Friday's Finds.......

I brought back from up north these three Avon bottles.  When I was a kid in my teens, my mom would buy them as gifts for me.  The company promoted them as collectible items and my mom bought into that pretty much. I have tossed three of them already and I think I will say goodbye to the cars.  I like the stagecoach.  If I keep one for memories, that seems reasonable.

It didn't photograph well here but it is one of my favorites.  I think the label said it had an after shave cologne in it. I haven't been brave enough to smell it as it probably is fifty years old or more.

I also had a duck head on a glass duck bottle shape and a clock.  The pump shaped bottle had a shoe spoon for the handle of the pump. The capital of the U.S. had a plastic dome that covered the lid of the capital building in glass.

I did look them up on eBay and found most of them selling for 5 bucks apiece.  I think that it is about the same price that was the original price.  My parents' friend bought them for her husband and kept all of them in their boxes unopened. I suppose some people will pay a lot of that packaged item. Like I said, the stage coach will look good on one of my junk shelves and the rest of them will not.

The lid is the spare tire of this car.  I had a plastic top on this but I may have tossed it while I was rummaging though my past things.

. This old man is showing you a picture of a table.  I know he is going crazy.  It was a great accomplishment to figure out how to  dismantle the legs.  I could barely get the top in the back seat of the car. I did get it moved down to the house.  I had brought one chair at a time down by placing one patio chair in the back seat each time I worked and made the trip. It is a sunny day again today and will warm up by this afternoon.

I am working here at the new house today.  I have three rosebushes in the front of the house.  Only one of them wintered through and the other two are coming up from the base.  I don't know what kind of bush they are but they may be knock out roses. It will be a lot of cutting back on them as the roses are large.  I was hoping the dead look was just dormancy but I know now that most of it has to go.  They sit in a rock garden and at this point two of them could be replaced.  I haven't lived here long enough to know what I would want to replace the with that would survive the winters.

I hope everyone's weather has improved some and that spring is good for each of you.  Our spring is slow compared to some of my blogger friends.  Compared to others in the northlands we look like the deep south in development.  I hope all are fine and thanks for stopping by today.