Barn Sale

I went to a barn sale today, where I learned you can write recipes on index cards, make them look old, tie them with twine, and sell them for $9.


I did end up buying two really cool bottles to put on my mantle, as well as a giraffe print that right now looks slightly out of place above the couch. It might end up moving. 

There was some cool stuff, but what really struck me as I was walking around was the thought that here was probably a pretty good representative sample of Pinterest's daily traffic. You've got the sellers, whose goods looked like they came straight off of a pinboard (including those plates glued to candle sticks to make cake stands and the wine racks made out of pallets), the foragers who do things like buy old windows and DIY them into something for themselves, and the people who wish they had the time or energy to DIY things but who will just go ahead and buy the end result at a barn sale. 

Which one am I? Probably the last, except for when it comes to gluing plates to candle sticks, cause I can totally do that shiatsu myself.