Thrifty Tablescape Linky Party #5 and Giveaway!

Hi everyone!

I just can’t believe it is already October! From now until the first of the year, time just seems to fly by! And I have so many fun things planned. I better seriously get my time management skills honed!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. And I have some fabulous giveaways from sponsors who are very involved in this important cause. I am so happy to be working with them and hosting some giveaways to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So, make sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post!

Here is my thrifty tablescape for October!

Trying to ease into Fall is not always an easy thing for me. I chose to use hues of purple and green with late summer/early fall fruit.

Sorry for the blurry pic. I started with these deep plum placemats. I got a set of 4 of them for .35 cents. They were .71 cents but, I bought them and most of the rest of the items on this tablescape on 50% off day at the thrift store.

    These beautiful rich colored fruit plates were originally from Pier 1 Imports (according to the makers mark on back). I only have 2 of them. They were in a metal decorative plate holder I found at the thrift store. So, for he two dinner plates and the holder, I paid $1.35.

I used mix and match vintage flatware at .05 cents each.

I purchased a set of 4 of these white frosted cups for $1.00.

The green stems were .20 cents each and the vintage green glasses were .10 cents each. Geez, that glass looks cloudy! It didn’t look that way in real life. Honest! LOL

I decided to use these ceramic duck napkin rings because around this area we are seeing a lot of ducks out. In our little city, ducks have the right of away. There are heavy fines for hitting any duck around here.  I bought a set of 6 of these for $1.00. The gold napkins were a clearance at either Walmart of the Christmas Tree Shops years ago.

  For the centerpiece I used a bamboo table runner (a gift years ago) and a large square wicker-ish placemat that I purchased at a thrift store a year or so ago (set of 4 for about $1.00). I placed my hand carved old bowl on top. This wooden bowl was my grandmothers. She always used it to hold fruit and nuts at Christmas.

I filled it with the faux pears that came from the thrifted white tureen I showed you a couple of weeks ago.

On one side of the wood bowl I used this grape vine design covered bowl filled with apples. I bought this bowl sometime last winter at a thrift store.

On the other side of the wood bowl I used two old thrifted wood candlesticks, thrifted candles and hung thrifted purple, gold and orange tassels from them.   And just because I thought the color was so pretty and perfect for this table, I included a beautiful purple eggplant that we just got from one of the local produce vendors at the market.

A pretty sparkly apple from my stash of thrifted faux fruit.

  So, that was my thrifty transitional tablescape for October. After a rough adding up, the total cost of everything on this table is $6.35. Not bad.

The Giveaway!

        A 16 oz. box of Total cereal

• VIP coupons valid for one box of Cheerios and Multigrain Cheerios cereal and one cup of Yoplait yogurt
• Betty Crocker Living with Cancer Cookbook Pink Together Edition, which includes a collection of more than 150 delicious recipes with complete nutrition information and a 32-page Pink Together Survivor Ambassador bonus section that shares inspirational personal stories of survival as well as recipes
• Water bottle and removable silicone awareness bracelet
• Drawstring sport backpack
• Rhinestone ear buds

 

The amazing folks at General Mills are so committed to this cause and through my friends at MyBlogSpark, they sponsoring this wonderful giveaway!

Find hope. Be inspired. Know you are not alone. Join the 2011 Pink Together™ campaign – now in its fifth year of celebrating hope – by visiting PinkTogether.com to connect with a unique online community of people who have been touched by breast cancer and share a passion for the cause. Individually we are strong, but together we are stronger.

Here is some information I would like to share with you:

Visit PinkTogether.com to share your personal story and messages of hope and read about others’ personal journeys. To encourage personal connections, General Mills will donate $1 to the Komen organization for each Message of Hope that is sent to someone who has shared their story on PinkTogether.com (up to $25,000) during October. This is in addition to a $2 million donation General Mills is making to the Komen organization.

This year, for the first time in its five-year history, at PinkTogether.com consumers can choose how $1 million of this donation will be shared between two important Komen programs: the Treatment and Assistance Program, which assists women in securing care they otherwise may not be able to afford, and Prevention Research, which helps unlock the keys to preventing breast cancer. Visit PinkTogether.com from September 19, 2011 through April 14, 2012 to make your choice. Results will be announced on Mother’s Day 2012 – Sunday, May 13.

