New Year Resolutions (2012), no 1.
Curb magazine addiction; after long and painful deliberation making an exception only for BBC Home and Antiques.
Always at least a couple of months old by the time it gets to NZ, always out of season, it usually has a wonderful, alluring cover, but I bought this one anyway.
Being a fan of traditional welsh wool patterns: I had a welsh wool coat at an impressionable age, in red and black with a pixie hood and a zip up the front, I loved this article. In particular I fantasised about that pink one, to the left, imagining a pair of girls bed with one of those blankets apiece, with the cute wee kiddo's holding hands across the gap.I always have detailed fantasies (tee-hee!), and we're planning baba no 2, and are hoping for another girl...
Isn't it gorg!
Two days later...thank you Gods of the op-shoppy Universe!
Just one, easily fixed, pull apiece, they appear never to have been used.
Imagine if this always happened? See something in a cool magazine, then it appears in an op-shop for not much the very next day (or thereabouts).
You wouldn't give up your magazine addiction then would you?
My first share at Soph's of 2012.
Righto...off to read World of Interiors and hope for the best...
I love it when that happens. For me its sometimes after reading somebodys blog and wanting something they found, it magically turns up in an oppie that week.
ReplyDeleteYou jammy thing! Amazing. I need to op-shop with you!
ReplyDeleteWow - what a wonderful stroke of luck! Great find.
ReplyDeleteLiz @ Shortbread & Ginger
Ooh, that's spooky! Lovely blankets.
ReplyDeleteRight, I'm going to cosmically order an Enid Collins box bag and a Biba original maxi dress in my size. Be careful what you wish for! xxxx
I. Don't. Believe. It!
ReplyDeleteI think you should buy a Lotto ticket Max, what an amazing stroke of good fortune (couldn't happen to a nicer person by the way...)
And on Claude's potential Sis, if all goes according to plan, how about Albertine for a name? You could have Claudie and little Bertie too...just a thought...
x
I have a big pile of recipe magazines bought before Christmas at the thrifts - 5 for $1 - how can you go wrong - but now I have Christmas books to go through and more magazines - oh, dear.... better get reading....
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't that ever happen to me!! argh.
ReplyDeleteThat is just bizarre.
Lovely blankets even without the coincidence.
What a beauty!
ReplyDeleteOh that is my most favourite thing ever, when it happens. I have many such stories. It's like the vintage universe is telling you are in the right place and on the right path.
ReplyDeleteThe blankets are fabulous. What a find. V
What an amazing find you lucky lucky lady xxx
ReplyDeleteI LOVE it xxx
You and the oppys have some sort of deep connection goin' on! That's amazing!!
ReplyDeletethat is incredible!
ReplyDeleteI just don't understand. I go to an opshop and you know what I find....ugly 'mum-jeans', crappy plastic toys and generally just smelly stuff that other people got rid of for good reason. And then i see your blog and I think, What? How does this happen? How do you keep finding so much good stuff?
ReplyDeleteNo way! I think sometimes people make this stuff up just to tease me. What a find, they're worth a bomb over here. Mind you, I've not set foot in a charity shop yet this year, who knows what's waiting for me.
ReplyDeleteI love H&A, I fantasy shop from each issue. I just got the new issue (you got the blanket, it's only fair) and am now in love with the idea of a silver stamp holder as a necklace.
Happy (and Lucky) New Year!