Ro girl taped up a box to wrap. 😊
Two of her favorite things are crafting and wrapping gifts for others. ❤️ Oh, and tape. Tape might be her very favorite thing.
Thrifting Musings
We went to Grant Christmas Tree Farm a couple weeks ago and stopped in a thrift store in a tiny town—the name of which I can’t recall right now—on the way home.
Here’s my $3.10 haul:
A basket for a gift or something. @mtt makes fun of me because I almost always leave thrift stores with at least one basket. They’re just good for so many things. And as gift packaging, they’re cheaper than a gift bag AND reusable. I guess one can only use so many, though. I do plan on being a bit pickier with my future selections. Back to this one, though. It’s not fancy, but I liked the size. I might use it (or one similar) to put hot choc packs in for an event this weekend. And tie a pretty velvet bow on it to make it festive.
The 3 little glass pieces in the basket, which I think are tea light votives you stick in a taper candle holder. Something like that. I don’t plan on using them for that, though. My intent in purchasing them was to use them as mini greenhouses when starting seeds. I mean, I know it’ll only work for a few seeds at a time, but it’ll be pretty to look at! I also just had the thought that they might be cute placed in a taper candle holder and used as a small bud vase. So, I’ll have to try that too!
The glass vase with the scalloped edge top. I’m pretty sure this is a standard vase used when purchasing flower arrangements because I see them all the time, but I have a taller one with the same scalloped top and liked the idea of using this one alongside it. For flowers, of course. But they’d also be pretty as containers for eating utensils or pens and pencils or game pieces (like dominoes and dice) or a rock or marble collection!
Side note: A lot of my thrift purchases have to do with plants and flowers. Maybe I should use that basket as seed storage!
The glass (it was a good glass buying day) Hot Springs National Park mug. We’ve been here and like the area. I also liked the design on the mug. So I got it.
The last few weeks have been busy but real sweet. We’ve been to Branson, MO and back (w/ an overnight stop to see and stay with my dad), to a Christmas tree farm in the middle of nowhere for the day, and we took a 4.5 hour round trip drive to be with family on Thanksgiving.
I just ordered a 5lb. bag of coffee. Basically for myself. And my boy when I make him a cup here and there.
Some recent-ish thrifted things:
A $1 framed Christmas cross-stitch
Lemon Federalist ironstone sugar, creamer, and for cups - paid $2 for all of it
2 floral napkins that were either 25 or 50 cents each, can’t remember.
Did a sort of Icelandic Christmas Book Flood at our co-op today (we’re diving into a Christmas Around the World study for the next few weeks). The kids drew names a few weeks ago and found the perfect books for each other, many of which were thrifted. It was simple, but so special.
Rowyn woke up and made @Mtt a cannonball first thing this morning.
Stopped by my dad’s for the night Friday night on our way home from Missouri. Left there with 2 dozen eggs Saturday morning. Cooked almost half of them last night for dinner. 🥚🍳👍
I didn’t drink coffee for a week.
New Kindle case to match my new Kindle 😍 (Both thanks to @Mtt ❤️)
