Some of you will know I started working for Hemingway Design about this time last year and mostly I edit the Vintage Festival blog, run the Vintage Correspondent programme, organise the Vintage area ...
Super cute cherry red festive fawn is up for grabs in our Twitter comp! I popped along to Judy’s Vintage Fair in Spitalfields on Saturday and was delighted by the sheer volume of amazing dealer...
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 pri...
Sneak peek of my vintage books on the shelf ready to be snapped up! For today only all my vintage books which feature craft, knitting, sewing and papercraft alongside 70s/80s teen girl annuals and a ...
Thrift-ola Yard Sale - This Saturday! Vittoria Wharf, 10 Stour Road, London E3 2NT I run Thrift-ola from a small warehouse unit in Hackney Wick and have been thrifting a-go-go for the past few months...
Original display box full of 1980s cat shaped erasers. Made in Japan. Monday’s can be pretty grim, especially now we’ve well and truly waved goodbye to summer. So to get the week started ...
Im in the middle of upcycling a little kitchen chair... When I’m out buying for Thrift-ola I also source bits and pieces for personal projects like collecting cute buttons to change the boring ...
A pair of turquoise fan earrings and a wooden windmill giant pendant. Until a few weeks ago, I hadn’t picked up a pair of jewellery tools or pinged a jump ring since I closed my beloved fun roc...
Wimbledon Boot Sale on a Wednesday Every weekend I hop on a train and travel just outside of London to Essex or Surrey to go searching for cute treasures at car boot sales in big fields. It’s b...
Hot pink cable knit mittens and sunglasses with a swooping bird like motif. My favourite style of glove is the mitten and these chunky cable knit ones in hot pink with fleece lining will keep your pa...
ZAP For some reason today I decided to go to Holloway Road car boot sale. It was hideously busy and more dodgy goods market than having-a-clearout car boot sale. POW My four bus round trip would have...
My homemade jam and chutney suited and booted ready for Christmas. I made my first batch of homemade jam using foraged blackberries from Wick Woods a few months ago and it wasn’t half bad. When...
Belfast road and its residents enjoying their annual flea market. My friend recently moved to the cute cobbled streets of Belfast Road and I was more than happy to visit him on the day it was celebra...
My little table of Thrift-ola finds for sale at the New Gallery Jumble last Saturday. I’ve lived in London for 15 years and on Saturday I visited Peckham for the very first time. It was quite e...
The perfect Autumnal morning spent sifting for treasure in a field in the middle of nowhere. My friend and I were up and at ‘em at 5am this morning ready for the last boot fair at Hook Road Are...
Lovely selection of vintage sewing baskets I’ve been lucky enough to work with Jazz on many projects over the years from organising crafty fun at her much loved Viva Cake nights to designing th...
Picturegoer • June 1956 I pounced on the Picturegoer magazines from June 1956, July 1956 and July 1957. Picturegoer was a UK magazine published from 1913 til 1960 and featured films but more exciting...
A kidney shaped coffee table filled with fun junk jewellery. Whilst I absolutely love buying someone else’s cast offs at a car boot sale I know it’s no fun at all to sell at a boot fair. ...
A duo of vintage events to hang out at this Saturday. Over the past few years London has become a hotbed of mini affordable vintage happenings in pubs, working men’s clubs and the good ol’...
Cocktails and oysters One of the best parts of New York is the food. The sheer choice is mind boggling and the street food truck craze is the current trend local start-up businesses are getting into....
Brooklyn Flea Market - a specialist vintage typewriter stall I’ve been following the Brooklyn Flea on Twitter and wot not for a while so although we were heading out to spend the weekend in Lon...
Poodle Pup taking care of my fave stationery items If like me, you don’t really shop on the high street and prefer to thrift and find second hand items then you often have to vary the use of wh...
A close-up shot of a pair of beautifully embroidered bunnies - a picture my pal found *JEALZ* I thrift as a job and I’m really very lucky. It does mean I mostly go alone as it’s not a soc...
The logod tea tags we designed for the Lady Lucks Pop-Up Tea Shoppe. After pitching my Decades themed Pop-Up Tea Shoppe idea to Judy I had 8 weeks to source crockery from the 1930s through to the 197...
Fantastic old photograph of a London market used on the flyer for the Hackney Wick Art Market. I recently picked up a flyer for the newest arrival on the East London market scene which opens for busi...
So, so, so pretty! The New Gallery Jumble is a self-proclaimed carnival of up-cycling, handmade, vintage and free workshops in the heart of Peckham. Appealing to me on every level, so why haven’...
Looking forward to making these on Thursday at Craft Central. The Seaside Sisters have just launched a whole summer series of crafty workshop events! I’m looking forward to crafting and eating ...
Screenshot from the Vintage by Hemingway blog I also can’t side step the fact it’s been 7 weeks since my last thrifty/crafty musing. Eek. Or product upload. Double eek. Some of you might ...
The Big Feastival - Thrift-olas first ever festival! I think I’ve been quite vocal about Thrift-ola not taking part in any events this summer as I try to concentrate on sourcing stock and runni...
Classic hanging chair in conservatory featured in ace book The Home by Wayne Hemingway When I worked as a stylist we often rented a Photographer’s warehouse space which doubled as a studio and ...
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