Spring Seeds
As some of you already know, we’ve been moving our home after 14 years at our previous address, a mere six months (!) after moving the shop. This is not a pairing of activities I would really recommend, although we are SO thrilled about both the new shop location AND the new house. The new house has a distinct style and a LOT more space, so we have gone to a few local auctions to try and find appropriate pieces at “we’re in the process of moving” prices.
On the rainy night we entered the auction house we were there to look for chairs and a dresser. Instead I fell head over heels in love with an old A. Brown and Sons seed rack that was sitting behind a stack of contemporary furnishings and a truly hideous ornamental plaster owl.
I had to have it. Had. To. Have. It.
So we waited. And waited. And waited some more. We watched as most of the other furniture was auctioned. We watched as they pulled pieces from the back we didn’t even know were there. We watched as they auctioned the tiniest anvil I’ve ever seen. We watched as they auctioned ammo (I’m not kidding), knick knacks, housewares, and pillows.
I was so jittery and antsy by the time the piece finally hit the block that I was about to jog myself right out of my seat. Lance agreed to bid for me since I was so jumpy. I had a top price, honestly not very high, that I could afford, but the furniture had been going very cheap.
The bidding began. Someone else started it and my heart sank. Back. Forth. Back. Forth. Lance held steady and the other person fell off a mere $10 below my upper limit.
It was MINE! I won the seed rack! I nearly danced out of the place as Lance made arrangements to pick up the rack the next morning.
He arrived with my newest shop addition and I was blissful…until I realized I hadn’t planned where to put the new rack, and we were closing the shop for a week for the house move the very next day!
Poor, unloved, unhomed seed rack.
So my beloved new-old seed rack had to live in the middle of the kitchen for a week and a half until it received its new home, right by me at the front of the shop. It looks great. You should come check it out.
