Thrift finds

Last week, I was able to get to two thrift shops and find a few items.

 

I decided to buy these protectors because I often print out patterns from the Internet for knitting or book folding and then I have these loose pages all over the place.  I am So glad I found them!  I paid $1.97 per box and looked them up on the Avery web site.  They charge $14.88 per box for them!  I love how organized my pages are now!

 

I've been picking up pants hangers when I can because they are fantastic to use with my paint by numbers that aren't framed!  Clip the picture into them and hang away!

 

Another critter for my shell animal collection!

 

 

Have you ever seen these before?

 

 

I think these are neat.  They suction onto the bottom of a bowl and you can arrange flowers in them.

 

 

I found a box before but it only had one arranger in it.  This one has both the larger and smaller hole ones inside the box!

 

 

And finally, these glass fruit.  I have no idea why I bought them but I did so now they are mine.  I felt like I had to rescue them, the three of them were thrown into a bag for anyone to pick up and clink them around.  I was lucky they weren't damaged but felt like it was just a matter of time!

 

 

Karen

Last of my weekend finds~

I found these three rings that I love!

The two have dried flowers in them and the last one is a reversed carved flower.

Got this at a thrift shop.

Wasn't sure what it was but I want it for soaps in the bathroom.  Along with this one, was three more styles:

I was thinking these will be perfect to organize my desk drawer with office supplies!

Don't you think they are perfect?  Well, when I got back to the hotel, I did research on them and found out they are dental trays!  LOLOL!  Could be worse, could be embalming tool holders!

These are way too cute!

They are like vintage bobble heads!

Their little heads are on springs.  I wasn't sure about those things in their mouths, I didn't think they should be smoking cigars but that's what they look like to me.  Now I know they are supposed to be pipes.

I wish I would have taken a photo of how the seller packs these.  She uses these clear plastic containers like you would use for a hamburger or hot dog at a WaWa.  She packs them filled with tissue paper, puts the items inside at the top then staples them closed.  All you see are the items, can't touch them or see the backs etc.

I thought they were cute!

She kind of squished the green one and I'm attempting to get it to stand on it's own again.  The trees are adorable!

BUT, what are they?  Now that I got them out of the container, look at the backs of them!

There's a plastic tube on the back.  Like they are to be pushed onto something to hold them onto a tree or something along those lines?  I'm investigating the possibility they might have come from JewelBrite ornaments but JewelBrites are made in USA and these are stamped Japan.  Any thoughts?

And my last ornament:

I think that's a muff hanging off the one arm!

Marked just JAPAN which helps date it!

That's it for this trip.