One of my favorite places

I absolutely love visiting thrift stores, garage sales or flea markets. I love the hunt for something special, the unexpected and the forgotten object waiting to be treasured again. I am so lucky that where we live now has so many thrift stores and community yard sales. I know not everyone appreciates old or used things but I have always been someone who never quites looks at things as they are but more of what they can be. Just look at what I found last week :

I think these will look so sweet hanging in my kichen. They were just 50 cents ea!

I loved these dishes! I thought these would look great for a spring table setting.

(Excuse the mess in the pic , I am on spring break and have like 5 projects going, all in seperate rooms!)

I plan on transforming this into something  really neat for the garden. I will have to show you when I am done!  I usually spend my Saturday morning hitting up my local thrift stores. I do believe my boys have inherited this gene too. They tend to be very disappointed if for some reason we do not head out for our weekly excursion. Well I need to get busy with all of these projects I am working on. My spring break is slipping away rather quickly!

Team Spirit!

My Hubby loves the DUKE Blue Devils. As a result the boys and I have fallen in love with them as well. Dh is like a kid in a candy shop when the collegiate basketball magazines roll out in the fall. It is always a big production at our house when DUKE plays. We serve some tailgating food and all sit sown to watch those Blue Devils shoot some hoops. The last couple of years have been rough, their season usually ended in the sweet 16. I know be thankful they made it to the tournament. This year though, they have marched right on to the final championship game. Awesome Babeee!!!! ( said with my very best Dickie V vioce). This called for something special. So I started looking for some DUKE dishes. I found some..... nothing that really hit home or fit the pocketbook. I just happened to come across some white enameled steel bowls and a white crockpot at The Bargain Box. My little brain started thinking it would be so EASY PEASY to paint the DUKE emblem on these things. So I shelled out 7.50 for 3 bowls, 1 crockpot, 1 metal tray and 2 ceramic candlesticks. Oh yeah, I do Love some Bargain Box!

So this is what I started with ( sorry, somehow lost the before pics of the crockpot, tray and candlesticks). As you can see they are just a white enameled stainless steel bowls which made a great base for the royal blue Delta Air Dry PermEnamel paint.



The metal tray was a beat up tray with flowers on it and the candlesticks were a painted ceramic so I just spray painted them with white flat paint. After I painted the logos on them. I put a clear lacquer finish on all of the pieces. This is the end result. DH was very impressed and I can not wait to use them tonight for our traditional DUKE pregame dinner!


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