Recent Goodwill Finds

On a few trips to Goodwill lately I found a few treasures. 

This past Saturday after dropping Joanna off at swim lessons ( Jeanne, Jessica and Andrew were all at the pool) Aimee, Jake and I stopped at the nearest Goodwill.  I found a cute black and white dress and a couple of sweaters, Jess found a summer dress (she joined us later), Aimee found a few tops and athletic pants, Jake found a few old Veggietales tapes he couldn’t live without.  In the back of the store in the house wares section they were having a $0.10 sale on cups, saucers, and plates.  I found this lovely set of  dishes (fine china Royal Court Carnation Japan) in soft pink and grey.  51 pieces for…….. get this $5.10!  I can’t decide if  I’m going to keep them or gift them.  Know anyone who might like them? ;)

Dinner Plate

Salad Plate

Dessert Plate

 

Bowl

Cup and Saucer

There are six full place settings and two settings minus the cup and saucer and a few spare pieces.  All in excellent condition no scratches or chips.  I think they were made in the 40’s of 50’s if not then definitely in that style.  

I bought these two cute aqua/floral bowls.  Wouldn’t fried rice be so yummy from these.

Cute vintage pitcher to hold delicious fresh squeezed orange juice. 

 

Lovely white compote to go with all of my white serving pieces. 

All at fabulous Goodwill prices. 

On another recent GW trip I bought a $9.99 coffee table that we’re going to revamp for our family room.  I’ll post before and afters of that when we tackle that project. 

 

Wednesday’s Goodwill Finds/ Thrifty Thursday

I’m linking to these Thrifty posts.  Go on over and find out what other thrifty shoppers are finding.

http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2009/11/thrifty-thursday-41-plus-tablescape.html

http://www.homebodyholly.com/2009/11/thrift-store-thursday-1105.html

Yesterday was Goodwill’s $2 skirt day, so after I drove to Broussard to unlock Andrew’s car ( he locked himself out at work) I stopped at the Goodwill there and found a few goodies.  I found 5 skirts for the girls.  Really cute skirts mostly spring  and summer skirts but a couple they can wear now.

Here’s my haul a couple of  jack o lanterns, 4 gold glasses, 2 diamond shaped dishes, white architectural piece, silver tray, fake grapes, 2 brass sconces, christmas apron and a gold decorative key.

 

Cute glasses and I now have 4 of these pretty little dishes.  I know someone who just bought a couple of these.  She should sell them to me then I would have six in my collection.  

I’m going to put this on the patio wall. 

 

Apron on headless model.  I love it!  Brand new tags still on it.

 

These are going to get a makeover and will probably end up in the master bedroom. 

Cute

 

Tray before polishing

 

Tray after polishing.  It says Happy 40th Willliam and Millie.  You can’t tell from the picture but it’s footed. 

This weeks Goodwilll finds

 

Back Pack Purse (I love these)

I’ve been wanting this book for a while.  Love paying .50 for a $20+ book.  Inspiration and thought provoking reading for each day of the year.

 

These napkin rings are just way too sweet.

Love the little birdies   $2 for each set of 4

Beautiful antiqued gold candlesticks $6 for the pair, wooden tray, and 6 wooden napkin rings.

Three framed prints with burlap matting.  I have a great idea for the mats and frames.  

Wednesday’s Finds

Yesterday Katy and I took a little trip to St. Martin and St. Landry Parishes.  In  Breaux Bridge at Something Old Something new I found a sweet little sugar dish in the violet/gold rim set that I love.  ( I forgot it in her truck so no pic)  At Bayou Town I found 4 pink depression glass goblets to extend my colletion to 13.  These glasses look lovely with the  white and pink dishes Normand got me for Christmas last year.

After leaving Bayou Town we drove over a block or so and had lunch at Cafe Des Amis.  For starters we had a divine cup of seafood and corn bisque with the most yummy tender french bread.  For our entree we each decided to get an appetizer Katy got the eggplant wheels over a scrumptious creamy crawfish au-gratin and I got crawfish cornbread over a creole crawfish etoufee.  Divine and huge portions let me tell ya.   Please forgive us for not taking pictures of the food.  I guess we were just to hungry to think of it. Then we took ourselves to the shop across from St. Bernard's Catholic Church where I  Katy found a cute ball jar with a glass.  She said it would be a great container for me put a little sumthin sumthin in for her.

