ART PRINT TRASH TO TREASURE

Regular readers know that I have a favorite place to look for bargains...our downstairs trash area!  Our building has trash chutes on every floor, and they feed into a separate room, but for boxes and other things that people can't put in the chute, there is an area (indoor) near the loading dock where people can put the things they don't want.  I've found quite a few cool items over the last few years.

For this post, we're going to tease what the image was until the end, because it's so stinkin' cute!

So I went downstairs as usual and found this tucked between the two dumpsters.  I slid it out to see what it was (stay tuned!) and immediately grabbed it.

I looked at it and there was still a price tag on the back,  $129.99!  I took it upstairs and showed 2nd Man and he thought it was an awesome find.

The frame has some scuff marks around the edges but we think it only adds to the character.  And what is that peeking out of the picture?

Wait, too much of a closeup?  Ha!

Behold!

The most adorable calf (or maybe already grown cow).  We love it.  It's huge, four feet wide and almost three feet high.  I told 2nd Man I think I want to hang it in the barn.  We won't have cattle of course (though a miniature cow is so cute, I digress, ha) but it would be nice to have a little bit of that vibe in the barn.  As 2nd Man suggested, we could hang it on the loft beam at one end of the barn so that it is out of the way but in a prominent spot when you walk in and see it.  I thought it might also be cute on the back of the house by the grilling/outdoor kitchen area.

The name of the print is "Chocolate Milk", ha!

Once destined for the landfill, now it will hang in a new place at the farm for years to come.