First, I forgot to choose the winner for the SPARK 3 Giveaway last week.
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Which means the winner is LYNN! Lynn, please email me with your address (you can use the link over on the left) so I can send you some goodies!
After a long thrifting drought, things finally seem to be picking up around here! The thrift stores have followed the retail stores in putting out their Christmas wares in the days after Halloween, so I've ratcheted up my thrift store visiting hoping to score some of my favorite vintage Christmas goodies! I've already had some small success, which will hopefully set the tone for Christmas goods to come. :)
This doesn't look like much in the photo, but in real life it's a perfectly aged, worn antique ironstone plate. It's small, but it's pretty! This one will be headed to my Etsy shop.
This find was one of those examples of the need to see past the present and find the potential at the thrift store. This old Ball jar has been fitted with a socket kit to turn it into a lamp. When I found it, it was filled with dried beans and topped with an ugly late 80s-era blue lamp shade. I re-donated the lamp shade literally as soon as the cashier rang it into the register--popped that sucker off and walked it right over to the big donation bin, and then dumped out the petrified beans once I got home and was left with this! Just think of all of the fun things I could put into the jar--mother of pearl buttons would be beautiful, and there's always Shara's fabulous lamp filled with vintage Christmas ornaments. What would you put in the lamp?
Vintage Shiny Brites never fail to make me happy! This batch had some pink, some of the pretty ombre variety, and even a pink indent and a green one with stenciled stars. More, please!
And the last find, which was plucked off a to-be-shelved cart. I'm absolutely crazy for the cheery decals on both sides, the red painted rim, and the perfectly crazed glaze. It looks the right size and shape for a flowerpot, but the stamp on the bottom states that it's "Oven-proof Bak-Serv". I can't imagine what you'd bake in such a tiny pot. I certainly won't be using it for cooking!
Did you find anything good this weekend? Have your thrift stores started putting out the Christmas goodies?
I always intended to switch out my lamp for other things throughout the year - but I just cannot let go of my litle Shiny Brites!
I can't tell how big that jar is, but the good thing about Mason jars is all the tops are the same size, so you could always find the biggest jar you can and use it too.
Not long ago, I bought that big basket of play food at the thrift - they were really seling the playfood, but I was really buying the basket - so I asked for a bag, dumped out the playfood and asked them to resell it. They guy just looked at me like I was certifiable!(And, I kinda am...) :)
Heidi, I am tickled to have been the winner. Thank you so much for doing the giveaway and my snail mail address has been sent!
ReplyDeleteI have a small lamp on top of our piano and use that space for a seasonal display soooo.....I'd have to go with the vintage ornaments, also, LOL!
Thanks again!
Yeah Lynn!
ReplyDeleteI always intended to switch out my lamp for other things throughout the year - but I just cannot let go of my litle Shiny Brites!
I can't tell how big that jar is, but the good thing about Mason jars is all the tops are the same size, so you could always find the biggest jar you can and use it too.
Not long ago, I bought that big basket of play food at the thrift - they were really seling the playfood, but I was really buying the basket - so I asked for a bag, dumped out the playfood and asked them to resell it. They guy just looked at me like I was certifiable!(And, I kinda am...) :)