Thrifting Success!

What a fantastic day today was.  Ryder and I had a slow morning at the house and then went this afternoon for lunch with some favorite friends at Lupies followed by some thrifting afterwards at one of my fave thrift stores in town, Value Village.  Lunch was awesome and I got to really catch up with friends that I don't always get to see regularly, but love them just the same.  Everyone seems to have great things going on in their lives and it's always fun to hear about what they are doing and thinking about.  (On a side note, when I was typing that last sentence out I accidentally typed livers in stead of lives at first... ha!)

As soon as I walked into the thrift store, I went straight for the furniture.  Let me tell you folks, there were some great finds.  They had this awesome old school stove range akin to the pink one in the house I use to rent on Randolph Rd (if anyone remembers that) and I had a moment of thinking that I really should bring it home and see if Evan could refurbish it and we could use it as our regular stove.  It was perfect and white and retro and awesome.  As stupid as it sounds, they really don't make things like they used to and stoves like this one were pretty much like tanks.  You can fix them and they will go on forever!  I still may talk to Evan about it haha.

Anyways back to other finds at the thrift store, I found this awesome orange arm chair that is retro and in great shape and even came with a handmade orange tweed pillow.  I looked it over thinking that it would be 30-50 dollars and I would really have to think about it and probably not get it.  Well I finally found the price written on one of the legs: $10.  Yes, that's right, I said $10.  I was sold.  I knew I just had to have her.  Here's a little pic of her:

 After the initial high of a thrifting find I was in full gear ready to search for deals.  I found a great metal cabinet thing with cool metal handles that looked like wings, but it reeked of old cigarette smoke and the doors wouldn't close and Sharan and Toby talked me out of it.  It was also ten dollars, but it actually needed quite a bit of work and I wasn't sure I could get the smoke smell out of it.  Now even more on the hunt for a good find, I turned the corner to look at the rest of the furniture and there it was: the hottest green tweed chair you've ever seen.  Well maybe not, but totally a cute find in great shape and also perfect for my living room.  I had to find the manager to get a price but we agreed on $20 for the pair of chairs.  So here it is, my second find of the day:

I know, I know, I'm probably way more excited about these chairs than anyone else would be, but really, they are perfect for our needs, they were super cheap, they're still in great shape, and they are just my style!  I win again!  

So then I came home, curled up in a blanket in my new orange chair and crocheted while watching Top Gun, which, by the way, is still a great movie.  Evan made fun of me saying that it's only the second of the month and I'm spending all of my money, but really, I think the twenty I spent today well worth it for years to come, not to mention that I've been wanting new furniture for about 5 years now.  Now I just need to find a great used mid century modern couch... anybody have one hiding in their garage or grandmother's house?  ;)