New To The Shop This Week- Viva La Rustica!

Do you love your vintage rusty, rustic, crusty, worn or wooden??

Looking for something ripe for upcycling??

We've had a virtual tonne of new crustic (as I call it) vintage come in to the shop lately, I've been rather slack on the blogging front lately, so here are some new additions over the past few weeks.

I'm particularly loving this 1940s galvanised post/letter box.

I'm getting a bit of an obsession with tin stuff lately, can you tell? Ha!

Tons of trios....

Two new old bathroom wall cabinets, this one 'shabby' the other is Art Deco with chrome railings and a pop-out mirror

1950s porcelain coffee grinder in perfect working order.

And more tins than you can poke a stick at.

I have some very exciting news to share with you all shortly, a big new project I've been working on (which has been sucking up all my time) can soon be announced.

Stay tuned folks!

Vintage & Kitsch Collectables You Wish You Owned - Part 2

As you all know I've been recovering from my dental surgery this past week and a half, so I've had plenty of time (although little inclination!) to do some online browsing.

Here are a few lovelies I've had my eyes on this week.

a girl can never have too many pairs of vintage sunnies, and I definitely need more!

50s snack tray which is also a lazy susan

50s/60s chest of drawers, more often we see the sideboards and wall units, less so the bedroom furniture in this style

Yellow, grey and pink were huge in 50s kitchens, and this ceramic biscuit barrell must have been right on-trend

As were the ever-popular Nally Ware canisters

But if you're more for the 60s, how could you go past this super psychedelic tray? 'Specially if you knew it's made from fabric-covered fibreglass

Anyone who admires Vix's wall of misery will love these big-eyed child prints, I have 2 similar but am always on the lookout for more.

For those who know that green is a neutral colour (come on, hands up now!), how's this bakelite bracelet? It's been made recently from vintage pieces but if you didn't know you wouldn't know...if you know what I mean.

Aah, beautiful bakelite, what more can I say, you know what I'm like with this stuff, this has to be one of the nicest trinket boxes I've yet seen.

I've wanted one of these bakelite musical cigarette dispensers for ages-one day I'll get one. Twist one of the knobs on the front and out pops a drawer with cigs inside-awesome!

Original old garden swan (?), looking pretty crusty and rustic but it could be fixed up, nice to see an original one amongst all the plastic repro.

German lava vase, such a classic collectable, this one stands out amongst the orange crowd for me with the stripey effect.

Anodised cup set in it's own small table, a must for any serious retro collector.

60s carousel wig box, you can't tell from the pic but this one had 2 original wigs inside, how cool is that!

And last but not least, this 50s Italian cup and kidney-shaped saucer set. I'm quite tempted by this myself as it would fit well with my black stuff...but no, I'll let you all have a go :)

New To The Shop This Week

 

We've had so much new stock in this week I hardly know where to start! I've been working my absolute butt off in the last ten days to get it all into the shop, here's a selection for you to ooh and aah over :)

 

We did a fantastic bulk buy of 30s-50s vintage clothing last week, above is one of the stunning dresses we bought. I've taken quite a few up to the shop already but you should see how many are still hanging in my laundry waiting to be washed, LOL. I'll show you a few more next week when I have more time to take good photos for you.

We've changed around a few of the kitchen displays- Sue put this red and blue-themed one together on our newest tea trolley, and didn't she do a good job?!

As I've mentioned before, things come in runs, and lately that's whats been happening with tins, we seem to have bought quite a few.

Can you spot the other (accidental) theme here?? Yes- cats! You'd be forgiven for thinking I'm obsessed with them or something, LOL.

Some beautiful retro 60s glassware

Fantastic mid century standard lamp with a perfect original shade

Can't go wrong with a tooled leather handbag...

But how about a GREEN tooled leather handbag?!

 

Bright red Vespa bag, not an oldie but so cool we've made an exception to our strict rule about not selling any repro

a selection of bow ties...I was going to say 'for the boys' but no, girls can definitely wear these too!

We now have quite a number of old copper items too-basins, kettle, jugs, and these trays.

We have them displayed up on a high picture rail in the kitchen, and I can just see them displayed that way in someone's country or shabby-themed kitchen.

Old Dutch clogs, brought to Australia by a migrant in the 60s, he'd held on to them all this time until I bought them from him last week. I love buying things with a bit of personal history to them

How awesome is this lamp?! Sue can take all the credit for this, she's the resident lamp queen!

 The wingspan is as long as my arm, hard to get a good photo, but see below how pretty it is when lit up

and last but of course not least, some jewellery

1920s/30s bakelite 'flapper girl' pendant

Some fabulous new shoe clips, I especially love the Art deco cut steel pair, a treat to add to either vintage or modern shoes.


Well I'm off to do another big fashion buy-up tomorrow (with VB's help of course!), I know I just did one last week, but hey, tomorrow is 'Frock on Friday', and I'll be giving it a whole new meaning, lol.

Wish me luck!

New To The Shop This Week

Lots of new stuff in this week!

As always it's a variety, have a look and tell me your favourite/s.

 

Super-fine hand blown glass perfume bottle.

 

It has a very unusual motif on it, I wonder if any of you have seen one like this before?

Fantastic 60s serving platter, complete with cocktail picks.

1920s quick cooker by Grimwades-apparently a valuable item these days, see below

I love the instructions all over the lid!

 

My latest favourite 50s dress. It has the original belt intact but we covered it with this wide piece of 50s ribbon for better colour contrast.

Fabric close-up.

The weather has really turned in the last couple of weeks (todays high temp on the Mountain was only 19, which here is considered practically freezing) so I took a few furs up. this is a super-snuggly fake fur coat.

 

This is real though, musquash with squirrel tails, quite unusual.

 

Rare Art Deco solid brass dinner gong with red bakelite in the base, pardon my reflection in the chime there!

I have yet to find a retro dinner gong but I really want one. If you have one, please show and tell!