It's been a while...

It has been a while since i posted so beware this post will have a lot of pics and will be very random!

Thrifty Finds

Mirrors 

Oval $1.98

Octangle $2.50

Mason Jar .39 cents

Polka Dot Shirt $2.50

Chair $3

 Skirt $1.50

Chair After

(You can see the before pics in the two previous pics)

Afghan $5 

 I have been meal planning and try new recipes lately.. not my favorite thing but one of my new recipes was Pioneer Womans Grilled Chicken with Lemon Basil Pasta and it was INCREDIBLE.  You should try it :)

 I made this planner out of an old Readers Digest book.

I found these at a yard sale for $2.50 for all of them. 

I got this tray for $2 here is the before

 And after

I also got this beautiful dresser half off at the thrift store for $36

 I got this cart from a friends yard sale, here is the before

and after

My friend hosted an incredible Mad Hatter Bachelorette Party at my house last weekend and we made this Cafe Menu Board for the party out of old cabinet doors.

Our dear friends got married last weekend :)

And my sister came up to help me make a 100+ cake balls for their wedding.

Seriously i have the BEST family in the world!!

The last couple weeks have been crazy but don't worry i'll be back with our regular scheduled programming soon!

Life Update

It's been crazy around here! but no worries i'm back :) I hope you check out Joon and Meredith's blog last week where I aired my big coffee table renovation and my pallet shelf! Anyway on to some house updates and thrifty finds..

I found this metal table at the thrift store for $2.50 i knew it would be perfect for my porch, i'll do a before and after post later.

 I got this lovely mirror at a yard sale for $5 

This mirror is so incredible because not even two days prior to finding it i saw the door below at a restaurant back home and said to my mother "i want to paint a piece of furniture like that."
(Sorry for the sideways photo)

How crazy is that!!
And it is perfect for my entryway!

I also got this bike basket at a yard sale.

I made over this lamp,

 it used to look like this...

 then this...

 and for a split second it looked like this...

I covered the shade with linen and tacked the brown ribbon it so i may end up changing it a little. 

I also scored this vintage tile for .50 cents.

and i got all of these embroidery hoops for $3! I have been looking for wood ones for a while so when i saw these i scooped them all up.

Maybe one day i'll be able to do something like this...

 or this...

or this...

I got this mirrored tray for $2 i spray painted it with Krylon's Caramel Latte to keep it's antique look.

it's perfect in our bathroom.

This past weekend was the hubs and i's first free weekend in a while so we decided to reno our master closet. it's not finished yet, we are still waiting on the closet system, but we re carpeted, repainted put up some new trim and took down some drywall. i'll do a longer post on the closet when it's finished.

I also thought i'd do a WIWW post.

Tank-target

Cardigan-target

Belt-thrifted

Skirt-thrifted

Shoes-target

And last but not least, A few weeks ago i mentioned about the tornado's that hit down in the southeast. Well we help do some relief work and of course while we were dragging huge limbs to the burn pile i was keeping an eye out for some household items :) i found way more than i could take home but this is a little stump i found, it's teeny tiny, and i carved the hubs and i's initials in it for a personal touch. 

Well there you go, that's why i've been MIA for a while, but i'll be back with a closet makeover soon!

Look what i did with my thrifty finds... part 1

Hey guys, i wanted to show you what i did with some of my goodies from last weekend.

The bike wheel on the left i put above our bench in the kitchen with some pictures in it.

WaLa :)

I have been trying to incorporate more "manly/stuff the hubs would like" into our decor. Since he loves mountain biking,   i knew exactly what i would do with it when i saw it at Estate of Confusion.

These little guys are in the process of being "made over."

But i found a perfect place for them.

I put pillows on them to cover up the UGLY outlets on the front of our fireplace, you can read all about that here.

So that is what i have done so far, i will be back with more pics of what i did with all the stuff i got last weekend!

Thrifty Finds 4.2.11

Hey guys so i'm back with some pictures from last weekend of our LONGEST day of thrifting. Seriously we left my house at 8:45 and didn't get done until 6:15!!

But it was all worth it :)

 We started at 2 Goodwills, since it was 1/2 off day! Then we went to Bethel Bible thrift store and 2 more thrift shops in the same shopping center. Then we headed over to America's Thrift, lunch at Zaxby's then we went up to Ooltewah to check out some yard sales. Then we headed back to drop stuff off, we loaded up 2 trucks 2 times by the end of the day, and down to Estate of Confusion. (Estate of Confusion is where i took all the pictures in this post.)Then we went to 3 thrift stores in Fort O. Fhew! i'm exhausted just thinking about it!

So here goes...

The frame on the left was $4 the little box in the middle, i guess it's a shadow box was also $4 and the large frame on the right was $2. 

I was going to put my sewing thread in the shadow box but i don't have very much thread and i don't have a good place to put it in my craft room, do you have any other ideas of what i can put in it?

The bike wheel was $5 and the galvanized can was $5. Perfect for holding my potting soil.

And look at the inside of the wheel is yellow :) love it!

Joon found me some pyrex! Pyrex is my favorite.

She also found me this adorable frame for $4

The Ball Mason jar was $1. Small yellow jars .50 cents each. I am working on organizing my kitchen cabinets so i can take more doors off :) so these were perfect for my baking cabinet! The vintage glass on the right was only .60 cents. I have been loving vintage lately!

Here is a closer picture.

I bought the lamp on the right ($2) because i needed the harp from it for the lamp on the left.. more on that later :) 

Any ideas of what i can do with the lamp on the right since it's not really a lamp anymore...

And these lovelies, i got for $3 each!! I found this new thrift store in Fort Oglethorpe that will will go down on prices, these were marked $4 and i asked for $3 each, because they were new and the usually only go down on things that are there 2 weeks or more. So i scored both of these babies for $6!

I have big plans for them.

These Readers Digest were . 25 each.

and look at all the cute covers!

This basket was $1.

It's got a little divider which will be perfect for the my master bathroom

See that large table among the ruble in the pic below? That's the hubs new workbench i got him :) well really i just saw it on the side of the road and the girls didn't want it were kind enough to let me have it, Ordy strapped this baby to his truck and hauled it home for me!

Robby loves it! I'm gonna try to convince him to do this to his peg board :)

There you have it, my latest thrift store finds. I'll be back to show you what i did with all the goodies :)