April Purchases

Here are my buys for April.

I am a day late with this round up due to being busy with an ongoing painting project here at home, some of which I hope to share in my next post.

Pretty daisy print dress, perfect for the summer, needs to be worn with leggings or capri pants as too short to be worn on it's own, 50p from the car boot.

This dress was from a charity shop. As you can see it was brand new with it's tags still attached. The tag shows it was originally selling for £16. Mine for £4.

Love the caramel colour of this cardi. And it's super soft to the touch too. Also like the stitching on the pocket. Another 50p car boot buy.

Back to the charity shop for these black shoes. No wear to speak of looking at the soles and my oh my are the comfy. I paid for £4.00 for these.

I was instantly drawn to this necklace because it's the same flower design as the Mary Quant logo. Another 50p spent and it was mine.

Pink rose patterned china plate, always room on the dresser for another and at 20p who could resist.

A bag of ABC blocks for 50p which I will use to spell out phrases or sayings when I decorate the mantelpiece each month. Already in use displaying 'the darling buds of may'.

Finally two very different movies. Twelfth Night was 25p and To Catch a Thief was £1.00. Both feature great casts and I'm looking forward to watching them both.

A Different Half Term

These weekly news posts seem to be the norm for me just now.

This one will start with last Saturday.

An exhibition I wanted to see, Love Thy Denim, was due to end it's run at the Winchester Discovery Centre. G didn't want to go and so I took myself off on a solo jaunt.

I spent a very happy hour engrossed in reading all about the social history of this most versatile of fabrics and admiring some of the clothing on display.

The photos here show a Vivienne Westwood denim shirt and the other item is an original 1880's milk maids shirt. I'd be more than happy to wear it now.

Once I had finished there I nipped to CK for a mooch and then onto a couple of charity shops before ending in M&S where I bought myself some lunch. I can heartily recommend this smoothie it was delicious.

The local car boot is now starting a little later at 10am on a Sunday morning, but we were a little late getting started and didn't arrive until gone 11am so we weren't there long.
I bought 2 new dresses for S for a pound each, she chose them.

and another pound was spent on this straw shopper for me.

As you can see it's not only me who likes it.

Couldn't resist this cute deer snowglobe countdown to Christmas chalkboard, it was only 50p. My other sister T has her birthday on Nov 25th, I will start my countdown to Christmas on it then.

Pumpkins have been purchased and they are sat, on the new autumn coloured polka dot tablecloth, waiting to be carved ready for Halloween.
For the first time in many years this autumn half term hasn't seen us go to the local country park to do their Halloween trail, which is why although it's been half term but not felt like half term.

Saying that S has had a marvelous week. She has been out with her friends most of the time, the weather has been glorious and mild which has helped. Tuesday S was with my mum as G and I were working and Wednesday I took her and her friend A into town for a spot of shopping and some lunch. 
I took Thursday off but as once again S spent the best part of the day out and about I had lots of time to myself. I took full advantage of this and managed to crack on and lots of odd jobs done which felt so satisfying.
So here we are now at Friday evening with another weekend stretching ahead of us.
I hope it's a good one for us all.

All Clothes, Apart From the Shoes

What a whirlwind of a weekend that was.

I'm still catching up from it now.

Friday evening I went out with friends from school as another reunion looks to be in the offing later in the year which should be fun.

Something quite wonderful happened Saturday morning which I'll share in another post, then G and I had an afternoon trip to the theatre to see The 39 Steps and to round off the day we had friends over for pizza and wine.

Sunday morning we went to the car boot and then to do a quick grocery shop. 

Once home I grabbed a bite to eat and then it was off to see my good friend M to give her her 50th birthday gift and have a good old catch up.

There was a job to do once I got home, info which will have to wait until the next post, and then there was just time to squeeze in the ironing of school uniform before settling down and enjoying the last installments of The Durrells and Home Fires.

Phew.

There was great excitement upon arriving at the booty this week because the first person we came across was selling all their clothes for 10p an item.

My sister found 11 things and had to go back to her car to drop them off before she could carry on!

My buys from the morning are as follows....

