For this Friday Felines, we have a little twist…

It’s all about thrifted kitties! We found this pair of wire kitties about a month ago at the ReStore. They each had a small bracket on them. We think they might have been part of some decorative shelf or something but it was hard to tell. They were only $2 so I brought them home. Dave took the brackets off and the plan is to put them up on the shed doors – Dave just hasn’t gotten around to it yet.

This one was actually a thrift from way back in the winter. It came from our favourite used store in Strathroy. It’s cast iron and my assumption was that it was meant to hold a pair of food dishes. But naturally, I thought, I can put plants in that.

It took me a little while to get pots for it, which is why you’re only seeing it now. I got some clearance petunias for it, and they are still a little droopy.

But, I’m sure they will pick up. I put it at the corner of the garage walkway, and it looks so cute there. And Dave hasn’t said anything about my plants encroaching on “his space” so I call that a win!

And the last one is another Holy Grail item. You may recall that I have a few Blue Mountain pottery pieces. I don’t consider myself a collector – I have two pieces with sentimental value from my childhood (my elephant and my angelfish), and a couple of neat shaped vases, I bought a thrift store, just because they looked cool the the colours work with my decor.

But there’s one other piece, I have no sentimental attachment too, but once I knew it existed, I knew I wanted it.

Yup. A long-haired cat. I learned about it when I started looking into the history of the ceramic cats (and searching for some black ones.) We’ve seen them around at antique stores, but they were always priced upwards of $50. And I just couldn’t justify spending the money.

In fact, when we went on our recent thrifting adventure and found the black cat with yarn, we saw no less than four of them! (We were in the big three-level antique market in Woodstock). The cheapest one was $40, and I’ll be honest… I almost bought it because I’ve never seen one cheaper. But then we came across the black cat and that blew my budget for silly things I really don’t need that day. (Because I’d also found that darn lasagna pan!)

But the universe must have been telling me something, because a week later, we went to Value Village…

…And there it was, sitting on the very first shelf just waiting for me. And the price…$17.99!!! And even better, when we got to the counter, we had $7 in Savers point saved up! I got it for a tenner! Can you believe it? I still can’t! I’m so glad I passed up all those other ones over the years.

And, since I can’t have a Friday Feline post with out at least one REAL feline…

Enjoy Lemmy in his little Adirondack chair.