Thrifty Treasures: Free Fabric, and Fleurs, and Wicker-Oh My!

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I was not planning on yard saling this weekend. The girls and I went out on Saturday morning to find a birthday present for a two year old boy (try explaining to a three year old girl why you can't buy a pink My Little Pony card for a little boy who's having a monster truck party!). On our way home we saw that a couple of houses up the street were having a yard sale, so of course we dropped by!

I found not one, but two of these neat wicker platters. I'm planning on spray painting them (white?) and somehow incorporating them into my sister's wedding shower and/or entertaining on our new deck (crossing my fingers that T sticks to his guns and builds the darn thing next weekend!).

They're pretty large!

Grabbed seven (that's all they had!) wicker paper plate holders for $1 total. Should I spray paint them white as well, or leave 'em natural? The holders themselves will not touch food...you insert the paper plate inside. These will be fun when we have family over to eat outside!

I found this hardbound copy of Gourmet's Parties for just fifty cents! I saw it on Amazon for anywhere from $25.00 to $0.01....but you still have to pay like $3 in shipping, so my fifty cents is a bargain! Great recipes and tips inside! Also snatched up this cute little apothecary (love them!!) for fifty cents. This one is going on my bathroom to hold Q-tips or cotton balls.
They had a bin of fabric for FREE! I love free. The yellow was actually marked at seventy-five cents, but the lady gave it to me. I snatched the yellow because Michaela Byrd's room has some yellow accents in the window treatments, and I thought I could practice my sewing and make a little pillow or two. It's a lot of fabric!

I just really liked this fabric with the cute little chairs on it. The green is actually pretty bright, and the blue and purple will also match up with Michaela Byrd's room!

This metal fleur de lis was marked down 70% at Joann Fabric today. I got it with a gift card for only $9.00.

I bought it with a mind to hang it somewhere outside, but I may just hang it on the wall of uninspiration in the addition. It would be surrounded by black frames with old black and white family photos. It's pretty blank, huh? Somehow the Fisher Price Loving Family Dollhouses just don't add the ambiance to the wall that I was looking for.

Finally, I'm not even gonna tell you how long this print was sitting behind our headboard in our room. I bought it ages and ages ago before I knew what I liked. I think the photos (upside down, I know!) are pretty, but I don't like the way the poster has the photos grouped.

I have plans to spray paint it, fit some cork inside the frame, and cover that with the fabric pictured (50% coupon at JoAnn!) below to make my own fancy note board, but I can't decide on white or black for the frame! It's going over near my infamous $8 Salvation Army makeover table. (See below for a photo) I just got a white shelf to go over the table, but all of the frames in the room are black.

So, you tell me...black OR white for the frame? I'm leaning towards black because of all the white in the fabric. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you'd choose. Thanks, and...

{Happy Thrifting!}

P.S. If you missed my Price My Space post please check it out!