DOLLAR TREE HAUL that blew my mind _ TRYING A DOLLAR TREE CHRISTMAS HACK + Thrifted Finds
I recently went through my dining room and found some amazing books that I just had to incorporate into my junk journaling project. As I was digging through, I stumbled upon this adorable little book titled "The Big Balloon Race". The image on the cover caught my attention immediately - it's so cute! I have no idea how old this book is or when it was first published, but it has an older look to it that I find endearing. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the page numbers indicated that it was published in 1981, which just happens to be the year I was born - crazy coincidence! Despite not knowing more about its origins, I couldn't resist getting it to junk journal with.
Next, I found this Mary Inglesbright book, which is truly a treasure trove of unique illustrations and images. I am beyond thrilled to have discovered this gem at such an affordable price (probably just a dollar!). The inside pages are equally stunning, filled with intricate drawings that will surely inspire my crafty endeavors. I can already envision the possibilities - I'll be using some of these images to create beautiful journaling pages, and maybe even add some additional embellishments to make them truly special.
Moving on, I came across this Southern Living book, which is actually a holiday edition. As I flipped through its pages, I was struck by the gorgeous images that fill it - while not entirely filled with pictures, there are enough to inspire my creativity. The real draw for me, however, is the section dedicated to recipes, which I'll likely keep intact but use some of the pages for crafting projects. It's always a joy to find materials like this that will help bring my ideas to life.
The final find of my treasure hunt was this Better Homes and Garden treasury book, titled "Christmas Crafts and Foods" - published in 1981 no less! As I examined it further, I noticed someone had left their name on the cover, adding a touch of whimsy to this already beautiful book. While the pages themselves are largely black and white (not exactly what I'm used to working with!), I can already envision how stunning this book will look as a display piece - maybe I'll even cut out some pages for journaling or crafting projects.
Last but not least, I stumbled upon these polo shirts while checking out a store. I opted for the plain and simple style (I don't think there was much of a choice!), which seemed fitting given my current mood. The price tag read $9.99, although I believe it might have been on sale at that time.
In other news, my furry companion Loki has been keeping me entertained while I work - his antics are always good for a laugh! As a fun aside, I've included a few photos of him doing his thing - you're welcome to watch and enjoy.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou want to come say hi today oh he's like a big boy the fact that not even a quarter of him is in the frame slightly frightening each other hand oh I think it this way yeah look at this who's over there I wonder how long we're gonna sit here and you just stuck your tongue in my ear all right so we're gonna do a Dollar Tree haul but this one I feel like it needs some type of special title to make it stand out from the ones that I normally do for you guys whenever I go shopping at a Dollar Tree my mind is always focused on like what's new you know because I that's my favorite thing about Dollar Tree and coming back and letting you guys know what I'm finding at the store this however I was in a completely different mindset it was more like I was running an errand to Dollar Tree and I had things on my shopping list and then while I was there I kind of like poked around saw some things and threw it in the car so let me just show you guys what I picked up on this like random shopping trip plus I stopped into a uh thrift store so I got a couple things so I thought I would just throw this throw those spines in here as well but first let's start off with some wrapping paper actually that I picked up so I've been on the hunt for a wrapping paper for Micah's 22nd birthday and I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna land on I Only Wanna I don't I guess I'm gonna open it because I want you guys to see this print but I'm going for something like this like look how pretty that is but I'm thinking some type of like Velvet Ribbon will just kind of elevate this and make it look even more like cute I was definitely thinking of her didn't probably hear me I was thinking of her bed sheets so if you guys like follow Micah's Channel which if you don't know my daughter has a YouTube channel now and if you know what her bed sheets look like this was kind of the vibe so I don't know I do need to make a trip to Like Home Goods that was the original plan home goods are Tuesday morning and see what wrapping paper they had but I also need to pop into a Hobby Lobby and get some like really pretty ribbon and I think it will elevate it but while I was in the wrapping paper section I found this adorable wrapping paper I don't want to open this one up unfortunately because I'm not gonna use it quite yet so hopefully you guys will kind of like get the gist of it but it's like little fruits with faces on them which is so cute there's a pair so here's the pear then we have the orange then we have the cutest little strawberry there is a lemon in here as well I think that's it a pair of strawberry orange lemon I