Op-shop finds of the week

A bright, warm day after snow and southerlies was very welcome, and perfect for the annual Rangiora's Kids Market. The stalls are kid run, with the kids practicing practical maths with real money; marketing etc, whilst getting hard cash for the toys they've outgrown. No doubt the thrifty in the kid fraternity will have been practicing their bargining skills too!

                                                              I loved some of the signage

And it wasn't just toys either...

This future-Nigella made cupcakes decorated with chunks of your fave chocolate, (malteesers, mmm).

 So yum in fact they were sold out by the time I made my way round the heaving market for a second helping...

So I had a Brit-kids bun, decorated with English lollies-nom!

So what did I get?

Well, I'll briefly digress here to ask, have you seen this?

Lookie here for the details (it's sooo worth a detour!)

Anyway, totally inspired I went to the market on a mission. A mission to find a dolls house, to 'do-up', as a mini version of our place.

I wasn't disappointed...

                                        Pretty similar I think, excepting the extra floor of course
                                       (a bungalow dolls house just wouldn't be right would it?!)

I felt so sorry for the little boy selling it, who's granny volunteered him to carry it to my car (Claud had conked out in the backpack). He blushed all the way (think it was the boy-carrying-doll-house thing), and it was such a long way and so heavy he had to keep having a rest, poor boy!

Still on the subject of the wonderful Mousehouse blog from whence the ultimate dolls house inspiration came, here is the prize I won there last week...

                                                              How perfect for me is that!

                                                     Thanks Megan, for the prize and inspiration x



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