Thrifted bargains - running to a theme again

Have you all been enjoying the last few days of sunshine? Isn't it lovely to look out onto a sunny day instead of those horrendous dull and deary wet days we've had throughout August?

Fingers crossed that I'll get out and thrifting this weekend as we were well and truly rained off last week.

I still have a few things to show you however from the Bank Holiday weekend. I always spend August Bank Holiday Monday at two small car boot sales held by local schools. No traders are allowed and its mainly local people selling off unwanted goods at very reasonable prices!

One of my first purchases was an Art Deco style mirror, not vintage but very attractive all the same. It wasn't the cheapest purchase ever at £4 but its a lovely heavy metal one and appears to be good quality and I just love the decoration of butterflies and dragonflies that decorate the mirror edge.

It is rather vintage looking isn't it?

Talking of vintage I found myself buying more vintage tins. Two large ones at £1 each that once contained biscuits. The one on the left I'd have said wasn't my style yet something drew me to this tin. Maybe I had a relation who'd a similar tin when I was growing up and that's why I couldn't leave it.

The one on the right looks like the cover of an old 60's Bunty Annual - you know the type where the girls went adventuring to Switzerland? In fact it once contained Co-Op biscuits.

Both tins have come in handy for holding my huge cotton reel selection.

Another tin found its way into my bag. 50p and in almost perfect condition. I thought it would look good on my new 'vintage tin' shelf. The new one - over the top of my 'vintage Bag' shelf.








And, still thrifting along the vintage line..... What girl (ok woman) can turn her nose up at a double string of vintage pearls for £1? Check out the clasp. Modern day jewellery doesn't seem to have such interesting clasps any more. The colour of the actual pearls is interesting too, my more modern pearls are whiter while these almost have a pinkish hue. The lady told me the jewellery she was selling belonged to her elderly aunt and stupidly I only bought this one necklace. Now why didn't I buy the crystal beads and several of the broaches as well? Silly me. Ah well, you know what it's like trying to save the pennies and trying not to bring too much 'junk' back.



Throw in a few vintage Ladybird books (20p each) and you see that vintage was the theme for the day :-)

Have you started any new (or vintage) collections? Do you find yourself collecting things because they seem to want to be collected? If so I'd love to look at your collections.

BTW I seem to have been tagged ;-) . I'll pop that in the next post.