M.E.E. Mini Garage Sale, Away for awhile...

One of the highlights of our club year is our June garage sale where we can sell/give away items in our collections that we no longer want/need.

Of course, we had thought that COVID would have put an end to that for this year. But Tina, bless her heart, worked out a way for us to have it via Zoom! Those who had offerings send Tina emails with pictures, descriptions and prices. Tina put all that information into a power point (?) presentation.

On  Tuesday night, we started our meeting with the show of all the items (with the sellers adding any information that wasn't shown). You could jot down the number, description and seller of items you were interested in. At the end of the presentation, there was a 15 minute break then at 8:45 you could e-mail the seller and tell her what you wanted to buy. I was too late on two items but I did buy the following:

(We could pay by PayPal or e-transfer and make arrangement for delivery or pickup.) I was lucky that Joanne was able to pick up my items for me. Thanks Joanne!)

Got this lovely store front from Erika. The door opens and the back slides off for decorating.

The Reutter store front that I used for my jewellery shop formerly housed a lot of small decorative pieces so I think that I will use this to display them along with several other beautiful small pieces that haven't found a home so far. Sort of a fancy gift emporium.

And I got this great Doug and Melissa living room set from Hoanie.

I hadn't bid on these but when I told Joanne I was interested, she brought them over when she brought over the other two items.

I just put them together for the picture. I think I will make them into bookends with one side being a neat, pristine Christmas scene (the night before Christmas) and the other being the aftermath (late Christmas Day) with all the gifts unwrapped, a garbage bag of wrapping paper, etc..

I have two matching Christmas trees and the two matching chairs above so think it's quite do-able.
(Think it's from a Joanne Swanson idea.)

Not that I've been posting much this year but I definitely will not be posting for the next two or three weeks. On Wednesday, I'm having major surgery for repair an abdominal aortic aneurysm and expect to be in hospital for about two weeks then will be in recovery at home for about four months.

I have an excellent surgeon and have every confidence that all will go well.

So will post when I get home.