Charity shops we're a comin'!

We moved into our fab little flat in the west end of Glasgow in July and up until a week ago we still had stacked cardboard boxes in our living room with our little library of books in them. We desperately needed a bookcase, coffee table and some sort of furniture that I could work at and store all of my crafty things in and something for Tim to work on his music on. We've been looking and looking round the charity shops on Dumbarton road (which are amazing by the way) but found nothing for months. On September the 7th 'The Salvation Army' had a special sale day where they kept back tonnes of awesome furniture and collections of bits and bobs to sell on this one day. It opened at 10:00 and we arrived at 10:10 and it was jam-packed and pretty much everything had gone...except a bookcase for a crazy cheap price of £25! Literally ran over and someone stepped in front of me and nabbed it first. Devastated!

So to consolidate ourselves we went for a couple of coffees in Big Mouth Cafe ~(if you ever go try the oreo cake- delicious) which put me in a bit of a better mood..and, you know, seen as we were there already...we decided to pop into some of the other charity shops. British Heart foundation were having a sale and low behold we found a perfect coffee table. Yus!

 After a bit of checking over the condition Tim discovered a cool little novelty! (secret extending bits at both ends of the table ...ooooooo) Well Tims certainly excited about it:)

SO we bought it. Feeling both relieved and excited we thought we might just pop into one more shop as its a favourite- Its should be world renowned you can find such great treasures in for bargainous prices!'Emmaus' What a place. 
So anyway we popped in and there was SO MANY cool things it was hard not to buy the whole shop..(but our bank balance prevented us). We found a very lovely desk for £65. 
I loved it but as we were intending to get a bookcase as well we thought it was a little too much. Before going to get another consolation coffee we thought we'd have a sneaky ask if we could get a price reduction and she gave us a whole £15 off! What a generous lady. So mounting it on his shoulders Tim took a very careful walk to the train station. We got it home safe and trained back over to Partick for our coffee table.

It seems that Tim may have claimed it as his music desk already!

 As we were carrying it down the shop chuckle-brother style I hesitated, as the wheels in my head started turning, and wondered if Tim had seen the big cabinet with shelves which would be quite a handy piece of furniture perhaps to store things in, such as books or something... So he legged it back down. Came back and we ummed and arred about it for 10 minutes then he went back and bought it. And thats how its done. 

Three pieces of furniture in one day. Everything we needed. AMAZING!:)

Now to get the Annie Sloan!