Strawberry Shortcake

I found this trinket at, you guessed it, Savers.
Google images has informed me that I am the proud owner of a 1981 Metal Vintage Strawberry Shortcake Lunch Box, sans thermos.  Online this lunch box is going for about anywhere between $4-30.  With the thermos it appears to be going for around $30-60.

I found it in, you guessed it, the knick knack section of Savers.  Savers was about to close and I had picked it up and put it back several times.  I took my husband back to where it lived and asked permission to adopt it...for nostalgia reasons of course.  After all I am an 80's girl.

Of course in my heart I knew I wanted it, but it's always hard to splurge 10 buckaroos at a thrift store.  Yes, Savers was asking $9.99 which anyone who has ever dabbled in money or shopping knows is just a fancy number representing $10 and $10 is nothing to shake a stick at.
Nevertheless my husband fully supported my need to relive my childhood despite the price tag. So maybe someday if hard times befall us I can sell this piece of history for a small profit of $20...or if I can find the thermos $40, either way it's money, and fortunately for me, God provided me the moola to purchase this happy slice of my youth, so I won't be auctioning it off any time soon...

Bird chirping weather

I found this too at Savers hanging out in the picture section.  The quotation author is shown at the bottom, Terri Guillemets.  She is a quotation anthologist from Phoenix, Arizona.  Find her website and information here:

http://www.quotegarden.com/terri-guillemets.html

If you are hard of seeing, Terri's quote is: "My favorite weather is bird chirping weather."

This picture and quote are sooooo cute and happy! It hangs on my wall above the chaise lounge (future post).  At one point it had fallen on the floor between the lounge and wall and the bottom of the white wood frame got slightly broken.  My husband put a better hanging thing on it so it won't fall again. If I saw this at a gift shop somewhere and had just gotten paid...I would have paid a lot more for it than I did at Savers. Thank you to whomever donated it! I am always amazed at the fact that no one has beaten me to the treasures I find, before I find them.

Family Fudge

I found this bad boy at Savers chillin' in one of the knick knack aisles. I had to reach to get it as it was not showcasing itself boldly on the front lines of the deep knick knack shelves.  At first I thought it was a lid for a box or container of some sort but a quick scan of the neighboring knick knacks indicated that this knick knack was riding solo.  Within seconds I knew it was just the kind of word art that would grace my walls at home. 

I found this similar sign on Amazon for less than $8.  Other similar ones say "Families are like fudge, mostly sweet with lots of nuts" so I guess my Saver's version "few nuts" is the more polite, watered down version.  Family members may not be as offended by my sign because everyone knows who those "few" nuts are...these other signs may leave family members wondering "Hey, what does it mean lots of nuts...surely I can't be one of them...".
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042C4AQ2/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0042C4AQ2&linkCode=as2&tag=crifoyo-20

I have no clue who is the author of said quote but I'm sure she has an uncanny intuition about families and how they operate.  She probably spent a great deal of time in school studying family dynamics while eating chocolate and after a plethora of studying, time, and personal experience she was blessed with this deeply profound analogy of families to fudge.  Thanks to her, we can all feel assured that no family batter is exempt from nuttiness.  Not even supposed perfect families can prevent the nuts from being born and growing into the kind of spice the boring fudge requires to make life interesting...or fatal if you have nut allergies.