Recent Charity Shop Finds

Rain stopped play YET AGAIN!! for the boot sales this bank holiday weekend.  It's now June and I've only managed to get to three boot sales so far this seasons - Gordon Bennett, will it ever stop raining????  Luckily for me, I've recently had some very nice charity shop finds in compensation.

When I was staying with my Mum in Kingswood I found

Two rather lovely 1940's-style handmade vintage blouses - £1.00 each on the half-price rail in the Sally Army shop.  Silly me left another half dozen or so behind that day and when I went back two days later the whole bloomin' lot had sold - buggah!! 

However on the second visit, I did find this locally made (Brays of Glastonbury) forest-green vintage suede jerkin also loitering on the half-price rail for £2.50.  In the same Sally Army shop I also picked up a pure wool Daks gents suit for £6.50 but I haven't got round to photographing that as yet.

In the Age Concern shop in Kingswood (a wonderful 'traditional' style charity shop which has yet to be given the 'Mary Portas treatment') I found these three fabbo vintage aprons.  The two half aprons have never been used and the wrap-around style one is in lovely nick.  These were not cheap at £2.49 each but they are rather nice finds nonetheless.  In the same shop I also found Mum a very stylish Clarks handbag which had the added bonus of having been 'Made in England' - always a winner for me.  No photo of that as, naturally, it's back in Bristol with Mum.

This morning I came across a fabbo 1970s melamine tray - £1.95 - which I think  I'll be keeping.

A handmade vintage bag with wooden handles - 50p.

A vintage child's / doll's size wooden clothes airer - £2.00.  I did buy with this with the intention of putting it on eBay but I'm having second thoughts now as it would be tres useful for drying socks etc on during wet weather (um, like now, for instance!)

Et pour moi, a brand-new-with-tags-still-attached-and-in-my-size swimming costume.  I've not yet tried this on but am liking it rather a lot so I'm keeping all paws crossed that it'll suit me.  I paid £3.00 for this but having recently checked out the prices of swimming cossies on the Evans website I know this is a stonking good bargain.  I've not bought a swimming cossie new in years and years (the last one was from a charity shop and the one before that from a jumble sale) and can't ever imagine coughing up the £35.00 or so that they seem to cost nowadays!!

So, there we have it, my charity shop finds of the past fortnight - I'm very pleased with them I must say -  but let's hope it stops raining sometime soon and I can get to a few boot sales too.

Comments

[Caroline]

Great finds, Elizabeth, well done. Couldn't agree more with your comment about the weather and boot sales - worst summer I've ever known for the car booties being rained off.

[Daisy Chain]

Some great finds, there. I, too am a fan of the traditional charity shop, but they are in short supply these days.

[Maureen]

Great finds and lovely memories of Kingswood. I am still using linen table napkins bought in a charity shop in Staple Hill way back in 1986!

p.s this is the first time I've been able to post for ages. I've been repeatedly rejected (:

[The Vintage Knitter]

Wow, you've found some lovely things. Those pinnies are cute and that fabric bag was a steal!

[Vix]

What fab finds. That swimsuit is fabulous. x

[fiona]

The girl did good, great finds especially love the jerkin, bag and cossie. Well done.