Yesterday's chapter was about the joy of recycling, but not the bottle and can kind. I usually don't find pleasure in going to a thrift shop because I am never in the right mood and can never find exactly what I am looking for. Today I went to a thrift shop and was successful! We call it VV Boutique aka Value Village. It's the perfect place for costumes although it's not Halloween. We are dressing up on Saturday night for a fundraising event for the Monarch Theatre. I found the perfect dress to wear as a 2nd Class passenger on the Titanic! It's the 100th anniversary of the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" 's sinking, and we will be dining at The Patio Cafe with other "passengers" dressed in period costume before heading to the theatre to watch "A Night To Remember". Upon arrival, we will find out whether we survive like Margaret Brown or not, accompanied with copies of passenger manifests and information about who they or rather "we" were. $16 for the outfit from VV, $5 for silk flowers from Dollar Giant and armed with a glue gun to decorate my hat, I'm all set for Saturday Night!
Sarah writes of the joy of recycling in the steals of deals to be found at thrift stores on fashionable items for your wardrobe that are a fraction of a cost. Trompe d'oeil means "fool the eye", which I hope to do with my outfit to look like period clothing from 1912, but there are day to day clothes and special occasion items that you can find when on a treasure hunt at a thrift store that will fool the pocket book!
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