More Brown Elephant Finds!

The first few times I returned to the new Brown Elephant, I didn’t find anything. Well, except for the perfect fabric cover to cover my “leather” iPad cover, which was leaving little black flakes everywhere.

After several visits, I was really excited when I spied a Molinillo Whisk. I’ve wanted one ever since I saw my first one at a farmer’s market stall. The chocolate vendor wasn’t selling them, just using it as a decoration, but he demonstrated how you rub it back and forth in your hands to make Mexican hot chocolate. When I got mine home, I had to figure out how to display it, and I thought of combining it with a decorative rolling pin I  bought a few years ago.  I realized a white pot that came with a flower arrangement from my Brooklyn niece would be perfect. I added a few wooden utensils we rarely used as well as some from my bin of wooden things for children to use with sand or salt. Then it took a few more trips to the Brown Elephant and to Marshall’s to get everything standing up.

On another trip, I found a gourd mask that was perfect for our gallery wall. Of course, now we need to find something to hang below it!

My last trip yielded some items for holiday decorating. The Fall fairies I made many years ago look perfect in these tree chairs.

I also found two painted figures that Google search leads me to believe are Hungarian. They’re hanging out with the Matroyskas right now, but I think they’ll move over to the sideboard when it gets decorated for Christmas.

I’ll have to take a picture of them there (and of the sun ornament I also found) when we get our Christmas tree.