Frugal Finds - One Price for All

Part of the allure of thrift stores is

that you never know what you might find.

Sometimes, it's new things.

Other times it's old things.

Like the matte blue pitcher above.

It's not marked, but I suspect

it could be Rookwood, Roseville or Weller.

The design on the pitcher is a couple of 

tropical fish - swimming - Angel Fish, maybe.

And the inside is crazed, as one might 

expect to find in a piece with this age..

  

It has flaws, and loads of charm.

And I bought this sweet pitcher, 

a book about Andrew Carnegie

and this iron wheel yesterday.

I got it all for one price. 

The store is closing. 

I could've filled a bag for $5.

It was so cheap 

even a cheapskate like me

was left practically speechless. 

I asked, "For all three?" 

and when she said yes,  I managed

to mumble a polite "thank you."

The book is a former school library book.

I probably won't read it. I know about Mr. C.

I do have a thing for old books with 

embellishments on their covers, however.

I scored still another cheap batch 

of goodies at another store...

Vintage metal flower frogs. The guy asked me 

what they were. I told him they were 

called flower frogs. He jokingly said,

"I thought these were inserts for your shoes."

One of them has notches to join two pieces together.

I suppose it is designed to fit an oblong vase...

 I have plans for these wood plaques that include numbers...

And while I'm painting, this  round frame

will probably get some sort of treatment...

The little cross-stitch is sweet, 

but strange...what do you think it might be?

 Not leaves, or flowers. Hmmm.

It looks like a pumpkin tree.

 

I bought it because I was attracted to 

the little round wood frame.

Again, at the register, I was 

quoted one cheap price for the lot.

After these finds, I stopped thrifting. 

I needed to eat dinner and shop

for shoes. I didn't find any I liked, though.

Why is shoe shopping so hard these days?

Could it be because I don't wear

6 inch platform heels or totally flat things

that have absolutely no padding so

I can feel every grain of sand I walk on?

Honestly, does anyone else have 

the same problem? Am I the only one

who is wearing shoes that are getting old

and embarrassing simply because they

are more comfortable than what I find

in the stores these days? Is it too much

to ask for a shorter heel, padding, and 

a little simple style? Anyone?

Last week, I scored a couple of interesting items.

One is a frame I'll keep. Notice the angel on top,

and the devil on bottom. It's a tad creepy,

but I'm going to paint it white and see if the

creepiness factor diminishes. 

If the gilding on this one was as nice as the 

creepy one, I would leave it alone. It is not, 

so it's going white, too. 

The last item on my list is a lamp.

It's a teeny thing - made of marble with some pink tinges.

I don't know why it's pink, so I might try to bleach it.

It has a couple of chips, 

but they don't bother me so much. 

Sometimes I don't like chips, but this one

doesn't bother me. I don't know why...

On another note...

In a couple of hours,

 I'm going to Palo Duro Canyon to

celebrate the Feast of Trumpets with

a couple of friends. We're visiting

a local Messianic Jewish congregation.

The significance of this feast is:

New Years day.
The day of remembrance.
The day of judgment.
The day of blowing the Shofar. 

(A trumpet made of a ram's horn.)

I feel led to explore the feasts - God's appointed days.

Isaiah 60 & 61 will be read. 

I'll tell you more as I learn it.

Word for the Day:

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come,
    and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

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