Sunday 13 February 2011

Car Boot Sale Booty!

Its Sunday and the heavens have opened - it has literally rained non stop today but even a bit of the wet stuff cant put me off the Sunday boot sale trip. I'm lucky that the boot sale I go to (when its not boot sale season) is in an undercover car park. However there is a top level which is outside and the poor sods that didn't get there early enough were having to sell their wears in the pouring rain on top of a cozy and dry car park! They must have been cursing the people who were selling like hot cakes in the lower level while all their own good were soaking wet - no one really is going to want to rummage through that cardboard box of sopping wet clothes while getting drenched themselves.

But it seems rain = fabulous finds for me! I have bought lots of lovely items today that I am pleased as punch to have found but I haven't had much time today to photograph them all so I've got enough to keep me going for a couple of blog entries yet!

The first find was a Royal Albert bone china telephone, the design is country roses and I just loved it as soon as I saw it on the stall.
It needs a good clean up but I've plugged it into the phone socket this evening and it works - hooray!  So chuffed at finding this and with a bit of haggling I picked it up for £4.

The next find today was this adorable children's book. I'm not sure of the age, no year date inside the book but I would have thought it was 1950s:

Its going to look lovely in my little boys nursery and cost me £1. Another bargain today was this cruet duo, as you know I'm a sucker for floral and these were so pretty that I snapped them up as soon as I zoomed in on them on the stall:
Would you believe that I paid £1.50 for the pair! Its the little things that make me smile :o)

That's all for tonight and I'll show the rest of my little treasure finds tomorrow, better charge up my camera battery lol!

Hope you all had a happy weekend and Happy Valentines Day for tomorrow :o)

Scarlett x

2 comments:

  1. What delightful treasures you found! That telephone is just darling! Thanks so much for sharing at Feathered Nest Friday this week! Nice to meet you! :)

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  2. wow!! i do love the telephone!! and it works too! those are truly great treasures that you found on car boot sales, sad to read about those who had to sell in the rain though...but anyways...i love the old story book and the duo cruet...thanks for sharing! Happy Valentine's day to you and nice to meet you! :)

    PS: good luck in making cupcake, my first try which was a few months back failed miserably hehe, i want to give it another try sometimes in the next month too! hehe

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