Friday Night Specials!!

Here I am on a Saturday morning thinking about those four chairs I left behind last night at the thrift store...knew I should've bought them!!! Grrrrr! Oh well...here's what I lugged home. I wished for a new cutting board the other day since I've been aspiring to be like Giada and the thrift store ferry left me one on the shelf. Forgot to include it in the picture. It was a Catskill Craftsmen Inc. professional maple cutting board with the tags still attached ($1.48). I have searched the net and can't find one comparable less than $40. On to the other finds!! I've been collecting wooden letters and found several this time. I plan to use them in various ways as I will have some decorating projects going on in the next couple of months in my school's new library and my adjoining office. I'm thinking paint and distress them and put the word "read" on the wall somewhere!! Sounds appropriate for an elementary school library. I recently purchased some of those 3M picture hangers that won't hurt your walls and think these will be the perfect items to use them with. I also purchased two curtain rod sconces for $1.98 and am still looking for two more. I found two wooden curtain rods at another thrift store last weekend that I plan to use in my bedroom and these sconces will be perfect to hang those after a little antiquing job. Also found was a piece of Miller Studio plaster of paris curly Q wall decoration circa 1967 ($1.48). This piece will be perfect to adorn a piece of sad looking furniture. Hopefully I will find something to attach it to soon!! I also found a cute clay sunshine / owl windchime. Not quite sure why the owls are on there since they are nocturnal...but it was cute and has a nice sound. So nothing today that really blew me out of the water but I'll keep hunting! Oh, one last thing...I got really excited to hear that there might be a new major thrift store opening up in a nearby city, but my balloon was immediately deflated when I found out that the surrounding area would rather see the old empty grocery store building stay empty rather than allow riffraff like me to come shopping and maybe spend my money eating lunch nearby, filling my car up at their gas stations, and shopping in that community with the money I saved by shopping at their thrift store :)