flea market finds - giveaway!

I’ve decided not to sell vintage-y things in my etsy store, as I was getting way too distracted and forgetting to sew! So here is a giveaway instead! You can make oh-so-many lovely things with this working loom, and it comes with instructions for projects too. Like; egg cosies, serviette case, coathanger cover, mittens, belt, bag, scarf, cushion, oven cloth, tea cosy, tea-pot holder, doll’s skirt. Party bag and baby bonnet.

Spear’s Weaving Loom; box contains weaving loom, 2 shuttles, heddle, instructions on box and a booklet with 12 projects.

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To enter simply leave a comment, and reblog or tweet for extra entries (please leave a comment to let me know if you do the last two!). The winners will be drawn next Sunday 26th September.

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Yay!

flea market finds

Oops a little (quite a lot, actually) late but better late than never! Here are some vintage-y things I have found this week and last week in my op-shop explorations. I am starting to visit op-shops quite a lot (even more than before!) in my quest for recycled fabrics (some nice op-shops even let me trawl through their gonna-throw-out pile for goodies! Which is what I prefer, I’d rather use stuff that would otherwise be landfill than stuff that is just second-hand. I want to eventually be using only recycled materials, but I digress). During these missions I -of course- end up looking at everything else in the store, and finding cute little vintage-y things like this that I just have to get.

So I’m going to start a section in my etsy store for ‘vintage-y goodness’. This means that I can still search for vintage goodness, and I still get to collect them, but they can be in constant rotation and be released back into the wild! Remember the gold deer? And those salt and pepper shakers? They’ll be in there too. Open soon!

flea market finds

Baseball playing squirrel salt & pepper shakers. Too cute.

flea market finds

this week I'm playing along with ' Flea Market Finds' hosted by the lovely Sophie at Her Library Adventures. I'm a day late, but any-hoo. This is what I found..

A gold fawn money box. Isn't it kitschy? Going to paint it green I thinks. Or shall I leave it as is?

Also some more vintage suitcases (because gee-whiz I don't have enough of those), a bird ornament, some old fabric, some lunch and a sore arm from carrying it all home. Go have a squiz at Sophie's lovely blog, and see some other lucky peep's great finds too.