I don't know about you but I know I always love a trip to a good thrift mall, you never know what kind of surprises or disappointments await you lol. Yesterday the family and I headed out to one of the larger thrift malls in our area to see if we could find anything worth while, I happily found a couple of things that made it worth my while. I wanted to share them with you all...I always love to see the neat things people can find for a good deal.
I have yet to clean up any of my Christmas Decor....I am probably one of the last people in blog land to still have it up! I suppose I will get around to it sometime this week...it just looks so pretty at night that I hate to get rid of all the lights. So you will see it yet again in these pics...sorry!
First find is this new lamp with the Harlequin lamp shade. I believe it is originally from kirklands...$13.00 and I love it!
I am not sure if I will leave it on that side of the buffet but I guess I will figure that all out when I take all the Christmas stuff down and re arrange it.
This here is an Angel that seems to be made of straw like fiber. I really liked the natural look of her and she reminds me of Holiday decorations from Germany. She was all of .13 cents!
My next find was this set of 4 placements. They are reversible and I love red and white checks so these made me very happy! Total for the 4 was $3.00...I think the trees are so cute for Christmas time!
I will use them on the plain checked side any time of year. I don't know if it's strange that these things make me so giddy and happy....but they do lol.
Mr. Santa...I thought he was so neat...different, with a bit of folk art look to him. His arms move and he has the same image on the other side. He was .25 cents I can't wait to clean him up and use him next year!
Lastly I picked up this silver tray. I thought about using it in my bathroom to put some of my glass jars on but I also really like it in the dinning room. We shall see where it ends up. It has some nice etching on it, but it's hard to make out in the pics. This was $3.00
Those were my Thrift mall scores...hope you enjoyed them as much as I do! This next picture was a gift from my hubby. It is a small French ceramic jug. It came from an old French Restaurant in France and was used to hold aged apple cider that came from the Normandy region. It's a neat little piece to have...I will be sure to find a good home for it.
Here are some shots of the Dinning room at night with the glow of candles and my new lamp. The lamp really gives off a nice soft amber glow...I like it., just what I needed in there.
I love lighting the candles at night, the lantern is my favorite one...$16.00 not too shabby.
I put the silver tray on the buffet....maybe I will keep it there with some candles in front of it to reflect the light.
Well that is it folks! Hope you made it through all the pics...and if you did thanks for sticking around. What have you found lately that was a bargain or made ya get all giddy??
Have a good one,
Till next time,
Rachel
