Last Saturday my mother-in-law stumbled into a Baptish Church opshop. Knowing my love for bargains, she went in and saw clothes, fabrics, baby things, and she hurried home to tell me about it. And both rushed back there a half hour before it closed. There were racks of clothes being sold at 50cents a piece, as well as rooms devoted to women’s wear, baby wear, menswear and odd bric-a-brac.
The first thing that caught my eye were 2 pairs of Jeanswest Maternity jeans-50 cents each!
They were practically brand new and in my size! I wouldn’t wear them in summer, but I’ll wear them in winter for a winter baby. Wink!
I was excited when I saw that they had a cupboardful of fabrics. Here’s what I picked out for a dollar a bundle.
The top fabric is a large yardage of blue-green linen.
Would probably make a nice boy’s shirt.
Can’t figure out what it is. It’s wonderfully soft and silky, but I think it’s probably a synthetic blend.
And last but not least…
I also browsed through they sewing notions and found this.
And they weren’t old vintage ones either.
The lady said there were some sewing books-but somebody had already made off with them. Darn!
But the prize of the day was this.
It came in about 10 minutes after we did. And I just fell in love with it. Even though we already had one given to us…this on was just so hard to resist. It was absolutely beautiful. Retail it would be at least AUD150 or more. This one was AUD 25. It was probably a spare one from the grandparents when they babysat the little one. But it really looks new. And the cream-coloured frills! To die for.
I also got this.
Really handy for travelling. Or even as a playpen! Got this one knocked down from AUD40 to AUD 20.
It was a wonderful day.
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