Auction items

At our Troyer family reunions, we have auctions to make money for the next reunion.  We all bring things we've made or family heirlooms.  I took a baked potato bag, knitted baby booties and a set of three reusable shopping bags.  Mom ended up winning the bid for the shopping bags with a choice of just one (for the bid price) or all three - she decided she wanted them all.  I told her later on that had she asked, I would have made her a set. lol  But at least the money goes to a good cause.  (I had also made a set of shopping bags for my sister, Jerolyn, since she told me she'd like some.  She has given me a few great pieces of stained glass, so that was my gift to her in return.  I made them out of fabric that was my MIL's - really pretty white fabric with violets on it.  I wish I would have remembered to take pictures before I gave them away.)

Anyway, I did get a fairly good picture of the tables with the auction items displayed.

The tall blue candy dish was also something everyone remembers being at Grandma and Loretta's house.  They always had Lemon Drop candy in it.  It brought back lots of memories for us all.  My brother, Brian, ended up winning it - and for a pretty good price, I thought.     

This year Todd and I actually bid on a few things!  Here's what we won:

Salsa one of my cousins's wives made

It's pretty good.  Since it's marked "XXX" so we thought it would be pretty hot, but I guess maybe since we're Texans it wasn't too hot for us.  They brought 12 jars, a few of which were peach flavored, but someone else won them.  We bought two jars and opened one the next day when we got together for Mom and Dad's Anniversary (post yet to come about that).

The other thing we won I kinda decided at the last moment that I'd like to have.  It's a candy jar that was my grandma's (Mom's Mom).  I have a few candy jars around the house from Todd's grandma, so I decided it would be neat to have one from mine, too.




The other thing I brought home was something else that we bid on, but didn't win.  There were a couple things that we in Grandma's house that my Aunt Loretta brought.  The guys doing the auction paired a couple dishes together.  Amy, my cousin, was sitting next to me and was also bidding on the pair and she won the bid.  After the auction was over and we were getting ready to head home, Amy asked if we could give her a ride back to Milford.  We both had all our auction winnings and she said she had actually been bidding on the pair because she wanted the green dish. I laughed and said we were bidding on them because I wanted the other piece.  lol  Anyway, she said she'd check with her mom, Betty, and if she didn't want it, Amy would let me have it.  Sunday morning she was on her way to the airport and stopped by Mom and Dad's to give it to me.  I was so excited!  I remember this hanging in Grandma's kitchen, so I'm going to find somewhere to put it in mine.

The other funny thing about this is that I found a plate at Mom's that has the same saying on it, but it's round and larger.  It even has the same heart boarder!

A while ago, Mom had also brought me a small crock that was HER Grandma's (so my Great Grandma's).  I have it in the china hutch that we brought home from Todd's Grandma's.  One of these days I need to mark everything so the girls remember who's everything was.