've learned about Dollarama and Dollar Tree, and also about thrift charity stores in Niagara. Our own Grimsby Benevolent Fund is where Christmas grapevine wreaths can be found for under $5.00. And kitchen things, too.
I hear the watercolour class participants regularly say they bought a watercolour item at Binz in Hamilton. It is actually Krazy Binz, and it is a liquidation store.
This store has a story with a different twist. None other than the CBC picked up a story on a find at the store that was unusual. Here's the picture of it by the person who found it. It looks like a door mat to me.
When Sonja Krawesky found it and turned it over, she discovered it was made of small, painted tiles held together by threads of wire. In all, she found two of these, and took them home knowing they were art pieces.
The CBC article says there are 300 hours of labour in these sculptures by Sydney Blum in Nova Scotia. And their value is in the thousands.
Our Hamilton finder got in contact with Sydney Blum, the artist was reunited with her art pieces. The journey home is a story within a story.
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