Goodwill and Garage Sale Hunting

look at the detail of the arms.



{Please excuse the major mess in our garage...it's seen a lot of action the past few months with kids moving in and out}

My good friend, Diane and I went out today in search of pre- 4th of July garage sales. Much to our dismay, there were only a few advertised in our local paper. We only really found two sales...not much of anything but I ended up with a few platters, a unique tin can, and an old ottoman for 2 bucks. I have been looking for a square ottoman for some time now, so I cannot deny I let out a little squeal when I saw how cheap it was.

Since we couldn't find any more garage sales, we ventured out to a few stores, then out to lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant. Goodwill is located in the plaza next door, so we decided to take a look. I found a few edible arrangement tins and a wrought iron thingy. As we were about to leave, I decided to take a quick look at the furniture in the center aisle. Oh.my.gosh. Sitting there under a 1970's desk was this to die for mid-century modern danish lounge chair priced at $8.99!

Can you believe I hesitated? I guess my biggest worry was if Pat would have a few choice words for me after dragging yet ANOTHER "old piece of crap" chair into his cluttered garage.

My friend Diane cheered me on, telling me all the wonderful things I could do to this chair to breathe new life into it. SOLD!

I told the lady at the checkout I needed help with a chair... she went over to tell the young man to bring it over. As he was heading over, carrying the OBVIOUS CHOICE chair, I quickly told him, "Oh, no... I wanted the hideous floral one." He chuckled at my choice of words describing my new purchase. I chuckled inwardly to myself thinking I just SCORED big and they were none the wiser.

Jer 29:11 (NIV) "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Yep, I've got plans of my own for these two diamonds in the rough...stay tuned for the hope and future.