Dabbling in re-sale, thrifting, and blogging.

What I didn't buy: 

 Who donates a whole rack of bowling balls?  These would be an awesome art installation type feature if you had an enormous rec room.  You could make a huge marble roll thing--like a gyrotron?  those wire sculptures from the 70s...but huge, with bowling balls instead of marbles.  If I didn't have children I'd be a famous artist, or just a famous crazy person, clearly.   But I'm terribly busy doing whatever it is I do while they're at school.   I guess I go thrifting, and blog.   

What I did buy: 

 This fabulous mid-century magazine rack/ash tray.  This styling lady was thrifting with her styling husband.  Who gets a husband who will thrift?  Lucky!  She approved.  I put it in the new bathroom, where it looks so groovy.  The place where the ashes once were tapped now holds the soap.  I haven't even revealed the new garage lounge/bathroom.  Maybe next post.  

I also bought:

Would you wear these shoes?  If I had small feet (size 6, narrow) I would wear the ones on the left.  They are so gorgeous that I bought them anyway, for $10.  They still have the price sticker on the bottom--you can't quite read the numbers, but I looked them up:  Chie Mihara shoes run between $300-$400.  I knew they were pricey, but that took me by surprise.  Sadly,  none of my friends has feet quite that small.  So there they are, all $350 retail's worth.

The ones on the right, I would not wear, myself, but they are brand new Salvatore Ferragamos.  No wear whatsoever.  They set me back $5.  Some well-heeled (haha, sorry) country club lady never must have decided red wasn't her color. Or something.   Size 11B.  Make that a well heeled country club lady with rather large feet.

So I am dabbling in Ebay land.  I have thought about this literally for years.  I was intimidated:  Ebay involves technology.  It turns out to take about 8 minutes to do a simple listing.  I have 3 bids on the brown shoes and one on the red ones.  5 days, 19 hours to go.  I'll keep you posted.