My snob is showing. I have never been much of a fan of Home Interiors (now called Celebrating Home) items. I have visions of going to a home party in the 80s and only seeing plastic wicker butterfly wall plaques and (in my opinion) ugly pictures. Not my taste then or now. Although armed with the new plastic paints I look at some of them with a different eye now.
I had to adjust my thinking when I found this pagoda votive light in a thrift store last week. 
It is a heavy frosted green glass. The design pressed into the glass is well executed. I think it will be really pretty with the candlelight flickering in it. This was one of those things I would like to keep but I gave it away as door prize at Thursday’s On Purpose Connections Over Coffee meeting at Bliss Coffee and Wine Bar.
This find reinforced again what I know really well with clothes – don’t look at the label until you decide if you like the style, quality, materials and workmanship of the garment. Otherwise a label can influence me to pass over something or worse buy something I don’t absolutely love because ‘it’s a (fill in the blank)’.
I can’t find this item online. Judging from other Home Interiors votive lights I did find, my guess is that it cost $20 – $25. I paid $1.50!
I love thrifting.