don't know if there's like a watermelon in here but I thought it was so stinking cute and I got this to junk journal with more in the springtime so I just wanted to get it now so I got that then I grabbed the doilies so you actually get multiple sizes in here small medium large is that it yeah no a small medium large extra large I don't even think I did that right again small medium large extra large I don't know what I'm doing or what I'm saying but I got this for Junk journaling so I picked that up I also picked up the little pom-poms they have these with like little sparkly bits to them and then they have these I'm gonna use these for foreign then I found this new item it's a sticky note holder by jot and it has like a little marbled effect that is so cute I unfortunately I'm not into the marble thing but when I saw this I knew it was worthy to go into the cart and to share with you guys I could easily spray paint this if I wanted to um and put it in my office so there's that then I found these new blind well they're not blind but they're um they're like these little packets with toys in them most of the time they're like a blind pack meaning you don't know what you're gonna get when you open them but in this one specifically it shows you who to collect but then it also shows you who you get so I really like that actually I think it just makes things a lot easier but the blind stuff is also fun too guilty pleasure of mine but I will watch blind like toy unboxings on YouTube it's like I don't know it just shuts off everything going on in my mind and I just like sit there and watch it very therapeutic try it so here's what I found I found them all I got all six of them and I thought they were super cute and I'm not quite sure what I want to do with these I would prefer to give these to my nephew but he's too young for them so if he were older I would definitely do this as a stocking stuffer I think these would be fabulous for that or even like as a gift under the tree whatever um but I'm I think I'm gonna hold on to them for now so I got those now this next item blew me away we're gonna try it in this video these are just balloons nothing fancy about them but I saw a lady on TED Talk who blew up balloons and turn them into ornaments and my brain exploded so we're gonna try that probably at the end of this video I really don't know or if I'm inserting a clip here but I just went and got red balloons and you don't have to blow them up all the way to expand like you can just blow them up however whatever size you want them to be but I was just like wait a minute wait a minute so I'm gonna give that a go okay then I picked up a frame this was on my shopping list what I want you know who to hear me so I'm gonna whisper but I'm giving her a either a birthday gift or a Christmas gift I'm not which her which one's gonna be actually it's probably gonna be birthday but I'm gonna print a picture of Princess Diana and I'm gonna put it in here but there's more to that so I'm sorry I'm being extra cryptic but I really don't want her to hear me and I know she can hear me so but it's gonna go just imagine something else in the Box and then there'll be a picture and then this will be on top of the thing and it'll be wrapped and then when she opens it she'll see the picture first and then she'll see what's underneath it I'll Vlog this so just I know I told you nothing and then everything so all right then I decided to get this utility knife um just like the whole razor blade thing I think really comes in handy for me when I'm like trying to cut like pages off of a book and the one that I have from Dollar Tree I feel like um I wanted to try a new one and see if like these blades were a little bit more sharp so I did get them for Junk journaling um so I got that okay then I picked up some new stickers at least they're new to me I don't remember these and they're like the big chunky fluffy kind so if maybe you're going to gift a planner um and things like that you could also grab stickers from Dollar Tree Loki's Loki's involved in this haul so I got those then I also picked up a pack of the pearl beads and then I picked up these stickers pink super cute if you've been watching me for a while now I've been really digging pink lately especially for Christmas time I mean as you can see very traditional like this is my thing but with junk journaling I've been loving adding pink and I thought these would be so cute in my junk Journal which there will be a lot or I should have already done a live I think you guys are Saturday's video so if you missed my live yesterday I'll link it down below so you can come craft and journal with me so I got those and then let's see I picked up some more little gift tags now these I don't think I pulled so I got two of them and it was the gingerbread house that immediately just roped me right on in and I love these with a little bell so it actually packs so there's that and then I picked up these little gift tags super cute they're also very fun to craft with as well so they don't just have to be like gift tags so there's that um honestly dick you can even turn these into little ornaments on your tree like they would be cute for that Okay so we've got those and this Dollar Tree finally put out the um handmade Christmas cards so these are the ones that they individually wrap and they don't keep them with the card section so you have to find them they're they're in their own display each Dollar Tree puts them in different places so I