[yorkietalkjilly]

I live close to Forney and they used to have whole lots of estate sales there in some of the barns right down to entire libraries, built-in antique, carved mahogany shelving units included sometimes, and whole pubs including the entire bar and back bar unit. My sister and I used to go to estate sales nearby in Dallas - furthest we went was to one in McKinney, Texas and oh, yes, Decatur, Texas which is quite a long drive and we'd haunt antique shops, barns and even thrift stores and Goodwill for decorative pieces and old, jointed teddy bears. old dolls. We even went through a Disneyana short-lived phase and collected some of that. We've found Steiffs, Sasha dolls, Merrythought teddies and Ideal Playpal dolls, unique foreign dolls. Found several wonderful old pieces of furniture, oil paintings, accessories. What fun that was. And books - boy, I collected old books by the shelf-full.