Such wild wind today that our little windmills are getting shredded!
But take a look at the glam pink coat on the gate - blowing to hell, but imagine it belted on you!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
windy day and designer jacket
Such wild wind today that our little windmills are getting shredded!
But take a look at the glam pink coat on the gate - blowing to hell, but imagine it belted on you!
designer labels, labels, labels, dahlin'!
Well, we had a most marvelous haul yesterday when a stylist, who is also a mother at the Waldorf School (where B's and my children spend their homespun days), dropped off a box of the designer gear she used on shoots. Phew - one doesn't often see such garments - well we don't in our rather low-toned shopping haunts.
So we have marked them (and the most expensive is R250 for a silk Jenni Button cream coat which is so beautiful, but quite unsuitable to the life of a 2nd hand shop owner, sadly) and hung them up on our crowded rails. Now we just wait for the unsuspecting customer who comes to our little oddball emporium and finds TREASURE!
Speaking of lowliness, quite a few people have wandered in here, attracted by the quirky clothing signage I suppose, and have looked around with expressions of something approaching horror. I wish I could have photographed their faces, so clearly expressing, "Oh my God, what a GHASTLY little SECOND HAND hovel - I simply COULDN'T bring myself to trawl around these rails!"
So to those Constantia ladies out there who are so far, far above the treasure hunt thrill of the second hand shop - stay out, get back! Be off with you - your snooty air-sniffing, too-well powdered noses are not welcome.
Goodbye!
So we have marked them (and the most expensive is R250 for a silk Jenni Button cream coat which is so beautiful, but quite unsuitable to the life of a 2nd hand shop owner, sadly) and hung them up on our crowded rails. Now we just wait for the unsuspecting customer who comes to our little oddball emporium and finds TREASURE!
Speaking of lowliness, quite a few people have wandered in here, attracted by the quirky clothing signage I suppose, and have looked around with expressions of something approaching horror. I wish I could have photographed their faces, so clearly expressing, "Oh my God, what a GHASTLY little SECOND HAND hovel - I simply COULDN'T bring myself to trawl around these rails!"
So to those Constantia ladies out there who are so far, far above the treasure hunt thrill of the second hand shop - stay out, get back! Be off with you - your snooty air-sniffing, too-well powdered noses are not welcome.
Goodbye!
Sunday, May 29, 2011
spray painting!
Belinda and I got tired of waiting for customers to brave the 2 stairs that lead up to our emporium of quirky clothes - so we got the rickety ladder from the farm workshop (held by one nail on its way out) and I wielded the spray cans and shakily inscribed the legend across the shop front! Still a bit shaky and with pounding heart in case the landlord came to shout (I HATE being shouted at which is why I am such a boring, good girl)we then went a little over the top spraying hearts and dots all over the building.
Doesn't it look fabulous?!
And then Belinda modeled a quirky outfit to inspire our shoppers (um - where are they?)
So now EVERYONE knows what we sell in there.
And all they have to do now is... come in and shop!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Rummage is closed for a for revamp until 3 May...
We are not the world's most avid shop keepers I fear and so we have shut the shop for two weeks for the holidays! Even shopkeepers need a holiday.
But I intend to use the time off to hunt ALL my secret haunts for more fabulous old clothes to grace our shop when it opens.
And while we are shut, Sebastian, the lovely carpenter who works in the video shop in his other life, is building us PROPER shop rails with a long shelf above the rail to balance handbags and groovy things on. The rails will go along the two longest walls and we think things will look a lot more organised and less ramshackle this way. It was a bit crammed before, really!
We are going to re-open with a bang on 3 May - all chic and organised and gleaming! Hope you'll come and shop with us.
Here is the old stuffed-to-the-gills shop look - to compare later with the new spacious revamp...
But I intend to use the time off to hunt ALL my secret haunts for more fabulous old clothes to grace our shop when it opens.
And while we are shut, Sebastian, the lovely carpenter who works in the video shop in his other life, is building us PROPER shop rails with a long shelf above the rail to balance handbags and groovy things on. The rails will go along the two longest walls and we think things will look a lot more organised and less ramshackle this way. It was a bit crammed before, really!
We are going to re-open with a bang on 3 May - all chic and organised and gleaming! Hope you'll come and shop with us.
Here is the old stuffed-to-the-gills shop look - to compare later with the new spacious revamp...
We had our market and it was fab! We had lovely people selling chocolate brownies with hearts stencilled on in icing sugar and other lovely people selling wooden heart artworks and perspex jewels and others selling milk and honey creams and others selling bric a brac and others selling hand-painted t-shirts and others seeling groovy handbags and some children selling their old toys and dress-ups and Belinda and I sold our groovy recycled clothes as always. There weren't hoards and crowds sadly, but some of our dear regulars turned up and we all had a friendly happy day outside under the tree in the shop's garden and inside our tiny shop too.
Here are some pics which say more...
Here are some pics which say more...
Friday, April 1, 2011
And so we drift along...
Not being very up to date with these blog posts, I fear, but have great resolutions to do better. (If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, my road there has mosaic on the pavements!)
But the life of the small shop on the farm is running smoothly. We do have some customers, which is always a good thing, and apparently word is spreading, which is an even better thing.
But today I was sitting in the shop all alone (Belinda had a day off) and I did think that perhaps we should speed up this slow process of letting people know we are there, so I have made some little posters and some tiny black and white flyers that we must now distribute. Maybe even a mail drop! Eek! Getting quite serious now.
And we are going to have a market in our shop garden next Saturday (9 April) to entice new people in, and also to give some of our friends a space to sell their wares.
I'll post pics of it afterward. So far we have Gabi selling her pure wool children's jerseys, Sue selling her groovy bags, Zelda selling her delicious food and her mum's charming knitted toys, Leigh selling her necklaces and her fresh muffins, Shire selling her collectibles... and hopefully even more people will turn up with their wares. It's not every shop that has a garden so we intend to use it!
But the life of the small shop on the farm is running smoothly. We do have some customers, which is always a good thing, and apparently word is spreading, which is an even better thing.
But today I was sitting in the shop all alone (Belinda had a day off) and I did think that perhaps we should speed up this slow process of letting people know we are there, so I have made some little posters and some tiny black and white flyers that we must now distribute. Maybe even a mail drop! Eek! Getting quite serious now.
And we are going to have a market in our shop garden next Saturday (9 April) to entice new people in, and also to give some of our friends a space to sell their wares.
I'll post pics of it afterward. So far we have Gabi selling her pure wool children's jerseys, Sue selling her groovy bags, Zelda selling her delicious food and her mum's charming knitted toys, Leigh selling her necklaces and her fresh muffins, Shire selling her collectibles... and hopefully even more people will turn up with their wares. It's not every shop that has a garden so we intend to use it!
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