Acclaim haul (Status:Achieving a little acclaim)

The Sunday before Veterans Day, I stopped at a garage sale.  There was a chair that, from  the street, looked promising but turned out to have been cat clawed.  Chatting with the women having the sale, they mentioned having an orange chair in the basement and I was welcome to check it out.  The chair was a bust but I did see this...

Picasso guy's last stand- READERS DIGEST (Status: bad hair day)

This is it, I swear; no more thrift store Picasso stories.  The December issue of Readers Digest (the Miracles issue) is on the news stands now and if you open it to page 128 you can see this bozo and the Picasso print he found.

Looking in Profile; Drexel Profile dining table (Status: Hometown-ish super find)

While visiting my hometown, I was perusing Craigslist listings for the neighboring towns; this was just listed as "dining room table with six chairs".

NOT by Luther Conover, a green fiberglass wingback chair (Status: Max the cat approved)

 Last week I took a swing through the Greater Columbus Antique Mall; as I was leaving this chair was coming in.  I didn't have the cash on me at the time but I made a point of stopping by yesterday to see if the chair was still available. 

Thrifts over flowing with manna! (Status: Bubba and Max the cats approved)

Summer has come to an end and the drought at the thrifts seems to be ending as well!  Witness the bounty brought forth by the thrift gods on 10/22/2012.