Thrifting

I love a bargain as much as anyone else and recently I found these in the charity shops in Louth. The metal bowl with lid is just so gloriously OTT that I can imagine it filled with beautiful things at Christmas time.

I really like quite plain things, but this was too tempting to leave behind at just £2.50.

Perhaps I'll fill it up with small Easter eggs and see how long it takes young Harry to find them! Toby would probably show him the way.

The yellow is not where base metal is showing through, it is down to my poor attempt at lighting.

This piece of fabric is beautifully heavy Sanderson fabric, 2 metres, £4.00.

This is a pair of heavy cotton curtains, £2.00. Faded and gorgeous.

This heavy fabric is just an offcut, perhaps 16" wide by 4' long.

Then this piece of embroidery - it's not in fabulous condition and it certainly isn't fine work - it's pretty and I think I'll make a cushion cover out of it, which is probably what it was in an earlier life. It cost 50p.





My fingers are itching to get stitching, but the garden is the priority at the moment.

I'd better get back to work!