Where The Dollar Store And Goodwill Meet

I bought this wooden snowman container last year at Goodwill and decided to leave it as is.  I just cleaned it and packed it away.  This year I pulled it out to add to my decorations.  

But what to use it for?  It obviously needed to hold something, but what?

I decided to fill it with greens and made a trip to the dollar store, where I picked up 5 of these filler bouquets and a square of foam.

I just put the foam inside and added the filler, fluffing it out when I was done.

The filler and the foam totaled $6.00, the container was, I think about $1.00-2.00 at Goodwill.

Here it is back in it’s place on my hall tree tabletop.

With a very simple bow made from wire ribbon that I also picked up at the dollar store.  I attached it to one of the filler stems with some florist wire.

I didn’t glue anything in place, so if I decide to use it for something else next year, all I have to do is remove the bouquets and the foam.

This took about 5 minutes to put together and was under $10.00!   My favorite kind of project!

Linking up with:

All Things Merry & Bright at All Things Heart  & Home

Make It Yours Day at My Backyard Eden

Frugalicious Friday at Finding Fabulous

Weekend Wrap Up at Tatertots and Jello

Some Holly, Jolly Vignettes

Just a few vignettes for Christmas.

Entry foyer chest.

One of my living room side tables.  Ribbon can add a lot!

Crocheted dolls that my godmother gave me over 20 years ago ~ when my daughter was just a baby.  She used to walk around with these clutched under her arms at 2.

Coffee table in great room.

Christmas scrapbook paper wrapped candles.

Epsom salt “snow” and dollar store jingle bells.

A holiday frame I found at Goodwill last year {brand new} just waiting for a picture of grandbaby!

Santa’s on the bookshelves.

A Santa hat hanging off a hall tree hook.

Vignettes to be.  Glitter is messy!  These are my trees.

These are daughter’s trees.

I have just a few bits of greenery to add in here and there, but I think I’m done!   Are you done or do you keep adding and tweaking until the day?

Linking up with

Deck the Halls at Between Naps On The Porch

Tabletop Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life

Friday Vignettes at Color Outside The Lines

Is It Art or Is It Furniture?

I came across this fantastic looking furniture as art through one of my design magazines. 

From www.sicisnextart.com

Do you sit in it or look at it?  Definitely a conversation starter!

An Everyday Christmas Tablescape & CSN Review

I had such a hard time picking out something to review from CSN stores that I think I'm just going to stick to giveaways from here on out!  It is much easier on me!  After days of going through their website, I finally decided on these dishes.  Aren't they pretty?  This is the Pfaltzgraff Woodland dishes.

 

I actually found them in the clearance center, which is probably not for everyone.  The CSN clearance center is, apparently, all returned merchandise {that's what it says on the website anyway}.   I did hesitate for a moment, but a 16 piece Pfaltzgraff dinnerware set for under $50.00 is a really good buy and I figured I'd see what it looked like once I got it.

The dishes arrived packaged really well, boxed and bubble wrapped.  I could not see any indication that they had been a return.

 

 

I examined each and every piece thoroughly.  I did find that there was some scratches in the paint and a few little paint chips but not chips in the actual plates {does that make sense}.  It is a defect in the making of the plates and not something that CSN caused. 

 

Of course, I had to play with them and set a table!  These are everyday dishes and so I set the table in my kitchen.  I plan on getting a lot of use out of these during this holiday season.

I started out with these holiday placemats from Kohls {40% off).  I liked that the colors and pattern seemed to match the dishes really well.  I then started with the dinner plate.

Then layered the sandwich/salad plate {whatever meal you might be having}.  The design is a little different but the outer edge and rim is the same as the dinner plate.

The bowls, which could be used for cereal or soup.  You also have your mug for coffee or tea.

I had this little bowl {it may have come from Kohls last year}, and I love how the colors and the poinsettia design work with these dishes.

Of course, all these dishes wouldn’t be used everyday but as Yvonne at Stone Gable says, it looks much nicer when you have them set out this way.

Overall, I have to say that I was pleased with this item and would not hesitate to order from CSN again.  However, if I had purchased these dishes with this manufacturer's defect, I would probably have returned them, and this may well be what happened.

Linking up to:

Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps On The Porch

*I did half this post in blogger on my old laptop and half in Live Writer on my new laptop, so the first few pictures have no watermark because they are “blogger” inserted pics.