more bargains...(now with photos)

Hoping to have more photos to post later today, but Brandon has the camera, so we'll just have to see ;) We haven't done a lot since the last post, but we did find a few more "bargains" ("this is so cheap we have to buy it even if we don't actually need it"). We went to Scott's Antique Market again on Sunday morning a week ago and found a very cool mission style rocking chair. It hadn't had the easiest life, so we bargained the guy down from $90 to $75. It's got a cool mission patterned back on it, and the original upholstery and springs were still there underneath all the layers of fabric. The springs are in okay shape, although the fabric is not usable anymore. It's a little wobbly, but B cleaned it up and tightened it and it's a lot better. Someone decided at some point, however, to make it a non-rocking rocking chair by cutting off the rockers at the back. The rockers are still in place, but shortened, with a little block of wood tacked on underneath them to keep it from actually rocking! Maybe someone was tired of it bumping the wall or rocking over the cat, we have no idea...but it's still lovely even with all the abuse it's suffered.

We also picked up an old wooden office chair for $5 (very cool, it revolves on pedestal base, but the whole base is wood, not metal) and a card catalog for $25 (bargained down from $35). The card catalog is just the middle section and similar to the one we already own. It's missing the legs/base as well as the top, so it was probably in the middle of a stacking unit and the other pieces are long gone. There was one drawer still full of cards, though--the "P" drawer, with cards for "Panama" and "Polar Bears" and such things. It was probably from a school, and most of the books are from the 1950s up until the early 1990s. I bought it with the intention of cleaning it up and passing it on to someone, so the bidding can start now, ha ha ;) We don't need another one, but I couldn't not buy a card catalog, you know? Especially for that price. Raylynn has dibs on it for the Center, but if they don't want it, it's available. It'd make a cool coffee table!

I had a wisdom tooth cut out last Thursday, so Patrice (MIL) came over to keep an eye on me. She said she couldn't sit still for the whole day, so she offered to paint our dining room! Yayy! It's gorgeous! Hope to have photos up soon. It's sort of a terra cotta kind of orange. It looks pretty 1970s in the photos, but in person it is really pretty. ;)