Thrifty Thursday

I went home to Lynchburg a couple weekends ago and mom, Amanda, and I hit up one of the local Goodwills.  I found this cute little lantern in a very fallish yellow color for $2.00  I considered not getting it though, because if you just put a votive candle in there it would melt all over the place and make a mess, but I didn't think a jar candle would look good in it.  I ended up getting it and decided to just figure something out later.  After considering a few options I put a votive candle in a mason jar lid, and so far it seems to be working well!

I also got this cheese slicer for .50 cents.  We had one like this when I was growing up, but since living on my own I've not had one, and I'm not good at slicing cheese with a knife.  The slices always turn out fat on one end and paper thin on the other, so I'm looking forward to having nice evenly sliced pieces of cheese again.