Op Shop Bargains!

Last Saturday my mother-in-law stumbled into a Baptish Church opshop. Knowing my love for bargains, she went in and saw clothes, fabrics, baby things, and she hurried home to tell me about it. And both rushed back there a half hour before it closed. There were racks of clothes being sold at 50cents a piece, as well as rooms devoted to women's wear, baby wear, menswear and odd bric-a-brac.

The first thing that caught my eye were 2 pairs of Jeanswest Maternity jeans-50 cents each!

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They were practically brand new and in my size!  I wouldn't wear them in summer, but I'll wear them in winter for a winter baby. Wink!

I was excited when I saw that they had a cupboardful of fabrics. Here's what I picked out for a dollar a bundle.

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The top fabric is a large yardage of blue-green linen.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="Pink polyester tricot."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="A pretty light green checked cotton blend."][/caption]

Would probably make a nice boy's shirt.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="A beautiful silver grey material."][/caption]

Can't figure out what it is. It's wonderfully soft and silky, but I think it's probably a synthetic blend.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="A really pretty vintage print cotton"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="A mustard-brown linen."][/caption]

And last but not least...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="A really interesting heavy weight cotton print"][/caption]

I also browsed through they sewing notions and found this.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="A shoebox full of zippers"][/caption]

And they weren't old vintage ones either.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="Some of the zippers were new."][/caption]

The lady said there were some sewing books-but somebody had already made off with them. Darn!

But the prize of the day was this.

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It came in about 10 minutes after we did. And I just fell in love with it. Even though we already had one given to us...this on was just so hard to resist. It was absolutely beautiful. Retail it would be at least AUD150 or more. This one was AUD 25.  It was probably a spare one from the grandparents when they babysat the little one. But it really looks new. And the cream-coloured frills! To die for.

I also got this.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="It's not a golf bag."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="Take off the cover and you get this."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="It's not a shopping trolley."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="It unfolds to....."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="639" caption="A Portacot!"][/caption]

Really handy for travelling. Or even as a playpen! Got this one knocked down from AUD40 to AUD 20.

It was a wonderful day.