Thrifty Finds...

I just found this in my draft folder from a long time back..lol..I don't know why I never posted the post!!

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The first Saturday of the month in my area means 50% off day at Goodwill :) I am a thrift and yard sale shopper lover. I love the deals I get at them!! I have 2 in my area I can go to :)

 A bag of Vintage looking Christmas ornaments $1.50!! Basket of Christmas Ornaments $ 2.00!!

2 small ornaments .50 cents each!! I think I need to stop myself because I only buy them at thrift, yard sales or clearance. I hope my tree holds my ornament collection this year..lol. 

 I love cards and stationery. Got all these cute little cards for .50 cents for the whole bundle!!!

 I love time life old pictures. I found this box of Christmas cards and got them for $1.00. They were marked on them at Target for 6.99!!

This was cute. It's a tissue holder,but the lid is on top so you could use it a box storage type decor. Price tag on it from Bed,Bath and Beyond for 19.99. I got it for $1.50!!!!!!

Love making other people's junk my treasures!!!  Love the prices as well!!

Thanksgiving back home...

Hello all,

So sorry for not waiting lately. I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!! Right before we were suppose to go home to NC,a winter storm was blowing through. It was also going to be right in the path of the road we took through the mountains to get home. So after watching all the weather we decided we didn't want to risk going down the mountains in snowy and icy weather. So we thought we were not going. The day we are suppose to leave though all the reports were saying the roads were pretty clear and it would be ok. So we took the chance and left Wednesday around lunch and we made it home for Thanksgiving!!! We ran into some snow and slick roads around the mountains in some parts. Other than that we made it just fine. We were able to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and meet up with a bunch of family at different times. My sister lives in the same complex and Grandpa and Uncle live in. So we were all in the same area..lol :) It was so good to see everybody and home!! We made it home last night after all day on the road. It took us longer than usual because of so much holiday traffic and traffic Jams due to road constructions. We were at the last exit before our exit on the hwy and we hit another Jam and were stuck for awhile. We were like 2 minutes away and were like we were almost there..lol..finally we hit out exit and I said Amen!!! I don't like traveling in a car so long.

Clear one minute and the next light snow to slick roads.

The roads going down on some parts.

 Quick stop by Maggie Valley on the way home

Love how the water freezes off the mountains.

She loves doing this!!!

Tennessee History Festival

This past weekend in Nashville TN they had the TN History Festival. I had been when we first moved to the area. This was my second time and I really enjoyed it. Tons of different things set up. I love seeing history in action and looking at all the things they used back then and the way they dressed! I love the dresses the ladies wore. I just think the dresses are beautiful. The event was held at Bicentennial Mall State Park. It's a beautiful park that overlooks the state capital in downtown. I went picture happy as usual. So this post has a lot of pictures. I hope you don't mind!!

 "All the different camps set up everywhere"

 "Can you imagine doing laundry by hand back then? We have it so easy in today time."

 "This lady was showing different items and how they were used. Here she is holding what they used to hear the heart. She had two people come up and try it and it really worked. She had lots of great information."

 "A spinning wheel. I loved her sign of what she called her area."

 "A old camera. He was great with information on photography back then. We have come so far. He also let me look through it while the cover was over me like they did back then. It was really neat."

 "Looking toward the capital"

 "I loved these dresses and how this picture turned out."

 "A game of 1860's style Baseball,played with no gloves."

 "What they used to cut off parts during surgery. Gave me chills just thinking about it" How far we have come in medicine"

 "How far we have come in the laundry department. Can you imagine having to do each piece by hand?"

 "They also had firing demos of different centuries of canons and guns."

 "They were very loud"

 "Abraham Lincoln"

 "I loved the veil" This was a reenactment of a 1860's wedding"

All through it I kept thinking this seems so real. I thought they were doing a really good job at creating one. Turns out this couple is very involved with their history things like this, that they decided to make this their wedding vow renewal for real. They thought this was the perfect time for it. I thought that was so sweet.

Well I hope you enjoyed taking this little day trip with me.

Clouds of Cotton...

The clouds were beautiful out today!! These pictures don't show the true beauty it was in real. It looked just got puffs of cotton to climb up. 

Some Thrifty Finds...

 I went to the Habitat for humanity thrift store yesterday. I found a few cute deals for Christmas!! All this for $4.87!! I collect Christmas ornaments so they were a steal. I only really buy ornaments when their cheap at a yard sale or thrift store and good clearance after Christmas!!

Box of Ornaments $3.00

Cute Picture $.50 cents

Box of new Christmas cards $.50 cents

Precious Moment Ornament $.20 cents

Manger scene in Ornament $.25 cents

Garlic Baked Shrimp...

Mom made this wonderful dish tonight. I thought I would share the link with you! We first found it on Pinterest!! Very good!!

Here is my Mom's Dish!!

Click here for the Yummy Recipe