When It Gets Chilly

During my bedroom closet clean I weeded out the old winter clothes I had that don't fit me anymore for donation, so I decided to thrift some new cold-weather clothes. I won this lot of two dresses and three tops for the minimum bid; let's see what I got and what they would have cost me to buy new.

Misia black tunic, retail: $30.00

Chico's top with assymmetrical hem, $49.99 new.

Black and white Shein Curve dress, $27.00 retail.

Annabelle sweater dress, $27.95 new.

Chico's Travelers top, $89.50 retail.

All of the clothes just need laundering and have no flaws. Altogether it would have cost me $224.44 to buy them in the stores; I thrifted the entire lot for $9.99. Savings: $214.45.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

Rayen

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