We then drove north to Arnaudville to the St. Therese Wednesday garage sale.  Where I found a few cute apothecary jars to add to my collection.

Then we decided that since we were in the area we should just drive on down to Grand Coteau and check out the shops there.  We went to the Kitchen Shop and browsed around and looked at all the lovely things there.  I picked up a Pumpkin Cranberry Scone mix.  I can’t wait to try it.   We then strolled on over to Creola Cafe and had the most scrumptious Pecan Apple Caramel Pie with vanilla ice cream.  Oh so good.  Oh so full.  Good Company, Good Day.  Thanks Katy for letting me tag along.

Before and After

I’m joining Susan over at Between Naps on the Porch  for:

Go over for a visit and see what every one is up to.

On the way home from swimming last week I stopped at GoodWill and found this.

 Rushed home and turned it into this.

Go Saints 3-0

I used freezer paper to make a stencil, ironed it onto the pillow case, painted on the fleur de lis with black fabric paint.  I Lurve It!

It adds a bit of cozy comfort to the rocker on the porch.

You can find directions for the freezer paper stencil here.  I can think of lots of fun things to do with this idea.  Hopefully things I’ll do this coming week.

Thrifty Finds

I'm joining Rhoda at Southern Hospitality for Today's Thrifty Treasures

Here are my Thrifty Treasures from last week.

new light fixture to go above the girls bathroom vanity $4 garage sale


Wine basket, 2 sets of silver plate grapefruit spoons, mardi gras krew silver jigger $13
Estate Sale

Tarnished brass candle stick, 7 candle jars, fringe trim, green votive holder $2 Garage Sales

I'm going to use this trim on a pillow for my living room.

Hurricane w/ wood base, brass pitcher, black metal/amber candle holder $3

Goodwill

Set of precious piney dishes $3

Goodwill

Good week for me.

photo credits: Katy Larson

Fun Shopping Weekend

Normand and I having lunch at Paul's photo credit Katy Larson

On this lovely spring weekend my sister Katy and I did quite a bit of flea/antique shopping. On Friday Katy and I went to an estate sale, Melanie LaFleurs Antique/Consignment shop, Crossroads Antiques in Opelousas, The Old Schoolhouse Antique Mall in Washington and Burkes Outlet in Lafayette. Whew what a day. We both found lots and lots of goodies. Check out Katy's goodies at her blog http://katylarson.blogspot.com/ Melanie LaFleurs was having a fabulous 60% off everything sale and a special sale in one of the out building with 75 % off. She is at Round Top TX this week and will be bringing home new stuff next week. You should go if you can there are lots of lovely treasures. Her hours are Wed -Thurs 9-3.

Then on Saturday to celebrate Katy's 27th bd (wink, wink) she her husband David and Normand & I took a little road trip to Ponchatula, LA home of the Strawberry Festival for a little flea/antique shopping. We got to Ponchatoula just in time for lunch at Paul's on Pine Street. We had a lovely lunch of red beans and rice with sausage and lima's on the side (Katy), hamburger on french bread dressed with lettuce and thick slices of tomato (David) and fresh fried shrimp po-boys (Deb and Norm). After lunch we had lots of fun walking down Pine Street checking out and finding goodies. Katy and I both scored some sweet things and the guys joked around and laughed constantly. Honestly you just can't take them anywhere. After we closed the shops down we stopped at Sonic for Slushies and Cokes to have with some of Katy's homemade Chocolate Almond Biscotti. Yummy Yummy!!! We also each bought a flat of fresh picked juicy sweet smelling delicious strawberries.
Strawberry shaped gummy candy for the little kids. I bought the older kids pralines but they ate them before I could take pictures. The blue dish is one of the treasures I found.




After leaving Ponchatoula (with a few unintentional detours) we drove to Baton Rouge for shopping at TJMaxx, Marshalls, Tuesday Morning and Barnes and Noble. (We found a few goodies there too.)



Then onto Copelands/Cheesecake Bistro for a delish dinner and drinks. The meals we ate were fabulous. David had the grilled tuna, Katy had crawfish ravioli in a cream sauce, Norm had a shrimp pasta dish with crunchy bread, I had eggplant with oysters and shrimp with pasta. To start the me we had clam chowder, absolutely fabulous french onion soup and a house salad. You should go. Oh and I forgot Norm and I split a Bananas Foster cheesecake and Katy and David had a reg cheesecake with raspberry sauce. Divine