2nd Hand On Ice

Here's another adventure in thrifting, I got before the snow was too deep. Tho I had another adventure even in the deep snow. Thank goodness for the ol' trusty truck. It went through the snow like butter, and took me to my favorite 2nd hand store slick as could be. Hmmm maybe I shouldn't word it exactly like that, considering the road conditions?! ha ha ha ...I'll leave that adventure for another posting.

This is a lovely 6"x 6" Pueblo Indian tile made by Gale Tuoti of Tucson, Arizona. It was made in 1990 and marketed through Earthtones, a company that marketed designer tiles from well-known Southwestern artists. The tile is kiln fired and hand glazed, and this picture does it no justice. My camera simply does not like the lighting in my house

 

 This dratted mirror or I should say, once again my dratted camera, refused this time to focus on the mirror and instead kept focusing on the picture on my wall. You get the general idea tho. The mirror is wicker in a lovely shade of pale blue. It is going to hang in my bathroom. I am almost done with the painting, and light fixtures go up next. YAY! By the way this was $5.99, 1/2 off of $9.99. Oh I do love it when the tags match the discount.

I actually bought two of these shell covered throw pillows. As you can see there are shells missing. I saw the tags were regular tags, (and not As Is), so showed the guy at the counter, hoping to get more of a discount. Lucky me, they were tagged at $6.99, but the fellow gave them to me at $4.99 a piece. This made my day, because I plan on removing the shells from one pillow, fixing the other, and keeping part of the shells for myself, and giving the rest to my sister to use in her earrings and jewelry making. I may sew bright ribbon strips, or all kinds of old buttons, on the other pillow to hide where the stitching of the shells were, and thus still have two nice decorative pillows. A nice project for those cold snowy days when you can't do anything else I think.