Scarlett loves granny bags!

Being a lover of all things vintage and of course anything 1940's or 1950's (I even had a 1940's style wedding - but that's another story) I of course am drawn to a lady's best friend - the humble handbag!  The older it is the better and I am a sucker for what my friends call 'The granny bag'. 

 Now a few years back you could pick up granny bags for pence in the charity shops as they were seen as being un-fashionable and dated, I of course pounced on them and got some really fabulous bags for no money at all. Now they have become sort after items so the chances of picking one up for little money is getting harder and harder. My local 'expensive' charity shop price tags these type of bags for £20 or more! No chance of me paying that.

I popped into town yesterday and decided to visit one of the 'chain store' charity shops, they have more new goods than they have second hand donated stock! But the visit paid of when I found a hot red vintage handbag:

I was thrilled to bits to find this as I haven't got a red bag in this style, and it was only marked up at £3.99!  She's now been named 'Ruby Sue' and will be having her first outing on my next evening out.

I've been quite lucky in the last few weeks (before I started blogging) with my vintage bag finds and they have tended to be found at boot sales, people selling their grandma's old bits and not realising that they have some fantastic stuff! So I thought i'd share a couple more of my 'granny' bags from my collection with you.

I tend to find that most vintage bags I see are Navy blue, there are two that I use quite often:

The top bag was bought in an out of town charity shop and cost me £2.50 - it was on half price offer as it had obviously been hanging around their shop for too long. The second bag was bought at a boot sale for the grand sum of 50p!!  You can't beat a bargain like that!

I bought this little brown box bag with mock croc details from a boot sale a couple of weeks back:

It cost a £1 and I've had so many compliments on it when I taken it out.  The final bag is not as old as the previous bags, maybe 70's/80's but its so quirky:

Its white weave design with a gold chain strap, one of the more unusual bags I've found and at £1.50 I snapped it up.  This was bought from a stall holder at a bootsale who laughed at it when I picked it up, I think I'm laughing now! hehe!

So heres to granny bags - may I be lucky enough to find many more (and maybe be fortunate to end up with a walk in wardrobe and bag room to display them all!).

Scarlett x

Take me home Tuesday

Beautiful weather today with lots of sunshine so went out for a power walk with my son in the buggy, great to get some fresh air in the lungs and of course to have a bit of exercise (body would disagree!). So on my way home I decided to pop into my local charity shop which is the cheapest of the shops around my area and as mentioned in a previous post, is based in a old school. I was the only person in there again so have free reign on the bargain hunting and had no one tutting at me because the buggy is in the way or trying to elbow me out the way of the best stuff lol.

The pick of the bunch today was this lovely 1940's coffee jug. Its made by Lovatts which went on to be taken over by Denby so its a quality piece.

 I'm a sucker for the 1940's era, I even got married in a 1940's themed wedding in Las Vegas so this little coffee pot is right up my street! Now the best bit, it was an absolute steal at £1!!

The next item which is very chintzy and would probably be overlooked by many visitors to the charity shop, is this St Michael's Japan vintage jug

It makes an ideal posey jug and by adding some flowers it takes the edge of the 80's floral design.  Another great use for little milk and water jugs is to use them in the bathroom for tooth brush holders!  Well would it surprise you to know that for this little water jug I paid the grand sum of 50p! You really cant go wrong for that price.

Last but not least today I bought a little milk jug and sugar bowl, not great age to them and not overly impressive in design but my kitchen has a blue and white theme (among all the extra bits and pieces lol) so thought I'd bring them home and see if I can find a spot for them, and at 60p for the set...why not!

Well enough pottery talk for one day.

Happy bargain hunting
Scarlett Fontaine x