Now that my mom is a world class estate saler and eBayer, she’s starting to find things that I am jealous of. She and my dad went out a few weeks ago on a Saturday and found a secret sale. I’m not sure if they chanted the secret sale song or not, but they should have, because it ended up being great. The best thing (in my opinion) that they found, though, was this handmade Noah’s Ark.

I am always drawn to folk arty things like this because it’s what I grew up with, and I loved it from the moment I saw it up on eBay. My mom already had some watchers and told me she would have just given it to me if she had known I loved it that much. She also only paid FIFTEEN DOLLARS for it. It’s pretty big, and it’s VERY cool–made out of wood, metal, rope, etc. The estate sale they found it at was a living estate sale, and the woman told my mom that she had bought it for $100 at an art fair years ago. It’s signed by the artist and everything. 

Anyway, I just figured I would bid on it because I was willing to pay up to about $60 for it, so I went ahead and did that toward the end of the auction. I let my mom know and she told me to just bid a ton of money on it so I’d ensure that I would win it. In the end, I won it for $68! Cindy would not accept payment because years back, she and my dad gave my brother their wooden Noah’s ark. This one is way cooler, though. Take that, Sam. 

Here it is in its new spot in our living room: 

Adam clearly isn’t a huge fan of this piece, but he’s tolerating it, which I appreciate. When I was asking him about where he thought it should go, he said, “Isn’t that a Christmas decoration?” I asked him what part of the story of Noah’s ark has to do with Christmas and he didn’t really have a good answer besides it being a story “related to Jesus.” It goes without saying that this was a pretty weak attempt at shutting the Noah’s ark operation down. 

-Sarah