last thrift before Christmas ♡

hello! 

today I went into my local town to do some Christmas shopping, and of course, some thrifting. I decided that this should probably be my last thrift before Christmas, as like most of us I'm trying to save my money for some Christmas and new year plans.

I'm moving out in the new year (fingers crossed that everything goes to plan) so I picked up a few things to get me started on my 'new home' shopping. As you'll hopefully come to see, I'm not into things that match. I prefer rooms to have a variety of styles and colours; a mismatch of types of wood for furniture, curtains different to bedding, cushions and pillows that are different to bedding. I like to pick up posters and artwork that I'm pretty certain no one else will have in their house. For me personally, I think decor is a chance to show off who you are, as corny as it sounds.

I picked up this little box for £3 in one of my favourite charity shops in town. Even though you can tell it's massively old, the patterned design still reminds me of styles that are popular today, with the swallow-esque birds and dainty pink/green florals. The reason I'm reluctant to spend money on 'vintage' style items you find in mainstream shops is because of little gems like this. I don't know where it's come from, who made it, or what it was used for, and that's what I love about it. After I've given it a clean, it'll probably become somewhere for me to store my jewellery in on my bedside table.

The next item isn't really that exciting, but for 50p I just couldn't NOT. It's an unused roll of wrapping paper but I really loved the design. I have big plans for this 2m roll of floral stuff! I'm thinking lining of drawers in my new room in my new house, and for more craft things. I always find things like this are good for backing of photos in photoframes, just to change the colour scheme, and in the past I've also covered trinkety little items such as dangling ornament hearts/butterflies in paper, and PVA glued all over. This creates a papier-mache type effect, it works really well. Hopefully I can find something to do with this soon and show you!

I didn't really find any clothes today worth buying. I found a few items but nothing that caught my eye enough to buy it. Even thrifters have to be extra thrifty and save pennies at Christmas time ;)

I did however venture into some other shops and got some cheap goodies.

I bought this set of 3 candles to go in my the ornament jar that I'm making for my mum. I like the sequins on the side, but I may try and paint them a different colour as they may not be in keeping with my theme! (£1 from Poundland)

I bought this caviar nail set from Poundland also. I've seen the caviar nails eeeeeverywhere, but refused to pay over the odds for some nail varnish, even if it did look like Nobbly Bobblys (a fave). I'll let you know how it turns out and what the quality is like, although I've used Poundland products before and have been pleasantly surprised.

I also bought these glitter tips from Poundland. They're not usually my style, but I'm planning on employing them into some festive Christmas design for Christmas eve/day etc.

Finally, I bought these lovely little heart stickers for 70p from Home Bargains. Again, these are for use on one of my mum's Christmas presents.

One particularly un-thrifty purchase I made today was this Top Gear calendar I bought for my nephew at a ridiculous £9.99 from WHSmiths. What a ridiculous price to pay for a few pictures of Jeremy Clarkson!

I have actually started working on all of the Christmas presents that I've mentioned I'm making and I think they're going pretty well! I'm taking progress pictures so that I can show you how I did things if you fancy recreating at all! Once they're complete, I'll put the snaps up here.

Will be in touch soon :)

love, rhi xo 

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