World's Greatest Tchotchke

Go ahead, try to top this amazing thrift store find, from the trip I took with Sam to Jacksonville a couple of weeks ago:

If you have a better/stranger tchotchke find, post it in your blog and show it to me! I have more crazy ones up my sleeve if someone does, indeed, top this one...

Here's my helpful little photography assistant, checking things out to make sure the lighting's okay before I take the shot:

This particular picture really cracks me up, because she looks *nothing* like the shaggy beast you see here... I just gave her a haircut! This is the first time I've clipped her myself, and she looks very cute, I think. I'm going to try to learn how to do this better and better every time, because sometimes she comes back from the groomer sort of skittish - I don't know if they handle the pups who come in as gently as I would. I'll post pictures of her new 'do soon!