antiquing and thrifting fever!

Hello everyone ~ hope you had a wonderful weekend! Mine was filled with antiquing,

thrifting, church, time spent with family, and having lunch out with my hubby. In other

words, it was pretty much a perfect weekend. 

Me, my aunt, and uncle spent the day on Saturday exploring a couple of antique and

thrift shops that we'd never been to before. We all came home with some 

wonderful treasures.

 This first shop we went into was a newer shop and very well organized.

 

 I bought a vintage rose picture...

 and a cut glass salt and pepper shaker. It was the red tops that got to me.

The milk glass piece was a thrifted find from a few weeks ago.

 Walking down the street, we came upon this beautiful, huge house filled with

antiques from attic to basement.

 Loved the wooden staircase in this house!

I found milk glass spice jars with two of my favorite kitchen colors - blue and red.

 

I have them displayed on a shelf in my kitchen. See the two blue colbalt cups

on the little shelf on the right? Those were an antique mall find (there's two more in

the set) when I was out with my mom a couple of weeks ago.

 

 My other find in the house full of antiques was this Paden City Pottery platter with

a matching creamer and sugar. I loved the colors and the flowers. I got it for 50% off

 as there's a tiny chip on the back of the platter and a hairline crack in the creamer.

 Walking around the little town we were in (which I had never been to), we also found

a great thrift shop. I found a Bodum tea pot with infuser...

the cutest plate with two farm girls feeding chickens...

and three little glass bottles with wire wrapping. I also found (not pictured) two designer

polo-type shirts for Brian (Tommy Hilfiger and Aeropostale) for only $2.49 each and a 

Brita water pitcher for $3 that looked barely used (and ours had just broke!). Perfect

timing, as I really didn't want to spend $30 on a new one.  

 One last recent find ~ this beautiful table from a private seller on a local Facebook

page. I have it sitting in my bathroom until I have time to get it outside and paint it.

I'm thinking of painting it a pale yellow. 

Thanks for visiting and for all your kind comments. They mean so much to

me. Happy Monday!