Treasure Hunting Spoils

Hello lovelies!

I do apologise that my self-imposed study hiatus turned into a slightly more extended break than originally planned. I spent my mid year uni holidays mostly kicking around Brisbane searching for treasure and hanging with my friends, so I will also share some of those adventures with you all over the coming weeks.

Now it’s the first week back at school and my last semester before I graduate at the end of the year. I’m feeling a little nostalgic about finishing my degree and also terrified about going out into the real world and being a grown up! But for now I’m feeling inspired and ready to share my crafty ideas with you all.

Below is one of my favourite op shop treasures that I have brought home over the last month or so, and is now hanging in my lounge room. And, as usual, costing just $2, it is pure bargain gold!

Long live ‘70s macramé!

xo

Treasure Hunting

As promised, here are some of my op shop treasures that I found yesterday.

As you can see they are fantastic, retro bargains AND best of all because someone else has chucked this stuff, buying it is not only giving to charity, it's saving these fantastic, retro bargains from ending up in landfill. Basically it's a total win win situation and KK gets to be an eco warrior and have a funky house full of one-off interesting pieces.

TV stand $9.

Perfect size, shape and colour. I particularly love the retro legs and the gold trim around the edge of the table top.

'70s Stoneware tea set, reduced from $25 to $8.

Totes fab in the '70s shades of brown!

Pyrex mixing bowl $4.50.

I actually saw a set of four of these bowls for sale in an antique shop recently for $60. Clearly this is a bargain. Plus my collection of mixing bowls was severely lacking in a medium size bowl like this one.

'70s Stoneware salt and pepper shakers $2.

These almost match my tea set perfectly, but ironically I got them from a different op shop to the tea set.

Pretty glasses $1 each.

In preparation for Earth Hour I was actually hunting the oppies for cheap glasses to use as tealight candle holders. This photo doesn't really do them justice, they are much prettier in person.

Space invaders t-shirt $5.

Total geek chic. Enough said.

Vintage '70s tablecloth $6.50.

When I bought this I thought it was actually square, but it turns out this tablecloth fits perfectly on my table on the back veranda. Such a great surprise.

I hope you think these pretties are just as pretty as I do.

xo