More labels, dahlins!

First a Habits red trench and Diesel jeans...

Then a vintage green shirt from Italy with Escada Sport black pants...

Then these gorgeous sparkly tweed trews by Byblos (!) and a Laura Biagiotti (Rome) denim jacket with yellow skinnies behind them...

Finishing off with these no name lurid skinnies topped by a Soviet denim jacket...

BUT... no - the populace prefer to stroll by without a glance, down the long muddy road to... nirvana: the paint ball zone!

Cretins! Style-less, brain dead, badly dressed cheap thrill seekers.
I give up!
(No, I don't - I shall persevere.)

Aloes - our little "karroo" shop!

All the aloes are flowering along our fence - and as our friend and favoured customer, India says, "It looks like a shop in a Karroo dorpie".
We keep Marie biscuits for India's little son Josh who also likes to shop with us (mainly for the maries I suspect) - love him!

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!

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!

New Look for Rummage - very smart!

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...