Another juicy weekend at the thrift store! Seriously,I could never work at one of these places. Nothing would ever make it out onto the shelf. Hmmmm, maybe I'm onto something here. I'll just call myself a thriftstore and people will  back up their truckloads of stuff at my place. Save me the bother of going out looking for it all :) Naw, the going shopping is what gets me out of the house. So this is this weeks haul...

To start things off I found this sweet corner shelf for 3 dollars.

And still continuing with the ceramic party-dishes-with-fruit-themes look, I found a few more serving platters

some gorgeous bowls

8 cute side plates

                      and this wonderful, huge,colourful bowl on a pedestal....

                                             looking inside the bowl

                                     Then there was this gorgeous treasure

                            This has to be the juiciest ice bucket ever!!                                                

                             What did the grape do when it got run over?      
                             It little out a little wine!

This bad boy set me back 40 dollars. Pretty steep for thrift storing but it is such a one-of-a kind, spectacular bucket that I couldn't walk away. I don't see it getting used all that often to serve chilled wine, so I need to come up with some other uses for it. I am accepting all your groovy ideas on ways to keep this out of the cupboard and on display.

I actually got this one back in December but thought that,as long as I'm showing off the bucket , I would show you this piece as well.

I love the detail on the cap!

It's funny, I have never noticed all these glass pedestals before until I started looking for them. They are everywhere. My question is, where are they all coming from? Is it normal to sell pedestals by themselves? Are these all from something that broke but left the pedestals intact? I'm not sure why they exist but I now have about a dozen of them. Go figure? This was the last one I found.It's the most intricate one yet. I think I'll be gluing it to the bottom of the nice glass platter I got last week and looking for a cake dome to complete it.

                                                                 Aren't these cute!

        Remember my friend Shelly's collection of baking forms?

 Well I found a few of my own today to start my own kitchen art display

Another thing I can't seem to stop buying is candle holders. I love all the beadwork on this one. It cost me 99cents and must of taken hours of work to make.

and last but not least, another cloche to add to the collection, this one in pretty blue.

Happy thrifting. I'd love to see what you find on your thrifty adventures.

Thrifty Sunday - May 2, 2010

I love to shop in thrift stores. I make a mental list of the things I hope to find and set off, sure in my heart that they will be there waiting for me. I am seldom disappointed.

 Shopping is my heroin,

 Finding a good deal is my rush,

 Value Village is my dealer.

My name is Rhianna and I am a thrift store junkie.

This week , having been inspired by some blog posts raving about the uses of Apothacary jars and cloches as decorating tools, I set off in search of something similar.

 Apothacary jars often have a pedestal base and a filial top to distinguish them from ordinary jars, so I was going to keep my eye out for those components.

Cloches ( which is the French word for bells) were glass domes used in gardens as mini greenhouses to start tender plants.

 In modern day, they are more likely to be found covering little vignettes of life on peoples mantles.

Here is one bloggers crafty use of thrift store finds to creat her own cloche

So all fired up and inspired, I set off shopping

This was my first big find of the day. This wonderful jar. It didn't have a lid however, so I spent a long time trying every wineglass in the store on top of it, much to the beausment of the other shoppers.

This is the one I finally settled on, but I wasn't that happy with it. I was thinking of removing the bottom of the glass and grinding smooth the stem.

But when I got home, my gaze settled on this pointy glass thing I found a few weeks ago.

I liked this better than the wine glass, but it still didn't look quite right to me.

I had also picked up this jar and was going to turn it upside down and glue the lid to the bottom....

but I didn't really like that look either.

Then I decided to try the lid from this jar on the bigger jar, and finally, I am happy!

I came across four of these crystal votive holders for $10 and my first thought was that they would look good with shrimp cocktail in them.

I also picked up a few sets of candleholders to use as bases on jars

Hmmm. I wonder what they would look like glued to the bottom of the votive holders?

I like it, I like it alot!

Your probably wondering why I got these wierd looking candle holders...wait for it

They come apart!

I was going to use these as bases and filials for jars to create my own apothacary jars.

But I am liking them under the voitive holders as well.

I found this hanging cloche with a seriously ugly plastic flower arrangement in it. I told the store they could keep the flowers, brought it home, removed it from the hanger and voila, my first cloche, two whole dollars spent!

Today was a good day and I found a lot of other goodies as well.

I love this ying/yang serving plate

Here are my new treasures waiting for me to start decorating with them.

I found this serving dish, which matches quite well with these......

....wonderful serving dishes I picked up last week.

It looks like I have started a collection of dinnerware for outdoor dining on the patio. Dang, that means I will have to keep shopping, sigh....

Now normally, I am not a big fan of the brass look, but I read a blog today where she had painted brass candlesticks white. They turned out great, so I paid more attention to the brass section today. I think this painted white and planted with pretty spring flowers is going to look fabulous!

I was not looking for this at all, until today I had never even heard of these but for 4 bucks I was willing to take it home and try it out. It fits over any kind of stove burner and turns it into a grill.

I have no idea why I bought this , but it I loved it and I am sure I will find a place or use for it.

Last but not least was this very pretty glass hummingbird feeder. It was only a dollar as it was missing the cork and feeder tube, but I am sure i can find one of those easy enough.

My monkey has been satisfied for another week, tune in next week for another shopping frenzy.

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