can't tell you exactly where but it should be theoretically around other Christmas stuff so let me show you guys what they put out this year it's not the best 2022 fell flap for me 2021 was definitely better but here they are they have a lot of layering and pop-up features like the little rhinestone um so they are very different from the regular cards then we have the cute little cupcakes and with these I remark about this all the time but the image on the back always matches something with the image on the front so with this one it's the cardinal so cute then we have this card I'm Not Really Gonna pop open the center but this one has nothing I don't know why they didn't do one for that one here is this one super cute ho ho ho I guess I am gonna pop them all oh I like how it's like that is really cute look at that and so the back is the reindeer and we have the dog they do a lot of like pets with this so that's that and then so they got little pom-poms that um their hats cute I was really digging the Cardinals this year so that one's just very traditional so pretty these are going to be beautiful to junk journal with and then we have the swan I love this one this one is absolutely stunning I would definitely put this one on your shopping list I normally don't grab for ones like these they have the actual tinsel going down but it's it's just giving all the Vintage things that I need from it and the fact that it's like a gray and gold combination is very interesting to me so I love that one then we have this one cute if you also if you want to use these as mailers um they would be really cute as that too for that too especially if maybe like you don't have that many mailers to send out I did that one year I just don't have that many to do so I don't need to buy in bulk like from like Shutterfly or something like that so I like getting the handmade ones um and then I'll like take a picture of the Polaroid with Micah and just keep it really simple um and then this one I got two of because if I love it I buy doubles so the snowy scene just gets me and then look how cute so adorable so I got those and then the last couple of things I wanted to get some chocolates for our stocking stuffers so I got the Lindor I got the milk chocolate and the caramel milk chocolate probably a better bang for your buck at like Walmart but I was there so I bought it out of convenience I also got the Ghirardelli milk chocolate and then I got these all right now I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys what I found at the thrift store I essentially went to get some just like thrifted books for my bookshelf that I have in my dining room um but then I found these books these are not going to be part of that and I actually got them to junk journal with but let me just show you what I found so first up is this adorable little book um the big balloon race the image caught my attention immediately it's just so cute I don't know how old this book is and when it was first like published but it just has that like older look to it like I don't know I wonder if it says like the the year that this kind of came out I feel like it probably says it's somewhere in here 1981. it was actually the year I was born that's crazy that's not the only book this is 1981 but anyways I digress so super cute I did get it to a journal with um I can even turn this cover into a junk Journal cover so we'll see what I end up doing with that um then I found you guys I feel like I'm not trying to make y'all jealous but listen I found some amazing books I found this Mary inglebright book I cannot believe I don't even know what I paid for this probably like a dollar um but there are some like regular real images and then there's like the Mary inglebrite you know illustrations and I definitely want to junk journal with this like are you kidding me I just could not believe it like even the inside is so beautiful so Mary inglebrite um like look at this that is so stinking cute um I mean her illustrations are so unique like I always find people that can draw and like how they draw or like how they see things it's just so interesting to me because I could never okay then I found this Southern Living book you can see it's holiday this will actually just be gorgeous as a display book a coffee table book as I was flipping through it you can see some gorgeous images it's actually not like filled completely with images it's more so just black and white recipes so I'll probably keep most of this book intact but I will probably cut out some pages and use them to to craft with because that was also the goal I also wanted to see what books and then this one I feel like I stumbled upon some kind of gem I don't know if I did so if you know comment and let me know but this is the Better Homes and Garden treasury um of Christmas crafts and foods and this was 1981. have somebody's name on here this also kind of reminds me of serendipity but how how how is this book real like how do I have this in my hands I mean it's just absolutely beautiful so as you can see yeah a lot of like black and white um for me personally I would just never use this to follow instructions because I'm gonna need more colors than this and more visuals but it's a stunning book and I'll probably only grab a couple of pages as well from here because I would like to keep it mostly intact um and use it as a display book but I will probably grab like a page or two and journal with that so those were the four amazing books this is pretty