With a nod to Emma over at Silver Pebble blog (link thing not working) I thought I would share a "splash of colour" . This arrived today - a great buy from Ebay. I'm normally too mean to buy from Ebay but I did fall for this barkcloth fabric and thought I could make something nice with it. I was thrilled when it came today to see that it was a full length lined door curtain in amazing condition! I clearly hadn't studied the description properly. I now need to move some curtains around to find a place for it!
Although things are a little quiet (well relatively) on the thrifting front this biscuit tin was a great find. It's in immaculate condition - does anyone remember it from first time round? There is no clue as to which company made it but it's fab with matt black paint and glossy coloured roses in the style of the old gardening books...I love it!
Last but not least its time for a giveaway! I meant to do one when I got 100 followers but it didn't happen, nor did it happen at 100 posts, nor at my blogoversary so here goes. Last week when doing the charity shop run (so much more fun than the school run I find)I spotted an old C******** bauble and bought it. The next shop had bags of baubles including one full of vintage ones! Bought that. I then asked in the next few shops even if they didn't have them out on display. By the time I got home I was 50 baubles up for less than £10! Having see the price on e-bay I was thrilled. (I'm easily thrilled!) Sheer cheek - or vintage chic?
Some of you have asked after my treasure finds where I put everything and Niobe is still threatening to move out if I don't stop filling the house so, to try to maintain some domestic harmony, I've opened a little blogshop where I'm offering a few of my finds so that my blogging friends get a chance to buy these lovely vintage items at reasonable prices rather than competing on e-bay!
This is where the giveaway comes in. The bauble link in the side bar will take you to the shop which I will add to over the next few weeks. Anyone leaving a comment on either blog will be entered in the giveaway to win a selection of VINTAGE BAUBLES! New followers welcome!
And in case you can't think of anything to say the picture above taken at Swinderby Antiques Fair in the summer should provoke a reaction! The giveaway will close on 30th November. (If enough of you ask me to remove the gummy pic I will!)
Have a great weekend,
Wend
Oooh, please enter me in the giveaway! I love vintage Christmas baubles!
ReplyDeleteI really like that biscuit tin. I have a tray with a similar pattern on it, but it's not in nearly as nice condition as your tin.
As for the teeth pic, please don't remove it!!
I love the teeth pic too so please keep it.
ReplyDeleteI'm always searching for vintage baubles too. I have a growing collection but am always on the look out for more.
I'd love to enter your giveaway - my local CS's have yet to have any vintage baubles just nasty tat :(
ReplyDeleteNo! You're giving baubles away?? Are you sure it's not the gnashers? These baubles are SO perfect for December's Splash of Colour (starting 6th December). I would truly give my eye teeth and a limb or two for these. Thankyou for the chance to win Wend!
ReplyDeleteOK, hyperventilating here. You got all those baubles for less than £10? I saw 12 on sale in our local Scope cs for £30! Please, please put my name in the draw.
ReplyDeleteErm...I want to know who might buy those teeth. Perhaps some crafty blogger might have ideas on how to recycle them into art? :D xx
I love vintage baubles but not the tinkling noise mine make when the cat knocks them off the tree!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to enter! xxx
With the chocolate I've consumed over the years..I'm probably going to need those teeth! :0)
ReplyDeletePlease pop me in the draw for the baubles. ;0)
Your vintage baubles were a great find, how very generous of you to give some of them away. And as to the last photo....... EWWWWW, lol.
ReplyDeleteNot so sure about the teeth!!!!!
ReplyDeleteVery nice tin - I have tin envy!
And of course pretty, pretty baubles ... can a girl have too many??
Vicky x
oh i love vintage baubles!!! please count me in x x x
ReplyDeleteMy nan used to have the little glass birds with feathery tails and I just love the gnashers .... bet they could tell a tale or two ;-)
ReplyDeleteI love the old Baubles...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to enter your wonderful giveaway.
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pippirose59 at gmail dot com
that photo is horrible. Just think of all the germs there are ewwwwwwwww!
ReplyDeleteI love the baubles by the way
I'm so jealous of your ebay find! I love, love, love that fabric!! and the tin.....and the baubles! Please enter me for your bauble giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThank You, Debs
love and want that rosy tin... not sure about the gnashers!!! smile. xx
ReplyDeletehow funny, I picked up a few glass baubles in a charity shop on wednesday {for 10p each!}: great replacements for the ones that have been broken by dog and children over the years:
ReplyDeleteteeth! could make an interesting garden dangly with all those falsies ^_^
{wonders what happens to all the false teeth: do they get dismantled and recycled?}
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I'd love to enter your giveaway! Love the barkcloth fabric too x
ReplyDeleterespect to your restraint in mentioning the c......word , well done,
ReplyDeleteand thats some bedside table you have there !!!!....one for everyday of the week is it ???
i'm going to pass on the giveaway wend, i've enough baubles and this year i'm seriously thinking of NOT getting a tree.....thinking of making a paper one instead....good luck with your shop i'm off now to have a look.
I'm sure that's the tin my mother used to keep hankies in - circa 1958? Love the baubles - must check the local charity shops.
ReplyDeleteWoman's Hour had an interesting and thoughtful piece on false teeth recently. The last taboo subject in a relationship it seems. Stunning piece of barkcloth and sweet decorations. We used to have those on our C*******s tree but there is only one left now.
ReplyDeletePlease sign me up ....fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteWould love a few vintage baubles - so long as you don't send the teeth by mistake! Eeeek.
ReplyDeleteI love vintage glass baubles too and got lucky in a charity shop last week. Please can I be entered in your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteAnn x
You did so well with your baubles - I've managed to do the same over the past couple of years, including some of those pink clip-on birds with feathery tails. So please don't enter me in your generous give-away, there'll be a more deserving recipient!
ReplyDeleteI love vintage baubles, they look fab on a real christmas tree!
ReplyDeleteOoh yes please Wendy, I have also had some luck in the charity shops this year and am going to put a tree up in my new conservatory with vintage baubles on it and am still on the search for more.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
yes please to the vintage baubles - you were aso lucky to find so many!
ReplyDeletePlease add my name in the draw.
ReplyDeleteI like the teeth photo...makes me smile (haha)!
Z xx
I could probably use some of the teeth in
ReplyDeleteThe Vintage Fairy Tales;)
Love the baubles too, count me in please!
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Becky
OOOOOH! count me in for the baubles, such a cute blog and the baubles are the best! xx
ReplyDeletelovely baubles please count me in lovely tin
ReplyDeletexx fee