Monday's Thrifty Treasures (picture heavy!)

It's Monday again, woot! Time to put my feet up and hang out @ http://southernhospitality-rhoda.blogspot.com/blog and checking out everyone's Monday Thrifty Treasures! Love it!

This post is jampacked with pictures!!

First off, lookie what I found in the TRASH today!! Ok, I'm sorry, the picture is crappy, but you get an idea! The fixture is an ugly dark green, but nothing a lil spray paint cant fix ;)



Also found curbside this week, this wooden window-like mirror! Also painted an horrible colour, but I'll be working on it soon! I just need to figure out WHERE it'll go, first!!



At the same house I found the above mirror, I found this cute little oval table! Ok, another horrible picture, but the contrast was so big between the top and legs that my camera just overexposed the top, over and over again! But you're not missing much, the top is UGLY! But look at the detail on the legs and such!!

Now, I'm SUPER envious of everyone who is able to get old wooden windows. I live in a fairly new city (Laval, just north of Montreal). There just aren't old houses, really! (The city itself is 35 years old... before that, there were a few 'villages'. So it's a new city, really). So, no old windows to be found. I will be on the lookout for some when in Vermont this summer (although I did see some at a garage sale in Vt a few weeks ago. The guy was selling them for a ridiculously high price (i`m talking close to 100$ for a small window!)

So, when I found this curbside, I decided to take it even though it's not wood, but heavy plastic. Ah well, it'll give me the look, I dont care!! Come back later to see the transformation!

Also found on trashday this week... this old wooden crate with 'slots' inside to fit those old soda bottles! So cool, love it! I will be putting plants in it and it'll be on the porch.

I love how I go to garage sales and find exacly what I'm looking for (I have a list of things i want to find). I was looking for a napkin holder for the campsite, because it gets SO windy there and we eat outside all the time! So for a buck, i got myself this cutie:

I dont know what I was thinking when I bought this. I thought it was cute, but now i'm not so sure! It's from Avon. Doesnt fit colour-wise anywhere in my house. lol. But for 25c i went home with it anyway. lol

In my quest to have 'a place for everything and everything in its place', i'm looking for all types of baskets for my closets and even in various rooms. This huge basket was just 2$, woot!

Another thing to cross off my 'to find' list! DH asked me to find a frame to fit a 8x10 photo he wanted to give his parents. Well, I found 2,, for a buck each. DH's parents like that shade of wood, so theirs stayed that colour,while the one i'm keeping for myself will be spray painted of course!

A small lobster cage for 25 cents.

I am in LOOOOOVE with this frame. It's heavy iron/metal and was already painted that colour and perfectly distressed. 2$. I love it! I will take a pic of it with a picture in it- i put a sepia pic of DH and I. :)

Look @ this adorable chippy kiddie stool!!! I am keeping it as is, because I love its distressing, even though I have nothing red in my living room, i like that contrast!!

Here is where I put it, for now :)

I found 2 of these foot stools, covered in brown leather. I want to repaint the legs, but will keep the brown leather since it matches my decor. I put this one next to the front door: the kids sit on it to put their shoes on :)

On this one wall in my living room, I had just that mirror. I've been looking for wrought iron candle holders for either side, and found these for 2$ each. Love them!!
Of course, the wall is still plain, and I'm on the lookout for more wrought iron pretties to put above the mirror... i'll come upon it eventually!

Not decorating-related, but still a total SCORE!

Went to a garage sale and found this box of huge transformers. My middle son got this at Christmas, and the original price was 50$ at Costco!!! Well, I got it (it's BRAND NEW) for 12$!!!! So my son will be giving it to his best buddy for his birthday this month! Woot!

Another thing to cross off my list of things to find! I was looking for pots for my indoor plants, they all need new bigger pots. Found these on trash day! The colours are horrendous, aren't they? But there is a lot of 3D details on all the smaller pots! I already spray painted these black :)