Just wanted to share my interesting experience of the Rug Auction that I attended with my in-laws! It was interesting, sponsored by the American Club, and all Americans at this fairly nice KL hotel who were bidding on these rugs. A couple of men from Singapore had brought their rugs from this fancy shop and were auctioning them off, and boy are handmade Persian rugs expensive!!! The cheapest one was about$200 (US) and the most expensive went for around $9,000, if I recall correctly! It was fun and exciting, but Doug was SO glad I didn't bid on anything.:) Let's just say with all our expenses of setting up house here, we didn't have the spare "change" for a rug quite yet! We've got enough from Jordan to allow us to "get by." 
The unexpected hilarious moment of the night was when we sat anxiously awaiting the card chosen for the lucky draw....It ended up that I was the lucky winner! I actually won the 4 X 6 rug! and it's quite ORANGE. (the Persian looking orange rug is mine; the lovely colorful rug with the geometric shapes throughout is my mother in law's which she bought.) My assumption is that it's a rug they just hadn't been able to sell, so just brought it along for the lucky draw.:0 
Well, I got my picture taken for the American Club magazine with the rug. It was too funny. I never really win anything (even those little drawings at baby showers and stuff), unless it's like a 1 in 2 chance, so...it was quite fun.I am also including a pic of Doug and me in front of the beautiful sunset at the grandparents' pad...
2 comments:
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i can use that to start my rug business, if you don't want it. i think it's lovely, why do you think it's uglY??
Yeah, if it looked like it does in that picture, I'd like it too. It's actually much more ORANGE. Think bright pumpkin orange...
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