Another VC El Dorado!

When El Dorado was released earlier this year for the Vintage Club, he came in two colors, Performance Appaloosa copenhagen and florentine. Each color was produced on 600 pieces, and I hoped for (and received) the Copenhagen.

For a while I looked for the Florentine version, but generally the price was more than I was willing to pay. I had a friend who said she was hanging onto hers to use for a trade, and I filed that in the back of my mind in case I had something she might wish to trade for in the future.

Then I won Dryandra, the most recent Wild Animal Series release.

I was happy to win him and as he sat on my shelves, it occurred to me that she might want to trade for Dryandra. And so I sent her a message asking her if she'd be interested in a straight trade. She was, and her El Dorado is now sitting on my shelves.

She's happy with her end of the trade and so am I.

The Semi-Rearing Mustang is lovely in florentine. And Breyer echoed the Appaloosa Performance Horse's pattern beautiful. (It and charcoal are my two favorite Breyer colors.)

The two look nice together. (Pony Pal Kate made me that bandanna for the copenhagen El Dorado last summer.)

Elise included a card with a donkey on it -  I hadn't realized that she was a donkey fan!

She also gifted me with this 1984 journal.

Each page had a horsey quote, and I especially liked the one on the very last page.

I've kinda sorta been in that last stage for the past two years, although thanks to months of physical therapy, I am back to the hobble/wheelbarrow and bucket stage. (Grateful!)

Thanks, Elise, for the trade. I hope that you are as happy with my Dryandra as I am with your El Dorado. 

New Sales Assortment

About a year ago, I put my sales/trade models into one large tub, all wrapped and ready to travel, instead of keeping them on shelves and having to find and pack them when I was heading to an event. I made a spread sheet to keep track of everything, and while that still needs some tweaking, it has made things easier when I have people over (like for Happy Trails or my student and her family popping in) or when I am going to a show. I just bring out my sales tub, unwrap, and display!

In a week and a half, I am heading to Muncie, Indiana for a swap meet. And with already having had my own small live show this month plus inviting the kids over last Friday who took a few pieces, I discovered that I needed to add to my sales pieces as well as update that spread sheet.

The new assortment of things for sale or trade.

I  find that my collection is "tiered" in my mind, ranging from things I would never sell (childhood carpet herd pieces, gifts from my children) to things that I have bought at antique shops specifically to get into the hands of collectors. In between are those things that I might like having personally but am happy to part with for a fair price, or duplicates that I got because I was upgrading or making a conga of variations. Those tiers make it easier to organize and decide what might be offered for sale and what remains in my collection.

Having said that, the sales tub contents are very fluid, so what actually goes to Muncie may be very different than from what's on the table at the moment!