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Bought this bowl at a thrift store for like a dollar. The wood was unfinished when I got it. I added the color and stain. It turned out quite nice I think.
We haven’t been going out secondhand shopping much as most of our trips involve dropping things off to donate. We have been looking for some furniture items so we’ve had to stop out here and there. Today we found these two homemade actual wood shelves and while the color isn’t ideal, we’re going to dig around in our paint stores and repaint them tomorrow. We also found three small corner selves, also homemade, and we’re using two as speaker stands for our stereo and one on the stairs. We got all 5 pieces of furniture for less than $40. I also found this incredible hand stitched quilt. I fully plan on picking the blanket apart and using the fabric on a skirt idea I’ve been sourcing vintage fabric for. We also got this dish and mug, they won’t be for eating/drinking with but I have some ideas.
Man sollte sich besser zweimal überlegen was für einen Unsinn man sich auf T-Shirts drucken lässt, man weiß nie wo sowas landet.. :)
A couple of years ago, someone gave me a bag full of lenses and this camera. They assumed because I carried around a D80 that I actually knew something about photography. I didn't. I threw it in the garage. Dug it out today. Tempted to see what this old girl can do.
My new (secondhand) Nikkor 80-200 f2.8 arrived today from Gray's of Westminster. Only a day after I paid for it. I was pretty impressed with the service. But I was even more impressed with what this lens can do even more.
It's pretty bare bones by todays standard, no HSM, no VR, relatively slow AF. But oh my is it sharp!!
This is without doubt the best piece of glass I have ever owned. Straight out of the box I was able to get pretty fantastic results just playing around in the garden.
I'm not sure if it will be as evident from the compressed version here on Flickr, but it really does look impressive.
I don't find it too heavy either, in fact it's lighter than the Sigma 70-200 2.8 that I borrowed from a friend.
My copy is the older Push Pull version, so it doesn't have a tripid collar, but I don;t see that as an issue since I rarely shoot landscapes anyway and like I said, I don't find it too heavy to hold.
Again, for a lens that must be at least 18 years old it looks almost like new, so whoever owned this baby previously took really good care of it.
To say I am a happy bunny would be an understatement :-)
The previous owner told me that she and her husband saved up all their cigarette vouchers to get this set in the 60s.
The elastic was loosey goosey so I ripped it out and made a new bias taping our of a thrifted linen shirt and strung some thrifted cotton cording through it to cinch the covers tight.
Second hand this week: A book by Susan Sontag, a halternec tank top, a bedclothes with dog roses on, a see-through fabric in green, blue and pinks, an old school book for math, a zipper and a little table cloth flower thing.
We have a pink cardigan for the 3yo, blue cardigan for 7mo, little blocks, basket, brown boots for the 3yo, blue trousers for M, a scarf for me, double fitted sheet for caravan, a coloured toy for 7mo and the Gloworm toy - working.
I just got this 1997 edition (Published by Bay View Books ISBN 1 870979 93 1) which I have spent a couple of hours reading on a wet and windy day.
It covers may Coachbuilders I have never heard of, as well as famous ones like Gurney & Nutting, Vanden-Plas, Corsica, Swallow, HJ Mulliner, Hooper, Park Ward, Lancefield, Carbodies, Martin Walter, Harold Radford, Abbott, Tickford, Harrington, Barker and many more. Recommended!