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3/20/2014

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Last weekend we had glorious sunshine here in the West Country, so we took the opportunity to got out to the Carboot sale at Frome on Sunday morning, unfortunately most of the population of the county decided to go as well, this combined with the girl taking the entrance money moving at a glacial pace meant a 30 minuet queue to get in! Luckily it turned out to be a really good one and worth the wait!

I picked up this gorgeous 1970s curtain fabric for just £1.
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I've really gotten into theses 70s big repeat patterns, not the flora stuff and mostly the stuff in shades of green. At the moment this doesn't seem terribly popular but Im sure it will become so just like the 50s stuff came back into vogue so best the snap this up now while I can afford it!

Rich got this cool retro set of bathroom scales for £1, I like that there is a glass bubble over the numbers to magnify them especially for blind people like me!
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Rich also picked up another old radio that needs some tlc, it will be added to the collection and I got two more 50s tumblers for 50p, they are very similar to a set we already have with gold feathers but these have leaves.
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So all in all a pretty good morning, especially given than I think we spend about £3 each! We've had a few good things lately, at a bootsale a few weeks ago I managed to pick up a couple of Babycham glasses for £2, added to the ones my Mum got me for Christmas means I now have a set of 6.
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I also picked up a few more plates, two Homemaker dinner plates from eBay for 49p as they both have slight chips, this doesn't both me too much as I want to use them day to day, I don't believe it keeping things for best! And another 60s look one from a Bristol junk shop for 50p.
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A little while ago I was also lucky enough to get given this 50s bevel-edge mirror (that I mentioned in the previous post) from a lovely lady I work with, this was in exchange for a load of top soil to help sort out the garden of their new house. The mirror sat in the kitchen for a while as I couldn't make up my mind where to hang it , but last week I was repainting our stairway and decided to try it there along with another mirror I have of a similar age...
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I think they look great, they really help to bounce light into what is quite a dark space, so I have decided to make this my mirror and butterflies collection space!

So a busy few weeks, I have also been listing lots of stuff on eBay recently as we re now having to operate a 'one in one out' system when we buy new things!
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