... Shop Yourself Holy, 2nd July 2011

Woohoo!! Another catch-up post! It's so liberating (hee hee ... I typed 'liverating' --- WTF??) to post stuff that's been sitting, unedited & unloved, in my bloggy outbox :)

So, here goes. The Saturday in question was one of shopping yumminess. Rob had ventured out for a Saturday night of Foo Fighters, supported by Biffy Clyro, supported by Death Cab for Cutie, supported by (um) someone else. I wasn't jealous at all. Never mind that the tickets had been bought & paid for by his BFF in 2010 .... I wasn't jealous. not even 98% happy, 2 % jealous. Not. Jealous. At. All.

In an effort, therefore, to assuage my not-at-all-jealousness, I went shopping in South West London (Morden, Mitcham & Tooting, specifically) ... and found:

This 80s-tastic Dressmaking encyclopaedia,  £2

Add caption

A big black sari scarf/wrap and a gorgeous sarong/tablecloth/whoknowswhat, £6

Miscellaneous buttons (some still on their cards, SWOON)
and some supercool organisers, + some books £4

Stunning print, revolting 80s dress - REFASHION!
... and some seam binding, £4.20

Oh, how I LOVE these containers ...
my local pound shop stopped stocking them :(
£1.25 each in Tooting, baby!
(PS LOOKKIT Jack in the background :D)

I love Lidl.
If I'm going to buy (new) mass-produced stuff,
at least I'm skewing their sales stats by buying sewing gear :)
Elastic + Thread + Bobbins + Needles, £6

Some lovely stretchystripeystuff from one of the
many stalls in the two markets in Tooting (Tooting Market),  2m @ £4/m

In conclusion, y'honour, I'd like to say that South London rocks and it might be time to organise a group shop to the somewhat sticky streets of Tooting. Bookended by the two Wimbledon Sewing Machine shops (South Wimbledon & Balham), whose oddly interchangeable names have always struck me as mighty odd. 

OOOHOOOHOOOOH! And and and and the place in Mitcham that I bought the buttons & organisers from has the most STUNNING shop counter table thing ... um ... they're called .... um, a Haberdashery Shop Counter? Anyway. They have one, and the lady serving me mentioned that they were going to be replacing it soon as the drawers tended to fall onto the feet of the little old ladies serving customers (not nice, owowow!). Rob might leave me for this, but I gave her my number and practically begged ('practically'??? nonono ... 'SERIOUSLY') her to call me when they were ready so that I could buy the old one off them. HELLOOOOOO gorgeous!

Not the same one. But you get the picture.
(source)