VICTORIOUS!

Or maybe I should say Mick-torious! While on Christmas vacation Patricia and I met up with Missouri Michael for our second annual "Thrift-A-Thon" to see what we could dig up!

(Missouri Michael, who refused to turn around, already sniffing out deals!)

 (Patricia scouting out finds with her newly thrifted opera glasses!)

  Well I could hardly wait to  show you my first prize catch. I finally got the six foot Aluminum Christmas tree I've always wanted!  I had dreamed all year of a six foot tree we saw last Christmas that was $200. I made up my mind that I was going to save my money and if that if by some miracle the tree was still there it was going to be mine! Well we get to the antique mall and the tree I had dreamed about... wasn't there.

But fear not! There were still trees (and thankfully at MUCH lower prices) for the picking! It came down to this reasonably priced "Pom-pon" Aluminum Tree and this six foot "Pine" Aluminum Tree.

(P.S. I had never seen a GREEN Aluminum tree but at $250, it was too green for me.)

So we make our way through the store, and I hem and haw and rack my brain about which tree I'm going to get. They were only $9.00 apart in price. The Pom-pon looked full and ratty, the pine looked sparse and wonky.  But rest assured I was leaving with a tree, then I noticed that not all the branches were the same size on the pine tree and knew it must look wonky because it wasn't put together right. so the six foot Pine it was!

When I got it back to my Aunts house we sorted the branches I found that my hunch was correct. The tree had been put together wrong, and when done correctly it filled out and looked much better!

I was so lucky, even the original instructions were in the box!

(From 1959!)

We all came away with treasures, it was a fun afternoon of traveling and smart-assery!  I picked up a few other neat things.

(A really cool, and working gold plate thermometer. $2.00)

(A trio of Tupperware tumblers! I can never have to many of these. $0.98.)

This small snowman blow mold was purchased at the same shop the Aluminum Tree came from. $8.00.

(I have no idea why this is upside down, but a neat Missouri travel plate for $0.50.)

The Two Pyrex Thrifter Sisters have had me green with envy and pining to make my vintage ornament collection bigger, so I did. Haha I found one single shiny bright that a paid a whole $0.25 for!

Last but not least, I found these baby saddle shoes for $1.00. I snatched them up and will provably be using to decorate/giving a pair of them to friend Lara for her Casablanca baby shower.

All in all some great finds! We had lots of fun running around with Missouri Michael, and I'm SO thrilled I finally got a tree.

Hope you all have a happy Friday!

-Mick-