

73f, or 23.8c this morning at 7am, light overcast, muggy. 

We have 2 unhappy boys here. They met up with a critter that wasn't as friendly as they are, and phew! They stink! Even our old dog Daisy won't get near them. So yesterday we went out in search of some kind of shampoo to minimize the smell. Will be trying it out today, but I am betting these two will be unwelcome on the porch for several weeks. Poor dogs, they really don't understand why.

That wasn't all we did yesterday, because when you live out like we do you tend to make trips to town count. Besides, we needed milk from Maddie the Milk Girl (her Jersey cow gives such good milk), and we needed to restock our booths after the 4th of July weekend. We had good sales, which was nice. It was mostly small things, because the 4th brings lots of out-of-town visitors to our area. I was happy to see that a  sterling silver charm bracelet, picked up for a few dollars in an online auction, sold for $225.

Some new things we added:

Vintage and reproduction men's shaving items.

Enamelware picked up recently at a yard sale.

The blue desk I painted a few weeks back finally made its way in.

This bowl is huge, and heavy! I have seen it listed as a Dale Tiffany,  but I can't verify that. My price is about half of that listing, but will be a very good profit anyway. 

Ebay was busy over the weekend too. Not a lot of sales, only 5, but they are adding to my fund to buy a new laptop. Can you believe I bought my laptop used in 2013? It still works, but Microsoft is discontinuing support for Windows 10, so I guess it's time. I still use Word 2007 too, and if I can u may just keep it. It works fine for me. I don't need bells and whistles,  just a basic program.

Here's what sold on ebay, if you're curious.

A tiny individual creamer, vintage 1920s, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Signed Culver tumblers, so glitzy!

I was thrilled these sold. There are thousands of etched stemware pieces on ebay, and since I never could ID the maker, I really didn't think they would sell. But they were gone in just avfew days; of course, my price was very low. I just didn't want to take them to a thrift where they would surely have been tossed, or broken, as the glass is extremely delicate.

I found two of these glass butter presses at a flea market last year. I have never seen any like them, and now I have sold them both. 

And lastly, a foxhunting print. Framed art is so tricky to wrap, and I don't like to list it, but I had this in my booths for a good while, so finally decided to put it online.

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