Thrift Store Finds

I told the Canadian today that come hell or high water we were going out today to finish shopping for props for this year's Christmas card photo. Our first stop was at the thrift store that's in the old Holiday Market store on Esplanade (just south of the Esplanade/East Ave intersection). We had some specific items on our shopping list, but got easily distracted at the myriad of awesomeness the store had to offer.
Sweet! Instead I settled on these two super cute and practically new pairs of sandals.
See those labels, Jessica?? Yeah, Mervyn's! $3.99 each with 30% off because it was Saturday. I don't remember Mervyn's ever having a sale like that.

Chris found his own piece of heaven there, too.
"You got to know when to hold 'em...know when to fold 'em....know when to walk away, know when to run.." Remember when Kenny Rogers did that song on the Muppets? They were in a train car playing cards singing it.

After the thrift store we went downtown to go to Bird in Hand. When we left out of the back door
to put our stuff in the car, we were so enticed by the delicious smells of food wafting from Johnnie's (right next door to Bird in Hand) that we decided to go there for lunch. I had a chicken spinach pizza and Chris had the fish and chips.
It was fabulously delicious, as per usual. I even took home half my pizza to enjoy later.

We spent the afternoon doing odd jobs around the house. Chris did some work on Tango and I finished up Kari's clock. We modge podged the front and back together and it's sitting on table with a pile o' books weighing it down while it dries. I'm so ready to be done with it.

Recently we picked up a Wine for Dummies book from B&N in our attempt to become conessieurs of wine. We try one new bottle a week and have a little wine journal that rates them. Our wine for this week was an Italian Lambrusco. It's a red wine that surprisingly had an almost sparkling wine fizziness to it. I'm not a red wine fan, but this stuff was fabulous. We enjoyed some glasses of it this afternoon with a little cheese and veggie plate.
If you see any, pick some up, I'm sure that you'll like it. Same with sweet Rieslings (white wine). Next week it's back to a white wine choice. I'm thinking a Pinot Grigio....