But I did pick up a few nifty items from our local MS Shop just yesterday:
Melamine platters (seen here being inspected by the cat) ideal for kids’ parties – $1.00 each
Art smocks for school: size small men’s shirts – $6.00 each
Pyrex casserole dish in best Eighties Brown – $6.00
These are fantastic, and cost a bomb these days to buy new.
Bonus picture:
After a busy afternoon’s inspecting, Tia goes to rest on my desk near the laptop
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| Cat and Mouse |
Do you shop "vintage"?
What's been your best find?
My mother has always been an op-shopper - mostly for dresses that she could make into costumes (she's a brilliant dress maker and an active member of a musical society). I tended to avoid them, but did like going to garage sales as a uni student.
ReplyDeleteHere in Geneva, I'm a really keen flea market and second hand shop visitor. I've found two winter coats, load of paperbacks, materials (for Sapphire who also likes to sew - it clearly skipped a generation), some crockery and all kinds of little odds and ends that you kinda sorta need at home.
Favourite find - a flip out wooden sewing desk, purchased last week at the brocante for forty francs. Dated from the 1920s with drawers that flip outwards like a sidchrome tool box. I'm going to clean it and polish it (no varnish or scrubbing as I like the age and dents in it) and then put it in our IKEA-sterile living room with bars of chocolate in each drawer!
That sounds beautiful! I trust we will see some photos on your blog when it's finished. Will you be able to keep the drawers fully stocked I wonder? ;)
Delete...as you may have noticed I'm ever so slightly addicted to charity shops, car boots, flea markets - anywhere really if there's a chance of a bargain. I don't think I realised how bad I was until I started writing about it! One of my best finds was four beautifully carved, limed oak doors for ten pounds each. I got them at a car boot in Northern Ireland. You just never know...!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE that picture of your cat on the desk x
Thank you!
DeleteWow those doors sound quite a find. And yes, I have noticed you have picked up some good stuff at charity shops :)
Some great findings indeed. Recently,I have encountered a couple of unique tea cups in green and a lovely old - fashioned vase made of curved wood!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Those all sound gorgeous. I love green anything.
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