A few weeks ago I gushed in my Valentine Bandit blog post how much I love Valentine’s Day. And, I’m pretty much going to continue the gushing in this post as well. I have been wanting to make these adorable Valentine’s Day mailboxes I have seen on Pinterest for my kids for years. I finally found them at a local craft store for half off ($2.50 each!), and decided now was the time. I simply needed some sturdy candlesticks to attach them to, so I headed to Thrift Town.

I immediately found three great candlesticks to use as bases for this project upon entering Thrift Town’s amazing housewares department. I picked up all three of them for a total of $6.99.

I did my thing and revved up the color on the brown and pick stick.

I then used household gorilla glue to attach the mailboxes to the candlesticks, and am super excited with the outcome!

Each day I put a little love note, candy, or treat into my kid’s mailboxes, just spreading the love as much as possible the week of Valentine’s Day. Total project cost $15.00. How much love and joy they get out of opening their boxes each day; priceless!

For a visual tutorial, check out when I debuted this on my Good Day Sacramento Thrifty Thursday segment:

http://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/video/9811491-thrifty-thursday/

Happy thrifting!

Gina Doglione-Nielsen is featured every week on Good Day Sacramento’s Thrifty Thursdays, and owns GNJ Consulting which handles Public, Social, and Media Relations for Thrift Town Stores. Gina lives in Northern California with her amazing husband Josh, and is constantly on the go with three “very active” and “strong personality” bambinos; aka Team Nielsen, and loves every minute of it.