It's The Great Pumpkin. Or Maybe A Squash.

It's Thursday, and time to show off some of those thrifty treasures.

On Sunday, Annie and I went to an estate sale at a very large house in a nearby community. Lovely home, with some lovely things that even at the end-of-sale discounts were too pricey. Things like Orrefors crystal, Waterford, Lenox . . . so instead, I got something marked this way:

I never heard of it, either.
But I do love tureens masquerading as make-believe vegetables.

Along with it, I got this leaf-shaped dish.
I also love plates masquerading as make-believe vegetation.
I mean, who doesn't?

The tureen has a lid, and a ladle.
All in perfect shape. Ten bucks for both pieces.

It's going to live up on top of our kitchen's make-believe Welsh Dresser.
How fitting.

It was at this same estate sale that Annie scored
a dozen beautiful demitasse cups, and I got a
fan-shaped silverplate vase.
Click on the picture if you are curious.





And that piece of Majolica I found at Goodwill for
$6.99?
Its twin just sold on eBay for $265.00.
Sweet.
Click on the thumbnail if you want to see more pictures;
it's the same post as the one above.





It's Thrifty Thursday at Tales From Bloggeritaville.
You can say Hi to Leigh, and get a look at other thrifty nifties.









And for Vintage Thingies Thursday, visit Suzanne
at Coloradolady blog.







As for me, it's back to the grindstone; the Big 90th Birthday Party for my Dad is on Saturday. Today I made sure I had more than 40 napkins to go with the tablecloths and plates, and enough knives and forks as well -- now some quick polishing is in order! -- Cass