Giveaway weekend and other fresh finds!

This weekend was a free giveaway weekend here in Winnipeg.  They've done a few in the past year and half and they've been hugely successful and keeping great used items out of the landfills.  One woman's trash is another woman's treasure!

I was busy painting most of the weekend but I thought I would troll a few streets on my way to get groceries.  Imagine my delight to only drive one block from my house before I found this!

Aren't the little round feet just adorable?  The shelves need a little TLC but when it's free, who cares?  I think J and I might keep this little guy for ourselves, with so little storage areas in our wee house I could use a place to store my never-ending library of new books!

I also did some regularly scheduled thrifting this week for new furniture pieces and picked up these great pieces.

A set of solid wood chairs just waiting to be reupholstered with my new fabric from South Africa perhaps??

And a set of tres ugly side tables that I'm thinking of trying out the 'oh so of the moment' chevron pattern on...

Hey Winnipeggers, did you check out the free giveaway weekend?  Any good finds?  For the rest of you, have you come across any great thrift items that have excited you lately?

Have a great week!