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Gingerbread house finds

Posted on November 13, 2011August 21, 2014 by jenny

This week it’s all about the one that got away. I was browsing the charity shops in Muswell Hill when I spotted a lovely set of specimen drawers in the Oxfam shop. It was a small wooden unit with three full length drawers and four drawers of different sizes. It was beautiful and I started to think of all the things I could put in it and how I would clean it up.

As I was hungry I decided to have lunch before buying the drawers which were priced very reasonably but looked bulky and heavy. I had a lovely lunch and went back to the shop and did a double take as it was no longer in the window. Yep, someone else had bought them. Completely my own fault for assuming no-one else saw the potential in them.

I made do with a couple of vintage Coronation magazines called Everybody’s, more for the vintage advertisements than anything else.

Fashion fit for a Queen apparently (in 1953), I wonder if Kate Middleton knows.

Problem with BO? Simply wash!

Does your child need more energy? Forget the afternoon nap, try Lucozade instead!

I love vintage magazines. What about you? Found any interesting finds this week? Linking up with Flea Market Finds, nifty thrifty things and Magpie Monday

 

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Category: Gingerbread house finds, vintage

4 thoughts on “Gingerbread house finds”

  1. Liska says:
    November 13, 2011 at 9:43 am

    Such a shame that you missed out. Maybe you should have had Lucozade instead of lunch – 😉 Only joking xxx
    Vintage magazine looks great though xx

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  2. Karen Lamb says:
    November 13, 2011 at 11:14 am

    Always buy as soon as you spot something in a charity shop. If you had paid upfront they would probably have left you leave it to be picked up later. I bought £15 bureau from a charity shop, left the money and came back in the afternoon. Love charity shops!

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  3. Kate says:
    November 14, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    Oh I know that feeling so well when you miss out for hestitating.
    Great vintage adverts

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  4. Liz Burton says:
    November 15, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    Oh no! Such a shame. I’ve missed out on fab finds like that in the past – you snooze, you lose!

    Great magazines though :0)

    Thanks for linking up x

    Reply

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