🌱 Thrifty SPRING Decor Steals You Won't Believe!

Hello friends, welcome back. It's time to look at some spring items. I hope I'm not, I hope I'm not doing this too soon. It snowed last night at my house. So if you're in that boat, I understand maybe you're thinking, what in the world? We can't talk about spring yet. But I think, um, I'll just, I'll just kind of like plant the seeds in your mind about what could happen in your future with decorating for spring. I'm going to take you to the thrift store today, and then I'm going to show you some things that I have been squirreling away as well. And so we'll put it all together. We'll look at what we have. I have some questions for you. I have some ideas already to share with you. And then for the next few weeks, we'll be decorating the porch and the house and the garden and all the things. So I have sort of a interesting routine that I like to go through when I have to go out thrifting. 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All right, so we are back. And first off, I want to share with you my outfit, which was thrifted. I like to pay about $5 for an item max. I mean, I like to get it for free, but I don't want to pay more than $5. So I think this was about $5. This was a Value Village find and it has, it's, it's really nice fabric. I really was drawn to it for that reason. And I just thought it looks really springy. I'm wearing it like a dress. It's actually a shirt that's quite a bit large for me, but it's made by the Pioneer Woman if you're wanting to track it down. And I feel like the fabric is heavy enough where it can kind of take me through the cooler days of spring. And yet it's, it's a shorter dress that like comes to my knee. And so I can wear, I don't know, I could wear leggings or just bare legs if it's starting to get sunny out. So it's my spring dress that I wanted to share with you. Okay. Let's see what we got here. I have shared this in the past, but I'm resurrecting it because we are now going to be using it in the decorating for spring. But I just wanted to share this again in context. So this is a very heavy, very quality basket. I got this at Value Village and I paid six or $7 for it, which I know sounds really high to some of you. Gosh, I hear some of your prices at where, where you live. And I am just in awe. And also I just think maybe I pay more where I live, but maybe we get paid more here. You know, it's like, hopefully it's evening out wherever we all live, but I kind of know that a basket is going to be five, six, $7 where I am at. This one is plastic lining in it. And that to me says planter. So you will be seeing this out on my porch soon. And then I also found this basket, which I just loved. I loved the color. And it also just felt like, felt like an Easter basket to me. So I actually thought this would be cute on maybe on the porch too with plants coming out of it. And I'll line it with plastic. I'll show you how I do that when we get to that video, but I, I kind of shy away from baskets with handles. If you saw my last video, it was all about baskets and you didn't see too many of them with handles. However, I do like them for hanging from the ceiling. I like them out in the garden and for collecting eggs and those things, but I've never, I don't think I've ever tried one as a planter. And I think that would look sweet. Okay. Speaking of plants and you'll just notice kind of what a spring haul looks like is a lot of gardening items and a lot of green. So you can see a lot of that today. This was a value village. I paid $4 and 30 cents. I just loved how lifelike it looked. It was very dainty and very sweet. I might actually see my mom's wedding dress. I have this here all the time. I just think it's so beautiful. And I went that look pretty next to it. Well, it's kind of hard to tell on camera, but anyway, I just keep thinking that would look so nice. Maybe on my desk or something to be close to my mom's wedding dress. I found this little plant recently at value village. And I just switched out the paper. I just, anything that looks lifelike, I think is a good candidate for spring decor when it comes to plants. So this I I've changed out the paper and made it look more rumply. It had something that it had like a wrapper around it that was too perfect looking, but this looks like meant real, but I thought, yeah, we'll work that into somewhere with my spring decor. And then the rest of this you haven't seen at all. I grabbed this. This is from value village. It's a hydrangea stem and I paid $2 for this. What I liked about it was that it looks real. It's so imperfect to see how it has the dead pedals in there. That's why I bought it because of the dead pedals. I thought, well, you can't, you can't say it looks fake if it looks dead, right? So I know hydrangeas don't actually blossom. I always picture, well, mine anyway, do not blossom until August or September. So I hope this isn't too summery, but I looked it up and it said that they, they also do blossom in the spring. So I don't know, but this is a little foreshadowing of another thing I'm going to do with the blue. In fact, let's do, I'll show you that next. I love this color so much. And so I thought I would take these canvases. These are at the Benz. I mean, I paid, I don't know what, you know what, you know, that green scale that I had in my kitchen video. I figured out what we're going to do with it. We are going to keep it here to weigh my items that I get at the Benz and I don't know how much they cost because it goes by weight. So let's see, let's see how much these cost. Okay. These cost $1.25. Maybe that's not a good deal. What if you get three of them? So maybe that's not that great of a deal, but it's still better than painful price. So I got this size and then I got a medium size and a small one. And my thought is that I will do these transfers. Have you seen these? They're from IOD. IOD is one of my favorite crafting supplies companies. They sponsored us at Bespoke and they gave all of these to the women at Bespoke, which is my live design retreat that I do each year. Okay. Some of these, I'm just going to show you the blue ones is