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Saturday, June 07, 2014

Margell magic

As promised, I popped into town this morning to check out the op shops.

 It's a small town, so there's only two, but I came away with treasures:
Collection of miniature items including a 1950s-style chair, a tea towel, a stack of old National Geographic magazines, a white plastic tub, a 'Be a health Kiwi' poster and an old biscuit tin.
A 1950s-style chair ($30: perfect for reading by the fire until I decide on what I want there in the long term), a stack of old National Geographic magazines ($5: because every holiday home needs old National Geographic magazines!), a white plastic tub for doing dishes in ($2: I'll get plumbing and a sink installed eventually but in the meantime I can get water from the toilet block taps), a 'Be a health Kiwi' poster ($5: a surprise find in an Australian op shop but stranger things have happened) an old biscuit tin ($2) and a tea towel (50 cents).

 Did you notice what the tea towel was?
Close up of a 1950s-style miniature chair, displaying a 2011 fund-raising tea towel for Margell Public School and a stack of old National Geographic magazines.
How perfect is that?!
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8 comments:

  1. Susan@minicrochetmad2:34 pm, June 07, 2014

    I think I've said before, your op shops leave my locals for dead! Nice haul, specially the chair, love that.

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  2. m1k12:48 pm, June 07, 2014

    chortle

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  3. AMCSviatko4:40 pm, June 07, 2014

    Susan: ah yes, but It's easy to have great op shops when you create them yourself ;-)

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  4. jodie5:53 pm, June 07, 2014

    i looked, and then I looked agin... Totally gorgeous.

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  5. Susan@minicrochetmad6:11 pm, June 07, 2014

    Created or RL, still leave mine for dead ;)

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  6. Mad for Mod11:23 pm, June 07, 2014

    Nice finds!

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  7. Mini Dork2:26 pm, June 16, 2014

    Those National Geographic mags are great. That tea towel is perfect. Did you draw all of the people? Just perfect.

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  8. AMCSviatko4:22 pm, June 16, 2014

    Mini Dork: No, I used my super-doper search skills to find an image of a fundraising tea towel with about the right number of kids on it, then popped it through Photoshop to rejig the centre section to suit my school.

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