Meet the 2011 Pink Together Survivor Ambassadors, and hear their amazing stories of courage and survival on PinkTogether.com and the Pink Together YouTube Channel.

General Mills will also be turning the packaging of participating products pink in recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October.

So, how to win this wonderful gift prize……

1.) Head over to PinkTogether.com and “Like” them. Come back here and leave a comment telling me you liked them.

2.) Be a follower of The Thrifty Groove (leave a second comment telling me you are already a follower or just became a follower)

That’s it!

This giveaway will end October 5, 2011.

Okay my wonderfully thrifty-licious friends, let’s see your lovely thrifty tablescapes!

I am joining:

Pink Saturday

Seasonal Sunday

Show Off Your Cottage Monday

Amaze Me Monday

Masterpiece Monday

Thrifty Things Friday #27

Hi everyone!

Well good thing I went and did a little thrifting last week because this week, I have been down for the count. Isn’t Fall and Spring the worst times for colds! One day it is warm, the next cold then rainy. A body just doesn’t have time to acclimatize. So, I am sitting her in pj’s, no makeup, scraggly ponytail, hot herbal tea and a pile of Kleenex.  TMI huh?

For the last couple of years, I have been making it a point to stop by both Dollar General and Family Dollar at the end of September. I discovered that both of these stores have some really good end of the season clearance prices on a lot of things.

Well, I wasn’t disappointed when I popped in last week. I bought these fun table linens.

I thought the tapestry animal prints were just so fun! I don’t have any animal print placemats or table runners but, now I do!

The table runner was $5.00. I paid $1.00 for it.

The placemats were originally $2.00 each. I got them for .40 cents each!  They only had two. I even went to 2 other Dollar General stores in search for 2 more with no luck.

I just thought they were so fun and for a grand total of $1.80, I just couldn’t pass them by. They had several other styles of linens. I picked up a blue and white and a set of red and white placemats for .80 cents (for a set of 4). They are definitely more Summerish. But, the animal prints did not say summer to me at all.

For some reason some folks have had trouble leaving comments. Thank you to my friend Pat, because I was totally unaware of this. I also received an email from another follower stating the same thing. She had wanted to sign up for the giveaway so, I manually added her to my list. Who knows, probably those nasty internet Gremlins messing with us again!

I have several more giveaways coming up so, if you have a problem commenting, please send me an email and I will add you  to the list of entries.

Now the winner of the UPrinting 250 flyer giveaway is………

Jan

 

Congrats!

Thank you to UPrinting for sponsoring this giveaway!

Now, let’s take a look at a few of last week’s thrifty link ups!

Mom Daughter Style shared a yummy stuffed mushroom recipe with us.

If you missed this post from The Pennington Point you must go back and check it out!

And Toni at Blue Mountain Rise showed us her no sew porch pillows. These are so fun!

Thank you ladies! Please grab your “I was featured” button!

Stop back by tomorrow to enter my latest giveaway! It will be a Pink giveaway! 

My friend Linda from Coastal Charm hosts a wonderful weekly party called Nifty Thrifty Tuesday. This week she talked about some etiquette regarding joining linky parties. And she talks about the frustration of the hostess of the party. It takes time to put together a linky party (and money) and we do it because we think it is fun and want others to have a place to show off their posts. Not leaving a link back to this party on your post is a rude thing to do to the hostess and to other folks that are joining the party. If you are new to joining parties or blogging and just are not sure how to do it, (a link back) please don’t hesitate to send us an email. We were all new once and needed to learn how to do things.

I encourage you to stop by Linda’s post HERE and check it out!

Don’t forget, this Saturday (Oct. 1) is this month’s Thrifty Tablescape party! I hope you will join the fun!

To check out last month’s TT party, click on the image below.

Okay, let the ….AAAA-CHOO (oops, sorry about that!)…fabulous thriftiness begin!

Little Fall Floral Filled Teacups, A Tea Setting And a Giveaway!

Hi everyone!

Okay folks, sorry about this but, this is going to be a big honkin’ post! LOL

The other day I stopped at a small, out of the way little thrift store. This is one of those little stores that I only go to every  other month or so. They had a huge table filled with odds and ends crafting items and everything on the table was 50% off. You know that I love to buy different crafting supplies when I see them super cheap even if I have no idea what I am going to do with them at the moment.

Here is the bunch of stuff I bought.

