Treasure Hunting & Thrifting Spring 2021

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Treasure Hunting & Thrifting Spring 2021

With Memorial day weekend here in the states, spring is officially coming to a close and

I thought I'd share a quick wrap-up of some of the fabulous finds I've managed to snag this season!

First up - the adorable tiny ceramic houses in the photo above. At $4 each these were a great buy at one of my local Goodwill thrift stores. I've had my eye on this exact type of mini house (in plain white) for a couple of years now, but haven't been able to find any at a good price. I was super excited to see them on a thrift shelf!

Read on for more:

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Fisher Price Dollhouse

Another project that has been floating around in my mind is to take dollhouses and transform them into holiday decor. This one has already been turned into a spooky Halloween house, but you'll have to wait until fall for that post 😉

And what was the price? Free my friends, totally free! Husby gave me a call one morning to tell me that a neighbor had a large pile of household goods at the side of their driveway with a nice big 'FREE' sign. I ran to check it out and found this nice dollhouse for my decorating experiment.

Speaking of decorative houses:

Here is a post where I show you how to make them from foam board,

and here is one with another Halloween house that I did.

Seek & Find Toy

So this toy is full of tiny plastic pellets and miniature toys. The point is to slowly turn the tube around trying to find each item from the list on top. But I saw a jar full of faux sprinkles for my fake bake crafting 😄 For $2 at the thrift store I brought it home and busted it open. My kids had fun pulling out all of the toys and I transferred the little sprinkles into another container. Bonus, a couple of weeks later I found another one (same price) in a slightly different color scheme at a yard sale. Without the blue or black and the addition of brown, the sprinkles in the second container have a fall look to them.

(Here is a post where I used mini foam balls as sprinkles for my fake bakes)

Picture Frames & Wall Art

Remember that free by the driveway score that I mentioned? All of this came from their as well. Not even kidding. Most of the items still had Hobby Lobby tags and collectively were worth about $200 retail. I guess the neighbors were moving and just didn't want to deal with any more stuff. Works for me 😎

I've already repainted most of the frames to fit my taste and recycled the wall art blocks into art of my own. I'll share a post on those soon.

Toy Dishes

One last freebie from that very same house, these toy dishes and cookies. The cookies are what caught my eye, I figured that with a little puffy paint they would add nicely to my collection of fake bakes. The little dishes are for the same thing, I've gotten to the point where I keep a collection of cute containers on hand now 😂

(Here is a post where I used another batch of toy dishes)

Speaking of fake bakes, I've also been picking up a lot of faux fruits and vegetables. I figure I might try my hand at some fake garden plants as well.

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And those were some of my best goodies of spring.

I hope you enjoyed this treasure hunting and thrifting, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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