Thrifting

I have gone to lots of my favorite thrift stores this week, in search of a new bar stool to replace the one I fell off of and broke last weekend.  I did find a bar stool today.  And a few other things as well. 
First, yesterdays finds.  I just fell in love with this aqua quilted pillow with the scalloped edges.  It has ties on the back for easy removal of pillow slip.  The insert is down, and oh so squishy.  I washed it and ironed it, and it looks fab in my sewing room on my floral wing back chair!  It looks off white in this photo, but the quilted swirls were well captured. 

After it was cleaned, it went in my sewing room.  Love, love, love it.  I wish you could see the true color of it.

I like to sit there and knit, and look out the window in my sewing room.  Great light in there too.
I also found a huge box of cone threads.  They were mostly two shades of reds, and some blues.  I bought two of them for one dollar.

I went dotty for these little dishes!!!  I found the red oval in one shop, and then in another, I found the three orange dishes. 

I have been collecting colorful dishes of all shapes and sizes.  When we do our kitchen, I want to have one cupboard without doors, and my pretty dishes will be in there.
I also found this cute bowl, from Pier One.  It is the same size and shape as the Pioneer Woman bowls I have.

That was it for one day.  No bar stool though.  I went back out again today, and found it right away.  It was much sturdier than the one I had.  And the seat was larger.  (another plus, I suppose)  So maybe I won't fall off of this one!

I got this fun bright orange pillow.  It has a honeycomb stitch on the front.  It is the perfect shade of orange to match the cushion I recovered last year, or year before.  I put it on the front porch on the glider.

A nice big colander that will fit inside my large pots for when I boil pasta.  It is nice to be able to pull out the colander and not tip the big heavy pot in the sink over a standing colander sometimes.

These next two were fun finds.  A bamboo basket with an accordion folding netted top.  Perfect for outdoor BBQ's!  And then along the same lines, but different than any I have ever seen, was this metal dome with whimsical painted top.  Looks kind of like a Bee Skep.  It will get a lot of use for our outside dining come Spring and Summer.

This looked to be brand new, and never used.  It is part of the Tracy Porter collection that I have seen in Target.  I have purchased a few of these pieces in the past.

My really special find today, was a little piece of salt glazed Rowe Pottery, from the 2004 Historical Collection.  I couldn't find the exact piece on eBay, but many similar to it.  Quite pricey!!!  I paid 3.00 for it.   All of the things I saw that were similar were well over 50.00!!

I have lots of pottery, and just love it.  This piece is beautiful, and I will be looking for more of it.  

When I go thrifting, I rarely spend more than a few dollars per item.  I have several places that I like around here.  I know people are down on Goodwill, but I find their prices to be outstanding, with the exception of clothing items.  I love Salvation Army Family Store.  Although lots and lots of it, is pure junk, I have found the best deals there.  I have bought several sewing machines, and my embroidery machine there.  And their furniture deals are good.  They used to do clothing at a dollar a piece, and that is when I used to buy a lot of things just for the unique buttons, or a wool piece that I knew I would be cutting up and using the wool for other projects and such.  I made my Christmas blanket from red and green sweaters that I bought there.  I looked for sweaters with lots of cabling, and chunky stitching. I also bought sweaters there to make soft sweater pumpkins. 
My place for higher end clothing, is also near me. I have bought many dress shirts there.  Once I bought about 20 Tommy Bahama shirts that had just come from the cleaners, all starched and still with their paper tags on them.  It was stuff a bag day, and I got them all for 20 dollars!  I have also found a few beautiful Faconnable shirts there too.  Anyway, it is a fun hobby.  I love the thrill of the hunt.  You never know what you will find. 
When I was putting "the girls" to bed tonight, the sky was so pretty in streaky shades of pinks.

Can you see all of those little pieces of gate and stuck up along the bottom edge of the wrought iron gate?  That is to keep Lil' Jack from slipping out into the grove.  This weekend we are going to go find something that will work better and not be such an eye sore.  Boy the lawn looks brown.  Come on rain....we need you!!
I got into the chicken yard to lock the coops, and sure enough, there were Rebbie and her partner in crime, Cloud, high in a tree above the coop!

They are both Leghorns, and lay a perfect white egg every day!  Can you see their ear lobes?  They are both white.  That is how you determine the color of their eggs. 

I just think they are beautiful creatures!!!  I can't imagine anyone not enjoying chicken keeping!
That's it for today.  I hope your week is going well.
XO  Kris