Plastic frocks for the rain...

Was a bit reluctant to open shop this morning without my feline friend to greet me. And it was raining. But the way to let go and get happy and liven up is to get BUSY. I cut out some funny "paper doll" type frocks from plastic tablecloth fabric to dress the "gals" outside. Don't like to see them bare to the elements! Here are today's outfits...

A sad day at the shop

Today is a very sad day for us. Our darling cat, pictured in the previous post, instead of meeting me at the gate as he did every morning, was lying dead on the lawn next to the gate. I think the cat flu, or maybe even feline aids, was too much for his frail little frame. What a sweet chap he was, and how we will miss him. We have buried him at the gate so that he will be with us always. Poor little thing.

Our cat and Kamersvol...

There he is, our stray cat, Kitty.
Sleeping on the Malawi craft, but he looked so dear, will just give it a wipe when he moves...
Just returned from Kamersvol Geskenke - as a customer, not a stallholder. Wow - that was inspiring! Full of beautiful images now. It was a visual feast. A creative explosion. And a bit of an exercise in humility - kept thinking "Why couldn't I have thought of that?" or "Why don't we decorate our shop so exquisitely?" or "I am so un-creative!" - but feel totally inspired to get into Rummage and curate the stuff.
Hope it's possible.
Onward and upward to better shop display!

Rummage Cat and Chubby Chic

Oops - not sure how I managed to let a whole month lapse without writing this blog - sadly it is not because of the queues of desperate customers banging down our door...
But our shop is a little bit magical, because, somehow, it just keeps a trickle of money coming in and a few new faces discovering it with delight every few days. And that keeps us hopeful and happy.
And while we wait for the queues and stampedes, it is a lovely peaceful spot to spend time. We have a resident cat now - a small black and white chap called Kitty who lives with Minnie and Mervin, the Rasta family who live next door to the shop when we aren't there, but greets us every morning at the gate. We feed him now and I was pleased to feel his fat little belly this morning instead of the jutting hip bones he featured before.
Sadly, fat little bellies are a feature of this particular shop keeper too. The rush to get slender for summer seems to have rushed past me on the other side of the highway this time around and I am cruising in chubby neutral without a care. I am channeling chubby chic this summer. This means clothes with enough personality to stand on their own merits without a fabulous figure to rely on. (Well, this is my new theory anyway, and I'm sticking to it!)
Onward and upward to the rounded stylish woman!
(That's me wearing my Great Aunt Dorothy's lace blouse - see, it's beautiful enough to distract attention from whatever lies beneath it, I hope!

Market Day coming up!

We are going to have one of our outside market days on school break up day - Friday 23 Sept. All winter stock will be 20% off and lots of new summer stock will be out.
So if anyone ever reads this blog - do come! Or send your friends....

Rummage was so busy today - what a delightful change it made! Perhaps it was the whirl of patterns outside? or just that it was such a lovely sunny day...

Rummage was so busy today - what a delightful change it made! Perhaps it was the whirl of patterns outside? or just that it was such a lovely sunny day...