Good(will) Finds!

I have been off of work for a week and have one more week to go before heading back to the ever so exciting day job. This morning, I decided to go out to my local Goodwill store to see what was available.

I hope that you're not saying, "What?!, the Goodwill?!" Well, yes! I am on a journey to loving my home but on a budget and I have been a Goodwill fan for quite sometime. I am quite creative so to browse the aisles to uncover some fab potential in an item that someone thought was useless is...well...exciting to me. It's almost impossible to buy something from the Goodwill or Thrift store and keep it as you bought it. It is meant for you to embellish, refurbish, recreate, and restore.

Okay. Okay. On to my basket.

I only had about an hour to grab and pay because the hubs was watching the kids while on his lunch break. I found:

• 2 picture frames for $.75 ea. (which I will either keep the same or paint another color),
• red candlestick, $1 (great for Valentine's Day decor),
• 2 glass vases for $1 ea. (to be filled with some goodies),
• 3 ink cartridges for $2 ea. (spanking brand new and fit one of my printers exactly..and these were the XL cartridges that gives allows more printing) This was by far my greatest find today.
• 2 silver wire-y things that will probably be painted black and used for office supplies like pens, highlighters, you know, they were $.50 ea.
• 5" yellow ribbon, $1
• a little rabbit that I broke trying to get to some of my finds, $.50
• a wooden paper tray that I will probably paint and embellish for my office, $1

All for under $20. I can't wait to destress at the Goodwill probably next week (or this weekend) to see what else I can find. Do you shop second hand for your decor/creative needs?