Blue and pink patterned M&S top £1, brand new with tags attached black and white George dress 10p, Fat Face navy stripy top 50p and brand new with tags attached navy M&S sweater 10p.

Rusty brown George cardigan 10p, bird patterned scarf 50p and brown George wedges also 50p.

S took some money with her and paid £2 for this New Look cardigan. It looks like it's only been worn a couple of times and as she's very partial to an animal print she was very pleased with her purchase.

Clothes, Candles and Christmas

G and S didn't fancy the car boot sale yesterday morning so I went along with my mum and sister C.

We all managed to find a few things each to come home with and here's mine.

I already have one of these cardigans in grey and now I have a navy blue one to keep it company.

This was 50p.

There's no uniform in my new job and so I'm looking to gather a few items to make up my work place wardrobe and I thought this dress, for £1, would be a good addition. It's a bit clingier than I hoped it would be but the ruched effect around the waist helps disguise that a bit.

Not a great photo of a pretty shapeless top but this will be perfect for when I arrive home from work and just need to change into something comfy. Another £1 spent.

Love these candlesticks. £1 for the pair. 

Not sure what this wicker bowl is going to be used for but I couldn't leave with out it and as it was only 30p I definitely wasn't going to leave it behind.

There is no way I needed another Christmas mug but this one caught my eye, I thought it was a bit different and liked the idea of having a recipe on it. Mine for 50p.

This little knitted Christmas pudding is a holder for something like a Ferrero Rocher chocolate. I bought a set of 6 of these for the grand total of 20p. They'll look fab on the table, hiding sweet treats, come Christmas day.

First Booty

We've been in Salisbury today.

A belated Easter get together with G's family.

People being poorly and rubbish weather last weekend meant a date to see each other was arranged for this weekend instead.

It just so happens that the car boot in the field near my mother-in-law has started up again and so G suggested we went up an hour earlier than originally planned and give ourselves a little time to have a wander round and see what we could find.

That plan got a thumbs up from me.

Here are my buys from the first car boot of 2016 and in the order they were purchased.

First up is this big pasta serving dish.

As well as pasta I'm thinking it would be good to use for serving up garlic bread which is always a welcome addition to a pasta bake type meal.

Mine for 50p.

Here we have S wearing the jumper I bought her for £1.00. Animal print and fluffy two of her favourite things when it comes to clothing.

As if I don't have enough brooches already but I couldn't resist this polka dot bird. Another £1.00 purchase.

This item will go towards my sister's bundle of birthday gifts. Two brand new Cath K dusters for £1.00.

Final purchase and also £1.00 was an Avon room spritz in orange blossom, a fragrance we haven't tried as yet. I normally stock up on these for using in the bathroom when they are on offer in the catalogue at that price but I haven't bought any for a while and we are down to our last one so I was really pleased when S spotted this just as we were leaving.

Just a handful of things bought and a real mix of items they were too and to include a present, a jumper which made S happy and something useful I would need anyway was a good result all round I think.

Freebie

Later on this morning we'll be heading out to the car boot.

We all did well last week.

G bought two albums for a pound each and sold them both on later the same day making about £20 profit.

S found a couple of new skirts for 50p each and bought (yet another) teddy bear, although this week she has had a sort through her old ones and two carrier bags of cuddly toys were donated to the charity shop.

My best find of the day were these boots which cost me nothing.

Mum was walking just ahead of the rest of us and happened to be in the right place at the right time.

She heard the stall holder tell the person next to him that they were happy with the amount they had sold and the money they had made that morning, that they were off for a wander to check out other sellers and were leaving a sign on their goods to say 'everything free, take what you would like'.

Better than packing it up and taking it home again if you really don't want it anymore I suppose.

The boots have hardly any wear, they can have only been worn a couple of times. I felt very guilty when I walked away with them, I really felt like I had done something wrong! 
Once home I tried them on. They fit perfectly and are incredibly comfortable. 
G walked into the room whilst I was trying them on, took one look and said 'So when are you taking up professional wrestling then?!'
I could see what he meant about the style but as I intend to wear them under trousers they will do just fine.