Thrift Thursday

Last weekend when my mom was here I was able to escape for some unaccompanied thrifting. I was looking for something for the Pink & Green swap but didn't have any luck in that department. I did, however, totally score in finding some goodies for me!

This particular thrift almost never has anything worthwhile in their linens department but that day I hit the jackpot. I'll probably never find anything good there again but I don't even care! For as long as I've been thrifting I've been looking for old chenille bedspreads but with no luck...until now!

I found this awesome hot pink chenille fringed bedspread and even better, the white one with all the colored chenille! I grabbed them up without even looking at the price tags. The pink one was marked 'Queen' but I knew that was probably wrong as queen-size beds are a fairly recent innovation. I hoped it might be a double so that I could put it on my queen-size guest bed. When I got it home I realized that it's more likely a twin that would hang to the floor on all sides. I put it on my guest bed anyway and I think it's really cute. I don't care if it's too short. The white one may end up in Miss Maren's room when she gets moved to a big-girl bed.

I also found these pretty wool blankets. I especially love the pink plaid over on right! The solid pink one isn't in great shape; it's a little misshapen and has some moth holes but I thought if nothing else it would be good crafting fodder. These will go in my guest room and again in Miss Maren's big-girl bed room when she moves.

I suspect that these bedspreads and blankets all came in to the thrift together. They're just too similar and like I said, this thrift never has anything good in the linen department. It would just be too coincidental for them all to suddenly show up from different sources. There were a couple of other wool blankets that I suspect were from the same source but they weren't nearly as pretty and each had a piece sewed on to the bottom of the blanket, ostensibly to lengthen it. They looked a little weird so I passed them up. Anyway, everything else is now washed and folded and looking very charming indeed up in my guest room!