I mentioned yesterday that I’d be saving a few of my favorites from the Canadian auction to be featured on a rainy day. It’s not rainy but it’s frigid, so that works. 

At one point during the auction, they did a “choice out” of a bunch of different Jesus-y items. This might be obvious but when they say they’re going to choice out a bunch of stuff, it means they’re taking things that are similar and letting people bid on their choice among those things. They do this on jewelry a lot of the time. People often end up taking a bunch of the items, or all of them. For example, those tapestries Erin won were things she was the high bidder on a “choice out” auction. She paid $15 for each of the ones she chose. I’m explaining this because I didn’t quite understand it the first time I was at an auction. Then again, as Erin often points out to you all, I’m pretty slow. 

Anyway, as far as religious themed stuff goes, I’m not normally super into it, but I spotted an amazing vintage Virgin Mary plaque among the others. It looked like something that you would find in Lafayette’s apartment on True Blood. Here’s Lafayette:

Here’s Lafayette’s apartment: 

 Here is my plaque: 

She would fit right in in that Virgin Mary shrine on the back wall. 

The style that this statue/plaque was made in was really familiar to me but for the life of me, I could not put a name to it. After some brief searching around, Erin and I got to the bottom of it. 

It seems like Erin’s consultation of this new search service, goodle, is what worked so well for us in solving the mystery.

Ok, all kidding aside, this is an “Immaculate Heart of Mary” statue. We tried googling things like “Mexican Virgin Mary” and “Our Lady of Guadalupe” and finally I said something like, “but what’s the virgin mary called with the HEART?!” I consulted Google and Erin consulted Goodle and we hit the jackpot. 

Anyway, needless to say, Adam does not like this statue. I think this is because our house is not decorated like Lafayette’s apartment (YET!) This wasn’t a surprise for me. After I won it (for a mere $5!), I sat back down in my seat and Erin and I kept commenting on how awesome it was. Then we both looked at each other and said, “it can be a thing that freaks your husband out." 

-Sarah