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*Giveaway* Handmade Patchwork Bag
Posted on: June 13, 2011Tonight I made a bag from a thrifted tablecloth and a pair of vintage glitter handles and YOU can win it! Continue reading »
The raw materials: patchwork table cloth & glitter knitting handles.
After a long weekend thrifting far and wide (and mostly in the rain) tonight I fancied staying in, keeping cozy and making something. A few weeks ago I found these amazing oversized glitter bag handles at the Wills-Moody jumble sale, so I dug through my big stash of textiles and matched them up to this 1970s printed patchwork cotton tablecloth. I whipped the dust jacket off my sewing machine and got handy with the scissors. I didn’t have a pattern so I just kinda made it up as I went along… Continue reading »
In the Press! Mollie Makes Salutes Thrift-ola
Posted on: June 12, 2011I'm absolutely delighted that hip new craft 'zine Mollie Makes has touted Thrift-ola as 'a Website to Watch'. Continue reading »
Thrift-ola in issue two of the hip new UK based craft zine Mollie Makes!
The UK handmade scene finally has it’s very own ace neo-craft magazine that celebrates making, collecting, thrifting and crafting. Issue two has literally just hit the newstands and features lots of fun D.I.Y projects from cute club felties, strawberry pin cushions and fabric pockets to jazz up a simple skirt. I also love the dreamy interiors articles which feature tea parties and vintage caravans and let us peek inside the work space of a fellow crafter. The design of the magazine is clean and modern with great use of pretty illustrations and plenty of beautiful photographs. Inspiring stuff. Continue reading »
Craft Spotlight: Paper Craft & Origami
Posted on: June 11, 2011Scraps of card, paper, tissue, foil... we throw them away everyday. Start a little tray in your studio or home collecting these offcuts ready for a rainy afternoon of making fun. Continue reading »
Carousel & Toadstool Village lampshades handcrafted from paper.
Today I added this delightful book to the shoppe ‘All Made From Paper‘ written in 1974 and published in Great Britain. It contains oodles of fantastic craft projects making decorative objects for the home, to give out as presents or just for fun – all from scraps of paper. Love it! Continue reading »
Girl Friday
Posted on: June 9, 2011I’ve just completed the first month of my new internship, it’s going really well and I feel settled in enough to spill the beans... Continue reading »
Vintage by Hemingway at Southbank Centre 2011
I’m working as part of the digital team at Hemingway Design! More specifically I’m helping run the multi author blog on the Vintage website. Mostly I’ve been sub editing and uploading posts written by other people but recently I’ve been given the opportunity to write my own articles. I’m covering vintage exhibitions such as Beautiful & Damned and Fifties, Fashion & Emerging Feminism and my first series is called Style Crush, so far I’ve looked at Teddy Girls and Mods. I’m now researching a new series all about vintage dance crazes which should start to go online from next week. The festival is now under two months away and I’m so, so excited. Follow everything that’s happening on our Twitter (which I should be tweeting from along with fellow digital team member Serena) and our Facebook page. Most of all though keep a regular eye on our blog, there’s some really great stuff on it and even better stuff to come! If there’s anything you think we should be covering let me know…
Make Me An Offer Monday!
Posted on: June 6, 2011It's that time again when you can haggle over prices in my online store! If you've had your eye on an item but want to scoop it up for a cheaper price then send me an e-mail and make an offer for it... Continue reading »
Super old poster I snapped in a hardware store in Whitstable, Kent
How it works………
1. E-mail leona@thrift-ola.com with the product name & the price you’d like to pay.
2. If I accept the offer, I’ll e-mail you back and change the price of the product to what you’d like to pay for the rest of the day – although you’ll have to quickly snap it up before someone else does.
3. If I don’t accept your offer, I’ll send you a counter offer and the haggle begins.
Make Me An Offer Monday starts NOW until midnight tonight. Go shop!
Hey there! My name is Leona and this is my online shop and blog where you can follow my thrifty adventures and snap up a vintage gem of two.
