Second Hand Rose

If you have been following me for any amount of time you know how much I love to thrift shop. I have had some withdrawls lately with no garage sales during the winter months, so I have been hitting up a few second hand stores to acquire a few new to me treasures for our new home.  Although this first item was not second hand it was in the last chance section of Ikea, I am not sure if it was returned or what but it had a few scratches on top causing it to be priced at $50, you should have seen me loading this into my car with a slipcovered chair and a buffet that were all priced too good to pass up.  The other day I found these baskets that fit under the table just perfectly, I don't know why I was surprised, it's Ikea, they do those things on purpose ya know!  I just love the weathered gray finish!

Onto the second hand portion of my post.  This beautiful pillow my sister gave to me the other day, I took it and ran basically when she offered it to me!  Love it on my Ikea couch!  Seeing a pattern here???

 I think I gasped out loud the other day when I spotted this chicken dinner sign with a barnwood frame at my local consignment shop, goes so well with my love of black and white lettering!  This will go somewhere in the new kitchen fo sho. 

 I knew it was a sign when at my favorite antique mall I spotted these super cool old stamps, there were just a few left and they happened to have the numbers in our new address and our initial, cooincidence?? I think not!!!  I am not sure what I am going to create with them yet, they are about 3 inches tall, so awesome!! 

I had seen a photo of a kitchen that I loved in the Cottage Living Fresh Ideas magazine last year, these stools were my favorite (photo above), I wanted them so badly!  I found this super old stool at a garage sale this summer and paid $15 for it, it has been around forever, the people I bought it from said it was in their old house that they bought from some very old people,  how is that for specific???  Anywhooo... I begged my neighbor to make me a slipcover for it, she told me it would take her a while, she is a busy grandmother, I gave her a copy of this photo and the material that I wanted her to use back in May, yesterday during a snow storm she brought it over to me,  I am so excited!!! I had kind of forgotten about it,  Doesn't she look purty in her new dress??!!!

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I love shopping second hand, everything is a special treasure to me and I spent a fraction of what I could if I purchaed retail.   I love the character of things that have been loved on through the years. 
Thank you all so much for your sweet and supportive comments regarding our move,  we are so happy!  I need your help though, I would appreciate any good advice you can give me on picking out a kitchen, adding on, creating built in bookcases etc,  if you have any great sites or places that I can visit I would sure appreciate your help. I am going to try and document every step on here of our renovation, this is going to be fun!! We love doing this sort of thing!!!  You know my style, please help a girl out!!!! Thanks!!!
P.S.  Thanks to my sister for hijacking my blog last night and making a new header for me, I have no patience for that right now and bless her heart I just sent her the images I wanted to use and she did her magic!!