Oh look I match!

So I am awful at mailing things.  AWFUL. One weekend I wrote my family all letters, it took me three weeks to send them.  I have been telling Ben that he had an Easter basket in the mail for a while now, so he should be on the look out.  I went and bought the stuff today... oops. 

Some might say I'm a bit crazy, but one of my favorite parts of my new home is that it has a Target.  You don't realize how much you love Target until you live in Statesboro for 2.5 years. Every time we would venture to Savannah a Target trip was a must.  Walmart is fine and everything, but it's not the same.  So back to story, I went to Target to grab some Easter supplies.  I was pretty sure he didn't want stuffed animals or all of the usual Easter items, strange right? So I headed to my absolute favorite sections - the clearance sections.  It's my favorite part of every store. I was able to pick him up a bunch of small things that I know he needs... mostly because they're things I took when I left.  

While browsing through all the lovely finds I came across some lamp shades.  (This is where the post gets really boring, because yes it is about lamp shades.) I am a sucker for a pretty lamp.  You would know that if you had been in my home where there are currently 5 lamps... my place is not that big ya'll.  This also leads me to be a sucker for a pretty lamp shade.  So I bought two very pretty shades and now I'm going to show you them, because they're pretty and they were $6 which is less than an ugly lamp shade. 

Yeah, you've probably seen them in Target yourself.  No biggy.  But I'm just excited because now I have MATCHING, somewhat, lamps!

Also other than my lamp shades matching, this happened:

He's very hard to photograph, being just a big ball of black fur.  My black shorts and t-shirt did not help the situation.  If you can't make it out, it's my little Blu-bird just cuddling away on my lap.  Love him. Makes me happy coming home to my sweet kitties. 

So that's my Thursday afternoon in a nutshell.  Oh the fire alarm also went off approximately 3 minutes before students are dismissed today. It was fun...

Do you search through clearance sections too? Where's your favorite store?

- Liz

Thrift Thursday: Jackpot

Last week I thought I did pretty good, finding those cute little mugs.  Well this past weekend I hit the jackpot.  Ben and I headed out to our two favorite stores - Goodwill (favorite in any city) and Retails (proceeds go to the Statesboro Humane Society).  It took a bit of digging and hunting, but we came home with so many pretty things!

Here are our finds!

This is by far one of my favorite finds of the day.

Thrifty

So I've been a college graduate for over a month.  While I have a job - Einsteins - I only work there at night.  So until about 4:45 everyday, unless I am subbing, I am hanging out at the house.  Last week was pretty good, I kept myself busy with activities and projects.  This week is not so good.  I am beyond antsy.  So today, after watching House Hunters for way too long I finally put on some pants and ventured out into the real world.

Where did I go you ask?
Well of course I went to Goodwill, other than Walmart, it's basically the only place I visit frequently.

While I didn't have too much luck overall, I found these adorable little mugs!  (I have to admit I'm a bit of a hoarder collector when it comes to cute mugs - I don't even drink coffee!)

I love these mugs and actually picked up a total of 4!  Now the only problem is seeing how I can fit them into my cabinets... Something tells me I'm going to need a bigger space.

In other news... can you tell perhaps what my favorite color lately has been...