One of my favourite times of the year is coming up! The annual pre-loved clothing sale. This year however, it is in a different location....@ Wesley Church Hall, 75 Taranaki Street.

It was crazy busy last year, so maybe they have moved to create more space for all that pre-loved designer goodness.

So, you buy the clothes, and the money gets donated to support refugees through the ChangeMakers Refugee Forum. A very good cause. They raised $14,000... Read more

Plates, plates, plates, pretty plates. I'm preoccupied with pretty plates. Everywhere I go, any secondhand store I pass, any fair I go to..what am I looking for??.........PRETTY PLATES!

On a recent trip up north I scouted some relatively undiscovered secondhand stores and adopted some pretty plates for my china cabinet. They now join my handbells and my baby tea cups to live in permanent admiration. You may see them modelling on the catwalk that is prettysweetthings... Read more

This is Lola Bell, and her mother, Mother Bell. She looks like a Lola to me, and I'm sure there are no arguements that she is definietly a Mother Bell.



Isn't she pretty and sweet. I adopted them both from a secondhand store in Woodville.

I'm going to start collecting bells. Then maybe after I have many bells, I can attempt to do what this guy can do! Isn't he clever.

 

 

 

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