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
4 Comments
Liska
November 13, 2011 at 9:43 amSuch a shame that you missed out. Maybe you should have had Lucozade instead of lunch – 😉 Only joking xxx
Vintage magazine looks great though xx
Karen Lamb
November 13, 2011 at 11:14 amAlways 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!
Kate
November 14, 2011 at 8:41 pmOh I know that feeling so well when you miss out for hestitating.
Great vintage adverts
Liz Burton
November 15, 2011 at 3:26 pmOh 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