Thrifty Treasure - Thrift Store re-do item -Floral Arrangement-

I sometimes feel the need to rescue something.  I look at an item that has been discarded and I see the beauty within it.

Some may pass and never give it a second glance, but I will!

This flower arrangement, or what once was, is a prime example of just that!

There's the phrase "one's trash is another's treasure!"

This pitiful thing I discovered at the thrift store looked like trash for sure.  Although, what really got my attention was the container, the pretty bowl that held the mass of ugliness.

I saw in the huge mess that it was, something worth keeping, something that was after all, pretty!  

I figured the bowl was well worth the two-bucks it was priced at, so I grabbed it up with the plan of throwing away the contents and keeping the pretty bowl.

So, with that being the intention, after I brought it home I got busy taking the artificial flowers out one by one, and as I did I noticed there were some flowers that were hidden among the mess.

Flowers that I really like...  

Magnolias!  They're one of my favorite flowers.

There were several of them and they were smashed (literally) in among the other flowers and had been unrecognizable.

I continued removing all of the flowers, gathering those that I wanted to keep and those to trash.
I cleaned up the magnolias and other keepers by giving them a bath, using a little spray of 409, and warm water with the faucet sprayer, over the sink.

After the flowers and such were dry I did a little re-shaping and forming, then re-planted them (so to speak) in the pretty bowl.

My thrifty treasure had now taken on a totally new look!

Now, just look at how pretty it is.

My "rescue" turned out to be more than I had expected and even prettier too!

An unexpected and thrifty treasure.  A real "trash-to-treasure!"

Sometimes things aren't always what they seem.

Dig a little deeper and take a closer look, there just may be more there than meets the eye!

I urge you to take a second look at what someone considers to be trash and find the treasure that may be found instead, like I did.

Get creative with what you find!

Here's a photo of how the floral arrangement looked over the holidays and after I tucked in a few things to give it some extra sparkle, and to glam it up!  I had said I would share more about the floral arrangement when I posted the photo of it back then, but I had forgotten all about that until I came across the photos of how badly it looked when I first brought it home, and before I gave it a re-do.

What a difference my giving it a little love made!     

I really do like my unexpected and thrifty treasure!...