Thrift Shop Finds

As you can see here there isn't much furniture to work with in Justice's room. Keeping the teeny tiny budget in mind it was time to do a little thrift store shopping. My mother (Nana) and I hit up several of our local stores. We found pillows in one. I'll use those in a future project. The last place we visited had exactly what we needed. First we found a pristine white lamp with a white shade for $3.00. I knew right away that the shade would need to be embellished. Then we got really lucky. We found a cute little desk in great condition for $15.00. It will help to contain clutter and it's a great place to get homework done.

Cute lamp in perfect condition.

Great find! Tons of storage and in nearly perfect condition.

 The desk did need to be cleaned and touched up a bit. Easy! We wiped it down really well with Mineral Spirits to cute the grim. Then applied English Chestnut stain by Minwax with a built in sealer. Brand new!

Cleaned up and touched up.

When it came time to embellish the shade I gave Justice a couple choices. She decided she wanted Nana to crochet flowers for her shade. So that's what we went with. Nana has tons of yarn around the house so it was an easy project. Using a glue gun the flowers quickly covered the shade. It was supposed to be a little cascade of flowers. Yeah, once again things got out of hand. Now it's a shade in full bloom.

It's a bit crazy but very fun!

Money spent:

Lamp $3.00
Desk $15.00

Total: $18