Well, we packed all the stuff for the Goodwill…. quite a nice little load actually. Clothes, books, kitchen stuff and you name it. Took the three of us, each two loads! I was very proud of us. Felt good. I know they will make use of it.

And then we had to go in and take a peek… you never know what you might find… like… our new horsey friend!!!

Meet Midnight the Evil Flying Pony from Toledo!!!

I’m really not sure why, but we just couldn’t leave him there. He was only $2 and is certainly a conversation piece. He’s almost 18 inches long and has a sort of Tibetan look to him. Pretty darn neato, let me tell you!

I just love all his fancy painting and all.

Any ideas what to do with him? We have enjoyed his presence in the Moby all evening long… and he has been attacking the dog and the kitties and flying around and all. And talking in a funny voice like all evil demon flying horses do when teenagers are having a good time with him.

I think he has to have a good spot… maybe even flying!!!

Also got a cute little teal blue glass lantern with a tea candle in it for 50 cents. I’m partial to candles and this will look cute in the yard I think. Simple and yet quaint. I’m trying to really look carefully for yard things. I don’t want to junk up the yard with like a thousand and one things, but yet, I do want a few little whimsy pieces here and there. Just tucked in this corner or that corner. I love those kinds of things. They are a delight to find.

And I have a new addiction. I’m not sure why but I really like these little tin and copper pails and buckets I’m seeing around. I have about 5 or 6 now. I wasn’t really sure what to do with them. But I think I am cooking up a master plan!!! Candles!!!

I tried and failed to run a candle company a year or so go… bought all the stuff and tried but there are SO many people making candles and such, it was just a bust. But, I still like making them, just making them EASY now and for my own enjoyment.

I watch and buy up those really ugly candles at yardsales for like a quarter. You know. Those candles that your spinster aunt gave you in the shape of a angel and a teddy bear, or in hideous colors so you never burned them? Well, I buy them, chop up the wax and heat it and then pour it into old jars or ….. ta-da! Little tin pails and add a bit of wick and a little (okay a lot) of essential oil to flavor them and Poof! CHEAP but lovely candles!!

I’ll post about it soon… because I only have like three candles left to burn and they are almost gone.

I’m on the lookout for a handful of colored glass wine bottles to make some really cool re-purposed candle holders to use over and over. But my wino friends haven’t been over for a long time, so, I think I might have to resort to snitching a few from a recycling bin!!! (Don’t tell okay? Isn’t it better to re-purpose than to use the energy to re-cycle???? I do believe so….)

Well… all in all… we gave them 6 big armloads full of stuff and came home with Evil Midnight the Demon Pony, a little tin pail, the little blue lantern… a small handmade pottery bowl for soap and another mismatched little pottery cup to hold our toothbrushes in… and spent a total of $5.

Not too bad….

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