Yesterday, Mum and I took ourselves up to the Whiteladies Road area of Bristol again to have a mooch about, check out the charity shops and have some lunch in the lovely Fresh and Wild on Queens Road.
I managed to find a couple of nice things in the charity shops.
A fabulous vibrantly coloured 100g skein of Colinette Grafitti wool. I'm not sure what I'll do with this but at 99p it was definitely coming home with me. The colour is called Blue Saturn and it is the most fantastic mixture of aqua, cobalt, speedwell and sky blue mixed with flashes of deep deep purple. Delicious.
In the same charity shop I also picked up this rather nice Orla Keilly-style purse / wallet for 75p. This was rather fortuitous as my old faithful Radley purse has got a bit of a dodgy zip these days and I keep finding all my loose change cascading to the bottom of my handbag. I had toyed with the idea of having one of Cath Kidston's rather nice PVC purses for my birthday but they cost £25 so this was a much better alterantive!
Speaking of Cath Kidston, Mum and I also had a look in her new shop on Park Street in Bristol. It is a lovely big shop and appears to stock her whole range of items. But, somehow, Mum and I were just a tad disappointed by it all. The felt mushrooms which I'd been quite coveting were very 'nylon-y' to the touch as was a knitted doll which was for sale at £25. The T-towels, although having lovely prints on them, were rather thin and perhaps not really up to the job of drying dishes. But what I found most amazing was what I assume is a new line for CK - bags made from vintage fabric (not vintage CK just ordinary vintage) which cost £36, or £25 for an unlined one which was only big enough to hold a purse and a mobile phone!! Somehow I think I'll stick to making my own!
It's always fun to look around different charity shops,you managed to find a couple of nice things there. I visited CK's shop in Brighton last week and although I splashed out on a bag as a treat for my daughter, like you I felt much of it was overpriced for what it was. Nice for ideas though, I look out for CK style when I'm at the boot sales and have been lucky enough to pick up a couple of CK originals so fingers crossed for this year!
Posted by: Gill | 04/04/2008 at 09:23 PM
I too think CK's bits and bobs are lovely, but overpriced. I have ranted several times about other bloggers out there producing equally as nice if not nicer things. Love the colinette wool. I went through a rather odd stage of having Colinette wool plaited into my hair (rather like colourful dreadlocks) but that didn't agree with my sensitive scalp.... oops!
Posted by: Claire | 04/07/2008 at 05:20 PM