secondhand and vintage

HOT Alert: Week of 23 November 2009

November 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This coming week is filled with travel, rock, films, shopping, food and parties! Tony Wheeler, the co-founder of Lonely Planet, is speaking at The Hive at The Order of Melbourne on Tuesday 24 November. Read my review of a previous The Hive event here; The Rockwiz Christmas special is coming to The Palais, St Kilda, on [...]

HOT: MTC Garage Sale, 129 Ferrars St, Southbank

November 14, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

I’m an early-bird but there’s not many events that would have me bounding out of bed, grabbing a stupendous strawberry, white chocolate and coconut muffin from Proud Mary and lining up with hundreds of other people at 8:45am at Southbank. But this was one very special garage sale. The Melbourne Theatre Company were moving, and [...]

HOT Chat: Jessica Rae of Melbourne Op Shop Tours

November 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s HOT Chat is with Jessica Rae from Melbourne Op Shop Tours. I seem to be on a ‘green’ bent lately (check out previous HOT Chats with Eco Fashionista and 321 Water) and Melbourne Op Shop Tours is another Melbourne-based business which takes the approach that being green doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice style [...]

HOT: Robotica by Kyle Weyburne, Rose Street Artists Market, 60 Rose St, Fitzroy

October 25, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Most of the time I’m a sweet, unassuming, ladylike girl who is never critical, sarcastic or competitive. But get me near a Scrabble board and I transform into a ruthless Gordon Gecko type who crows triumphantly at every 7-letter word placed on a triple-word score. These Scrabble cufflinks are from Rose Street Artists Market regular [...]

HOT: Spring Fair, Collingwood College, Cnr Cromwell St and McCutcheon Way, Collingwood

September 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I haven’t been to a school fete in years, so I don’t know how the Spring Fair at Collingwood College stacks up compared to other school fetes these days. Let’s just say back in my day (old age, coming right up) we weren’t selling sushi and chickpea curry. But then Collingwood College is an amazingly [...]

HOT: Thread Den, Level 1 16 Errol St, North Melbourne

August 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Thread Den: Part 2 After my success at Thread Den’s Sewing Basics Module 1, I was all enthused about Sewing Basics Module 2, where I’d be learning about zips, buttons, elastic and casings. I don’t know whether it was the lunch of sausage rolls and cupcakes that I had, but I found it very hard [...]

HOT: Thread Den, Level 1, 16 Errol St, North Melbourne

August 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Thread Den: Part 1 My little swatch of chiffon from Tessuti has been patiently waiting for me to master a sewing machine so that it can be turned into a lovely scarf. So on a cold Tuesday evening, I trooped off to Sewing Basics Module 1 at Thread Den, a great little shop and sewing [...]

HOT: Rose Street Artists Market, 60 Rose St, Fitzroy

August 2, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

The Rose Street Artists Market has been on my to-do list for at least five years, but for some reason I could never make it for the Saturday market. Fortunately, the market has now expanded to the whole weekend – perfect as I think Sundays are much more conducive to browsing and gushing. The market [...]

HOT: Salvos Store, 81 Victoria Crescent, Abbotsford

July 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I know, I know, I’m becoming obsessed with charity stores and cheap glassware. But how could I resist when I cycled past what appeared to be the Salvos Store flagship? Endless rooms and shelves and racks of mustiness and potential treasure! And treasure I did find: large swathes of fabric remnants, useful as jar covers [...]

HOT: Vinnies Centre, 121 Johnston St, Collingwood

July 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Yesterday a thought popped into my head that I should buy a baking dish. Today I spotted the perfect dish in the window of my local Vinnies Centre. It was meant to be – a $2 white Corningware dish! My charitable contribution to St Vincent de Paul Society also extended to: one clip-lock plastic container [...]