Saturday

Sweet 'Koma' dome clock found for $3.  AND it works.  :)

How cool is this cotton fabric??  It's approximately 2m x 1m, which is a substantial amount.  I only paid $2 - clever me.

 

Hong Kong spoon found for $1.

Lovely bamboo coat hangers for only 50 cents each, found last year.  I never thought I'd say this about hangers, but they were worth every cent - I love them... as simple as they are.

Sunday

 An assortment of things found at the op shop;

The tag had $7 on this 'must have' sweater, but I got it down to $5 simply because I showed the lady at the counter a couple of pulled threads.  When I got it home, I pulled in the threads with a fine crochet hook - looks as good as new!  Remember this tip when you are looking at sweaters.  ;)

This is one of those things that left me stumped as to why I bought it.  Possibly because it came in it's own cute metal tin?  Maybe because the husbeast is into everything that has to do with car racing??  Maybe it was both.  I snapped it up for $4.  I rarely see metal toy cars at the op shop... they are usually all plastic and almost destroyed by its previous (child) owner.

 

I did some research on this gold spoon some time ago, and I did find some on eBay going for some astronomical price, and some cheaper.  I'm guessing the cheaper ones are/were replicas, but I really don't know what category my falls under.  I like to think that I scored one worth a mint.  LOL.  I paid 50 cents for this elegant spoon.

A vintage Gerber baby silver plated spoon for 50 cents. 

Silver can be so difficult to photograph sometimes! 

And finally, I just had to have these very sweet marble ducks.  At least I think they are marble... and if not, they are polished rock.  Found these for $1 each.  They measure about 2 inches across.  :)

Sunday

It's very rare that I find really nice spoons these days.  These are the last two I found, many months ago for $1 each;

Tuesday

I was in one of my favourite, dingiest and filthiest second hand shops one day last year and I found a big glass spoon.  Possibly vintage, but it's oh so hard to tell these days so I won't put it under my blog labels as vintage.  

The sales assistant mentioned that there was supposed to be a matching fork with it, so we both hunted around looking for it, but to no avail.  

I was disappointed, but I still bought the spoon for $1.  I'm now on the hunt to find it's long lost partner.... the fork!  Other second hand stores, op shops, and Ebay has been no help so far, but that won't stop me from looking because after all, I've been very lucky in the past with finding particular things.

But until then, here's to eating some yummy ice cream the oh so fancy way.  :)

Monday

 3 new spoons found for $1 each;

Love-er-ly brass frame with a love-er-lier lady inside for only $4;

And a nice little vintage crochet / knitting booklet for 50 cents;

Free Spoons

A good friend graciously gave me her souvenir spoons as I mentioned HERE and they are little beauties!

 

When freinds care...

A friend of mine (yes you know who you are!) went to Bali on a whim with her partner a few months back.  How exhilarating would it be to be able to just pack up your bags and leave for somewhere exotic with not a care in the world?  Well, it wasn't totally like that- but hey if somebody can go away for a week or two and still have responsibilities back home waiting, then why not?  They also went to Pemberton and she bought me gifts from both places.  What a sweetheart ...

Some beautiful purple batik fabric from Bali, because she knows it's my favourite colour....

And a spoon and thimble set from Pemberton, because she knows I collect both....

She also kindly passed on some spoons her mother no longer wanted.  Stay tuned for those!