Design on a Dime

You wanted to see my favorite Flea Market finds? Well, you might as well stay in my little attic guest room. Here at the top of the stairs is a large trompe l'oeil picture I found at Goodwill - it's marked $160.00 on the original tag on the back and I bought it for ....TAdA.......$2.99! Go ahead and throw your bags on the bed........... and sit down on

my $70 down filled loveseat. Not my best buy because I had to have it reupholstered but I love it and it had me at "down filled"!Behind it is a sofa table my husband picked up for $10.00. See the pretty broken china top???? It's fake. I decoupaged paper pieces on it. I saw something similar in a magazine and wondered how you could collect enough broken china in those patterns to do a whole tabletop - then I read it was paper and I had to try it!Remember my window mistreatment a few weeks ago. I bought these lovely lace Priscilla curtains just for the lace and who knew that my $2.00 garage sale find would be just perfect for this window. (My menopausal friends need the extra light to wake up along with a window unit to supplement the central a/c that just doesn't cut it up here!) And finally a real favorite. In the bottom of a box of junk I bid on at an auction ten years ago was a pair of these crystal holdbacks and this is the first place I've ever had to use them. I was soooo excited. Now......

If I could just find a really cheap painter at a flea market - truly, that would be a find!I'm off to visit our guest host Heidi at birds of a feather to see your fave finds!
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