Saturday, June 2, 2012

Vintaging from Canberra

Hi y'all!
Yvette, you asked me to post the Op Shop stuff I got with you in Canberra, so here it is!!
From back left:
*A woodland Pyrex plate $2, to match a cup I have in the same pattern! YAY! New tea time set!!,
*Square aluminium cake pan $3- cos Mum always made her Chocolate Raisin Cake recipe in a square pan, and whenever I made the cake I only had round pans so I would always cut the edges off the cake to make it a square before I cut it up! How funny is that! So now I will just be able to bake it in the proper square pan {score!}
*Fisher Price Peek-A-Blocks- $5 for a bag of 11 (couldn't find the rest for the pic! LOL!) Jaimeson just LOVES these blocks, and loves to shake the noisy ones! I love all the little things inside them, and i have been scouring other Op Shops for more (with great success!) They don't sell these any more in the shops so I was so pleased to find them in Op Shops!
*Pencil stool- $4. For Jaimeson! I loved it!
*Books- $1 each. I have been scouring the books at Op Shops, for Jaimeson. We've bought quite a lot and now I'm about to return some that weren't interesting! LOL! I don't really get time to read them while I'm at the shop, and if I get home and decide the story is crap, back it goes to the Op Shop. Consider it my money donated to charity (cos they get the book back- lol!)
*1991 Map of Sydney- $1. This is so fun to look at, and see how much has changed in 21 years! It's a lot too!! No M2, M5 east, M7 etc! Not sure what I'm going to do with it, whether I will cut it up or not.
*Vintage sheets- $5 for 2.

Not a bad haul! I loved Opping with you too, Yvette!!
:) C

3 comments:

Yvette Adams said...

Did you really cut it into a square? ROFL. You know, I have tried making chocolate raisin cake maybe twice, and both times it did not turn out well so I haven't made it again! I'd like to try yours.

I'd forgotten about the little stool! Should I use a different word? Does that remind you too much of work?

What is the sheet in the background? It's so cute!!!

Anonymous said...

Love the Peek-a-boo blocks. Great to gather a collection of them. LOVE the little stool.
Yes, chocolate raisin cake needs to be square!
Love Mum

Louella said...

We have some of those blocks too - we got given them from friends when their children had finished playing with them. Didnt realise you couldnt buy them anymore! We have the train, and maybe a farmhouse (or something like that), that they go with too!!

We also buy lots of books at the op shop too! We have an extensive book collection!!