Say hello to my newest find. I think I'll name him Geoff. lol
Well, I'm sorry to not have written for almost 2 days now. Saturday was the 1 year anniversary for me and my fiance..... I was still basking in the afterglow. (Wink!)
Well anyway, let's start with the morning. When we got up, I instantly just wanted out of the house. My mind was stuck on that 3rd Gina's on Baseline... the one I was hoping was the "Middle-Class Gina's". So, we went back out. Turns out, this one IS the middle Gina's... but there were no clothes! Pout!!! :( There were alot of other things though. I looked through pretty much everything and found the classy porcelain doll you just saw and the fairy porcelain doll below. I haven't done any research on either one though, so I'm not sure if either of them are worth anything... YET.
I also found quite a few interesting little crafty things....... above..... some pink plastic cords for my step-daughter... you know those things they like to make in school... two different colored rolls of tulle, a couple zippers (I LOVE zippers), and a pack of chopsticks. Not sure what those will be for just yet.
On a seperate note, though, my fiance and I had a conversation with one of the workers at the "High Class Gina's yesterday". I wish I could give her a good review... but I can't. We introduced ourselves and asked her about her pricing on an item we found at the "High-class Gina's" that I REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLYYYYY wanted when I saw it. It was a plastic shoe-box type container half full of beads and things. It was marked at $35.99. Crazy, right? It's like those beads were made of gold or something... trust me, they weren't. When I asked this cashier at the check-out what the lowest price was that they would accept, the cashier told me $25. Which is still crazy. The sale was supposed to be 50%... but she wouldn't even offer me that. It still would have been $18... I'm not even sure I would have paid that, considering it's still alot to pay at a thrift store for one item...and I couldn't even see all of the beads that were in there. I think I would have gone as high as $10 or even maybe $15. I wanted it SOOOOO bad, you see. I'm really into the "find" feeling of searching through something you can't quite see everything in. It makes me happy. But, back to this cashier, when we asked her about this pricing, she said something to the effect of, "I don't even do that. That's the best deal I can do. Take it or leave it. (She even turned away from us at this point.)" Like she doesn't even bother with customer satisfaction or what is going on in her store. She even went on the offensive with us, like she didn't understand why anyone wouldn't want to pay the crazy prices. "Hi, I'm poor!" lol I guess if you were there, it would have been easier for you to picture. I was really bothered by her though. We left right after this. I am not sure if I will be going back soon... but if I go back and that thing of beads is still there... I WILL get it for my price. lol
We ran around looking for more random thrift stores.... unsuccessfully... until I realized that we were close to Redlands. There is a thrift store I LOVE in Redlands called (appropriately) Redlands Thrift. I don't love this store because of their prices, because they are around Goodwill in their prices. I love this store because of all the features it has. It is right off the 10 freeway on Alabama Street in Redlands and it looks alot smaller than it really is from the front. You walk in and on the left are a few rows of books. I normally don't find anything special here, even though I normally check for old books... 1800's type old. I did see a woman in there a few minutes later who had gone through the entire section of books and even had a copy of Faust in her cart. SIGH... I have been looking for a copy of this for a really long time. I know she was a re-seller. I probably should have talked to her. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20, right?
On the right when you go in, the store opens up into rows and rows of clothes and an entire wall basically covered with purses and shoes, etc. I perused through the clothes and shoes, but didn't find much except a Nine West purse.... this one is getting resold. Here's a photo of it....
And here is a photo of my adorable black kitty, Jasmine, cuddling with the purse when I laid it down. I didn't even realize she was there until I looked to my side. So I had to take a picture. :)
There are also racks and racks full of knick-knacks, dishes and glassware, toys, etc etc etc. We didn't look at these right away, as I really wanted to show my fiance my favorite part of this store. In the back, there are little boutique thrift stores tucked away, as well as a bunch of silent auction items. The little thrift stores are filled with anything but they are all very small. Tucked into little cages about 10 feet by 10 feet. Not too much space. The silent auction items vary. There can be something as small as a lot of old matchboxes.... or something as big as an entire cage about 4 feet deep and 5 feet wide STACKED with vinyl records..... which I bid on. I don't think I will win it, but I tried. Can you imagine what records may be buried in there? Or how many junk records I could make lamps, bowls, and other crazy things with? I might have to go and check out what the bid is tomorrow... see if I can still afford it. lol
Once I places my bid on the records, we went back into the main part of the store. The wall by the boutique is full of bags stuffed with random things. I found two really big bags of felt, which I snatched, as they were much cheaper than buying felt at the store. Then, as I was looking through all the knick-knacks, I found the most beautiful Russian chiming porcelain doll. I don't know anything about her, but once I saw her, I just couldn't put her down. She makes the prettiest sound, but it started to annoy us on the way home, as she doesn't stop chiming unless she is standing still!!!! Here is a photo of my little beauty...
We are not sure what we are doing with her just yet. I don't know if I will ever see another one of her, so I don't know whether to sell her if she's worth something, or keep her. I guess we will see, huh?
After shopping, we came home to get changed. We had won tickets for a freestyle motocross event in Ontario... and what luck that it was on our anniversary! It was so much fun!! We saw the freestyle riders, who bounced around on cars and did wheelies, etc. And then were the two teams that battled for the best trick. All kinds of tricks. Like I said, just lots of fun. I have video if anyone wants to see. LOL
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