Steal of the Month!!!

So a friend of mine Angela has this phrase (Steal of the Month) on her blog and she most certainly snagged a deal on a great wall ornament for her dining room! So I got to thinking... could I have a SOTM too???? Well guess what, I did! So here's to you at the White house, my SOTM friend!!

I have been on the look out for a paper towel holder that doesn't necessarily sit on the counter top but is mounted either on the wall, the door of the pantry or even under the cabinets. I like using paper towels (gasp!) but don't like the roll just sitting there! So on came the search for what I wanted.

I happened to be looking for ideas on how to make my craft room and hubby's office more efficient and of course better looking and fell upon the Ballard Designs Website. When I go to a great website like this one, I always look through the clearance section to see if I can get my inspiration, but maybe at a cheaper price. Their clearance is actually called the ESTATE SALE and as I was looking through it, I landed on this:

yup.. that's a paper towel holder that you mount and it's beautiful! As well, it's regularly priced at $29.99 - hello, it holds paper towels not gold - and right now is marked down to $8.49 - which gives me a savings of 71% or $21.50 - woohoo!

I was stoked but did not like the spear at either end. While I think the spear is quite nice, I didn't think it quite matched what I was looking for. So as I was slowly getting my hopes down, I noticed low and behold that I could change the detail! So I chose this:

So with shipping, I paid a grand total of $14.44 - which still saves me $15.55 off the original price of $29.99

Thanks AWhite for giving me the motivation to find my SOTM - and since August is almost over, I can soon start looking for September's SOTM!