These are the items I will be bidding on and hopefully be able to bring home. Michann's auctions are really big and well attended especially with their great online bidding. It makes getting a good deal on anything pretty hard. If you're into flipping watching the auction and seeing what things are selling for is just part of the job. At this auction I don't know if it's a picker or a private buyer as everyone is given a new bidder for every auction and that makes a really big difference in the final price. Private buyers will pay full retail for what they want. Bidding against another dealer at some point we have to stop when there's no profit to be made. Plus there are a lot of metal dealers who are only looking at the scrap value of things. The clock face is huge and not something for every home so I'm hoping I'll be bidding against other dealers. Everything else I already know I'm bidding against a private person, so it's going to go full retail.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
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