Car Booty

Firstly apologies to all my dear readers for the lack of blogging, though I'm sure you all understand that the recent worry over my granddaughter has rather taken over. I'd like to thank everyone for their kind supportive comments and share with you the good news that she has made a good recovery and was out and about with us yesterday visiting two of her great grandparents. 

Today we headed off to Hexham for the afternoon car boot sale. It was such a wonderful sunny spring day so the drive over was beautiful, and we picked up one or two nice bits and pieces ...

...let me show you...

A lovely little Carlton Ware sauce boat. The "jug" bit is a leaf shape and is a pale yellow colour, it stands on a green "crinkled" leaf. I absolutely love this and look forward to using it for mint or apple sauce.

I spotted this rather nice trio on a stall labelled "everything 50p" - when the lady said that the matching sugar bowl was also part of the set and that the 50p was for all four items I just had to bag this bargain. The photograph doesn't really do them justice the outside glaze on all the items is the same green as the plate, and when viewed from above the shape of both the plate and the saucer is very "flower" like.

I also got this lovely shabby tin, I think I will use it in my craft room, probably to store ribbons.

And last but most definitely not least...

...can you guess what this is?

Yes that is Bakelite you see ...

...now if you turn it onto it's side and flip down this little bit on the back...

.... then turn it around and open the little shutters on the front ...

a fabulous art deco travel clock.

Unfortunately the clock doesn't work, but I love it's quirkiness and for £5 I don't really mind that it isn't working.

(Plus it has Bakelite on it and I have a bit of thing for Bakelite!)