random I'll go and show you guys anyways while I was gonna check out line I just saw these polo shirts I decided to get them pretty plain and simple I don't even know what I paid for it says 9.99 but I think there was a sale on that um and then this like corally color I don't know just liked it but that's it that is actually today's haul what's Loki doing it's getting Loxy it's giving Loxy 2015. who remembers who's been with me since that house when I would sit at the kitchen table with the big windows and Loxy would have just Shenanigans in the background and I wouldn't even know it like all the way through editing I wouldn't see it and then I would see you guys comment and then I would watch and I would start laughing because Loxy would do some of the funniest things in the back but Loki come yes good boy yes good boy we've been working on his his recall but yeah come say bye come on come say bye come on okay well good stretch we're gonna go now I hope you guys enjoyed today's haul um yeah so if you missed the junk journal with me live hopefully I filmed it it's it's Wednesday now so I'm assuming I filmed it Friday I'm pre-filming but that's it my necklaces are always like twisted so he's looking at Micah are you looking at my keys where is she is she up there where's Micah he goes now I know why why'd you just look behind me like someone standing there no no no no no we can't be doing that Loxy did that we can't be seeing ghostsyou want to come say hi today oh he's like a big boy the fact that not even a quarter of him is in the frame slightly frightening each other hand oh I think it this way yeah look at this who's over there I wonder how long we're gonna sit here and you just stuck your tongue in my ear all right so we're gonna do a Dollar Tree haul but this one I feel like it needs some type of special title to make it stand out from the ones that I normally do for you guys whenever I go shopping at a Dollar Tree my mind is always focused on like what's new you know because I that's my favorite thing about Dollar Tree and coming back and letting you guys know what I'm finding at the store this however I was in a completely different mindset it was more like I was running an errand to Dollar Tree and I had things on my shopping list and then while I was there I kind of like poked around saw some things and threw it in the car so let me just show you guys what I picked up on this like random shopping trip plus I stopped into a uh thrift store so I got a couple things so I thought I would just throw this throw those spines in here as well but first let's start off with some wrapping paper actually that I picked up so I've been on the hunt for a wrapping paper for Micah's 22nd birthday and I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna land on I Only Wanna I don't I guess I'm gonna open it because I want you guys to see this print but I'm going for something like this like look how pretty that is but I'm thinking some type of like Velvet Ribbon will just kind of elevate this and make it look even more like cute I was definitely thinking of her didn't probably hear me I was thinking of her bed sheets so if you guys like follow Micah's Channel which if you don't know my daughter has a YouTube channel now and if you know what her bed sheets look like this was kind of the vibe so I don't know I do need to make a trip to Like Home Goods that was the original plan home goods are Tuesday morning and see what wrapping paper they had but I also need to pop into a Hobby Lobby and get some like really pretty ribbon and I think it will elevate it but while I was in the wrapping paper section I found this adorable wrapping paper I don't want to open this one up unfortunately because I'm not gonna use it quite yet so hopefully you guys will kind of like get the gist of it but it's like little fruits with faces on them which is so cute there's a pair so here's the pear then we have the orange then we have the cutest little strawberry there is a lemon in here as well I think that's it a pair of strawberry orange lemon I don't know if there's like a watermelon in here but I thought it was so stinking cute and I got this to junk journal with more in the springtime so I just wanted to get it now so I got that then I grabbed the doilies so you actually get multiple sizes in here small medium large is that it yeah no a small medium large extra large I don't even think I did that right again small medium large extra large I don't know what I'm doing or what I'm saying but I got this for Junk journaling so I picked that up I also picked up the little pom-poms they have these with like little sparkly bits to them and then they have these I'm gonna use these for foreign then I found this new item it's a sticky note holder by jot and it has like a little marbled effect that is so cute I unfortunately I'm not into the marble thing but when I saw this I knew it was worthy to go into the cart and to share with you guys I could easily spray paint this if I wanted to um and put it in my office so there's that then I found these new blind well they're not blind but they're um they're like these little packets with toys in them most of the time they're like a blind pack meaning you don't know what you're gonna get when you open them but in this one specifically it shows you who to collect but then it also shows you who you get so I really like that actually I think it just makes things a lot easier but the blind stuff is also fun too guilty pleasure of mine but I