Teen1 is going to an 18th party this weekend, the second of many since all her friends are now turning 18. She started the pattern at the end of last year. A couple of days ago she was shopping for a gift for her soon-to-be 18 friend and came accross this...
Teen1 declared it PERFECT for her friend!
I declared it expensive clutter!
Time to find a budget friendly alternative me thinks.... off to the op shop we go...
After a couple of hours spent happily exploring three of our local op shops teen1 and I came home with our treasures.
Happy teen unwrapping her goodies.
See my new craft space is getting lots of use...
Lots of lovely wine glasses for $1 and $2 each.
plus two nice vases for $3 and $1 respectively.
Is it just me or have thrift shops become more expensive?
I found lots of lovely things, but was quite surprised at how expensive many items were. The shops are full of donated items, stafffed by volunteers, in dingy sheds and many of the prices were similar to retail on sale. I also looked at furniture pieces and decided to stick to eBay as I get way better prices there.
Any way back to the subject... I discovered that the glass paints at home are not the right kind, these ones are only suitable for non-washable, non-food service decorating. Bummer. the good news is that Riot has the right kind of paints on buy one get one free this week. Lucky me, since today I will be going to buy a few paints.
Stay tuned for the paint applied to glasses post...
And now for the Eddie update... thanks for all you kind words for our poor kitty.
Eddie didn't like his bucket and the vet had told us that if he left his tail and bandage alone, we could remove the bucket. For two days he was a good kitty and left it alone. This morning he spoiled it by pulling the bandage off and starting to chew at the stitches. back on went his bucket. Here he is and as you can see, he is less than impressed at being re-bucketed. In the back of the pic you can see his shaved, short tail.
3 comments:
Poor Eddie...nothin' like a bucket head. That'll keep him humble.
:-)
I agree! I recently went into a thrift store and some of the things I could buy cheaper at Target! Seriously! So I just went to another thrift store and found everything I was looking for and more! With all those glasses, whens the party!
Poor Kitty is absolutely miserable! You pick him up and he just flops in yur arms!
that's parthetic . his tail looks weird. have fun with all those glasses , don't make to much mess.... what am i saying it's teen 1 we're talking about .... have fun cleaning up the mess, seriously T1 and paint are a very bad combo. love you see you tmorrow.( school camp next week ,fuuuuuuuun)
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