I was so excited to take a little adventure today. I visited my local GW and my absolute FAVORITE thrift store and found some treasures - of course! At the thrift store, I found some great vintage silver plated items - A beauty of a tea pot ($2.50), sugar and creamer (.50/pair), serving tray ($1), and a casserole holder (.50) minus the glass casserole. I'll use the casserole holder for chimes and possibly the tea pot as well. Or, the tea pot may become part of a Christmas display (yes - I said CHRISTMAS not holiday - please don't call the politically correct police). Some old wooden coasters (.50) will get shabbied up a bit with paint, set of 4 brandy glasses ($1.50) will become cloches, some china pieces for mosaics that I'll start on soon, some other glass pieces (about .50 each), a grapevine type swag ($2.50 for about 16') will become little nests in cloches and wine glasses, among a few other things. I love the 2 pink sheers ($4.00) and I'll use them in my craft booth near my Shabby Chic junk at upcoming fall shows. Grand total for this haul was only $22.00! I LOVE it all.
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Yum....I love the silver! I don't know what's happened to me, but over the past year I've picked up enough pieces to apparantly have a collection...but I didn't notice that 'til the other day. I want to see your windchimes - I'm envisioning the possibilies! LOL
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robelyn
What IS it about silver? I know what you mean about picking up enough to have a collection! Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you might see wind chimes...not sure if they have silver pieces or not other than the silverware. Maybe I should do a grouping of silver chimes...
ReplyDeleteYaaaaay for rescuing the silver pieces. I love the old silver and rescue as much as I can afford to!!! And I wanted to say a BIG thank you to you for the Christmas comment!!! I'm so glad to find someone else who isn't afraid to call a spade a spade!!! (and tacky old lady that I am, I also HATE X-mas and refuse to use it as well :^)
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Well, THANK - YOU Jaybird, I appreciate you taking time to comment. I have a thing for silver, and rusty, and glass, and well, I love a lot of things! Christmas is also one of my favorite things - when we celebrate the birth of Christ - not the shopping and the rat race!
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Sue