OH MY Betty - if I had gotten there first you would have saved alot of money and gone home empty handed :D - I love everything you got - I have a couple pieces of the amber and would have jumped at that - the botanical dish would have been in my basket - blue tassels and pink ornies - would have been and your two odd shaped dished - love them - I am into earthtones - GREAT FINDS - thanks for sharing.....

Lynne

You did good. My SA never has anything worth buying. I love the napkins holders.

Yep you did real good!!! That blue is unique and I would have snatched that up right away!!

You did great, Betty. I like the gold colored glass, very fallish, then you can use it for Cmas too!
And the tassels...don't put them away, use them after Cmas as napkin rings...
Good shopping!

Betty-
Great finds! I'll probably be going to our SA store on Monday to redeem my $100 of receipts for $10 in purchases (I bought a couple of pieces of furniture there that jacked up my totals). As you have probably gathered I'm a big second-hand fan.

I LOVE your amber/brown purchases! Wait'll next year, you'll be searching around for them use in the fall. I learned to love brown and now I adore it and search it out. I think your brown/tan square plate would make a super base for a fall/Thanksgiving centerpiece. And your snowflake (is it a trivet?) will polish up beautifully, I know.

- Magpie

Great finds Betty! I picked up some really nice Noritake Hermitage 6226 dinner plates and bread & butter plates at St. Vincent DePaul yesterday that I plan to use for Thanksgiving dinner. The dinner plates were $1.00 each and the b&b plates were 50-cents each. When I got home I did a search and found that that this design is retired and the cost per plate plus shipping can be close to $20.00 for each dinner plate! I felt good about my purchase! I also picked up some cute Christmas tree ornaments for 25-cents each. Here is the pattern of the china - it really is prettier in "real life".

Here is a link that might be useful:

Wow betty, you got some very pretty things. Those shaped dishes are very pretty and I do like the amber glassware too. I would have snapped up that Blue too..it's very lovely. I've been searching for more pink ornies...good thing you got there before me!! I used to shop SA before I moved here. They always had wonderful finds. Seems though, that over the years, they got wise to people looking for 'finds', and their prices started to go up. They still had good bargains though and yes goes to a good cause.
jane

Betty, I love your new goodies. You got such a lot and at such good prices. I especially love your new little teapot. That is really pretty. Nice shopping.

We also have a SA store about 1/2 hour from our home. It has been quite awhile since I've been there because Good Will and St. Vinnies are so much closer. I'll have to stop in just after the holidays when hopefully people will donate some holiday decorations that they no longer want. My daughter and I do quite a bit of second hand store shopping plus many garage sales during the summer. Such great bargains!

I want to go shopping with you! You got some GREAT things.
And I'd have bought that teapot too, its wonderful. You made a super haul, congratulations on everything!
Those leaf plates are really terrific.

hugs, Karen

Lots of great goodies there Betty. That teapot is so neat! Love your shaped dishes, the little birds, and those leaf plates too. All good finds and I'll bet you had fun too. ;o) Luvs

Betty, What a great haul! I love the plate with leaves on it. And, I've been wanting to do a african safari table for some reason (I have no idea why - maybe because I want to go there). Those napkin rings would be perfect for my table. Since they are not the deer you thought they were you should send them to me! LOL! My thrift stores are so hit and miss. Sometimes the prices are more than if I bought the items new. I've seen DT plates more expensive in Goodwill!!! But, sometimes I find some good deals so I'm always searching. I'm kind of in a "silverplate' stage and I can find that pretty cheap. I guess that is because no one wants to polish it. Again, great finds!

yep, I know about blue....colbalt blue. I am gona post a pic soon of my blue I got the last week or two...probably 30 pieces. I mostly got vases and bottles. Shopped at GW, SA and another store.

Delph, your african themed table reminded me of a really gorgeous set of dishes at our local Discovery Shop a few months back. They had lots of the jungle animals all around the rim and the colors were gorgeous. They wanted $125 for a partial set. I kept watching/admiring them knowing my DH would think I'd lost it if I brought home jungle dishes (and paid that much for them)! They sold--I've never seen any like them before.
Hope you get to do your table, and hope you get to make the trip someday too. Luvs

Betty, you REALLY did GOOD! Everything looks so pretty.

Here is a link that might be useful: could these be the botanical dishes??

You scored big time, Betty! I collect the amber as well as aqua glass(and black)~the aqua is very hard to find. Your SA must be a lot better than most. Your other treasures are very cool, too.

Oh, and if you don't plan on using those pink ornies, you can sent them on to me! ;o)