I have had lots of luck with my Oppie/Tip Shop finds lately. The fab retro Willow canister and cute Australian butter dish above I snapped up for a steal at the Burnie Tip Shop with heaps of other goodies. It was one of those days where you walk in and go: "I'll be having that...and that...and that..." almost takes the fun out of the hunt - almost ha ha! :)
Had to have this great vintage cot sheet that had been backed with flanellette as a play mat or something maybe, gorgeous vintage print! The strawberry apron had my name on it too, not that I need another vintage apron!
Vintage Stamford (NSW - Aust) beauty case from the Tip Shop, and a big stack of awesome childrens educational games from my local Oppie. We have now fully decided to actively homeschool The Munchkin after years of maybes. I am now on the lookout for "classroom" goodies. More about all this in another post though I think.
We also didn't need another vintage doll's bed as I am lucky to have two from my childhood that The Munchkin uses, but for $4 and with that gorgeous decal how could I leave it there!! Too sweet.
Also with the games were some puzzles, this circus one, a Humpty Dumpty (Playschool) and a Babar one, a couple of dollars - hours of fun!
We also did some gardening over the weekend. We just have a pot garden at The Cottage, but we transplanted some slug/snail eaten peas from our neglected house veggie patch into pots and added a cage to keep the Wallabies and Possums away. The Munchkin is so excited (and so am I!) as she planted them from seeds and they have little flowers on them and everything. I picked up two of the little aluminium teapots from the Tip Shop too and they are perfect for little hands to water with.
My main reason for Op shopping this week was to give homes to little orphaned tea cups and saucers to make into planters for this awesome vintage/handmade/earth friendly/beachy/retro/summer/hippy upcoming market to be held in Wynyard Tas on Sat 27th November and Sat 11th December 2010. There will be lots of great local crafters selling their wares along with a busker and some Vegge food! I will be most likely holding a High Maintenance Hippy stall at the December one! Yay!
I came home with quite a stack of mismatched pieces, some utterly neglected...
but with some help from Dad to drill the holes I got 6 planted out, with lots more to do once I get a proper drill bit. Who knew drilling through ceramic and fine china was so hard!!
I will be back tomorrow with this weeks giveaway as I plum forgot about taking a photo for it...hmmm...
I'm off to drool over the copy of Spaces I finally got my hands on today...
Till next time, xxx
What awesome finds Allana!!! Feels like forever since I went opshopping - but our little home can't hold much more at the moment, so I'm trying to cut down a little bit... Anyway, love the planters, and love that you've decided to homeschool the munchkin! It's something I think about a lot too, either that or we try and get her into a Steiner/Waldorf school - but they're so expensive!!
ReplyDeleteFab finds Allana, I just love what your doing with the tea cups, they'd make great gifts. That doll's cot is to die for, I have two already, but I wouldn't have left it behind either.
ReplyDeleteGreat op shop finds!! It is literally my most favourite thing to do ever!!! Gardening is a close second. Can't wait to see how the tea cups turn out!
ReplyDeleteI love the teacups idea and I know a couple of tea-drinking, gardening relatives who'd love to receive that sort of thing as a gift! Any hints for drilling through the cups without breaking them?
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ReplyDeleteLooove the oppie finds. Nothing better than a day of bargain buys :) And so cute!
ReplyDelete1. so jealous you have Spaces. is it good???
ReplyDelete2. yay for homeschooling! would love to hear more about your coming to that decision one day :)
3. $4 for the cot? sweeeet
4. super excited for HMH doing a market. hope it goes well
xo
The little dolly bed is divinely cute, and I really like your tin and little blue butter dish. They'd have come home with me if I'd seen them. Homeschooling - how exciting. I'd love to read some posts from you on that. We've thought about it, and thought about it...
ReplyDeleteps Allana, sent you an email with my address, but we're away and using hubby's computer so not sure if it worked... did you get it? if not, I'll be in touch as soon as we get home Sunday.
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