There was this old Better Homes and Gardens Craft Club bag of 6 Styrofoam balls and fabric to make Christmas ornaments. Well, I never pass up cheap Styrofoam when I see it.

.80 cents and then half off? You bet!

I went to my stash of thrifted faux flowers. I knew I had to use some kind of small flowers. I found these.

They should work. Now, what to use for the stems?  They didn’t turn out looking a lot like little pumpkins like I originally had planned but, they still look cute.

Hum, I just bought a box of odds and ends at a church rummage sale. Let’s look in there! I haven’t even gone through this box and put things away yet.

The ladies at the church asked me what I was going to do with the bag of curly twigs that just have some leaves at the tops of them. I said I didn’t know yet. Even my mom looked at me oddly when I shoved that bag into the box. Oh ye of little faith!

With some glue and a pair of snippers, and a few lonely teacups (with no saucers…thank you Miss Heidi!) I sat down to make my own little Fall flower teacups.

 

Insert a “stem”.

Glue flower heads around ball. No need to fill in the bottom because it will be in the teacup.

I decided to add a couple of little pumpkin picks in there.  This was fun, easy and thrifty. So, don’t forget to use whatever you happen to have around the house and decorate with that.

Now, speaking of teacups (I am just so smooth with my segues aren’t I? LOL), I found this little creamy white teacup and luncheon plate at a thrift store (I know, you guys, at this point, would never think I just went out and bought a teacup at a regular retail store so, why do I even bother mentioning the thrift store part). I think it was probably a wedding shower party gift because it had a beautiful organza ribbon bow on it and a small bag of Jordan Almonds. Yup, it was donated just like that. I removed all that and washed the cute set.

The little tea for one teapot I found last Spring at a flea market. Just a simple little pot in off white with light orange and green stripes at the base. 

I love this gorgeous copper color metallic creamer (thrift store find).

   It is raining again today and I have a lovely head cold going on. So, once I finish this post, I am making tea and snuggling up on the couch.

Thank you for joining me for tea today.

Don’t forget, this Saturday, October 1st is our monthly “Thrifty Tablescape” party! I hope you can join in the fun and play along!

You can check out last Month’s party by clicking the picture below!

Now, onto the Giveaway!

The awesome folks at UPrinting are offering one of my readers 250 “flyers” .

Do you have an event coming up, maybe for the holidays?   And do you want to send out an announcement? this is perfect for you. But, the options for this giveaway are so much more! I got these made last Spring and I used my Blog Header as the graphic. I now have a personalized  post card or card to include when I send someone something. These would also be great if you have your own online store or a physical store. Or a regular seller on sites like Ebay.

I will be receiving this same prize and I can’t wait. We do Herb Presentations for different events and venues so, I want to create a flyer to have that information on it for people who are interesting. I know how beautiful these come out so, I am excited to get mine!

So, think outside the box and come up with a fun and useful design to create your own flyers!

A lot of printing companies ( http://www.uprinting.com/) are available online. UPrinting offers different printing services such as flyer printing (http://www.uprinting.com/flyer-printing.html). You can also check out their club flyers (http://www.uprinting.com/club-flyer-printing.html).

 

Here is the giveaway prize info:

Prize details

250pcs. Flyers for one winner

4.25" x 5.5", 4" x 6"

14pt Cardstock Gloss, Front Only Printing,

(nightclub flyer templates and business flyer templates also available for download)

3 Business Days Turnaround, *Free Shipping

Restriction: Limited to *US residents 18 years old and above only

How to win:

Mandatory: Leave a comment here and state that you would like to be entered in this giveaway.

Two more entry options are:

Like UPrinting on Facebook

and/or

Follow UPrinting at Twitter

Leave a comment on either or both that you were sent by The Thrifty Groove and come back here and leave another comment with a link for another entry.

That’s if folks…Easy peasy.

This giveaway will end Thursday (September 29) at noon (EST). I will post the winner on my Thrifty Things Friday party post. That will be live at 4:00pm Thursday.

This is a pretty short time frame so enter quickly!

Disclaimer:

This giveaway is sponsored by UPrinting, no monetary compensation was given and I will receive flyers for hosting.

I am joining:

Table Top Tuesday

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

Tea Time Tuesday

Tea Party Tuesday

Teacup Tuesday

Return to Loveliness

Tea for Two