More Thrifty Finds

Let's get started early today! We are having our small group from church over for a cookout this evening and just had 2 days of the worst thunderstorms we've had ALL year! Where oh where is the sunshine?! Oh well, we are gonna cook those hamburgers regardless, inside or out.

We had severe thunderstorms on Friday night and woke up to more rain on Saturday morning (which we were needing, thank the Lord!), so we didn’t try to go to the berry festival. I hate it for them though, as I’m sure the rain kept a lot of people away for their big event. We sure enjoyed it last year. So, I did manage to go to 2 big sales that were in my vicinity, between the rain.

Adding more to my white dish collection, I found 4 of these beautiful scrolly-edged dinner plates and 2 salad plates for $4. I just love how these look. They have a little brown/beige pattern interspersed with the white and I thought they were just adorable, very vintagey. They aren’t marked on the back at all, so I have no idea who made them, but they look pretty old.

I really love old bottles and bottles that have pretty and interesting shapes. These were $1 for both of them. I’m sure the one on the right is pretty old, not sure about the other one.

And this is the first time I’ve scored on vintage Christmas ornaments. These silvered ones were $1 for all. They will work perfectly with all my other silver and mercury glass collection next Christmas. Ha! I can see my reflection in one of them.

I visited an antique mall in Gardendale recently (suburb of Birmingham and I’ll share that outing later) and found a couple more white ironstone pieces for my growing white dish collection. These are the size of a sugar and creamer, did not come together, but look like they totally could have been a matched set. They were $1 each, very affordable and I just love the shape of them.

This one has some cute little feet and I think I’ll put a little plant in it and maybe do a grouping of plants in white planters.

And this little creamer was too cute to pass up either. I love the simplicity of these old pieces and I can even see the paint drip marks on this old piece of pottery.

And from a yardsale near my neighborhood a couple weeks ago, I scored this little black floral beauty of a tole platter for $10. I have a small collection of these black ones and this makes the 3rd that I’ve found at a yardsale. Soft and delicate pink flowers.

I put it at the top of the stairs.

By the antique mirror.

Did ya’ll get out this weekend? Hope the weather was better for you and you found some treasures.

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And if you really want to be inspired with outdoor entertaining yardsale finds, go over and visit my friends, Sandy and Meredith to see what all they have found for their outdoor entertaining on a shoestring.

Todays Thrifty Treasures Participants

1. Sara 2. MN Patti 3. MN Patti 4. Joan@anythinggoeshere 5. Queen of Fifty Cents 6. Deana 7. Carol @ Old Glory Cottage 8. The Shabby Chic Cottage 9. Dab of This and That 10. Tana@Crafting R&R 11. Olive Rue 12. Manuela@The Pleasures of Homemaking 13. Mary Lou 14. Bamawhitney 15. Karla @ It's The Little Things... 16. Melanie @ The Old White Cottage 17. ellen b 18. Tina ~ Adventures in Decorating 19. The Bloom Girls - Window Box and Mirror 20. cher 21. Ashley @ AshleysBusy 22. Nissa @ Sweet Paisley 23. Jadehollow 24. Toni 25. A Beach Cottage - The Vintage Dresser 26. Stephanie @ A Fine House 27. Tami 28. bj 29. Melissa @ Huckleberry Prairie 30. Terry @ Cherished Treasures 31. Lisa 32. Rhonda in OK 33. MelanieElissa 34. Chrissie Grace 35. Rhonda~Scooterblu's Whimsy 36. Grannyann-Only a few items 37. Linda @Nina's Nest 38. Shari @ My Cottage of Bliss 39. Rhonda 40. Beca @ Ruby Lane 41. Susie Q 42. Mary 43. Jessica - Need Ideas for Hanging Mirror! 44. Bonafide Southern 45. Frippery 46. Sara @ Be Still and Know 47. Susan@thecozychickadee 48. Kim @ Finding Deals In The Ville (pottery) 49. Lori @ Msslaydbug 50. Caroline@Forever Vintage 51. Lou Cinda @ Tattered Hydrangeas 52. Kammy-Small Home in the Country 53. Michelle @ Dei Gratia 54. chris @ free range furnishings 55. Sarah @ Thriftydecorchick 56. Barbara Jean 57. mary @Boogieboard Cottage 58. The Cottage Child 59. Katrina~ 60. Jenn@First Comes Love 61. Amanda@ Imperfectly Beautiful 62. Christy @ Embellished Bayou 63. KARA @ MADE 2 CREATE 64. Tina @ Enchanted Rose Studio 65. Lorna~Lace and Ivy Cottage~ 66. Sharon at Chickens in the Mist 67. Suzanne in TX 68. Amanda @ Serenity Now (Yard Saling with the Girls!) 69. Laura @ White Spray Paint 70. Helen Joy-Barclay and Me 71. Michelle 72. melissa * 320 Sycamore 73. Kelli@JOY 74. Roeshel - Evangeline's Vine 75. Kimm at Reinvented 76. Cindy 77. Sharon at Serendipity 78. Junk Mammas 79. julie k 80. Mrs. K. 81. Jen~Lipstick and Laundry 82. Reluctant Entertaier 83. Christie 84. SullivanandMurphy 85. Dawn @ Life at Eventually Cottage 86. Vanessa 87. Robin 88. Caro's Thrifty Treasures 89. French Cupboard 90. Phillips Phamily Mama 91. Bless Our Nest 92. Carrie - Oak Rise Cottage 93. Steph 94. Patricia@In My Free Time 95. Kristen@More Than the Mulberries 96. Courtney 97. Sarah @ House to Home with Sarah 98. Cathy @ Then There Were Eight 99. Beautiful Wreck 100. Debbie @ Simply Cherished 101. Cheryl B. 102. Eleanor Joyce 103. Angela at Frugal Living Makeover - Yard Sale/Kitchen Makeover 104. As The Blog Turns 105. printersdevil~Felecia 106. The Pottery Shed 107. Annabella 108. Deb @ Wise Old Owl 109. Charlene @ A Virtuous Woman

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