Making Good Use: Going Fourth

Finally, a dry and reasonably sunny Sunday morning - which can only mean one thing, the fourth boot sale trip of the season. Like Caroline, I also found that there were nowhere near the mahoosive number of sellers I'd been hoping for - I think I'd fondly been imagining that they'd be out in force as soon as there was a Sunday with decent weather. Anyway, slight lack of sellers aside, I did manage to find a few bits and bobs.

Three vintage sewing patterns - 30p each. I remember having the same pattern as the one in the centre in the late 1970's. I made myself several night shirts from it just before I went to college in the autumn of 1979. I can't imagine taking the effort to sew nightwear now - I mainly go to bed wearing mis-matching tatty old T-shirts and trackie bottoms. Clearly my sense of nocturnal style has gone dramtically down hill as I've got older!!

A large Radley dust bag which I'm hoping is totally kosher - though I've never come across any of their dust bags that have not been either plain cream, pink or blue before. I only paid 50p for it so if it turns out to be a dud I'll just use it as a storage bag instead as the cotton is lovely and thick.

Another wooden-handled vintage bag. This one is made from some very Eames-era type barkcloth. I paid £1.00 for it.

Two empty Tiffany & Co. gift boxes and drawstring pouches. I've noticed these sell pretty well on eBay and have been keeping my eye open for them. They cost £1.00 for the lot.

A very 1960's style little plate featuring what I think is an emu. Not really sure what I'm going to do with this but it caught my eye and was only 30p.

Finally, not really a total bargain, but I got two Body Shop Earth Lovers biodegradable shower gels for myself. They cost £5.00 each in Body Shop and I paid £3.50 for the two. I wouldn't normally splash out quite so much on shower gels but I did like the fact that they are totally biodegradable, plus I am getting rather low on shower gel stocks at the moment due to the dearth of boot sales this summer. Good job I had quite a stash otherwise I'd've had to forked out and bought some retail - and that would never do!!!!