Friday, September 25, 2009

A happy pitstop!

Hi Ladies! How was your day today? I had a good day, busy, but happy. Had to run a lot of errands today, get groceries in, and run Princess around to where she needed to be. During this I found that I had an unexpected half an hour between appointments so I made a quick pitstop at the thrift store since I was so close.....as you do!

I found this lovely little coffee mug for 50 cents. It's quite narrow and will be just perfect for when I'm wanting a quick, small cuppa on the fly......


I really, really love Christmas, it's my favourite time of year and now that it's nearing the end of the year the thrift stores are starting to put out some of their Christmas ornaments. I'm so excited! lol Anyway I found this sweet little tea light candle house for $2 (you can still see the price on the right hand side). A quick wash and it will be like all shiny and new!


This was my favourite find of the day. It's a glass snow globe. Very pretty and old fashioned looking. Just perfect for our little Jacaranda Cottage, and even better for my purse strings that it only cost 80 cents!


and lastly this little ceramic Santa bell was the most expensive score of the day at $2.50......


Each year I add to our Christmas collection a little at a time, and one day, hopefully by the time we have our Grandbabies running around, our home will be able to be decorated from top to bottom for the season. A Christmas winter wonderland.......in Australia.......in the middle of summer. Thank goodness for air conditioning! lol

Tomorrow we take LuLu to the vet to have her stitches removed, then we're off to my mum's to help her move some furniture around, she's in the mood for a change!

Wishing you all a lovely and relaxing weekend!

Love Amanda xxx

7 comments:

ohiofarmgirl said...

Looks like you found many treasures. I am starting to see Christmas in some of the stores too. Dianntha

Precious Princess said...

Hey Mum! I can't wait for Christmas too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love P.P.

Claudia said...

Great finds! I'm not quite ready to think of Christmas yet! I love your pretty mug.

Tara said...

Sweet finds. I like the little tea light house. Wouldn't it be fun to have a real house that looked like that!

Anonymous said...

What great finds.
I am loving looking at all the Christmas stuff that is creeping into the stores.
~S~

Wendyb said...

Hi Amanda...the snow globe is my fave of your finds!... don't ya just love it when they seem to just 'call' you to them???..and at a bargain price too...makes it all worthwhile!
XX ;o) Wendy B

Saguaro Chick said...

I adore all of your new treasures! Getting excited about the holidays is always such fun! Right now we are decorating for Halloween! All the fall colors are popping up all over the house! The boys painted some pumpkins tonight! I need to get that recipe for the mac and cheese! Will you share?

Love, Leslie