Ch Ch Ch Ch Chaaanges

Can you guess where I am going with this David Bowie reference?

Changing Room!
We have one.
3 items in the changing room at that time please (4 or 5 if ask nicely)

 

Chair (with a cushion!), lights, magazines and sunflowers. What more do you need?

 

 

 



It is big enough to accommodate a wheelchair or a buggy or a cete of Badgers.

You can also pick up some of our Trinity Hospice Events leaflets from our changing room.

And I can't leave without a bit of Bowie now. Love that man.
- Gone for the live version from Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

If only we could get a donation of a jacket like his in this. Those shoulder pads are EPIC....

Bye for now
BG

Aspinal of London Wallet

This beautiful red leather wallet is our star donation of the day

This is brand new from Aspinal of London and boxed (although it isn't the box it came in....)

 

Brand New Aspinal of London Leather Wallet

 

My favourite colour and smells delicious - everyone loves the smell of leather, yes?
Embossed in gold lettering.

For sale at £45.

 

 

Bye for now

BG

Susannah Hall Tailors

Susannah Hall Tailors joins forces with Trinity Hospice

(Another non direct Brook Green shop post but hey, it's Friday and I'm a maverick)

We need more lovely things like this to happen for Trinity Hospice! What a great idea and many thanks.

Please read the link - How and Why they are helping out Trinity Hospice. Read it as it will save a lot of cutting and pasting

If there are any local companies in the Brook Green / Hammersmith / Shepherds Bush area who wish to do something similar or have other ideas to help us out, please email at brookgreenshop@trinityhospice.org.uk


Bye for now
BG

Bring in your Bling!

Another donation plea.

We sell a lot of jewellery. Mainly costume, but occasionally we have gold and silver, and sometimes even diamonds!
Not that we are boasting (well maybe a little bit....) but now we are running desperately low on jewels.

Any necklaces, bracelets, rings and even earrings you no longer wear, please don't throw them away, but bring them into us during shop opening hours (Mon to Sat 10 - 6, Sun 11 - 4) and we will gladly take them off your hands.
We would love it even more if you Gift Aid your donation. When you come in with your fabulous donation, there is a quick form we get you fill out and voila. That is all you have to do. For 2 mins on your time we can raise even more money for Trinity Hospice! Brilliant!

Men! Don't think you can get away with ignoring this plea.
Watches, bracelets, necklaces and cufflinks.
Cufflinks. The rarest of the rare. Something we are always asked for, yet hardly ever have. This makes us sad. Your unwanted cufflinks could make one Brook Green charity shop very happy indeed.

As much as we love donations, please do think about what you give. Broken jewellery or odd earrings are not really much good to us (unless it's gold....mmmm gold. Shiny)

Thank you very much

Bye for now
BG

Showing off

Just a post to show off how the shop looks! Admire Brook Green!
(and to show off the new display cabinet....if only I could work out how to put the doors on. Should be so easy but....) 

New items go out everyday so it is always changing, but we always try to keep it tidy!

Making sure old stock gets sold or sent to other shops after 2 weeks on sale, so we can fill up with lovely new stock is a constant job, but without doing it we wouldn't get the lovely regular customers we have. Who wants to come into a shop and see the same things every time?! With donations coming in everyday (Thank you so much!) we don't have the space to hoard it away, so out it goes for sale.

COME IN AND BUY IT ALL!!! please.

(Disclaimer - These photos have been taken either aaaaaaaaaages ago or within a few days of each other, so you might see a few 'repeat' items)

   

Check out the new cabinet! Horrah! It fits somewhere! Totally worth the hours and hours of moving.
See All Change blog....

Bye for now

BG

La La La Lalique

We do get some lovely, if crazy interesting pieces donated sometimes.
Today we have some Lalique.

René Jules Lalique  was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. In the 1920s, he became noted for his work in the Art Deco style

Sadly it's not jewellery or a vase, but it is what you have always wanted...

Who doesn't own a knife-holder?!

They are beautiful though. Catches the light brilliantly.

Lalique for £20

I would put them on a window sill or somewhere where the sun would shine though and make patterns
(just like that scene in the film Pollyanna with Hayley Mills, and the crystals from the lampshade where they make rainbows....you know the one I mean? I loved that film. So schmaltzy)





Bye for now
BG

All Change

Today has been a day of rearranging the shop, after we had a brilliant donation from Robert James Sound and Vision of an unwanted display cabinet.

Trying to find the best place where we can make use of it was fun (!). 2+ hours of moving, changing minds and then changing them back again, along with cleaning a plenty. AND of course this was when most of the customers decided to come in and browse and spend! Luckily the Tuesday manly men volunteer team of Pat and Joshua were on hand to assist.

Photos to follow once it is filled with goodies, and it's position is cemented in (still deciding exactly if I like it where it is....trial and error....)

Still it's cup of tea and a slice of cake time now.

Bye for now
BG