Mosaic Monday - Turkey Photo Shoot

I've been wanting to share a thrift store find with everyone but because they were Thanksgiving Day decor I wanted to wait until it was closer to Thanksgiving and I actually had my few Thanksgiving decorations up. I'm joining in two separate sharing parties this week with this post.

The first is Mosaic Monday at Little Red House and then on Thrift Store Thursday with Homebody Holly.

Almost a month ago I went to one of my favorite thrift stores, the American Cancer Society Discovery Store. It was during our "Sister Friday Night" when my sis and I get together and have dinner, do some shopping or something else fun.

I was lucky enough to find three turkeys amongst all the Halloween decorations and today I spent time re-doing my fall decorations to include them. I hope you enjoy the following mosaics.

What I love best about these is the tail shot because I love the way that they included some Thanksgiving harvest items right below their little turkey butts! Isn't that cute? I love the attention to detail.

In this first one, the one at the bottom right is a different metal turkey, the other three shots are ceramic.

In this mosaic, I put that same metal shot in the top left. I love this little metal guy. I didn't take a picture of the back of him because there's a candle holder back there that would be impossible to use unless you bent the turkey forward and I think he would break then. I also included a shot of my cloche with a little pumpkin in it. These are all on my mantle.

And this plate collage was a gift from my daughter April. I had seen this at Bed, Bath and Beyond a long time ago and even took a picture of it with my cell phone hoping to find similar plates and put them in this same shape and design.

Then my daughter surprised me with these. This is how they are described on the Bed, Bath and Beyond website:

Plate Collage Wall Plaque This eclectic artwork featuring the rich look of embossed ceramic is sure to transform the aesthetic of any room. The array of colors ranging from golden amber to robin's egg blue will bring a feeling of warmth to its surroundings. Its glossy finish with exciting textures and designs makes this artful collection of plates complete. Equipped to hang either vertically or horizontally. Constructed of metal. Measures 25" x 46".

For now they are hanging over my stove in the kitchen, but that's not going to be their final home. I really want to put them behind the TV in the living room but just haven't had time to get my drill out and put up a sturdy hanger. Maybe after the holidays, but for now they add a lot of color to that white wall behind the stove.

Hope you enjoyed those and I want to be helpful to all the wonderful cooks and new cooks out there that will be preparing Thanksgiving Dinner. I want to share with you my seventeen steps to making a Turkey Dinner.

17 Steps To Cook A Turkey

1. Go buy a turkey
2. Take a drink of whiskey
   
3. Put turkey in the oven
4. Take another 2 drinks of whisky
5. Set the degree at 375 ovens
6. Take 3 more whiskys of drink
7. Turk the bastey
8. Whisky another bottle of get
9. Ponder the meat thermometer
10. Glass yourself a pour of whisky
11. Bake the whisky for 4 hours
12. Take the oven out of the turkey
13. Floor the turkey up off of the pick
14. Turk the carvey
15. Get yourself another scottle of botch
16. Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey
17. Bless the dinner and pass out

Thrift Shop Treasures

Once again it's time to show off my thrift shop treasures. I'm joining again Rhoda's "Southern Hospitality's" Thrifting Treasures party. Be sure to go visit Rhoda and all the other party goer's and see what treasures they found.

I didn't get around to much thrifting this weekend. Too many errands to do. I had a fix-it man come fix my leaking toilet on Saturday morning. Then I also had to pick up my lower mower which was being repaired and I also had to get my car smogged. Pretty much took up all my yard-saleing, thrift shopping time!

Luckily I did make my Friday after work visit to the American Cancer Society's Discovery Store...where I scored that beautiful kitchen table a couple of weeks ago!

This week I found something really special and it was only $2.00! It's a home decorating book/binder! And I love it!

Here's the front cover. The title is Creative Home Decorating, Easy Ideas for a Beautiful Home. It's published by International Masters Publishers. It's one of those companies where they send you a set of cards every month until you have the whole collection. It doesn't seem like they have this particular collection for sale anymore but the ones they do have charge about $7.95 for a set of cards. So this book probably cost someone between $240 to $300, and I got it for $2.00!! Whhhooooo hooooooo!

As you can see it's a pretty thick book and it's totally a complete set!

The first page of each card shows a project. . . (click on the photo to enlarge details)

then the page folds open with instructions and pictures to help you do the project.

The last page shows a couple of other different ideas using the same technique.


I don't know how many of these projects I will actually end up doing, but I did find one idea for someones birthday that is coming up in October. But Shush, it's a secret.

I didn't link up to Rhoda's party last week because I went to visit my daughter in Turlock, but I did do some thrift store shopping and found some treasures to share with you.

I found these cute little plastic "molcajete's". These molcajetes will not be used to make or serve the dish I told you about from my dinner at Mi Casa. Nope, these little beauties will be for guacamole or salsa, maybe a pico de gallo. Mmmmm, mouth is watering already! Don't you love the bright happy colors? And guess what? They were only 19cents each!

Here's another 19cent item. A cute little salt shaker. What I loved about this shaker is the color. I love green in any shade. It makes me feel calm and happy.

Also found a beautiful leaf plate to display for Autumn and a lovely wrought iron plate holder to hold it.

I hung it in my living room next to another thrift store treasure that I bought many months ago, this mirrored window. I have a small shelf I want to place underneath, but I haven't had the time or energy to paint it. I'm thinking that I'm going to do a plate of the month. Like this one will be for September since that is the month Autumn officially starts, then I'll do a turkey plate for Thanksgiving, a Christmas plate, etc. Not sure what to do for New Years, any ideas?

On a side note I bought this pretty little dish at Big Lots on Friday night after having dinner with my mom and my sister. Isn't it awesome? I love the color and I'm a big fan of butterflies already! See butterflies here, here, and over here. This was a thrifting bargain since it was reduced to $3.00.


So that's it for this week. I'm heading over to Rhoda's to see what treasures everyone else scored. Please feel free to become a follower and have a great week!