Friday Goodwill Finds!

Dear Blogging Friends

My Friday Goodwill Find is early this week because I have plans to celebrate my sons 30th birthday with him!  My daughter who helps me so much with my blog is trying to help me take better pics.  She says my pics should tell a story.  So, one day at goodwill I spotted these Christmas tree stands.  I love the colors and the vintage about them.  Unfortunately, these are items that don't get used much anymore. But when I found all three tree stands together I decided to stack them and they reminded me of a Christmas tree which is my Friday Goodwill Find today.  The top is my vintage Ford carrying that perfect tree!  I hope the other vintage finds tell a story of the past.

My story are my kids clothes hanging above the tree their first Christmas outfits. The Santa hat my mom wore at Costco while she served food and still has her mistletoe pin in it.  The sax my son played all through high school and marched in many Christmas parades and my daughter wore the dress I made in a Christmas pageant for the band to raise money.

My Friday Goodwill Finds tell lots of stories for me and I hope for you.  Finding the perfect tree or for me creating a tree made out of castaways was really fun, if only Christmas tree stands could tell their stories.

Stay tuned, more Christmas to come!

Debby

Friday Goodwill Finds!

Dear Blogging Friends!

Just wanted to share the rest of my pics of my dining room and Let It Snow Limoges.  I made the Christmas stick tree and added my home made bottle top macarons in pink and gold.  Next, the pink shabby high chair with more Goodwill cast away lights, goodwill skates and my sign Let It Snow Limoges!  My table cloth was a Goodwill find that was too small and had to make a ruffle, looks real Shabby.  My Limoges dishes with the 99 cent light, you remember these?  I shabby painted it and added glitter!

Next I'm giving you a quick how to DIY on a cracker box.  Mine are made out of paper towel holders, cut in half, covered with beautiful Christmas paper and stuffed with Chocolate Kisses.  These make great gifts on packages or just a quick last minute beautiful inexpensive gift.

Last but not least are the flowers, I love all our blogging friends that incorporate our love of flowers but they are expensive!  So , I went looking for freebies from my neighbor down the street.  These are camellias.  They are beautiful and look like velvet in real time, tried to grow them myself, unsuccessful.

Christmas can be stressful, stop and breath and admire all the beauty.  Stay tuned, my next Goodwill Friday post will be wonderful red and green and I really had to challenge my inner creativity but I feel it will be worth tuning in for, I promise!

Debby

Friday Goodwill Find!

Dear Blogging Friends,

It's that time again, Friday and a $3 Goodwill find, this pretty milk glass globe was covered in nicotine, so I cleaned it and turned it into the most beautiful tree base that even lights up. Once again I'm repurposing, don't you love it!  This is the first of my Christmas decorating in my dining room.  I even repurposed the little tree, it was an ugly white tree, so I painted it a shabby pink and added the most beautiful Limoges cups and pretty little decorations. My theme for my dining room, "Let It Snow Limoges"!  Can't wait to dress my table in more Limoges to come.

Debby

Friday Goodwill Find!

Dear Blogging Friends

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I always feel a little melancholy around this time of year because I lost and miss my mother.  With that being said how many of us mothers spend many hours at our kitchen sink while looking out our window?  I wish I knew how many hours at the sink, cooking, cleaning and looking out my window at my kids swimming, laughing, swinging, grilling, pitching tents in the back yard, jumping on the trampoline, birthday parties, graduation parties, wedding showers and looking at full moons and watching my cherry tree grow as much as my kids! My kids are grown and that cherry tree wont stop growing!  The pic of the full moon was taken Thanksgiving night!  The old light fixture has hung around on the back deck waiting to be turned on, finally.

After 20 something years of looking out this kitchen window, I have been fortunate enough to be thankful for many memories.  So, my Friday Goodwill Find is continuing to use up the $3 lace shower curtain.  I decided to dress up my kitchen window with new curtains and a pretty light fixture with the same lace.  I know a shabby girl feels good with a new dress and this window is certainly dressed up ready for different seasons of my life.  Enjoy every moment with your children and what you might think are dreading days at the kitchen sink, looking out my kitchen window were the most wonderful days of my life.....

Love, Debby

My Thanks To a Friend!

Dear Blogging Friends

My dear friend Tina and I have been friends for many years. We have shared happy times and sad times.  We have shared work together for over twelve years, birth of her children, my children growing up and marrying, death of many loved ones, layoff together, life experiences that continue to season you and thankful for the family and friends you do have.  As we both go through different Seasons of life and even though we do not see each other day to day we have a tradition of going to Antiques In Old Town for their Christmas open house (http://antiquesinoldtown.blogspot.com) this adventure gets us in the spirit with lots of inspiration and continues to bring me and Tina together on a continued friendship of memories, happy ones!  Just a few pics from open house and my shabby pink finds!  This is my thanks to my dear friend Tina, thank you for being my friend, Love you, Deb........

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: what you too; everybody is crazy but us!"

Never shall I forget the days I spent with you.  Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours....