...end of summer SALES....gotta love 'em

 Hi, ya'll....I hope this will be a great week for everyone.

This has been a PROJECT summer for us.....and here's another that took awhile to happen...
The post is long, the photos are many....♥ ♥ ♥

The fella a couple doors down from us had a garage sale a few weeks ago and he had this large patio table marked $10.00....
WHAAAT ?
Only ten dollars....?
.....he said, "For you, $5.00"
                                     SOLD !!
Not a thing wrong with it but it needed cleaning and painting...
and I was thinking, "this large, thick glass is worth more than 5 dollars...."

The table  was a dark green and ......

I wanted white !

Of course, had it been WHITE,
I would have wanted it GREEN.....

I'm a woman and that's the way it works....
it's my JOB to want right the opposite.....
don't YOU agree ?

Two coats of OUTDOOR paint and.......
HELLO, PRETTY TABLE.....
(AUDREY, THIS is the project I told you about...took awhile to do it all)

I have 4 metal patio chairs that will go with this table just fine......for now.

I do, however, need to PAINT them.....

Good Heavens.....is the work NEVER done..?

I THOUGHT I would use this little brown outdoor rug from Big Lots beneath it but,
one.....it's too little
and
two.....I like the looks of the brick better than the brown rug.

I am going to be watching for pretty metal chairs...
maybe the thrift store will have some.

 WORLD MARKET had most of their summer  outdoor decor on for 75% off...

I also had a coupon for an additional $10.00 off the total.

I am NOT a seafood person.....I don't do fish.

But these little lobster pillows were so cute, I couldn't resist...

the little bright colored picnic blanket went very well with the LOOK.

 ...the cutest, bright place mats with all the colors I needed....
I picked these up at Dollar General for 50% off....which made them $1.50 each.

and isn't this little sea horse napkin ring just sooo cute.....

What kind of idiot buys  just ONE ?
Well, it was all they had and, well, just MAYBE they will get some more in next summer.

Remember, by this time, their price had dropped to 75% off and I guess all the other little horses were sold.

 The glass top on the table reminds me of WATER in this photo.....

Crab and Lobster plates.....only 2 left.....

so the idiot that bought ONE sea horse,

bought the TWO plates.....

(I remember my daddy tellin' me that there's a sucker born every minute.....)

So, if there's only TWO people and one of them doesn't have to have a napkin

with a napkin ring, and, oh yeah, if neither need knives, forks and spoons....or glasses....

I'll be doin' alright.......:)

The biggest savings was on this awesome, large  table umbrella...
  I love these bright colors for outdoors...
while ORANGE is not a favorite color of mine, this was the last large umbrella they had. For such a savings, I am happy. The orange is more of a red-orange and not the Halloween orange....so I am going to enjoy it thru the fall and again next summer.

We will have a lot of autumn days that we can enjoy our patio.....much more than we can stay outside during the hot summer.

We've been known to wear SHORTS in December out here in West Texas.

So, this $5.00 table turned out to be just what Mr. Sweet and I wanted for our small patio.
The only thing I can see that would make it better....
a big, ole SWIMMING POOL back there where that green grass is right now.

I wonder..........

Since I don't like LOBSTER and I'd as soon JUMP OFF A CLIFF,  NAKED,

than to take even one bite of CRAB......

could I just eat FRUIT K-BOBS on these cute plates.......????

 

OR....a great SALAD....

and have a glass of WINE..?? 

Yep, as soon as it gets too cool to sit out in the evenings, we'll just gather all this
awesome SALE stuff together and store it until next year.

I do love a good sale.....
don't you?

Love you all, bj

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