Thrift Stores

My Name is Lisa and I Am a Shop-a-Holic

I LOVE shopping!  And if it's cheap, it's for me!  I have too many interests and hobbies to be able to just buy what I want, and that's why I love going to thrift stores.  I love being able to buy paperback books for a buck and can get 10 or so for the price of a brand-new one at the bookstore.  I do still pay full-price or buy used online if there is a new book that I MUST have.  My son recently gave me a generous Barnes & Noble gift-card and I promptly spent the whole thing online that day.  My big box of books arrived about a week later.  This same son also gave me his "old" Nook, as he had bought a newer one.  I still haven't got comfortable with downloading books (although I have downloaded a lot of the "freebies").  There's just nothing like holding a book in your hands. I've also found many books about my new hobby, crocheting. They are all in good, almost-new condition and some of them are from the 1960's and 70's.  I just love vintage things! 

I collect bone-china cups & saucers and can usually always find a few at my local thrift stores.  In a way, it's kind of sad to look at these beautiful pieces and imagine who may have owned what was once a complete set of beautiful china (the thrift stores seem to always "separate" sets and mark each piece separately.  I wish for once they would leave some of the sets together and sell the whole thing for one price!).  I imagine the elderly lady who has since passed away and her stuff all boxed up and sold or donated to charity, etc.  I am going to take good care of her china and will keep it until I am gone.

Yesterday, I was browsing in a thrift store and came across this picture; it was hidden way in the back on a top shelf and I'm sooooo glad I found it.  I think it's beautiful.  I wish I knew who the artist was or what the title is.  I'll have to take another picture and try not to get the shadow of my arm in the next one!