Antiques Roadshow Primer - Hardcover Book score!

If you're reading this blog, chances are you also enjoy the show on PBS called Antiques Roadshow. Well, I came across this handy book on my Thrift adventures this weekend! How appropriate a find, don't you think??

It's an Introductory Guide to Antiques and Collectibles focusing on 11 major areas--including Furniture, Painting, Silver, Jewelry, Porcelain, and Toys--the primer addresses the essential things buyers and collectors need to know, covering vital details for each category, such as shapes, styles, and patterns, provenance, periods, and motifs. A 32-page full-color section amplifies each chapter by illustrating numerous examples of styles and techniques, and individual items are fully identified, often with their appraised value. Above all, it helps even first-timers to answer the two key question every collector must face: Is it old? Is it valuable?

Picked it up for $1.99, can't beat that!

Book Odds & Ends

I recently picked up 6 books for a total of $8. Usually hard covers are $2, and paperbacks $1 where I shop. Don't get me wrong, I love the library, but you can't argue with books this cheap - they never have to be returned and you can loan them out or let them sit and look cool on a shelf and read them whenever you get around to it, for as long as you want (which, from experience, the library frowns upon). And speaking of loaning them out, you will notice that there are only 5 books in the picture, that is because I let my Mom borrow The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Books pictured are: Listening Is An Act of Love, From the StoryCorps Project, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Couldn't Keep it to Myself and I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (picked those up because She's Come Undone by Mr Lamb is one of my all-time favs.), and The Mother's Encyclopedia - Expert Advice on Child Care and Family Living (for when the time comes!). Oh and I can't forget to mention the little wooden school desk I picked up for $5 a couple of years ago. It's a great little table for our entry way - it holds all of our miscellaneous mail, newspapers and other junk (not pictured) really nicely! The books alone new would retail for over $90. The desk? No idea, but it's worth a lot more than just $5 if you ask me!