will watch blind like toy unboxings on YouTube it's like I don't know it just shuts off everything going on in my mind and I just like sit there and watch it very therapeutic try it so here's what I found I found them all I got all six of them and I thought they were super cute and I'm not quite sure what I want to do with these I would prefer to give these to my nephew but he's too young for them so if he were older I would definitely do this as a stocking stuffer I think these would be fabulous for that or even like as a gift under the tree whatever um but I'm I think I'm gonna hold on to them for now so I got those now this next item blew me away we're gonna try it in this video these are just balloons nothing fancy about them but I saw a lady on TED Talk who blew up balloons and turn them into ornaments and my brain exploded so we're gonna try that probably at the end of this video I really don't know or if I'm inserting a clip here but I just went and got red balloons and you don't have to blow them up all the way to expand like you can just blow them up however whatever size you want them to be but I was just like wait a minute wait a minute so I'm gonna give that a go okay then I picked up a frame this was on my shopping list what I want you know who to hear me so I'm gonna whisper but I'm giving her a either a birthday gift or a Christmas gift I'm not which her which one's gonna be actually it's probably gonna be birthday but I'm gonna print a picture of Princess Diana and I'm gonna put it in here but there's more to that so I'm sorry I'm being extra cryptic but I really don't want her to hear me and I know she can hear me so but it's gonna go just imagine something else in the Box and then there'll be a picture and then this will be on top of the thing and it'll be wrapped and then when she opens it she'll see the picture first and then she'll see what's underneath it I'll Vlog this so just I know I told you nothing and then everything so all right then I decided to get this utility knife um just like the whole razor blade thing I think really comes in handy for me when I'm like trying to cut like pages off of a book and the one that I have from Dollar Tree I feel like um I wanted to try a new one and see if like these blades were a little bit more sharp so I did get them for Junk journaling um so I got that okay then I picked up some new stickers at least they're new to me I don't remember these and they're like the big chunky fluffy kind so if maybe you're going to gift a planner um and things like that you could also grab stickers from Dollar Tree Loki's Loki's involved in this haul so I got those then I also picked up a pack of the pearl beads and then I picked up these stickers pink super cute if you've been watching me for a while now I've been really digging pink lately especially for Christmas time I mean as you can see very traditional like this is my thing but with junk journaling I've been loving adding pink and I thought these would be so cute in my junk Journal which there will be a lot or I should have already done a live I think you guys are Saturday's video so if you missed my live yesterday I'll link it down below so you can come craft and journal with me so I got those and then let's see I picked up some more little gift tags now these I don't think I pulled so I got two of them and it was the gingerbread house that immediately just roped me right on in and I love these with a little bell so it actually packs so there's that and then I picked up these little gift tags super cute they're also very fun to craft with as well so they don't just have to be like gift tags so there's that um honestly dick you can even turn these into little ornaments on your tree like they would be cute for that Okay so we've got those and this Dollar Tree finally put out the um handmade Christmas cards so these are the ones that they individually wrap and they don't keep them with the card section so you have to find them they're they're in their own display each Dollar Tree puts them in different places so I can't tell you exactly where but it should be theoretically around other Christmas stuff so let me show you guys what they put out this year it's not the best 2022 fell flap for me 2021 was definitely better but here they are they have a lot of layering and pop-up features like the little rhinestone um so they are very different from the regular cards then we have the cute little cupcakes and with these I remark about this all the time but the image on the back always matches something with the image on the front so with this one it's the cardinal so cute then we have this card I'm Not Really Gonna pop open the center but this one has nothing I don't know why they didn't do one for that one here is this one super cute ho ho ho I guess I am gonna pop them all oh I like how it's like that is really cute look at that and so the back is the reindeer and we have the dog they do a lot of like pets with this so that's that and then so they got little pom-poms that um their hats cute I was really digging the Cardinals this year so that one's just very traditional so pretty these are going to be beautiful to junk journal with and then we have the swan I love this one this one is absolutely stunning I would definitely put this one on your shopping list I normally don't grab for ones like these they have the actual tinsel going down but it's it's just giving all the Vintage things that I need from it and the fact that it's like a gray and gold