MY M-I-L

My mother in law was such a stunning babe back in the day!
I was told that around the time these pictures were taken she
had a very promising career as an opera singer after studying
in New York.
(She's nowadays one of Europe's leading vocal coaches.)
I hope we have a baby girl that will look just like her one day.

A LITTLE BIT BORED

Hi, I'm a little bit bored!
Waiting for the hair dye to do it's magic.
I thought I kill some time by showing off some of my recent
Etsy and eBay finds. Hope that's all right with you.

1950's Leru earrings, $1.75.

1950's pagoda earrings, $1.75.

1950's rhinestone earrings, $1.75.

1950's Weiss earrings, £5.

1950's shell earrings, $3.

1950's glitter lucite earrings, $3.

1940's celluloid chain necklace, $4.99.

1950's Coro necklace, $2.50.

Vintage sunglasses, £2.50
Vintage glasses, £1

And this is me wearing the glasses.

OUR LOUNGE

This might be my last post here, might.
I've lost interest in this blog since blogger changed
and I joined the more user friendly tumblr.
I hardly have time to read the blogs I used to love
and therefore no one read and comment here so I
don't see the point, nowadays this old blog is mostly
useful for checking where we'd been and how much
this and that cost. 

Anyway, I just wanted to post some pictures of our
newly rearranged and cleaned lounge.
It's a mix of everything we love, anything from tiki to
West German.
We still need to put some pictures on the wall and I
would love my fountain table and some other bits to
be on display but the lounge is long and narrow so I
can't put it all out at once, maybe next time.

SCORE GALORE

 This is actually post number 1000!

I had the best weekend ever!
We skipped Valentines a day forward so we could do lunch,
vintage scouting and then do a stall in the evening on Friday.
(It's getting quite popular to have stalls at events nowadays
and a very nice lady just loved one of my previous stalls so
she invited me to set up a stall at her club.)
I really had luck on my side because my favorite charity shop
decided to sell everything in the shop for £2 and I snagged a
whole lot of fab vintage, I actually did quite well in all charity
shops I went into!

On Saturday morning I checked FB as normal and discover
that my cousin had given birth to a baby boy! :D
We decided to celebrate this by going to a jumble sale and I
was lucky even that day, I got a lot of really nice pieces, some
to revamp.
After the jumble we went to the charity shop in that area and
I actually snagged a Bakelite bangle without even knowing it
at the time, I just liked the shape and color!
I had a closer look at it when I came home and had a feeling I
might just had snagged me a bargain, after some Simichrome
test I had a victory dance. ;)) 

On Sunday we took a walk in the sun (it was nice and warm!)
and we had to stop for a car and I look down and found a bag
of weed! LOL! Totally random, and no, I haven't smoked it.
We ended a perfect weekend by having homemade vegetarian
Mexican food.

 I haven't taken photos of all my finds, some are in the laundry
bin and some are waiting to be revamped and I honestly haven't
decided if I want to keep it all, when items are 20 pence each
you don't think, you just buy!

Here's my favorite finds:

Bangles, £2 each.
My heart skips a beat for all of them, so pretty.

Vintage necklace, £2.
This necklace makes me think of The White Stripes.

Vintage angora top, £10.
This was my Valentines gift from my sweet man.

Vintage pants, £1.50.
I've been looking for a pair of red pants with the zipper 
on the side, they look absolutely fab with the angora top!

1980's peplum dress, £2.
I know, it looks sad and wrinkly but it's newly washed
and I couldn't wait to post a picture!

Dark apple juice(?) Bakelite bangle, 25 pence!!!
That's 40 US cents, not bad, huh?

Leopard printed cardigan, 20 pence.
From the jumble sale, I doubt this was even worn.

I usually find pennies when I'm out walking...

ANOTHER REVAMP

I'm very much in a revamp phase at the moment.
I found this bracelet in a charity shop last Friday, it was a
bit too loose on me and needed restringing anyway but I
ended up revamping it into a tribalesque necklace instead.
It looks better on than in the picture tho.

And I revamped these not so long ago.
The first pair I got a long time ago from H&M but I never
used them and the wooden ones I got from a charity shop.
They look so much better together.

I FORGOT A BEFORE PICTURE!!!

I received these wonderful Bakelite pieces last week.
They were a find from eBay, I had them on my watch list
but forgot to bid and I was happy to see them be relisted,
this time I bid and won.
The listing was for two clover leaves and one Scottie dog
but the (generous) seller said she send her other Scottie
too but it needed a bit of TLC because he had some dark
green paint on the back.

I finally got round to clean the pieces up yesterday, couldn't
get rid of those awful hot pin test marks but I did get rid of
the excess bits from the cutting process (these were all cut 
from rods) and the dark green paint on the Scottie.
All of the pieces were also quite discoloured by age.
You won't believe how I did it, with a nail buffer!!!  
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
I finished by polishing them up with some Simichrome.
I kicking myself right now because I forgot to take before and
after pictures, that would have been neat to have.

I found something cool that involves similar Scotties on flickr, check this out!

PINEAPPLE EARRINGS

I picked up two old buttons for 50 pence in a charity shop
the other day, a bit steep for two buttons perhaps but I got
them for one reason only, they reminded me of pineapples.
As soon as I came back home I turned them into earrings.

I like to create my own things so I (might) have something
no one else has got and fun summer earrings are always a
good thing to have.