Thrifted Mercury Glass

Since I started my Thrifty Threads blog, I've been frequenting my local Goodwill more often than usual.  I try to do at least two weekly posts over there; one called It's New to Me, which shows a thrifted version of an outfit we found online and another called What $10 Will Get You at Goodwill, where like it says, we go to Goodwill and see what kind of clothing we can get for $10. 

Anyway, the point of this post is that I went to Goodwill last night just to look for some Han clothes, but of course ended up going through Housewares too.  I'd just been thinking earlier this week, that I needed something to use as a crystal ball in my Halloween table display, and do you know what I found???

This!!

Is that not, like totally crystal ball-ish???   You know what else, it's mercury glass.  You wanna know how much I paid for it?

The company that makes them is charging $158 for a set of three.  


Oh yeah, it was a good night at the GW!


Oh, I also got this for $2.  It was previously from TJ Maxx and was on clearance there for $10.  Charles gave me a raised eyebrow when I showed it to him, but it's goin' up on some wall anyway.

Linking to:
Show and Tell @ Blue Cricket Design
Whatever Goes Weds @ Someday Crafts

A New Blogging Adventure

If you've been following for awhile, you know that I have a tween daughter, Hannah (I refer to her as Han on here).  I often take her to GW with me and she always heads straight for the clothes.  She's a smart little chicky and knows that she can get so much more for her money there than at the mall.  I've asked before if she was ok with getting clothes from GW, and she replied, "Nobody can tell where it came from."  So true!!  I was so proud of her at that moment because I wouldn't have been caught dead in a GW at that age. 

After mulling it over for a few weeks, I decided that we could turn this into a little project that might be something fun for us to do together. And so she and I have launched a thrifty fashion blog, geared towards girls in her age bracket, that will show them that you can get your clothes at thrift stores and still look good.  I understand that it's almost impossible for a teen to not be into name brands, but they don't have to drain their parents' or their own bank accounts to to wear them.  Our blog is called Thrifty Threads.  Each week, we will choose an outfit either from online catalogs and go thrifting to try and mimic it on the cheap.  

I know that my blog is a craft blog and that there may not be too much interest in the fashion blog, but if this is something you or your own tween/teens might be interested in, I'd be pleased as punch if you'd pop over and give us some support.