sweet find at Sweet Salvage

In my final post of 2012, I shared a New Year’s Eve tablescape and showed you some plates that I longed for.

Among them was this set of four Ralph Lauren clock face plates that were from a 2010 Lauren line.

I’ve now learned that the pattern of the plates is Pocketwatch.

On Wednesday of this week, I thought I spotted the plates in a photo I saw on the Sweet Salvage Facebook page for their upcoming sale.

Posted only a few images later there was a close-up shot. It’s them!

Yesterday as the sale began and as soon as Peggy, Sheila, and I got through the doors, we all headed for the booth with the orange scarf on the mannequin. Peggy got there first and was snagging up the plates for me! Thanks, girlfriend!

I was a little worried about what the price would be. I’d searched online the day before we arrived to shop – just so I’d have an idea of what price to expect.  I learned that the original retail price in 2010 was $27 each!

That is a bit steep for my taste, and if it was anything like the price I was going to see at Sweet Salvage, I’d have to reconsider my ability to have the plates I wanted so badly…

Sixteen dollars each. Eleven dollars off retail price… each…that, I can do!

And now, thanks to Sweet Salvage, they are MINE!

I’m missing pattern number II, and I have two pattern number I plates, but that’s fine and dandy. I am so happy

I can’t wait for New Year’s Eve 2014!

Oh, and if you want to search for a sweet find of your own, the “Color Stories” event at Sweet Salvage is open …

Fri 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sat 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Sun 10:00 am – 6:00 pm