Tuesday 28 May 2019

Didn't Do Much

In the end I didn't go very far over the Bank Holiday Weekend.

Car-boot sales of course -  the Big one at Needham Market was HUGE and I came home from that via the Art Exhibition (photos tomorrow).  The small local boot sale wasn't as big on Sunday as last week when I was there selling, I was home after looking round  by 9am and they've started having sales on Bank Holiday Mondays too and that was even smaller - home by 9 again.

All together at all the boot sales I spent a grand total of £10.60p

I found...........................

A bright pink ceramic pot  for 50p to put my money plant in on the bathroom window-sill. The plant had been in a brown -glazed flower pot (with a bit of plastic in the bottom to cover the hole) and I'd been searching for a replacement for months - it's still not big enough but better than brown.

The brown glazed flower pot now has a baby Bay tree (£2) in it. I've got a Bay tree that came here in a pot and is now nearly four feet tall so it will be too big to move when the time comes. This new one can be potted into increasingly larger pots for several years ready for whenever I decide that an acre is too big.


Someone had lots of  my everyday crockery - Johnson Brothers Summer Chintz - for sale. I wasn't short of plates and didn't need teeny coffee cups, a serving dish or very small bowls but she did have one breakfast bowl, which seem to be the thing that gets broken more often- so that was 50p.

I picked up this little set of lift-the-flap books for £1. Willow loves lifting flaps in books.


Any minute now I'm about to become a Great Aunt when my nephews partner gives birth, she's a few days over due already poor girl. I found this (for £1.50) to send down to London when my sister goes to visit her first grandchild.

 This, below, is a plastic "float" inside a net. I bought it for 50p in the hope I could get the net off and use it for the green glass globe I bought from an antique shop when we were on holiday. But no - there's no way to undo the net so I've hung it up outside anyway......it looks like glass from a distance!


 Is there anyone out there who knows how to make a macrame net like this?

Another Kilner flip-top bottle to use for the Limoncello I'm planning for the Christmas Hamper presents - another 50p.

I bought a big tub of strawberries for £1 - they needed eating so no picture and a large  slice of banoffee cake - that's gone too so no picture of £1.10p worth of cake either. Yes I'm a greedy guts!

And then this,  ahem, yes it's another bit of Portmeirion Holly and Ivy ware. Its rather large - that's a £1 coin in the middle -  and should have a bowl in the centre making it a plate for things - crudities?-  to dip in something - hummus?.

 I didn't really intend to buy it but as it was £2 - it seemed a shame to leave it.(poor excuse!)

Problem - it won't fit in the dining room cupboard! Too wide..............

I now  have 5 Holly and Ivy things, 4 from boot-sales/charity shops and one was  a Christmas present............ officially a collection?...............bother!

Many thanks for comments yesterday.Smoked Paprika is now on my shopping list

Back Tomorrow
Sue




25 comments:

  1. https://www.ftd.com/blog/create/macrame-plant-hanger
    Is this any good Sue?

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  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP6AGx0fIDA I worked with this video

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    1. Thank you - think it's too difficult for me

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  3. A lovely haul there Sue, I'm envious. Do you have a dresser or shelves with grooves so that you can display the large platter?

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    1. Too big for anywhere except a kitchen cupboard!

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  4. I do love your heading photo.
    xx

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  5. and another .... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=macrame+glass+ball+hanger

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    1. This looks a bit easier to follow. I've saved it

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  6. As I have a tub trug full of antique glass floats {which my ex was great at macrameing} I did a YouTube search. Loads of links to clips there.

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    1. I might end up tying myself in knots rather than the string!

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  7. My, what a great haul from the car boot sales. I am so thrilled that there is to be one next Saturday here on the Island, I do hope it is a success so there will be more.

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    1. Oh good news for you, will you be selling or just looking

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  8. I've just finished watching 'The 1900 Island', filmed here in North Wales on Anglesey. With four families living as 1900's fishing families ... and they used lots of green glass floats just like that on the nets. Unfortunately our fishing waters are seriously depleted and if it had been for more than a month they would have all starved!!

    Some good car boot finds ... and yes, a collection of five items IS a collection :-)

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    1. Haven't heard about that reconstruction programme. Loved Coal House so I will look up the fishing one.

      I didn't mean to start a collection - Honest!

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    2. It's possibly only been shown on Welsh television for now.

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  9. What a great car boot haul! The ceramic pot for the bathroom tones in so well with your curtains. I'm not especially a fan of Portmeirion, but I do love the Holly and Ivy range :)

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    1. 3 car boot sales - I must be mad
      The curtains were hanging when we moved in. I washed them and they shrank! but as the bathroom isn't used for having a bath I rehung them anyway.
      The only other bit of Portmeirion I have is a planter that holds my bigger money plant in the conservatory

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  10. I have a whole lot of Portmeirion (not the holly one, just the botanical) that I have collected over the years. Not particularly keen on it now - but too late.

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  11. You got some treasures.. the plant you call "Money plant" we call "Jade plant" here in the USA. I used to be big into macrame.. it's really easy. Take 4 long lengths of jute twine, tie them all in a knot in the middle.. go up 3 or 4 inches and tie a knot, two at a time, next row use one from each pair to tie and on around and up. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)

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  12. A couple of thoughts on the large Holly and Ivy plate. Find a small plain bowl to place in the centre, or put some different treat in that centre when you use it ( nuts for e.g.)

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  13. The glass version of your blue ball I've seen also called witch balls. No idea why though.
    Arilx

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  14. Great haul. Working in the schools younger grades all the students just loved The Hungry Caterpillar.

    God bless.

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  15. Fantastic haul - love the Port Merion plate. The summer chintz reminded me of home a bit, you either had summer chintz or eternal beau round about where I lived...until Fiesta parties started then you could get that which I think was green and floral edged. Thanks for the memories xx

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