A collection of weird and wonderful lamps

I seem to have a fascination with weird but wonderful lamps. This is started when I was at a carboot on New Years Day in Weston-super-Mare a few years back. This is my ‘beautiful lady lamp’. Some of my lovely housemates hated her (Sophie thats you, but I think you secretly love her) and the others took an eventual liking. I had to buy her, she needed a good home, we needed a lamp and she was only £2. Needless to say she is still around somewhere as I can never seem to part with her.

beautiful lady lamp

I found this happy chappy in a garage sale in Milwaukie, OR for only $4. Unfortunately I had very limited space and had to say goodbye.

$4 at a garage sale in Milwaukie Oregon

I will keep adding to this blog post as I find them 🙂 if you have a particularly strange lamp or see one please tweet a picture to me, I would love to see it!

This weeks charity shop and carboot finds in Somerset

Both sets £3.50 for 6 x teacups and saucers

In the past few weeks I have been incredibly busy with my new job, which I am loving. So unfortunately vintage hunting was put on the back burner but now have been getting back on track. I popped to Weston Hospice on Worle Highstreet on my lunch Thursday last week and what treats I found.

Cherry Doily 50p
Two lots of 6 x teacups and saucers for £3.50
Vintage teapot £3
3 pretty blue and gold teacups £1.50
4 Royal Dolton dinner plates 10p each

cute £3 teapot

£1.50 for these three

Today I made a quick visit to Cheddar carboot sale and spent all of £15 on some lovely pieces, in particular my new marble side table. One of my old managers at Dew Gibbons had the best taste and she had a beautiful table in the basement (she never wanted to sell it). I managed to find an almost exact replica but the top is real marble rather than imitation… happy days.

Suitcase £1
Marble side table £5
Weighing scales 50p
Bottles 10p each
French tin 50p
Vintage sign £2
Cocktail book 50p
Plates 10p each

Oh hi new table

Bottles galore

My finds

NYE cocktail inspirations