Op Shopping

Kanga In...

Recently I have seen a lot of people's blogs where they have been discussing their Op Shop trips and how they love Op Shopping and their marvelous finds. Well... I'm jumping on the band wagon!

Where I live there are 2 warehouses within lets say 8 minutes of my house. 1 I feel is actually closer than the other and its probably better priced for clothes, although I'm super picky when it comes to clothes so never really by any, because I don't find any that I like. The other warehouse is MASSIVE! There is clothes, toys, electrical, manchester, furniture and even a little bookshop. By that I mean a room full of books, just like a bookshop. Love it, so cute.

So I went to the massive one today knowing that they had a good amount of furniture as I was looking for a little cupboard or something that I could put either my overlocker or sewing machine in or both if they would fit, so as we can have our dining room table back. Hubby is extremely unimpressed at the fact that half of our dining table is taken up with sewing bits and pieces. I guess that I would like to get themoff there as well, but we live in quite a small 2 bed townhouse and there isn't much room for my sewing stuff anywhere except Roo's room and I can't be going in and out when he's asleep, which is when I do most of my sewing.

So I walked in and was looking around and voila, I found the perfect cabinet AND it was a sewing cabinet... Even better it was the exact thing that I was looking for... Oh and it had been marked down. Now it's not in the best condition, it looks as though it has had water damage, but it will most definitely serve it's purpose. I was very pleased with my find. I promptly went over to the furniture counter and announced the item I was after, the lady looked at me a little perplexed as though I had changed the price or read it wrong. I waltzed back to the cabinet and said "this one" she looked and was like "oh" I thought HUH, you thought I was wrong and I wasn't.

I promptly went and paid for it as I needed to get to Spotlight and home again as Roo was getting snottier and snottier (he's either getting his 2 year molars, or a cold, either way and unhappy Roo) and tired. I also picked up some awesome fabric as well for $5. I got a metre piece of flannel, some pretty groovy green and white large-ish circle material also a metre, 1/2 a metre of some very funky fabric... it's on my facebook page, I think I called it Black Flowers or something to that effect and lastly and I wasn't 100% sure what this was before I got it home, but it's the cutest jungle animal cot panel... I might just have to get my "quilting" hat out and make a quilt.

All in all a fantastic trip Op Shopping today, and if you haven't done it before you can find some great bargains just as I did and others before me.

...Kanga Out