Being retired and having moved to a much smaller house I never buy anything for the house ...rarely I buy anything. I decluttered six years ago and i don't want to do that again.
Yesterday we wanted to get out of the house and I needed to go over to Lake Arrowhead Rite-Aid for a few things and i had mentioned earlier in the day that I also wanted to stop by a favorite thrift store of mine in Cedar Glen. I rarely go there either and the only thing I have bought there in the past was some type of bedding for the outside cat boxes in the winter.
I won't go into why the color turquoise has been so prevalent in my life these last few weeks but it has - I see it everywhere. Anyway, so we stop in there and at the lower floor is where they have really beautiful items, more upscale than you would normally find in a thrift store - this may even be more of a consignment type shop down below and then upstairs is where the clothes and linens and household items are.
So we walk in and I see almost immediately my favorite artist's print of Irises (Van gogh). It was really big, not a small piece of art. It was priced at $65 and I thought well I won't get that. Then I find out it is 50% off so we did get it and then I go upstairs and this beautiful throw was $5.00. I was pretty excited to walk away with two nice purchases.
Cedar Glen is a little area within the Lake Arrowhead area with adorable houses and a few quaint shops and restaurants (the restaurant on the left is pretty inside and we have only stopped in for a beer in the bar and have never eaten there ...maybe some day we will try it).
I could spend all day looking through the bottom floor of this thrift shop- beautiful items in there.
There are three buildings here - the thrift store, restaurant and a hair salon.
Yesterday we wanted to get out of the house and I needed to go over to Lake Arrowhead Rite-Aid for a few things and i had mentioned earlier in the day that I also wanted to stop by a favorite thrift store of mine in Cedar Glen. I rarely go there either and the only thing I have bought there in the past was some type of bedding for the outside cat boxes in the winter.
I won't go into why the color turquoise has been so prevalent in my life these last few weeks but it has - I see it everywhere. Anyway, so we stop in there and at the lower floor is where they have really beautiful items, more upscale than you would normally find in a thrift store - this may even be more of a consignment type shop down below and then upstairs is where the clothes and linens and household items are.
So we walk in and I see almost immediately my favorite artist's print of Irises (Van gogh). It was really big, not a small piece of art. It was priced at $65 and I thought well I won't get that. Then I find out it is 50% off so we did get it and then I go upstairs and this beautiful throw was $5.00. I was pretty excited to walk away with two nice purchases.
Cedar Glen is a little area within the Lake Arrowhead area with adorable houses and a few quaint shops and restaurants (the restaurant on the left is pretty inside and we have only stopped in for a beer in the bar and have never eaten there ...maybe some day we will try it).
I could spend all day looking through the bottom floor of this thrift shop- beautiful items in there.
There are three buildings here - the thrift store, restaurant and a hair salon.
