Hi,friends! I hope you’ll all make yourself comfortable at my new place. Take off your shoes and enjoy. There will be some tweaking to do with this new blog (fixing some broken links, etc.), but I’ll be working on those as I find them. If you see something that is off, feel free to email me about it, thanks! A BIG thanks to my blog designer, Darcy, at Graphically Designing for making the switch for me and holding my hand. And not making me feel like an idiot at trying to learn a new program.
I have over 3,800 subscribers to my Blogger blog, so please, please ALL of you take the time to re-subscribe to my new one. That would be wonderful! I love knowing that all of you are still out there with me.
So, on to the Thrifty Party this week. I got to a few sales, but really didn’t buy much at all. And that’s OK, there’s always next week, right?!
There are some fabulous views here in Birmingham and this was the sight from the back deck of a moving sale in Brook Highland. Isn’t that WOW?! It was so packed, I went through and looked as well as I could and grabbed only one thing.
This softly draping knit dress by Nina Leonard was $1! Steal! I never found a size on it, but figured since it is a wrap-style dress it could work for me and it does just fine. The sleeves were a little long (that hardly ever happens), so I’ll just push them up. This isn’t a complete wrap dress, in that it’s not open all the way down, but only the middle section wraps and I like it better that way. I love that I can tighten it or loosen as needed. You know, just in case I get fat or anything. 🙂
And with my $2 shoes from last week’s sale, a pretty thrifty outfit, all for $3. The material is really comfortable too and you know I loved the print. Giraffe is it? Black and white is such a staple in my closet. I looked online and found a link to QVC and they were selling the short sleeved version for $46, here. But, it’s no longer available. I did get a deal! 
Moving on, in my own neighborhood at a sale, I found this pretty lime green plastic pitcher for 50 cents. Always nice to have in the summer and it will coordinate with my other outdoor dish finds.
This pretty tiny little oil painting was 25 cents. I just love these little vintage paintings and at that price, wasn’t about to leave it. It will look cute on an easel on a bookshelf.
We’ve added 2 hummingbird feeders in the backyard this year and have had a ball watching those cute little creatures, so when I spotted this iron hummingbird, I had to get it. At $3, it was my splurge of the day.
I stopped by one of the big thrift stores in Alabaster since I was over that way for an in-home consultation last week and found one thing to bring home. This green print skirt from Old Navy was more than I usually spend, but I love the style of these skirts, so for $5, wasn’t too bad. It has some pretty ribbon trim too, a great summer skirt. 
This is not a yardsale piece, but you have to see what I won in a giveaway. Lara Harris, a wonderful artist, had a giveaway and I was lucky enough to win it. I sent her a pic of the photo of my iron urn (from a yardsale of course) on my header, so it seems only fitting to have this captured on canvas. I love it, Lara! I’ll have to find the right spot for this 5×7″ beauty. Check out Lara’s blog for all her beautiful paintings. You can get one done too!
So, get ready to share your treasures too. Remember our guidelines for Mr. Linky parties:
- Enter your permalink to your thrifty post and NOT just your blog url. If you aren’t sure how to do that, please refer back to last week’s party. All links that do not go to your party post will be deleted.
- Please add a link back to THIS post, so that all your readers can find the party and join in or at least read about all the fun that everyone else had, or I’ll have to delete those too.
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Rhoda-good luck with the new blog “home”. I love all your finds and thanks so much for being such a gracious hostess, as always.
Thank you so much Rhoda for posting about my painting! :o) It was a true pleasure creating a piece for you!
Oh boy! I thought those black pumps were THE find! But that
dress!!!! You are the queen!!!!
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Rhoda –
Lookin good ! Great buys again, as always. Love the clothes – you are such the model…I think we need to find you a tripod and a self timing camera – then you could really go crazy, LOL !
Congrats to your new website. I have updated my link to your new site and let everyone know of the new change on my blog. Best wishes !
Hugs ~ Kammy
rhoda – you have a great eye for finding treasures. it’s so much fun to see what everyone else finds, too. thanks so much for hosting this.
blessings –
randee
Hey Rhoda. Love your finds. The shoes look great. The green pitcher is my fav find. Congrats on the move. Hope everything continues to run smoothly. Have a great weekend!
Sorry…I meant have a great week.
You find the best deals on clothes. I never had a lot of luck in the clothes catagory. Like your new site!
Glenda
Rhoda,
You look just fabulous in your new dress and skirt! What great thrifty finds, that dress looks like it was made for you! I love joining on to this blog party! Hugs, Cindy
Rhoda, I had to do this twice, due to my short term memory loss. I think it all came back eventually. I look forward to your thrifty party and as usual you found some beauties to bring home. The outfit is beautiful, you really do well with fiding cute clothes, not so easy for me. Also love both of the paintings you got. I think I wil be using the painting technique you used on your chairs to redo the Pottery Barn console, what do you think? My son and my husband say leave it alone, it looks fine, but I probably won’t be trusting their opinion. He He. Like the new blog by the way, congratualtions I had no idea you had that many followers. Mind blogging I mean bogiling!! Marla
I absolutely love the hummingbird! They haven’t been visiting our feeder as much this summer for some reason. I need something like that to lure them back, hehe! Thanks for sharing and for hosting this fun linky party!
Great finds, love the dress on you!
~Michelle
Hi Rhoda,
I love your wrap dress and skirt! I was on the hunt this weekend for some cute clothes for me. I scored on a denim jacket…but that was it! But I found lots of other treasures!
Love hummingbirds! They are so adorable to watch! Take care!
I love that painting!
Thanks for hosting once again:)
You found some amazing things! Cannot believe the dress was only $1!
I’ve been saving this post all week to join your party for my first time. 🙂 Glad to see there are other people like me who revel in finding such fun deals. Love that dress!
You did great! I love that white and green skirt!
Loving the new space…loving the new dress and paired with the hawt $2 shoes…it’s scrumptious! Also love the painting and her work…I will have to check out her blog for more awesomeness…will you please forgive me for not getting to see you this time around? I was all excited and then BAM! my schedule was rearranged suddenly (found out I was leaving a day earlier than I thought-guess I should read a little more closely). Anyhow, I hate that I missed you but I WILL be back with MORE time next time so I will let you know and we will just have to set a time, place and date…love you lady!
Hi Rhoda,
I don’t think I will get to join in on the fun this week. I have things to show but my mom-in-law is in town and we spend our time together doing traditional scrapbooking. Maybe I will blog on my 2 layouts so far today.
Love the stuff you found, esspecially the Old Navy skirt. ..
Have a great week.
Beth
Great finds Rhoda! Love that dress and shoes! It totally made my day to have you visit this newbie blogger 🙂