It was my birthday earlier in the month, and I went charity shopping on my birthday, to a market the day after, charity shopping later in the week and some of my presents came from the charity shop too!
I really came home with a haul, here's what I got,
Wicker Owl (his head comes off, so he's a basket-y sort of owl!).
2 for £1 table, local charity shop.
Glass plate. I had to buy this, so I could have the owl off the 2 for £1 table! I quite like it though, I will serve nuts from it in a retro fashion at Christmas.
2 for £1 table, local charity shop.
Snail and tortoise funny tiny creatures with holes in, maybe for tiny plants? I have no idea what these were originally used for!
29p and 39p, local charity shop.
Hornsea Fauna deer vase. Yes, I have another one of these, but I needed this one too!
£3, stall on Birmingham Rag Market.
I never find nice t-shirts in charity shops, but this one is STRIPY! and like new, and from Marks and Spencers.
£1, local charity shop.
Wooden necklaces.
99p for 2, local charity shop.
Retro Swedish kitchen canisters. I'd looked at these myself in the charity shop, but my mum actually bought them for me for my birthday (without me knowing!). They have 'JIE Sweden' imprinted on their bases, and I think they're mid-century.
Present, local charity shop.
Phew!
Have you bought something beautiful (or lots of beautiful somethings!) from the charity shop recently?
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Wow, ace finds! The bright bead necklace will look amazing with the stripey top (also - £1?! What a bargain! I swear all my local charity shops have crazy pricing, that would be at least £4 here. And I live in Leicester, it's not like I'm somewhere posh!)
ReplyDeleteI live in a very un-posh area, we have a mix of scabby charity shops and trying to be Mary Portas charity shops, I prefer the scabby ones with lots of bargains! I do rarely find anything nice on the £1 rails, I would usually pay around £3 or £4 for a top too!
Deleteflipping heck,and I thought I was the bargain Queen! Its a good job we live apart or you'd be grabbing all the good stuff from my local shops lmao :)
ReplyDeleteI really do love that owl, you don't fancy sending him my way for a holiday do you? :D
and a belated Happy Birthday too :) xx
Thank you for the birthday wishes :D and sorry, but Mr Owl will be staying where he is for the time being! :D
DeleteI really like those kitchen canisters.
ReplyDeleteI have been shutting my eyes to bargains in my charity shop recently, but I did buy a shopping bag and some sticky labels this week, what a time to be alive!
Haha! They sound like exciting buys! I've been trying to avoid bringing too much home, but I made an exception for my birthday!
DeleteI had a look online for those canisters, they're quite expensive! (start at £40!) I reckon mum probably paid £5 for them all :D
Love those jars - something like that would really jazz up my rather boring and very dated kitchen!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I think they're pretty too :)
DeleteIt's like you raided my Godmother's old china cabinet- they had what I called a cabinet of curiosities in their front hall and I'm not kidding but all the items you bought before the top were in there!!
ReplyDeleteLove the top and necklaces too and biscuit barrels are beauaaaaaaaaaaaiful!x
Your Godmother was obviously a woman of great taste! :D :D :D
DeleteLove the tins - such a good find! I love charity shopping too. Bargain hunting gets addictive, doesn't it! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so addicted! My house is full of the charity shop!
DeleteLove the owl and covet the Swedish Kitchen Canisters. Is it rude to ask what the latter cost?
ReplyDeleteThank you :) I don't think it's rude, but as the canisters were a present I'm not sure how much they cost. I did look at them in the charity shop before they were bought for me, my best guess is that they were somewhere between £5 - £10 for the set :)
Delete*Weirdo commenting on old post alert* I wonder if those things with holes could have been pincushions? Also, love those canisters! Must pop back to browse the rest of your finds at a more sociable hour!
ReplyDeleteHello :D
DeleteI wondered if they were once pincushions too, but then whyy would someone remove the in cushion part!? It's very mysterious!