what, what I really loved. And I thought I would transfer them onto those canvases. You can see there's different flowers on these. So beautiful. I mean, I love them all. There's flowers and quotes on these transfers. Okay. And then this is, you can see the little forget-me-not bouquet. I thought that would be cute on one of the little canvases. And then this is the big, oh, I love it. This is the big like swag of forget-me-nots. And it has a sweet little poem that goes with it. And I thought that could go on the big canvas and we'll have, this one's pretty too. Look at the like purple violets, the purple violets there. So I'll be finishing that up. I thought that would be really pretty for some spring art. Speaking of our spring collections just released, we have decorating kits that we send out now, and we have some limited, limited edition spring collection that I will link for you below, but it has 10 items in there. There's some of my very favorite spring pieces that I use year in and year out. There's three simple DIY kits in there. And then a five-day devotional that I wrote that goes along with spring and, and a hymnal table runner that you can use for your Easter table and a bunch of, it's just a bunch of like gorgeous goodness. It would be really fun for a gift idea or for yourself as well. Okay. Moving on. Let's see. Okay. This piece took the price tag off. I should not do that because then I can't tell you the full story, but I know it came from Bayou Village. It's in pristine condition. It's this linen covered box. It looks very French, modern alchemists and purveyors of curious goods, a rare botanical candle. Daisies won't tell it. So it's a candle box, but it's beautiful. I mean, I just love the box. So I want to incorporate this somehow in my spring decor. This isn't actually decor, but I thought I'd throw it into the spring haul because it's so springy looking. I got this at the Benz. It's a shopping bag. It's this nice fabric, feels quality. And I like that it just scrunches up really, really tiny and I could keep it in my purse. It costs 25 cents. So that was fun. Just kind of leveling up everything I can whenever I can find something better. So this is better than worn out grocery bags I keep carrying around. Okay. I have a question about these. These are at the Benz too. I wish you could feel these. These are deerskin leather gloves. I priced them. They are $25 new. My thought was that I could use them gardening, but I don't love the color. So my question is how do I dye leather and still keep it super soft? Like it is here. There used to be a guy in town, in my town. He was an old guy and he had a leather shop and all just knew all the things about tooling or whatever you call it. And he would give classes and we did a homeschool field trip there one time. And anyway, I thought about asking him, how do I dye these and not lose the softness? Cause I kind of wish they were green or even Brown that way then they could get dirty and I wouldn't notice it as much. But I would, I would like to do a little DIY with this as well. Next, this pot I thought was gorgeous. I don't see any brand or anything on it. I just loved the color of it. And I paid $3.50 for this at Dye Village. I thought that was a great piece just to add into my collection with all my other pots. I need to run to the nursery and get some, some real plants too for the porch. Okay. This is, it's from a kind of a high end nursery here and it was $10 for this little thing. And I got this at, I got this at the Ben's. So it was not $10 for Sarah. It was 75 cents. So that's better than $10. Okay. All right. This one annoys me a little bit. This is another pot. I paid $3.50 for this. And then I just found this tag on it that said 75 cents from a garage sale. I guess I, I missed out cause I didn't go to that garage sale. All right. I saved the best for last. We have two more things that are my favorite and I purposely kept putting them till the end. I found this rug. It was $11. It's not super big, but I liked the quality of it. It says it's sisal. It's a two and a half feet by five feet. So like a three by five. The brand is Corsica. Anyway, it's extra high density, extra strong. It says professional clean only, but I'm going to ignore that. Okay. It was $11. Isn't it pretty? I've been wanting to do a rug out on my porch, but not a rug that makes me feel insane if the dog is getting mud on it. And so this is going to be just the thing. It's not too big. I don't care if it gets destroyed. I mean, I don't want it to get destroyed. I will clean it, but it's going to be good. So you'll see this out on the porch. Okay. Here's the last thing. I'm so excited about this. This was at the bins. I can't put it on my scale, but let's say it was $4, $3. Look at this. I'm not even sure what this is. Is this willow? Anyway, I'm not going to tell you what my plans are with this, but I am so excited about this project. You can tell me in the comments below what you think I'm going to do with this, but, and don't check my Pinterest board because I've been pinning this idea for years and I finally am going to do it. So tell me what you think it is. It's not a wreath. It's not a swag, something else. That's it for now. I feel like that's a good base. I'm going to mix it in with some other things I have, of course. And so I'm going to be sharing with you over the next few weeks, how I'm incorporating it. I'll show you some of the things that are in the design collection, this stuff, my stuff out in my storage with the spring decorations for the spring bin. I think I only have one spring bin. Might have to fix that. Yeah, I think it's going to be a fun in the next few weeks. So thank you for watching. Thanks for following along always and being so encouraging and just giving me ideas and being such a great crowd to work with. I love making these videos for you and I love seeing how you style your own spaces too. And the feedback that you give me. So thank you for being here. And if you're new here, we would love to have you join us, hit the subscribe button, hit the bell. All right. Thank you so much for watching. And I will talk to you next week.