Thrifty Things Friday #151

So happy to see you!

Diann and I look forward each week to seeing what you have to share at TTF!

This week I'm sharing my thrifty St. Patrick's Day decorations.  I just add a few 'touches' of green here and there!

Lot's of green in one of the cubbies

Some favorite plates on the wall

This shamrock plate and cup on a shelf are two of my favorites.

The shamrock coasters are in a light green planter and just look cute!  The gorgeous vase is a family treasure I'll share more about soon.

This sits on the pass through from the kitchen to the living room

I love how the milk glass with the green is so pretty! 

I hung this little tag on one of my vintage candy jars

All of my decorations are thrift shop finds!  

I like being able to decorate for pennies for holidays!

What do you have to share this week?

Link up your thrifty posts HERE

I'm also joining Kathleen for her annual

St Patrick's Day Blog Crawl

Here are a couple of tablescapes I've done in the past!

I'm also linking with Jann for

Share Your Cup Thursday

Wishing you JOY,

Linda

Tiger Time 2014

I can't believe Tiger will be three in less then a month!  Time really does fly.  He is growing up so fast.  We have lots of fun together and I wanted to share some photos of my sweet boy!

We had a great time playing 'Eiffel Tower' with this wire cage I have in my yard.  

Just look at this face!

One cold day we created with PlayDoh and had so much fun! 

Love his shorter haircut

He truly lights up my life! 

He can bake a cake for his Mama

(she turned 32 but I don't think she minded the 23)

Work and play in the snow!

Share his Southern roots

and dance like no one's watching!

Today it was warm and sunny so his Mom and I took him to Sandy Creek Park which is just down the road from me.  It has a beach on the lake and is fun for the little one's to play.

Sand Castles with Moats

Lots and lots of trips with the water

This is serious business Grandma!

Can you tell I love this little guy?

Grandma and Baby Bear!

I'm joining

You're Gonna Love It 

Wishing you JOY,

Linda

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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and share your thrifty posts!