The jumble sale this morning turned out to be quite good. P wasn't sure the car would start in the sub-zero temperatures - it did, and I wasn't sure the jumble would still be on due to the weather - but it was. The only downside was that they'd opened the doors early and apparently a lot of dealers had already been in, bought shed-loads of stuff (no idea what sort of 'stuff') and were long gone by the time I got there (15 minutes before the advertised start.) I do find letting people into jumble sales early veeerrrry annoying - especially as there was a nice large entrance hall for them to wait in so they weren't actually queueing up in the cold - but there we go. Despite the locust-like dealers I still managed to find some nice bits and bobs and without that lot pushing and shoving the whole jumble was very civilised.
Four balls of Jamieson & Smith pure wool 1 ply cobweb yarn - 10p a ball.
A large bottle of Body Shop Dewberry shower gel - 10p. I also bought a Victoria Beckham body lotion for 10p but the smell of it is so nauseatingly overpowering that I've put that straight in a bag for the charity shop. Pure migraine in a tube - yuk!
A rather nice crepe scarf - 10p.
A lint remover set - 50p. This was a fortuitous find as I've pretty much run out of the sticky paper stuff for the lint remover I had before.
A tres useful Nordic-style hat with earflaps - 10p. Oddly enough, I was only thinking yesterday that I wouldn't mind a hat that covered my ears. It's been beautifully hand-knitted and is made of pure wool. Think I may have to remove the pompoms before I venture out in it though!!
A gorgeous, and huge, piece of vintage fabric - just crying out to be made into cushion covers, 20p. It's currently having a good over-night soak in some biological washing powder to get it extra clean before I decide what to make with it. Yup, all in all, it was not a bad jumble at all.
Linking up (for the first time in aaaages) with Apron Thrift Girl's 'Thrift Share Monday.'
The fabric is beautiful! We don't seem to have jumble sales down here and the charity shops all seem to be full of nasty 1980's print curtains at hugely inflated prices! Well done.
Posted by: nellie dean | 02/11/2012 at 09:40 PM
That fabric is so pretty and I love the knitted hat, too. It seems like an age since I last went to a jumble sale, only 2 weeks to wait. x
Posted by: Vix | 02/12/2012 at 04:05 PM
I love that fabric and also when you find something you really need, like the lint roller.
Jumble sale sounds so much cuter than estate sale. :)
Posted by: stephanie | 02/14/2012 at 04:44 PM
You did great at the jumble - i hate those dealers getting all the good stuff plus bad form for them to be let in early - the jumbles here always open on time or just after much to the annoyance of those who have been at the front of the queue for 45 mins. Scarlett x
Posted by: scarlett | 02/15/2012 at 11:23 AM