Last year I salvaged an old cabinet from a street corner that is now serving as our "cocktail bar", where I keep my ever growing collection of soda syphons & retro ice buckets and hubby his bottles of Polish vodka.
I've been planning to cover the back of the shelf with some snazzy vintage wallpaper or retro prints but haven't come across anything suitable for the job until today that is :)
When I was perusing a stall at the car boot sale I came across this carrier bag...
The inside held a large collection of old beermats that the seller had collected as a child;
this is just a few of them...
The idea struck me immediately, how fab would it be to dress the back of our cocktail cabinet using these quirky things, it was a done deal at £2.
These would make great trimmings for a retro cocktail party too :)
Speaking of party, how about these technicolour street sweeping lashes for a bit of party fun?!
I also came across an old biscuit tin for much cheapness...
It had a bunch of dominos inside....bonus!
More stuff befitting a retro party,
namely six 70s placemats in a cheery hue, yay!
Vintage 50s (just guessing) souvenir ashtray from Sydney...
I bought a brass coal box from the car boot sale last year that hubby now keeps his work shoes & cycle helmet in.
We don't even have a fireplace but when I spotted this brass fire screen for £1.50 I took complete leave of my senses & bought it.
Buying the box made sense cause you can obviously keep a plethora of different stuff in it but what the heck do you do with a fire screen when you don't even have a fireplace in your house, D'oh!
Och, never mind!
I'm sure I'll find some obscure use for it ;)
I also got another framed religious stylee print for 50p...
...and a handwoven wall hanging from Lesoto...
Last but by no means least, a bunch of vintage dresses from my vintage dealer friend who was at the car boot sale today...
Two 50s cocktail dresses
80s 'Kanga Collection' by Dale Tryon dress
80s 'Tricoville' chiffon dress
I also bought a rather jazzy shirt for hubby, it was a case of he'd either loathe it or love it luckily it turned out to be the latter.
Hope you've all had a fab weekend, it's been sweltering in London today...help I'm melting!
Peace & love,
Jennie
xXx
11 comments:
The beer mats are ace! As is the biscuit tin (a biscuit tine is possibly the most useful thing IN THE WORLD).
The beer mats are awesome and what a great way to use them. Is that Sydney ashtray a gunda?? Looks like it, they are VERY collectable here. And I like the brass fire screen, too bad you're not near me as I'd buy it from you no problem!
What a haul! The beer mats are perfect to decorate the cocktail cabinet x
I used have loads of beer mats liberated from pubs...wonder what happened to them? I like the Babycham, Cherry B, Wicked Lady and Pony best. They're going to look excellent on the cabinet.
Nice ashtray too, although it would probably join the ranks of dishes holding earrings in my house.
Loving the beers mates. My husband collects them and he'd bite your hands off for them.
I do like a vintage beer mat. I used to collect them when I was a kid...I had loads from Spain that were really garish...wish I still had them.xxx
great stuff amor, I love the coasters, especiallty the babysham ones and the religious frame of course. that cocktail bar looks new. I didnt make to the boot sales on Sunday was too risky cause the heat.
Gracias,
for visiting amor, thats okay as long you find my blog bonkers. Im cool with that.still gigglying at your description of mi blog.
besos
Oh man, amazing finds; so retro! I love the bright beer mats - I'm so used to seeing boring, plain ones. These make a great change! x
SO much colour! It'a unreal!
xo
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lovely post.really like ur blog and ur style dear.i am following now.hope u'll follow me back :)
The cabinet and the fire screen are amazing - just the kind of old 'crap' that I love :-)
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