Items That Never Made It to the Sale Floor of the 'Net

So when I started selling antiques again last year, I vowed to myself that when I was at an auction, everything purchased was for store stock.  Our home is decorated and the cottage is stuffed full of vintage finds, so honestly, I don't need one more thing.  Selling vintage and antique items is a source for me to fill my collecting tendencies in a way that satisfies me without A.  Breaking the bank and B. Becoming the next star on Hoarders.

I've done very well with that vow and have not kept a single thing until I became obsessed with decorating in the farmhouse style.  Everything else I had on hand, but would you believe I didn't have a single bovine or livestock animal to decorate with?  And then one thing led to another. . .

When I redecorated after the Christmas holiday, I needed a lamp on the same table the antique scale sits on.  The smaller lamp has been moved into the dining room and is now sitting on the buffet with an antique hanky on top of it:

So what was I to do?

Well, when my husband and I were down at the lake between Christmas and New Year's, I went shopping in our storage unit:

. . . and came out with this lamp and 1922 Agriculture book:

(Yes, I know the lamp needs to be wiped down and I didn't show the shade which is awesomely old and rockin')

The book was purchased at a farm auction in Cole Camp, MO this fall.  I had plans on selling it, but really, I'm a farm girl at heart, who was I kidding?  And the lamp, ah the lamp.  This was bought at an auction in Sedalia, MO this fall with plans, again, of selling.  It's made of chalkware and I love chalkware!  I paid $1 for the book and a $1 for the lamp and shade, so it's not like I broke the bank!

And do you see that cute brown cow there in the middle?  She was just purchased at the antique mall featured on The Travel Channel's Truck Stop Missouri.  I paid $9.  So this little corner was a total of $11!  How's that for decorating on a budget?  My storage unit ROCKS!  And. . .I made room for more finds once the farm auctions kick back into high gear!  Oooooo, the anticipation.  ;)