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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This discovery originated from my recent obsession to find a simple gold locket necklace.

I have been browsing around secondhand stores for months, but the closest I got to the gold locket was one that had  'Love Peter' engraved on the front. Decided that I didn't want to sport something that obviously was bought with adoration for another....that would be a bit strange.... On one of these secondhand locket finding missions I came across miniture perfume... Read more