Vintage fun

I've had quite a bit of fun over the past 24hours, spending cash on various things.

Last night I popped into a shop on my way home called Bay Swiss. It's a homewares place but also does food. Anyway I ended up getting 4 bright pink place mats for $3 each! Reduced from $5 each. Bargain! And I got the cutest gingerbread man cookie cutters. There's 3 in the box and they're called Already Been Chewed Cookies because they look like someone's taken a bite out of them.

Aren't they cute! The pink stripy thing behind the box is one of the placemats I bought.

Today Mum and I went into the Valley to do some vintage/retro fabric shopping. The Valley is hard to describe. It's just outside the city centre, it's where China town is, is very hip and has lots of clubs but is also full of people you don't want meet late at night in a dark alley if you get my meaning. Anyway they have markets in the mall every Saturday and there's a lot of 2nd hand clothing/vintage shops. We managed to score some seriously scary stuff! It was so much fun. I actually bought 2 headscarfs at the markets which are quite nice. The blue one is more of an aqua colour:

The stuff below is stuff we found in 2nd hand stores. Most of the stuff we bought is 100% polyester!

In this picture we have a lovely bright green polyester shirt, a funky brown, orange and cream patterned shirt and a dark blue velvet skirt! How 70's is that patterned shirt?!

In this picture we have a red/pink striped top, another polyester dotted blue shirt, a flowery skirt and a very cool wavey blue shirt that makes your eyes go funny when you look at it!

In this photo we have a mini skirt that is black and brightly patterened with dangly bead things. I think it'll make a lovely cushion!. The pink flowery dress is actually really pretty in real life and the funky wavey red and black top would make a lovely head scarf.



And finally below there is a hideously scary shirt that's made up of quite a few different patterns. A almost as hideous red dress, a very lovely blue silk tie and a very funky red and white belt!

We also got a whole bunch of records, including some of the smaller ones! Some of them I'm actually keeping to listen to and the others are going to be altered.

We're probably going to be making hand bags, cushions, lamp shades and the like out of all our finds!