We know you love ANY excuse to stop at every intriguing consignment, resale, and thrift shop you can, every time you can. Well, here’s the absolutely best-est reason to do so: Continue reading
Take a Trip to Serendip!
Serendipity, according to the dictionary, is the art of making happy discoveries by accident.
We beg to differ! Finding delightful treasures is never an accident in the resale industry. Professional shopkeepers offer our shoppers a wealth of wonders. It’s just a matter of matching up happy customers with happy discoveries. There’s nothing that tickles a shopkeeper as much as hearing that so many of our items are
“just what I was looking for. . . only I didn’t know it ’til I saw it,”
as a customer once said.
So come make a happy discovery at one of our Sponsor shops soon. The best discoveries are found by those who drop in often, sometimes only for five minutes. After all, every day there’s “something new” in secondhand!
By the way, “serendipity” is from a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. Where is Serendip? It’s the Arabic name for Ceylon, which we now call Sri Lanka. An exotic word for an everyday event at your favorite shop!
The pretty words graphic is just one of the treasures at http://my-beautiful-words.blogspot.com/ Contents © 1998 Kate HolmesCreepy, or adorable, Halloween party food
Since Halloween falls on a Thursday this year, we’re betting there’s more than a few parties planned for the entire weekend. From Pinterest, here’s some food ideas for parties of all sorts (click the pix to find their origins, directions, recipes):
Carrots, zucchini and dip with a broccoli stem
Mummified hot dogs, candy corn pizza, and the ever-popular Dirt-n-Worms on this site
I really didn’t know whether to include this idea, but it IS my most-repinned Pin! Spinach dip and chips, I’m sure you figured, no recipe needed.
Strawberry ghosts for a sweet finish to your Halloween party
See more Halloween pins on HowToConsign.com’s Halloween board!
Bones or Boas? How will you decorate this Halloween?
Halloween is a much-beloved holiday, but not everyone decorates their homes the same way. There’s great ideas and how-to’s all over Pinterest.
For example, some of us adore being as creepy as can be:
Click to see it on our Pinterest Halloween Board
More creepy ideas? Nothing’s creepier than those big black trash bags used in a dozen different ways that you can see here; and to me, the creepiest of all is scary dolls, which you can admire (?) here.
Others prefer the “make-em-smile” aspects of October 31:
Click to see on Pinterest
Balloons will always cheer us up, especially pumpkin balloons, while a centerpiece that’s pretty for your party and edible the day after can’t be beat!
Maybe you lean towards the “One can never be fabulous enough” aspect of the holiday:
Click to see on Pinterest
A high-style holiday would include silver pumpkins and, of course, ditching the mean-girl witch.
Or maybe you just like a little teeny bit scary but mostly smiley:
Click for Pinterest
Your teeny-bit scary but-not-really decor could start with your mummy door surrounded by made-in-a-flash ghost luminaries, and continue with our most-pinned Halloween cobwebs.
What’s your choice? Me, I’m going Gothic glam like this:
Click for the tutorial, so easy!
“But it was dead before I was born!”
That’s what a friend of mine proclaimed when a passer-by challenged her stylish and warm vintage fur coat on grey winter’s day.
WAY true: the coat was vintage 1920’s, my friend? Vintage 1960’s, and late ’60’s at that. Generations Continue reading
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