A Thank You, A Make Over, and Thrifted Finds!

Hi All!  I hope you had a fabby weekend and that your week is off to a great start!  Mine is as I found that my darling little tiffany blue chair was featured at CAP CREATIONS this week!  WOO HOO!!  I love joining in their THRIFTY LOVE linky party (featured every Friday!) and there are other really wonderful things going on over there too.  You will definitely want to check them out!  Thanks Cap Creations :)

....And the excitement continues as I am really happy with the make over of the hunk of milk glass (posted last week) I fished out of a bin at the outlet.  Here it is BEFORE:

Here she is now!

I *love* it!  I think the milk glass was actually an up light but it looks right at home like this now...and on my nightstand :)  So here are the deets:  I took one of those fillable glass lamps --you know, the ones that have sea shells or flowers in it? (mine had sea shells!) -- I gutted it, spray-painted the base, rod and fittings with Rustoleum dark gray gloss ($7).   It fit perfectly inside the milk glass and I picked up a lamp shade from Lowe's for $6.50.  Not too bad for $14, huh!?

Here are my treasures this week and I must say, it's hard for me to choose a favorite!  First up, my Mad Men-esque clock...and it works!!!



Lanshire mid-century clock, 99 cents, our GW 

This next find is one of those that pulls at your heart strings and immediately transports you back in time!  Shelly and I had this book when we were kids and there is a story poem in it, "My dear do you know," that we loved!  We even made a song out of it.  I was browsing the books in a thrift store in Richmond we hadn't been to before, "Harvest Thrift," and found it for $1.  This edition is from 1954.



I love this speckle-painted art deco peacock!  I have a peacock theme going on in the dining/living area room so that where it will live:


1950s Art Deco peacock, $2

I love these too:

Little brass shelf-sitter birdies (try saying that three time fast! LOL)  and here they are perched:

These were at the Hanover Habitat for Humanity for $1.50.  I am contemplating making them another color but feel guilty over painting the brass --what do you think?

I have been on the hunt for pink/green glass --or what I call watermelon glass.  There are some beautiful sets of wine glasses on ebay (Tiffin glass at that!) but a bit pricey.  I have lots of stemware so for me, it's not justifiable to spend the extra bucks but being a glassaholic, i really wanted watermelon glass.  So imagine how excited I was to see this:

Thank you, Teleflora!  Now it is equally true I have lots of vases but a watermelon glass one for 99c means I need it :)  I'm linking up!

Kathe With an E, You're Gonna Love It Tuesday #16
Cap Creations, Thrifty Love
Southern Hospitality, Thrifty Treasures Party
What-About.co, Showoff Friday
What-about.co, Perpetual Parades, Favorite Thrifty Finds 
From My Front Porch To Yours, Treasure Hunt Thursday
The Thrifty Groove, Thrifty Things Friday

Have a wonderful week!

Happy Spring!

What a busy weekend!  Rhonda's wedding was on Saturday so that meant the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner on  Friday night.  Everything went smoothly and the wedding was beautiful *sigh*.  It went by so fast so I can only imagine what a whirlwind it must have been for the bride and groom!

I wanted to post my mantel earlier this week but I was working on last minute wedding details and didn't get to it until today.  The candle holders came from Ross and were $6 each.  The adorable Easter egg vase is a thrift find for $2.  It's by Teleflora and other than needing a good cleaning, it is in perfect condition.  The wooden bunny came from Target and the blue oil lamp was also a thrift find for $1 --I'm a sucker for clear, colored glass and for $1 there's no way it wasn't coming home with me :)

The hurricane lanterns came from Home Goods and were a steal at $20/each.  I added the flowering branches (Michael's) actually as a decoration for the cherry blossom bridal shower I hosted for Rhonda a few weeks ago but I liked how "springy" it looked and decided to leave it up I left it.  The ceramic basket and bunny are also thrift finds.  The basket was in rough shape.  It was painted with some sort of glaze but it had yellowed which made it looked stained --and not in a good way.  It also had floral foam glue inside with what looked like a pine-needle bed stuck to the foam.  It looked like some sort of weird Easter/Christmas arrangement which I'm guessing is why for $3 it sat in the thrift store for a few weeks before I finally decided to bring it home and try my hand at a re-do.  I scrubbed it down, dug out all the floral foam from inside and sanded off the glue, then spray-painted 3 coats of Krylon white gloss paint with primer.  It looks fabulous!

The bunny was $3 and besides a small chip on the bottom of the mold, it is otherwise perfect and I love the pink bead eyes!  The grass mat inside the basket is from Hobby Lobby and my sis bought the eggs (Hobby Lobby too --Thanks again Shell :) ).

I hope your week is a good one!