Fabulous Finds Friday

My trip last week produced some awesome finds I want to share with you. The first visit we made was with my sister-in-law. She had seen my posts on Facebook about how I am collecting white milk glass. My favorite is the hobnail pattern. You can imagine my pleasure when she gave me this beautiful basket made by Fenton glass. She has had it for years but never set it out. It still had the tags. I was thrilled. 

My sister gave me this Pyrex Butterfly Gold 444 Cinderella bowl. I just love it.

My cousin, Patty, gave me this Pyrex Butterprint 444 Cinderella bowl. I have been looking for one of these for a long time.

In past blogs, I have mentioned my sewing machine died and I needed to get a new one. I have the best sister in the world because she had a spare machine and guess who she gave it to...ME! Can't wait to sew something.

She also gave me the sewing machine cover to go with it. My niece Amy actually made this so that makes it even more precious to me. 

My mom gave me this crochet Christmas stocking. Growing up, we had a neighbor named Ruby. She was the piano player for our little Baptist church until she was well in her 90's. She lived to be 102. Ruby had made this for my mom years and years ago. Since Ruby and I had a very special bond, Mom wanted me to have this. 

I picked up some books that Mom had for me. Lots of Sherryl Woods and Lori Wilde. I am set on books for awhile. 

There were even some Christian books that I can donate to the church library after I am done reading them. Over 50 books total.

On Sunday, I stopped at one of their local thrift stores. I didn't find much, but I love crystal saucers so I picked this up for .25 cents.

And this little cup was just too precious to resist so I had to get it for a quarter as well.

My sister had a cute butterfly hanging on her front porch that she found at the Dollar Tree. I stopped in to get me one but they were out. However, I couldn't resist this little bunny to hang by my door. It is kind of vintage looking so I had to have it. 

When I am visiting West Virginia, I love to go to the antique mall in Milton, WV. They have great prices and I usually find something on my wish list. This trip I found this small Pyrex bowl. I have one in a pattern I don't like so I have been looking for a new one. I am really into the solids and when I found this one for $5.95, I knew I had to have it. 

When I started collecting milk glass to decorate my new office, I kept looking for a candy dish with a lid. I had seen several online and wanted one that was an oval egg-like shape. I have looked everywhere. Well, the look is over. The Milton shop had exactly what I was wanting for just $5.00! This baby will stay filled with Junior Mints to set on my desk at work. 

As you can see, it was a great trip. I got lots of great things and my out-of-pocket expense was just $12.45. I need more trips like this one. 

The Divine Miss M.

This is my niece's precious little girl. This was my first visit with her. She is such a good-natured baby. I just love her to pieces.

I brought this little red bird to her and she was totally fascinated with it. I had a hard time getting her to stop playing long enough to look up for a picture. 

I guess she was jealous of our milk shakes because half way through the Scrabble game she decided she needed a bottle of milk.

She helped her Mamaw (my sister, Rachel) play for awhile.

The next day I went back to Mom's to visit with everybody and she had one of her famous bows on. That child has more bows than I have ever seen. She sure looks cute in them though. Here she is with her Aunt Becky.

We went to visit my cousin Patty. Her and her Mommy took some time out to sit on the floor while the rest of us explored the craft room.

I did get a good shot of those big beautiful brown eyes of hers.

She is a real ham for the camera whenever you point one at her.

We finished the visit out with a pic of her and her handsome cousin Brandon.

I really enjoyed spending time with everyone on my visit.

I've been MIA

I have been out of town for 4 days so I missed a few days posting. I have been in West Virginia with my mother who had surgery. She is back home and in excellent shape. The doctor was very pleased with how well she pulled through. Here is her picture just 30 minutes after coming out of the recovery room. 

I got to see a lot of my family when I was there. I got to see my brother Jack.

My brother Andy (this is is son, Coy).

And my sister Rachel 

My niece Amy and her precious daughter Makenzie.

My nephew Robby with my nephew Coy.

I also got to enjoy my favorite Gino's Pizza. It is a local chain that I wish would expand south. It is the best pizza in the world.

I got some wonderful gifts while I was in from various family members. Come back tomorrow to learn more about these and many more other goodies I want to share with you. 

Later this week I will be blogging about my cousin's beautiful home I got to visit while I was there. 

We left the warm weather of East Tennessee last Saturday when we headed to West Virginia. The weather wasn't too cold there until the morning we had to head home. We woke up to a light dusting of snow.

The trip home was full of snow flurries, snow squalls, rain, sunshine and even a rainbow. We didn't know what we would find 5 miles down the road all the way home since the weather shift was ever changing.

But we made it home safely. I had an awesome trip and I give God all the glory for how well Mom came through the surgery. 

Easter Craft projects

I have been to Pinterest again. Easter is just a month away and I thought I would check out some crafts. I love anything that sparkles. How cool are these eggs?

Now this would be a very easy wreath to make. 

An awesome candy dish.

I think this looks super easy to do. I may have to try it.

My Sunday School kids would love this one.

Once I do the yarn eggs, I could display them like this. 

This is adorable.

And the last one but my favorite one. Something I can do to use my milk glass vases.

Love Pyrex 4 Trade Facebook Group

I love trading Pyrex. There's just something about helping someone complete a set while at the same time you get something that you've had your eye on. I put the following items up for trade last night.

So far, I traded the Butterfly Gold in the lower left corner for the same size bowl in Butterfly Gold 2. There is a little difference in the pattern and since I don't have anything else in that pattern, I traded so she could work on her set. My new one will look like this and I do like this pattern.

I traded the golden scroll in the upper right corner for a lime green 024 bowl and lid. I have the round cake pan in this color and actually like it very well.

And the last one I traded was the Old Orchard Casserole dish in the middle. I actually traded it for something besides Pyrex. I have been looking for some milk glass planters and she wanted to trade me TWO planters for the casserole dish. So I definitely said yes. She sent me a lot of pics to choose from and I picked this one...

And this one....

I can't wait to get all my new goodies.

You gotta love a bargain....

Our local Staples is getting ready to remodel. As a result, they are holding a lot of clearance sales and sending out a lot of coupons. I have been buying my home office supplies there for years so I have a rewards card that provides me with coupons as well. I received some coupons the other day and decided to drop in and see what was on sale. 

The first thing I looked at was their battery charger. I needed a new one for AA batteries and figured if I had a coupon to help pay for it, maybe I should see what they had. They had what I was looking for at a price of $12.99. That price wasn't bad compared to the ones at Walmart which weren't the quality the one at Staples was. 

Next, I needed a package of Martha Stewart dividers for my notebook. I love her line of products. They had them for $4.99 which was $1 less than usual so I picked up a pack.

I was looking for a small pink notebook to keep notes in for the National Conference I am attending this year. This was perfect and it was Martha Stewart as well. It was normally $1.99.

I decided to breeze by the clearance section just to see what they had. I found the perfect tray for my IN/OUT files. I have those plastic ones that always seem to crack eventually from the heavy load of paperwork that crosses my desk. This wasn't priced, but I thought it was exactly what I needed. So I took it with me to check out and had her scan it first since it was on clearance and is a very sturdy solid piece, I figured I would get it no matter what the price. Imagine my delight when the scanner said it was just $1.00!

Before coupons the price was $20.97. She rang up my coupons and then applied sales tax on the new balance. My final cost out of pocket was a whopping $1.83. That's right, just $1.83 for all this. You gotta love a bargain.