Trash Treasure! AKA Trash Digging!

I am not above digging through the garbage when I see a nearly new (FREE) Pampered
Chef stoneware casserole dish sticking out! You know how much those babies are, right?? I love FREE! "If it is free it is for me!" is my motto! No, it wasn't icky garbage- I am not a martyr! It was "we just moved out and didn't take this with us" garbage (and a lot of it, I might add) left at the house my son is moving into with his cousins. (Yes, I am an emptynester once again.) I also scored 2 boxes of free Advil today- I used an expired coupon without realizing it, but the manager let me use it! (I should bake that sweetie some cookies!) I got a whole .02 overage, but I will take it!! So, not a bad day! Some good coupons this week, people!!!

Warning: this picture was taken from my phone! Don't ask me how I figured out how to get it here, but techno geeks like me, can figure it out, but can't explain it to anyone else! Go, me!





  

A Pumpkin Topiary!

I have seen a few pumpkin topiaries and really wanted to make one. I especially liked the 3 tiered ones, but just thought they would be a little too expensive. So, here is my copy cat rendition of one I saw last night on another blog! All materials were on sale at Michaels. I am sure some people may have most of the items on hand, except maybe the pumpkin. I used a styrofoam pumpkin, a dowel rod that I painted brown, a potted flower plant already put together and I just jammed the dowel in the bottom of the pumpkin and inside the potted plant and put the whole thing in a ceramic pot a put the ribbon under the pumpkin (hot glue) and i wrapped more ribbon around the dowel. I stabilized the bottom of the dowel by putting 2 leftover pieces of the cut dowel down in beside the main dowel and wrapped it really tight with the ribbon and added a few leaves (hot glue again!) That is all! Pretty simple. Oh, the goblet is one that I bought for a use in a Tablescape (just did my first one last week!). I bought 4 of them at the Dollar Tree! (I wanted to show my sister-ha ha)