combination is very interesting to me so I love that one then we have this one cute if you also if you want to use these as mailers um they would be really cute as that too for that too especially if maybe like you don't have that many mailers to send out I did that one year I just don't have that many to do so I don't need to buy in bulk like from like Shutterfly or something like that so I like getting the handmade ones um and then I'll like take a picture of the Polaroid with Micah and just keep it really simple um and then this one I got two of because if I love it I buy doubles so the snowy scene just gets me and then look how cute so adorable so I got those and then the last couple of things I wanted to get some chocolates for our stocking stuffers so I got the Lindor I got the milk chocolate and the caramel milk chocolate probably a better bang for your buck at like Walmart but I was there so I bought it out of convenience I also got the Ghirardelli milk chocolate and then I got these all right now I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys what I found at the thrift store I essentially went to get some just like thrifted books for my bookshelf that I have in my dining room um but then I found these books these are not going to be part of that and I actually got them to junk journal with but let me just show you what I found so first up is this adorable little book um the big balloon race the image caught my attention immediately it's just so cute I don't know how old this book is and when it was first like published but it just has that like older look to it like I don't know I wonder if it says like the the year that this kind of came out I feel like it probably says it's somewhere in here 1981. it was actually the year I was born that's crazy that's not the only book this is 1981 but anyways I digress so super cute I did get it to a journal with um I can even turn this cover into a junk Journal cover so we'll see what I end up doing with that um then I found you guys I feel like I'm not trying to make y'all jealous but listen I found some amazing books I found this Mary inglebright book I cannot believe I don't even know what I paid for this probably like a dollar um but there are some like regular real images and then there's like the Mary inglebrite you know illustrations and I definitely want to junk journal with this like are you kidding me I just could not believe it like even the inside is so beautiful so Mary inglebrite um like look at this that is so stinking cute um I mean her illustrations are so unique like I always find people that can draw and like how they draw or like how they see things it's just so interesting to me because I could never okay then I found this Southern Living book you can see it's holiday this will actually just be gorgeous as a display book a coffee table book as I was flipping through it you can see some gorgeous images it's actually not like filled completely with images it's more so just black and white recipes so I'll probably keep most of this book intact but I will probably cut out some pages and use them to to craft with because that was also the goal I also wanted to see what books and then this one I feel like I stumbled upon some kind of gem I don't know if I did so if you know comment and let me know but this is the Better Homes and Garden treasury um of Christmas crafts and foods and this was 1981. have somebody's name on here this also kind of reminds me of serendipity but how how how is this book real like how do I have this in my hands I mean it's just absolutely beautiful so as you can see yeah a lot of like black and white um for me personally I would just never use this to follow instructions because I'm gonna need more colors than this and more visuals but it's a stunning book and I'll probably only grab a couple of pages as well from here because I would like to keep it mostly intact um and use it as a display book but I will probably grab like a page or two and journal with that so those were the four amazing books this is pretty random I'll go and show you guys anyways while I was gonna check out line I just saw these polo shirts I decided to get them pretty plain and simple I don't even know what I paid for it says 9.99 but I think there was a sale on that um and then this like corally color I don't know just liked it but that's it that is actually today's haul what's Loki doing it's getting Loxy it's giving Loxy 2015. who remembers who's been with me since that house when I would sit at the kitchen table with the big windows and Loxy would have just Shenanigans in the background and I wouldn't even know it like all the way through editing I wouldn't see it and then I would see you guys comment and then I would watch and I would start laughing because Loxy would do some of the funniest things in the back but Loki come yes good boy yes good boy we've been working on his his recall but yeah come say bye come on come say bye come on okay well good stretch we're gonna go now I hope you guys enjoyed today's haul um yeah so if you missed the junk journal with me live hopefully I filmed it it's it's Wednesday now so I'm assuming I filmed it Friday I'm pre-filming but that's it my necklaces are always like twisted so he's looking at Micah are you looking at my keys where is she is she up there where's Micah he goes now I know why why'd you just look behind me like someone standing there no no no no no we can't be doing that Loxy did that we can't be seeing ghosts\n"