Thrifty Things Friday #150

Diann and I are so glad to see you

This week I'm sharing a thrifty organizational tip with you.  It's not original to me but I finally decided to try this and I love it.

Scarfs....I love them!

I wore them daily in Paris and bought a few to bring home.  Putting them in a drawer and having to search through them when I want to wear one is a pain...so I decided to try this.

I took one of my wooden hangers and used plastic shower rings I bought at the thrift shop

I put the rings on the hanger and each ring holds a scarf! 

 I can see them at a glance and I love it!

I hung mine on the inside of the closet door on an hook rack that was already there so it doesn't tip as it does just hung from the hanger hook.

Easy and inexpensive.  I can also hang this inside the closet out of the way during the summer when no one wears a cute scarf in Georgia!

That's my little thrifty tip this week.

I can't wait to see what you have to share.

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Wishing you JOY,

Linda

Lucky Me!

Today a package arrived from Canada

and I was so excited!

I won this Pyrex Pink Gooseberry #444 from lulu and lolie a wonderful blog you should visit!

What makes this even more special is this bowl completes my set! 

The only one I bought was the smallest bowl.  The middle two were a special birthday gift from a Canadian friend and then the largest bowl was this win also from Canada!  

Happy and very LUCKY me!

Now when you look at this thrifty find

You see a bargain priced utensil bin from Target

But I see.....

A shelf for some small items including my collection of individual restaurant creamers

I am still tweaking this but love how it gives me all these 'shelves' for little things!

I'm joining

Kathe @ You're Gonna Love It

and

Brenda @ Tweak It Tuesday

Wishing you JOY,

Linda

Thrifty Things Friday #149

Thanks for joining Diann and I for

I've had a virus all week and so instead of a new post I thought I would show you some of the dishes I've used in tablescapes and that have now been donated.  

Re-thrifting is as important as thrifting!

The first set of dishes is on the chopping block, but are still here.  The restaurant ware and the lovely blue and white dishes were donated before I moved.

Some pretty plates in this group...all were donated except the solid green and black plates.  

I find solid color plates to be the backbone of my tablescaping after the basic white plate of course!

The orange dishes, most of the Fiesta ware and the Halloween plates are all gone.  Often once they are used I just have to let them go.  The Fiesta was hard to part with, but it is so heavy and I had to downsize.  I still have 'some' Fiesta.

The cherry plates, green plates and white with the flowers are gone.  I still have the solid blue plates, the milk glass and the egg coddler.

  The set of Federal Blue glassware was also donated.

I still have a closet full of dishes and glassware.  I'm still working on downsizing, but it's hard as many of you know.  I'm trying to do a tablescape and then donate plates that I don't think I will use again.  One of the hardest sets to donate were these fish plates

I loved these plates but didn't use them enough to keep them.

So what have you been up to this week? 

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Sharing The Collections!

Clutter and Collections seem to go together!

One of my goals this year is to figure out how to enjoy my collections without too much clutter! That means I am going to limit the collections, sad but true!

I love my orphan S&P collection, but I needed to edit it down to fit a smaller space.

Using this old soda crate, I added all the orphans that would fit into it.  This is in the kitchen on a bakers rack.

Keeping my favorite shakers that were larger I added them to a cubbie located on one of the kitchen counters.  It also holds some of my Waechtersbach mug collection. 

A large group was donated and I still have a few I haven't decided if I will keep, sell or donate.

I love this collection and this way I can enjoy them everyday! 

Another collection I enjoy 

Creamers...This was last year before moving.

Many of these have already been donated as I edited my collection.  Today I worked on my remaining collection

Many of these are restaurant creamers and also some with green on them. 

 I have another collection of small creamers and need a good way to display them if I'm going to keep them all.

The ironstone and white pottery collection is coming along.  

I will continue to tweak it until it is just how I want it.

The cubbies in St Pat's green last year

I'm trying to get the holiday collections to fit into one cubbie...

more green and not so much St Pats!

Its a change I'm feeling good about.

I still have collections to edit and figure out what I'm keeping and what I'm not.  I know it is still a lot of clutter for some, but for me it's downsizing.

I'm sharing this at 

You're Gonna Love It

and

Tweak It Tuesday

Wishing you JOY,

Linda 

Thrifty Things Friday #148

It's that time of the week when Diann and I invite you to share your thrifty posts with us at 

This week I'm asking you what can 25 cents buy?

.25 bought me the little travel game for Tiger and a the small wooden box that I'll use for displays.  It also was what I paid for each of the paperback books!

This cute sleeping bag for Tiger was $3.50 which was a great deal, but not .25

I found these wood blocks at Target 90% off of $12.99 so I paid $1.29...not .25 but a big bargain.  I bought a few sets to paint with chalkboard paint and do some projects with.

I got BOTH of these items for a total of .25

This little mortar and pestle was a great find 

Along with this adorable egg cup

It is Devon Blue Pottery made in England.

Ilfracombe is a seaside resort on the North Devon coast of England.  This pottery is well known and I believe they produce many items for tourists!

It's a great addition to my egg cup collection.

So what thrifty things do you have to share this week?  Join us and link up your posts HERE

I'm joining Jann for 

Share Your Cup

and a big thank you to her for featuring my little bird egg cup from last week!