Showing posts with label thrift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thrift. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

Little Red Wagon

Remember the cute little wooden cart I got on my Thrifty Weekend? Well, the big decision was what color to paint it!! I finally settled on red (one of my favorites) and sprayed it this weekend with some Walmart's ColorSpray Burgundy Spice. I added a little black around the wheels to make them stand out.
When it was done, I loved it and wanted to get it filled up!! That would require another trip to the pumpkin patch and I didn't have time for that! So I "borrowed" some gourds and pumpkins from other places in my house and filled it - just to see what it would look like!



So now this weekend, I'll have to get some more pumpkins, etc. and get it out on the front porch!

We're ready for Halloween!

Sunday, October 4, 2009

A Thrifty Weekend

Being a HUGE bargain hunter/trash to treasure kind of person, I always enjoy seeing what people have gotten and what they do with their treasures, so I thought I would show you my weekend's pickins. I paid $7.00 for the little wooden cart (my husband assured me that he couldn't make it for that, so I went for it), and $7.00 for the big pear because I've had my eye on one of those for a long time and I had just gotten my "allowance". Otherwise, everything was 20c to 1.99.

Most of the white dishes made their way into my built in hutch and will make it into a later post. The little cart is still waiting for its treatment. I just don't know what color to paint it. I want it to sit on my front porch full of pumpkins, gourds, leaves, etc. for Fall and then greens or something for Christmas. Any ideas?

The black colander needed nothing but washing and then we could put in some fresh-from-the- garden tomatoes and apples (well, from someone's garden).
The little white dish looks adorable with mini pumpkins in it



I spray painted the cake plate black and set the pear on it. I don't think it will stay like that as I really want one of those blueish pumpkins on it. The pear just doesn't stand
out enough either. So I'll do some work on that and maybe it will show up in a later post.



Today my daughter and her husband brought the twins down to spend the day with us. We went out to a pumpkin patch and picked up some beauties!! (Now why didn't I pick up one more of the bluey pumpkins?)



There's nothing like pumpkins to give a porch a welcoming, Fall look!

And a pile of them on the table looks so festive!

Oh - and thank you little men for helping Nana pick out some GREAT pumpkins!!