Charmed Book Crate

VTG Stoneware Pottery Pitcher - $12

Note: Sticker is on it, could most likely come off with a little grime. Inside is dirty from something being planted in it I believe. It never bothered me since I had it sitting on a bookshelf as decor. Otherwise in great condition!!

Material & Form: Stoneware jug featuring a thick, rounded body with a slightly flared rim and a small, pinched pouring spout.

Glazing & Color: Two-tone drip glaze The top section is finished in a dark, earthy brown glaze that meets a textured beige base.

Aesthetic: 1970s "earth-tone" pottery movement.

Dimensions: 6.5” x 4”

Brown glass bottle with diamond-shaped design - $6

Pink roses and green leaves ceramic plate - $6

Note: Does have chipping on glaze and on the bottom of the plate. Otherwise it’s still super cute and usable!

2 VTG small square wooden framed mirrors - $8

Handmade cross stitch wallart with a brown bear looking out a window, framed with lace. - $10

Note: Doesn’t have any major flaws! Has 2 rings in back to hang on wall.

Watercolor painting of a vase with flowers, framed - $14

🖌️Artist: Donna Jelmeland is a retired interior designer who has lived in Iowa her entire life.

🖌️Style: She began painting watercolors in 2011 and is known for capturing "places and precious moments".

Antique Gold Framed Harper's March cover art print - $20

🖌️Artist: Edward Penfield

🖌️Origin: 1895

🖌️Style: It features a stylized illustration of a woman in a green dress alongside a rabbit, watching a floating copy of Harper's Magazine.

Antique Framed Print of A young couple in a forest, capturing a moment of quiet connection. - $25

🖌️Artist: A. Schüler (likely a German or Austrian illustrator active around 1900).

🖌️Medium: Wood engraving or collotype reproduction.

🖌️Style: Late 19th-century realism, typical of romantic genre scenes from Central Europe.

VTG Shades of Summer - Garden Porch Framed Signed Print - $30

🖌️Artist: Erin Dertner

🖌️Date: 1957

🖌️Medium: limited edition offset lithograph

🖌️Size: 9.5” x 11.5”

VTG Sistine Madonna Reproduction in gold frame - $10

🖌️Artist: Raphael

🖌️Medium: originally a oil paint

VTG Signed Watercolor in Frame - $100

🖌️Artist: Arlene Mineck (1917–2019), a prolific Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based artist and teacher.

🖌️Art: The piece shown features a courtyard or village scene with stone buildings and red-tiled roofs, highly consistent with the sketches and paintings she produced during her travels to Italy.

🖌️Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper.

🖌️Size: 9.5” x 6.5”

Butter.

Sugar. 

And honey. 

Brewed into coffee?

Sounds yummy. 

Push the nozzle, 

Watch the steamy liquid stream 

Into my travel mug. 

I need to fill it up almost all the way. 

Add some creamer and a packet of sugar. 

Take a sip and my nose wrinkles,

“Blech!”

Okay. 

More sugar, more creamer, 

Make it taste better, 

Not bitter. 

This was not a good choice. 

Suffer through the sips since it’s paid for. 

Keep adding to it til it’s a high rush. 

Eat a cookie in between. 

Sleep is for the weak I suppose. 

Uncharted territory.

Explain the random tracks

Inside my brain. 

A graveyard to all that could be.

Or simply a thought that needed to be 

Remembered temporarily.

A parking spot in a large lot, 

A number to call that didn't bother my contacts.

Possibly a lottery sequence,

Shit, a time and place I should’ve been.

Early dreams written in jumbled dotted lists,

Wishful thoughts of discovering.

Stories planned down to the minuscule details.

Characters without names, but have faces.

That recipe to try that doesn’t get

close to the kitchen table. A link to a DIY,

A creative outlet that gets ignored.

Jotted down.

Never referenced again.

A point of reality

that fade

Into the gigs of my