Happy Easter!

Found the old flower frog at Ditto in Holland today. Is $4.50 a good price for this? I was not sure. It did come with a dead bee in it.

Just in time to hold up my thrifted Easter greeting.

Blessings to you and yours -

From me and mine!

Lenox Swans

Went to Love's Treasures in Hudsonville today, where I found not one, but TWO Lenox swans.
I had one.
Now I have three, which as you know means that I now have a COLLECTION of tiny Lenox swans.
And for $2.50.
I sometimes feel that Love's Treasures is a bit high on some of their prices. But not on these!

Salt and Pepper

So many times I've passed on this set of salt and pepper shakers. My first pair I turned into tassels. Not sure yet if I shall do that again. Aren't they just the cutest? COULD it be possible to have too many of these? And just how many would too many be?

Vintage Hand Mirror

Number nine in my ever-growing collection of vintage hand mirrors.

I love that this one will not require a wonky plate hanger device to hang it.

But then, no grandchild will have the joy of playing the back of it like it is a guitar.

They are also useful for ceiling wars. Give each child a hand mirror and let them reflect the morning sun coming in the front windows onto the ceiling.

This is fun entertainment until someone flashes Beppe (me) in the eye resulting in a migraine.

A Thrifty Pair of Lamps

This will still require a bit of tweaking, but aren't the lamps perfect there? THGGM thinks so. I saw them at Love's Treasures for $10 a piece. That seemed like a very good price for a nice pair of lamps.

But, not being an impulse buyer (snicker) nor a spend thrift (snicker again, as i ONLY spend on thrift) I did not buy them. But I did show them to THGGM.

On Saturday I spend a bit of time thinking about these lamps. So did THGGM (occasionally we do have deep thoughts, but then i get a migraine and he gets depressed so we do try to avoid that. okay. okay. snicker away!) Unbeknownst (i think that unbeknownst is an extremely good word) to me THGGM was also thinking about them. So, out we headed in hopes that the pair were still there.

Somehow we remembered that cash was required, but not that Love's Treasures closes at 2:00 on Saturday.

Yesterday after working all day THGGM and Jonge set out to Hudsonville to see if the pair of lamps were still available. And they were. How's that for a long boring story with a happy ending?

I think they look very nice here, and will look even better once they both have the same kind of light bulb in them.

Plaque Find

Friday and Saturday THGGM and I went to so many thrift/antique shops that I cannot even remember where I picked this up.

But I LOVE it.

So much so that I've spent a good part of this morning trying to get a great picture of it.

I'll just have to settle for 'okay'.

The Perfect Trifecta

Look! I found another one of these cute Emilie Barnes books.

I had the one about manners and the tea party book for quite awhile, so you can imagine my excitement finding another!

And for ten cents. Wow. Ten cents.