You asked for big jewelry.

I think 5 people asked me for really giant pins last weekend. I didn't exactly go out looking for them, but they found me, along with some really big necklaces. My favorite is the leaf necklace in the middle of the second photo. I'm asking $75 for that one, and all the rest are totally affordable. The pins are not exactly ones that I would pick out one at a time, but I obviously bought this as a collection. I like them more and more (which means the price went up and up in my head the more I looked at them.) Most of them are hand-made, and sort of fragile. But they're fun. I'm asking between $18- $30 for the 4 pins in the third photo. The gold tone pin is Givenchy. The pins in the second to last photo and the box of bead, necklaces, and assorted and sundry—that's all going in a 2 for $18 pile. It should be a certified free-for-all.

 

If anyone is enjoying my running commentary on American Pickers, please read on…. First of all, I'm a picker. I pick shops, flea markets, auctions and places where people actually put things out for sale. That's picking. Pickers show up at the flea market to shop before it's light out (normal fleas, that is, out in the sticks.) Pickers wander through one shop after another for 8 hours straight without stopping to eat. Generally, pickers do business with other people who sell junk as their business. Like me :) Our friends with the show on the History Channel are DOOR KNOCKERS. "Door Knocker" is synonymous with "asshole" in this business. Nobody likes the door knockers. They are unscrupulous, aggressive, cheap and predatory. Ever wonder why every yard sale ad in the paper says, "NO EARLY BIRDS"? We have the door knockers for that. They knock on the door the night before and try to scoop all the good stuff. I go to very few yard sales because the door knockers take all the fun out of it. And I refuse to knock on the door of a complete stranger and bother them at home. There's plenty to choose from. There are heaps and heaps of second hand items available out there. I actually don't have enough time between Monday and Friday to do as much picking as I would like to. Spending a day bothering senior citizens until they sell things that they would obviously prefer to keep just seems like the hard way to do things.