I wonder how long car boot sales will continue this year. As the weather gets cooler with darker and damper mornings there are noticeably fewer people selling. In theory the big Saturday boot-sale should carry on until 25th October with their one-off Christmas boot sale on the 13th December and the smaller Sunday one will carry on until the ground gets too soggy. It's all weather dependent of course.
At the Saturday boot sale the weekend before last I noticed lots of people had already started to bring along Christmas decorations. One man had a small trailer full of new boxes of huge baubles - which would have needed a huge tree -in a huge room!
A few bits of Halloween stuff too. There's no need to buy new when you have a boot sale to visit.
I spent just £2 that morning with £1 being for a really big cauliflower and the other £1 for these two coasters- yes, more Portmeirion Holly and Ivy Ware! 50p each - what a bargain.
It's been 16 months since I last found something (a bell tree decoration) for my 'Not a Collection' which obviously now IS a collection.
I've been really lucky finding so many pieces second-hand, some are still available new at crazy prices, although they don't seem to make these coasters any more. There's lots available on ebay but I'm sticking to car boot sales and charity shops.
It was a good find which I'll enjoy using through December .
Here's what Debby said last December when I posted about the bell decoration. Love it!
If you put them together, they become a collection. If you scatter them artfully around the house, they are merely decorations.
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I thought about you last week, Sue when I picked up an autumn vase at the charity shop. I'm hoping I don't get hooked!
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