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Rosa_Damascena

Coxy11 said:

I have never worn animal print but DSis gifted me a handbag for my birthday last month. It has interchangeable straps in cream/black or pale blue/black animal print. A hint to embrace it now I'm in my mid-50s !!!??

I won't lie - I have a number of animal prints in my wardrobe: mainly snake (although I would run a mile from an actual snake), ostrich,  but also a reticulate giraffe dress, grey and black zebra print...and recently added 2 dark leopard print blouses to my collection. They are all items I wear to work: with the exception of the dress, they are all sheer items so can be toned down in a look. I look nothing short of fabulous in each and every one of them .

It's this image I can't get out of my head:

Rosa_Damascena

Back to more ladylike matters, my latest chazzer-finds:

flamingo747

Rosa I would have bought all of them, very much my style!

dND

As promised, a start on my haul since being back in the UK from July!

I now have another obsession to add to my Pyrex one.  🤣 I spotted the peach/orangey fruit bowl set and just had to have it.  It's Anchor Hocking, Peach Lustre Swirl and is a 7 piece set - 2 bowls not in use at the moment.  It cost me the grand sum of £3.75!
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I then spotted 5 custard cups and the soup bowl in another cs.  They're also Anchor Hocking; the pattern is Meadow Green.  I really need to get my Pyrex collection unpacked asap once I'm in my new house to try al remind myself how much I have already!





It's the same with books - i can't resist them. so these managed to come home with me.  I ended up paying the full price for these because I was good and only bought the 2 I wanted and not the 4 for £1. So 50p each for these.  The crochet one I've wanted for a couple of years but not been prepared to pay the price asked for on the secondhand book sites - plus I would have then had to pay for their transport and storage back to the UK.  Both are as new hardbacks.

goldfinches

@Rosa_Damascena - gracious I'd forgotten all about Kenny E! He used to make our whole family fall around laughing, even our mother thought him hilarious. Lovely lot of finds there too.
@dND - I can see I'm going to have to work hard to keep up with your kitchen finds, congrats on finding the crochet book you were looking for.

I had a marvellous piece of luck in the original Oxfam shop in the centre of town this morning thanks to being 20 minutes early to meet a friend for a walk. I just had time to make a quick detour to have a look in there and then made the effort to negotiate their rather rickety stairs down to the basement and found an Ottolenghi cookbook I've been looking out for. It was on one of the display shelves so I think it would have been snapped up pretty quickly if I hadn't got there first. I paid £6.99 but it is in good condition and a new copy would be £35 and upwards on the big river site.

dND

@goldfinches I'm salivating just looking at the cover. 🤣 I like a lot of his recipes.

Coxy11

Loved Kenny E!

We went to Bromley today for a theatre matinee. DH and DD went for street food and I hit the CSs. Got a Nomination bracelet with a mermaid charm for £1.99 in Oxfam (to upsell) and a lovely vase for £1.99 in BHF which I might keep(!) or take to the Bring and Buy fundraiser. 

YoungBlueEyes

I'm not sure where to ask this but I'll ask it here.

If you bought a couple of pictures in a cs, how can you check if they're real (itms?) I bought a couple of pictures that I like the look of and they're going up in the hall regardless, but what if they're worth big money? How would I know? I was thinking of taking them into a sale room next week, see what value they put on them. I haven't taken them apart to see what quality the actual picture is, because I'm not sure I could tell ha haa! The backing is recent, as is the stringing. Does anyone have any tips please...? 

dND

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm not sure where to ask this but I'll ask it here.

If you bought a couple of pictures in a cs, how can you check if they're real (itms?) I bought a couple of pictures that I like the look of and they're going up in the hall regardless, but what if they're worth big money? How would I know? I was thinking of taking them into a sale room next week, see what value they put on them. I haven't taken them apart to see what quality the actual picture is, because I'm not sure I could tell ha haa! The backing is recent, as is the stringing. Does anyone have any tips please...? 

I'm no expert but I first G**gle the artist to see if they are a known one. I then look at the surface - I had one painting that I thought was original until I realised that whilst I could see brushstrokes the surface was smooth so it was a print.  Any further than that I'm at a loss and looking forward to other peoples replies.

YoungBlueEyes

Thanks dND. They're Winnie The Pooh sketches, so even if I took them apart it might only tell me that they are pencil on paper/card, and I'd be no further forward with if they're real or not...

When the daylight improves I'll take pics.