Sunshine Shopping

Hello my lovelies!  What a beautiful week of sunshine we have had.  Sorry I have been absent again from blogland I've spent most of my week out of home in the sunshine (had a week off work)  - maybe I'm becoming a bad weather blogger ;o)

So its coming up to Easter which means one thing - boot sale season kicks off - hoorah! I'm very excited about this as the local all year one here has been bloody rubbish. The only thing worth checking out was this amazing Duce Coupe:

It's called Cherry Blossom and has "Cherry Blossom" stitched across the interior seats - a real bad ass girl hot rod, I dream to own one, although not sure where the child seat will fit ;o)

I also discovered a little gem of a place in Newbury called the "Clothes Warehouse". It is basically a huge barn filled to the brim with second hand clothes. They call it a clothing recycling centre, but after chatting to a lady who works there I found out that they actually pay to empty the charity clothing bins you see around and they then sort and sell on the clothes. There was so much vintage there:

 However I didn't know if I felt easy at first with the fact that people had donated their clothing to these charity bins thinking they are going direct to the charity. They are probably completely unaware that a company actually buys the items by the bag load and sells them on for a profit. 

 But then again its not so different as us buying clothing from jumbles and charity shop and selling it on eBay for a profit, so I got stuck in! What do you think about it?

Also Newbury boasts 12 charity shops! How have I not been shopping in this town before?  The best had to be this little Salvation Army charity shop with a fabulous location on the river:

It was hidden down an alley but what a treat. The ladies who worked there were so lovely, telling me they were the cheapest charity shop in Newbury and they weren't wrong. I didn't see an item of clothing in there priced over £2.50.

I haven't had a chance to photo any of my latest buys but hopefully I'll get my arse into gear and get my blogging mojo back on track.

I'll be doing my rounds to catch up with you all over this week :o)  I've missed you!

Big Love

Whats on offer for the Royalist...

Ok so I know the blogger dash board is going to be flooded with Royal Wedding posts but I couldn't go with out doing my take on it (yes I am quite excited about watching the wedding tomorrow!).

So in true Scarlett style I thought I'd share my two local charity shop window displays and you can see whats on offer for the Royalist in my town :o)

Various books on the Royal family ranging from £1.50 to £5. Commemorative cups and dishes.  An England football flag??  Oh and we cant celebrate the royal wedding without the purchase of a Margaret Thatcher mug!

There is also a carrier bag from Kensington Palace that could be yours for £1.50 - just right to take to Lidl, no paying 3p for a carrier bag there ;o)

The other charity shop decided to go with this:

A dolls house church which could be yours to take home for £49.99 - they wont however sell it till the 3rd of May.  'Doll figures sold separately' (said in advert man voice) although they might give you a cheap price on the drunken red head at the front who has thrown herself from the church pew. Sorry sweetheart the prince is just not that into you!

I'm also slightly worried about the two children who are lifting their left butt cheeks - thats not the sort of behaviour we expect at a royal wedding!

Hope you all have a fabulous royal wedding day :o)

Scarlett x

Nothing says Easter more than grotty toys...

The charity shops in my area pride themselves on doing a decent window display depending on what the season is or based around a theme. They seem to squirrel away like items till they have enough to fill the window. For example one of them not long ago did a Harry Potter window with all kinds of magical/wizard related items - it was quite impressive.  The same shop did an Oscar's window display too with old Hollywood great pictures and red carpet glamour clothing.  So not to be out done the charity shop the other side of town has done an Easter window:

Nothing says Easter more than grotty cuddly toys *wink*.  Don't fight over the items all at once ladies haha.  I think my nearest charity shop has got some serious competition ;o).  You can see from the reflection that I was hiding behind my massive pushchair taking the sneaky picture.

The other charity shop however had a come and buy me window:

Look at all the breakables just wanting me to take them home :o)

I did treat myself to a couple of bits:

1950's frosted shot glasses - 50p for all 5 (they were on the bargain shelf).

1950's French glass decanter which matches my other one that was bought at the boot sale a couple of weeks back:

I paid £1.30 for the new addition.

His and Hers vintage pillowcases - still in the original box - £2.00 :o)

And in  case you are wondering what the window display at the 'secret' charity shop is well:

There is no window as the shop is hidden in this old school!  You can now see why its a secret charity shop :o)

Scarlett x