Plate Serendipity

There is an estate sale company near my house (literally walking distance) that I frequent pretty regularly, and last week they were liquidating a retiring antique dealer’s collection.

Um HELLO! Sounds like awesomesauce to me. The sale usually goes on from Thursday to Saturday, and it took me that long to go through everything there…including a bazillion plates. There were state plates, city plates, random occasion plates, and even weird poetry plates. I’m not typically into plates, but there were so many that I looked through them for fun.

Well 3 of them came home with me. Why?

I spent six years in DC, through college and some time after. While living there, I met my now-husband, who was temporarily living at home near:

…until his apartment in Baltimore was ready to move into. I think the third plate is self-explanatory.

Maybe I’m just sentimental, but I was on the fence about this plate purchase until I spotted the little Boxer cutie. I mean seriously??? Nine dollars later, I did something I never thought I’d do…I hung plates on the wall. I E6000-ed sawtooth hangers to the the back and slapped our plate family on the wall next to the hutch.

I know they are a little small for the space right now, but I thought I could maybe start a little collection of plates that “speak” to me. I guess I’d have to get some cat plates to really make this work, but that may be pushing things a bit too far. They’d have to be really sweet. What about you guys? Do you have a plate collection? Would you ever buy plates to represent members of your family? Am I crazy?!