Since about November, Dave and I have been thrifting on the regular. Sarnia offers us a nice little circuit of thrifts shops we can hit weekly as we run our “city” errands (hitting Home Depot, Walmart, and the other bigger stores we don’t have closer to home).

It starts at the ReStore, then to Value Village, then to the Mission Thrift Store, and ending at Talize. It’s a nice way of getting a little exercise in the cold weather… you really have to walk every inch of the stores to find the treasures!

And then of course, there’s the actual treasures! This month we’ve discovered…

It’s missing it’s lid and other accessories – but I don’t actually make fondue so that doesn’t matter! It matches my other pieces, and that’s enough for me. I’m thinking I may just pop a plant in her, and put her on one of the kitchen shelves.

We don’t do a tonne of entertaining – mostly just around Christmas. But over the last couple of years, I’ve come to understand the need for pretty snack dishes. These three pieces match the glaze on some other little dishes I bought early last year. They will be perfect for laying out some dips, crackers, pickles, etc.

Naturally, I’m always on the look out for garden things in the thrift stores.

And faerie garden things are even better. The above twig pieces are a bigger scale than my other faerie garden stuff, so I’m not quite sure where I’ll put them, but I’m sure I’ll find a spot!

This one is more on scale with the pieces I already have. I think the gnome village is going to have to expand this year.

And did you know thrift stores can be a great place to get fabric?

The first piece is 7.5 full yards! Perfect for a quilt backing. The next two pics are both flannel. The centre are two full yard pieces. I’m going to get another yard of something coordinating, and make a fun three-yard Christmas quilt. And the last is just over a yard – perfect for the back of a baby quilt. And I have no shortage of puppy fabric!

This next piece is just over a yard. I think there’s enough that I can use the bottom banner for a valance on the second kitchen window. We just have a blind on it now, and I think it would be a nice compliment to the ones over the window by the sink.

I have lots of chicken fabric in the stash that I can use with the leftover red pieces.

And last… no thrifting trip would be complete without something for the kids…

A cute little treat jar – certainly much nicer than having those little pouches hanging about the kitchen!