I took a short break one day last week and ran to the thrift store by my home.  I took with me a trash bag of donations.  There wasn’t a lot–a king duvet cover; a nice woman’s shirt that was too small; a curtain rod and a pillow.  They gave me a 30% off your entire purchase coupon to use that day and a 20% off coupon for another time.  Woo Hoo!

I was looking for a new purse in a spring color.  A pair of jeans that didn’t scream, “I’m a mom of 6.”  And anything I might be able to wear for Easter–also Easter things for Heidi.

I found:

A tankini top that fit wonderfully.  It was $2.99 regular priced.  I have a whole bolt of black swimsuit fabric that I got at a garage sale that is begging to become matching bottoms.

A bag of plastic fruit.  This is the realistic kind that mature ladies use in bowls on their counters–not really meant for toys.   But I bought it for toys since it looks so real :).  Regular price $1.99.

This one is hard to show without modeling, but it’s an amazing tank top with a draped neck and ruching and studs on one shoulder.  It still had the brand new tags on it.  Regularly $7.99.

I found both these bags.  One will be the perfect spring purse ($4.99) and the other holds my scriptures for church ($1.99).  So fun that they are the same color but one is printed.  I haven’t had a new scripture bag since I was 12. Turns out they also match my diaper bag–it was meant to be.

Then I found this adorable top that will be perfect for work. $7.99–seems brand new.

And not sure what happened to the picture, but I also found a pair of jeans (Maurices) in low rise boot cut ($7.99).  It’s hard for me to wear skinny jeans when boot cut does such amazing things for my figure.  But I did get a lighter wash this time (mainly because it was my only choice, lol.) But it does look nice and Springy–although the darker wash was more slimming.

I did search for Heidi but came up dry.  She’s a hard one to buy for.  I found her Easter dress at Target (see previous post for pictures :).)