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Mums Vintage Collections -part 3

29 November 2010

Last installment of mum’s collection photos I took last week. The piece de resistance! Amazingly pretty plastic Ballerina clocks! There are dozens of these beauties all displayed together, pretty darn special!

Ceramic swans, puppies, birds…though most of the swans have been borrowed by us lately!

Elephants, crazy donkeys called Ricardo and funny teddy bear dishes.

More funny dogs! I’m quite partial to the obese cookie jar puppy in the back row which looks remarkably like our family dog, Bonnie.

And I think thats about all I have to share! Our favourite thing to say is “well one day when we open that shop….” and somehow I really don’t think we’ll ever run low on vintage to rehome with all this between us! Kx

Posted by: kell

Mums Vintage Collections -part 2

26 November 2010

Thought I’d share a few more snaps from our mums’ collections!

I’m quite partial to a good cookie jar or two and this rabbit one (top shelf) is so great! And the cat with giant red bow!? amazing.

Regular readers of our blog might know mum is a bit of star knitter! And this was her latest project, (which I love!) a multi-coloured hexagon rug.

And of course, she has a collection of beautiful old granny rugs!

And this could possibly be my favourite collection she has on display! Her vintage knitting needles! How great do they look colour coded in vintage jugs, vases and planters! Kx

Posted by: kell

Mums Vintage Collections -part 1

25 November 2010

Sorry its been a little quiet around here lately, Lynds and I have both been run off our feet with many things, but generally just with everyday life and our new jewellery which you can admire, buy and dream about on the site right now (until Finders Keepers anyway, then you can see it and do all this in person too).

Anyway I thought it could be fun to share someone else’s vintage goodies for a while, seeing as I’ve not happened upon anything amazing of late. And while I was out visiting my parents the other day (when I say visiting, I mean, begging my dad to fix my car) I realized the one person I know who has some of the best vintage ever found is our mum! Who’s an avid collector and buyer of anything cute (and often some things that are very strange or creepy, but thats another post althogether)!

These Bambi planters and bookends are on the kitchen wall and I love the way they all look together in their little houses.

As well as deers mum LOVES donkeys. and Donkey carts. She has an entire shelf of them and doubles and different colourways in a lot of cool ones. And a giant one in the garden made from concrete.

And here are some of the other figurines she has in her cabinet. As you can imagine, I’m constantly taking home favourites and borrowing them for my photos, but mostly I have so many myself now I cant be doing that too often! Though I am quite partial to that Bambi with the red flower though now that I see it here again.

I also really love this little space of dutch themed ceramics. The windmills are probably my favourites.

I’ll share more next time! Kx

Posted by: kell

Counting Down to the Finders Keepers

17 November 2010

I think it’s officially time to start counting down to what is going to be the BEST Finders Keepers ever!! (I know I say that every time!) But they just get better and better and being back in the Carriageworks in Sydney is always soooo exciting.

There is a beautiful flyer, wonderful venue, Made by White will be there as will Candy Stripe Cloud & The Storybook Rabbit and if that’s not enough so will all these super talented designers! FK Designers A-K & FK Designers L-Z

So don’t forget Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th December cancel all plans and we will see you at the Finders Keepers!!

Posted by: lyndsay

Roadtrip Vintage Finds

12 November 2010

I picked up a few lovely things last week. I decided I should resist all temptation and that I really didn’t need any more ornaments! But then when I didn’t find ANY for the first few days, I started to think how disappointed I’d be if I didn’t find something. But then I found this bunny moneybox and a mouse, and a mini teacup set….

And this clock was probably my second favourite thing I got on the trip. Lambs, bunnies and mushrooms! And the little metal lamb cutout originally lept around when the alarm went off by the looks of it, all kinds of cute.

This little jewellery box has strawberry shortcake looking girls on the front, a ballerina inside and bunnies all around the outside. And it cost me $2.

I also picked up some cute fabrics at various vinnies/salvos etc around the place. These cute sheer curtains were a great find! Deer, bears, bunnies and donkeys?! too cute to leave behind for $3.

And so were these duck and snail combo curtains. If only I had windows with curtain rods!

And I think these were the thing that for me, made the trip all worthwhile. I literally gasped when I found them. Little 70′s style “couples in love” plates by my favourite British china brand Queen Anne! Tonnes of floral, swishy dresses and stapping young lads! And I also managed to pick up two matching floral saucers. All kinds of cute for $5! They are already on my wall.

Oh and this was a last minute find on our way home, an original Hobbytex painting (I know because it was written in old lady handwriting on a piece of masking tape stuck next to the price, $5) ! I only realised later that it was a nativity scene of some description, but how could I resist rabbits, deers AND that donkey! too cute.

And also, I have lots of new plates in the shop today, made from some amazing british china I collected along the way. Kx

Posted by: kell

Roadtrip Favourite Places

9 November 2010

After 5 crazy days scouring basically every op-shop and vintage store passed by along the way (I lost count of how many times I yelled “op shop” and pointed frantically haha), we’ve returned with a car full (literally) of goodies, which I’ll sthare with you once I have a spare second to photograph them! But here are some of my favourite places we visited along the way.

Without a doubt, one of the greatest places we visited was Ballarat, which was kind of a side note on our trip, but ended up being a complete wonderland for vintage. Cake was a great little cafe we stopped at in Ballarat that served red velvet babycakes and great coffee, just as it was beginning to rain!

Cake was a bit of recovery stop really, because we’d just spent a lot of time shifting piles of junk around in Joyces Junkatique next door. I bought some rather amazing plates for as little as $1 here. And it was one of those really strange places that is just like a gigantic house with lots of rooms and an EXTREMELY creepy basement AND attic, which you get to and then have this weird thought like “oh shit, what if they are keeping their children under the stairs here…where is the exit again?” Then you see signs on the cupboards and dimly lit stairwells and the panic sets in……haha! but we survived.

And even better than Junkatique was the amazing vintage shop next door, which I didn’t quite catch the name of, but you can’t miss it! Oh lordy, I spent so much money here, but my god she had some great things! (I’ll share my favourite purchases from here in another post) I have never seen more beautiful china in one place, ever. AMAZINGLY, I really struggled but did not buy the bambi or cat cookie jar in the fourth photo here.

The Mill Market ay Daylesford was also one of those china wonderlands a stumbled upon (it was at the end of the road from the great B&B we stayed at!) and I bought lots of great things here. Disappointingly there was hardly any bambi’s or rabbits, but I guess I probably dont really need any more of those (right now). They also do pretty decent coffee at the cafe here, luckily my lovely man was happy to wonder for hours on end (and even became my eagle eyes finding all the great things I may have missed) if there was a coffee at the end of it all. Talk about easily pleased!

We also dropped into the brand new Pyn Shop (pronounced “Pin” for the record) in Shepparton to say “hi” to Amy, who I hadn’t met before (but who is as lovely in real life as she is via email). Be sure to go in and visit if you are in the area, her shop is super cute and full of unique clothing which seems to be a made590 customer favourite this season.

And last but not least, on our way back home we stopped in at Bob Boutique in Bendigo which is yet another cute shop with Japanese homewares and cute locally made gifts. They also stock Made By White, made590 and the owner Sonia is completely lovely too.

I’ll leave you with a few quick pics of my stacks of plates I ended up with in my loungeroom! I’ll share some of my favourites soon (as there are MANY). Kx