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Happy Friday!

I have had another busy week of events and it’s been hard to fit in any blogging.  Thank you to all you wonderful readers that are patient with me when I’m a little behind on posting and a huge THANK YOU for all of you that take the time to leave such sweet comments!  It motive me to keep going.

Many of you went  thrifting this Saturday on Mr. Goodwill’s national “Thrifting Day”.  I was planning to attend the well organized thrifting event in Columbia, SC, but a local reader, Sharon, turned me on a few thrift stores.  I’m so glad she did because I definitely have a few new “hot spots” to add to my stomping grounds!!

Here are a few new treasures I found……

Even though I should be using these weights myself ha ha, I picked them up for my teenage son who loves to workout.

I remember as a young girl being dragged to all sorts of flea markets. Usually these trips occurred while on our family vacations.   Now I, myself,  do not drag my kiddos to the thrift store/flea markets with me but I like to find things for them just to show them that there are treasures to be found outside of a mall.

While paying for the weights, I spotted this lovely Tuscan wall art hanging on the wall.  I just knew I had to have it.

On my way to the next thrift store I had to stop quickly and the frame slid off the back seat and landed on the weights setting on the floor and tore up both bottom corners of the frame.  Well, the frame was in my possession for all of 2 minutes before I started it’s transformation! 

I think I should be able to fix it by trimming  the mat and the glass and cutting new 45 degree corners on the frame. 

I walked around this bin about 5 times.  Touching it, picking it up, and just starring at it before deciding on purchasing it.  The lid is broken off at the hinges and it was a few dollars more than I thought it was really worth.  In the end, I bought it because I think I can create two projects out it.

Here’s what is running through my head: 

The base-  I’m thinking it will make a perfect planter for a faux tree by detaching the lid, touching it up with some stain or paint and adding some moss to the top.

The lid-  Two ideas popped in my head.  1.  Flip it over, add some handles to the side, and use it as a tray.  2.  Touch up the outside with stain or paint and mount a small artifact or frame.   It will be great for adding texture and depth to an otherwise plain or too small object. 

What would you do with it?

I finally purchased three Carafe that I have been wanting for a long time.  I actually spotted three back in the winter.  For months I went  into the thrift store and just longed for them setting there among other glassware but never brought myself to buy them.  They weren’t expensive, I just wondered if I would really use them and where I would store them.  After months and months of seeing them, I finally decided to purchase them….. well don’t you know they were gone!  Yes, “a day late and dollar short” should be my motto. 

When I found three of them setting at another thrift store, I didn’t hesitate.  Even paid a $1.50 more!  I learn new lessons everyday. 

You really need to pick up some for yourself (if you haven’t already)!  I have been having so much fun with these Carafes on our weekend brunches!  Who knows….. maybe I will start entertaining more!?!?!

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I picked up these thingamabobs at the thrift store a few months back for my son’s bookshelf.  At first, I spray painted them white.  They are made of plaster and the paint I used made them look chalky.  What I wanted them to look like was high gloss lacquer.  So I set them aside until I figured out my next move. 

While on vacation in NY, I spotted this silver glazed fish in one of the quant little shops on the St. Lawrence.  It was shiny, it was silver, and it had depth.  Perfect.  I didn’t take a photo of the fish, and in fact, it didn’t hit me like a ton of bricks when I saw it.  I actually got thinking about it several days later on our way back home.  A 12 hour car ride gives you plenty of time to think about the most random things.

What are these things? 

Sometimes I think they look like shells.

Other times they look like an ear.

Whatever they are my son doesn’t seem to mind them because if he had I would have seen them thrown back into my craft room. 

Here’s a photo (below) what they looked like before.

Here’s another thrift store find.  A gold tacky wall sconce.

This photo doesn’t even show how gold and tacky it was in person!

I spayed the entire sconce white and then glazed with brown and gray.

When you go thrifting, do you ever stop and wonder what others must be thinking to themselves as you walk away with that strange thingamabob?  I know I do.  When I see someone pick up something that I would never be caught dead bring home I drive myself crazy thinking they have this great vision for something awesome and I didn’t see it!

• How will they use it?
• Will they paint it some unexpected POP of color?
• Will they tear it apart and make something even better?
• God forbid, will they leave it like it is? {okay, that was a joke}