September is finally here! I always have a hard time giving up the last of summer, but this year I think I am more ready for fall than usual. Ready for 70-80 degree temperatures instead of 90-100 (yep, that is what we get for fall here in the south) and ready for fall projects and […]
Friday Frugal Finds: $2 mirror, kids toys, 25¢ bins and more
I’m back with another Friday Frugal finds post. Here is what I found at thrift stores and yard sale this week. I stopped in my Value Village store and found this old Playskool toy bench for $2.02 I love the old, wood, classic kids toys and this will be fun for my nephew to play […]
Spray painted gold yard sale mirror {How to spray paint a mirror frame}
So this post is one for the record book! I am actually going to show you something that I bought at a yard sale on Saturday and it is already DONE and in place in my house. I haven’t even had a chance to show it you on my Friday Frugal Finds post – see, […]
A tour of one of my favorite thrift stores–Value Village
When I first started showing you all the things I was finding at Value Village, many of you commented that you had never heard of them. First Value Village is a nationwide company. In some states they are called Savers. They work with the American Kidney Foundation (or at least my store does.) So for […]
Friday Frugal Finds–18 items for $4.50 (vintage suitcase for 20¢, mason containers, and more)
It’s Friday – time to share some frugal finds with you! I stopped last Friday at a quick yard sale on my way to town. I spent a whopping three quarters! 25¢ for the frame and 50¢ for the container. I loved the mason jar type canister (especially for 50¢). We had just been […]
Mailbox flower garden
When spring began this year, this is what our mailbox looked like. It was sad, very sad. I wondered if we were going to have to replace it but figured I would try to paint and stain it first. I debated what color to do in this post and many of you weighed in with […]
Yes you can spray paint those thrift store brass lamps!
Here’s the story of 2 brass lamps I bought a while back at Value Village for $3.03 each. I see brass lamps like these all the time, but I was excited to find a matching set. And here is where I turn into a bad blogger. I spray painted them, but I either didn’t take […]
Friday Frugal Finds: why I bought a HUGE, heavy door at a thrift store
I just have one find to share with you this week but it is a BIG find! Big in size, and in the fact that I have been searching for this item for over 6 months. I bought a door at a thrift store! I was in my local thrift store and finally made it […]
Lack of inspiration? (or maybe just a lack of motivation?)
I have been feeling pretty uninspired recently . Wait…no, not really uninspired, maybe a better word would be unMOTIVATED! Cause I am plenty inspired – all it takes is opening my blog reader and reading a few blog posts or logging on Pinterest and opening a few hundred tabs of things I love. (By the […]
Update your vent covers with spray paint!
If you have vent covers that look like this in your house, I have the perfect, almost no-cost solution for you! 🙂 That will make people think you bought brand new vent covers. I actually did this project quite a while ago, but haven’t it shared it here. I was mostly frustrated with this one […]