ET, A Pearl in a Can, and a lotta dreams

So....I went to an estate sale, if you can't already tell that by the menagerie of oddities on this table. So many treasures. This was one of those sales where they post the photos of what to expect on the web, right away I spotted a few things I was going for and they were already mine! BACK AWAY FROM THE E.T.! I got up super early before work to go, normally my mom would join me but she's off galavanting with her sisters in Cali. The owner was a really great quirky lady with a penchant for 100s of salt and pepper shakers, a pinball machine and two carnival funhouse mirrors in the basement! I snagged this lot, the house was packed and I was #47 so I wasn't getting the prime time stuff (plus I'm cheap as can be so I peruse the corners and dig in boxes). I can't wait to give my dad the MASH calendar for his birthday, it was for the last year that the show ran and Joyce, that's her name, marked the date of the last episode in it. There is even a foldout poster in the middle! The whales are for Carrie at SwankyLadyVintage, the scarves and West Germany set are for Etsy, so is the pixie girl, I have to get her out of my sight before I keep her for my very own. 

Seriously if you don't like E.T. you must be slightly dead inside, go back to your hovel and find a glowing heart already. I reached around a lady who was blocking my way looking at something else to snag him. I've never seen this one before and simply wanted him for my collection, then I saw online that some guy on eBay is asking a ton! He's mine, mine all mine, I just have to keep him out of the sun.

The West Germany set was a major find too! So thrilled! All in all my lot cost $12.85, which seems low, so I tallied up all of the items again and realized I was mischarged! I actually owe them $5!

This had to be the oddest item I found, which says a lot given my collection above. This is a souvenir oyster from Japan, preserved in formaldehyde, it quite blatantly says "DO NOT EAT ME" on the labels all around. It contains a pearl in the oyster, and when you shake it you can hear the shell rolling around. I WANT TO OPEN IT! I must fulfill what Joyce could not! It reminds me of when I was a kid and we would buy a bucket of geodes on the Spoon River then crack them open to see if we had crystals, except I have a feeling that this is going to smell like sophomore year biology class. I will keep you updated to let you know if my $1 was well spent!!