Category Archives: Stuff We’ve Found

Crinoline Lady Find… Hand Painted Fire Screen

Found this firescreen in a charity shop in Norwich today… Tracey is totally smitten.. Tags: crinoline+lady, vintage, fire+screen

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Mondays Vintage Finds, 1920′s Bags, Limoges Brooch & Bond Girl Swimming Costume

Just a few of the nicer finds from yesterday… Couple of 1920s Handbags, Perfect Condition Limoges enameled brooch/pendant 1935 Silver Jubilee, embroidery.. Any wannabe Bond girls?? Tags: 1920's+handbag, vintage+limoges+brooch, 1960s+bathing+costume,

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1940′s Fashion Magazines…Raffia and Felt

Antiques fair in the forum in Norwich picked these amazing German fashion magazines fom 1942.  Absolutely adore the colours, the magazines also have their original sewing patterns although thay are a tad more complicated than our patterns! Also got a couple of nice 1920s/30s Raffia pattern books….but best of all a whole stack of vintage ...

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Vintage 1950′s Eye Candy Prom Dress Stunner!!!

Its the same every year, around February, March we start getting crazed for Vintage Prom dresses.  Every year June/July time the moment prom season is almost over, we find a stunner!  It would make sense to save them up and have prom dress extraganza for the following year, but we never do!  Last night after a busy ...

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1970′s Super Size Floor Toys Pattern

We find plenty of patterns and how tos for the smaller ones but have never found a pattern for the larger ones, until now!  Will post the result if Tracey ever decides to make one..  Or if anyone wants to buy this am happy to sell it on… Cx

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Sunday Booty!!

Car Booting on a scorching hot Sunday morning… we went to three different sales heres what we found…. Cute Art Deco Tea Cup Some nice pieces of costume jewellery Two Holly Hobbie 1970s embroideries

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Tiny Treasures… Vintage 1950s Summer Dress

This week amongst our regular haul, we came across some childrens stuff..  These two pieces are so cute we just had to share. Tiny 1950s St Michaels floral cotton dress, I would guess it would fit a two year old. Cute 1950s knitted cardigan with matching knitted cloche skull cap ...

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