A FEW FINDS

Boy, I've been doing a lot of thrifting this past month, but you don't hear me complaining! Here is a cake dish or platter in the Memory Lane pattern, which I collect. These are my everyday dishes.

I was thrilled to find, yet, another little suitcase in a pretty blue and pale pink plaid!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I did with one of my brothers and one of my sisters coming over. My 22-yr-old daughter wanted to go to Kohl's (department store) for Black Friday to get a Nintendo 3DS bundle that was on sale for $150, which was $30 cheaper than the competitors. So I figured "why not"! We headed out at midnight to wait in a cold, 27F/-3C, line for an hour before entering the store. But, we took turns waiting in the car!

We were about 20th in line (of at least 100) so were able to go directly to the item, then to the register, and were out in less than two minutes! Only drawback was, after getting to bed at almost 2:00 a.m. I had to get up at 7:30 to go pick up Mister from work. I got to snooze off and on during the day, though!

Yesterday I took down my Thanksgiving decorations and started to bring my Christmas items out. The wreaths are hung on the windows and the "Welcome" sign is on the door! Let the fun begin!

THRIFT SHOPPING

Mister had yesterday off from work, so we went over to one of our local thrift shops! I got some great vintage items - all with red, of course!

I couldn't believe these Red Riding Hood S&P's were there! Of course I had no intention of getting my hopes up that they're genuine. When I got home I looked up on line and discovered that because of their height and the size of the filling holes they are the reproductions. Who cares! They're adorable - real or repro! Might sell them, haven't decided yet; but, if anyone's interested, email me.

This figurine is so animated! I just want to hug it! It's in excellent condition. Look at the original price! Wish I could buy figurines for that price today, but I was lucky and got this for $6.00.

Couldn't resist this chic overnight bag. Has a few "dents" but, hey, I'm a dent-kinda-gal!

Last is this awesome Wilendur square tablecloth with four napkins. Needs a good cleaning and, again, not sure if I will keep or sell.

I think I hit the jackpot yesterday! Good stuff cheap!

REDNESDAY

Hi everyone! It's hard to find good vintage Autumn graphics that aren't Halloween (or that haven't been used a million times). Now, mind you, artistically speaking, vintage Halloween graphics are awesome! But on the personal side Mister and I don't celebrate Halloween. So the above picture was edited to get rid of the witch flying her broom across the moon, some of the bats, and the words Trick or Treat. I changed a few colors and I think it looks pretty good!

Are any of you as clumsy as I am? I'm always bumping into things and tripping and stuff. (I think it's leftover from the double vertigo I had fifteen years ago.) Sunday, when we were getting into the truck after church, I grabbed the dash handle to hoist myself into the middle and landed hard on the seat belt buckle clicker-in thingy. OUCH! My butt is still sore!

At the thrift store this past Friday I found this cute little hen salt shaker. Yesterday while browsing  through the latest The Country House catalog I found this great sign that had me laughing out loud. So I cut it out, taped it to cardboard, and put it on the shelf with my hen. No one's noticed it yet!

Now, let's get technical about the color pink for a moment. Wikipedia says, "Pink is any of the colors between bluish red (purple) and red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation."  Keeping that in mind I'm going to show you the cutest vintage case that was also at the thrift store.

It's in great shape - look what came inside it:

All kinds of sewing goodies! Some red, thank goodness! A few wood spools for my spool jar, pins, buttons, needles, cardboard bobbins (are those for regular machines?), and a few needle threaders. It's so much fun sorting through stuff like this!

How was your week? Full of red?

Welcome to Rednesday! The Dog Days of Summer are all about us - hope you can tolerate them!

Guess what? No flowers today! More soon, though, as I'm waiting for the Hibiscus and Dahlias to bloom! In the meantime, here's a woven wastebasket that I'm presently using as a weed bucket - thrift shop find.

This is a gorgeous vintage cottage garden print by R. Atkinson Fox. I've wanted this print forever! I was able to talk the thrift shop manager down to $15 - yay!

Last, but totally not red at all, is a lovely little Clymene Moth. Notice how, if you look at it upside down, it looks like a cross on its' back!