Charity Shopping

Since today was (is) such a beautiful looking day, my wife and I decided to go on a little jaunt. We had a quick look at google maps to decide where we'd walk and chose to walk up to South Park in Oxford. We figured this would be a nice little walk, and after checking which roads we needed to look out for, set off. 

Upon getting to the park, we realised it was much too cold for just sitting around, although the view was gorgeous, and decided to continue on, into Headington, where we thought we'd scope out the charity shops. 

View of Oxford from South Park

We know that there are many charity shops in Headington and that they have a generally good range and quality of products as we have visited them many times, and even bought a large proportion of our wedding crockery/glassware from them. 

One of the charity shops in particular proved to be excellent this morning, with a 'camera special' occurring this weekend. There were plenty of old cameras, with a polaroid that I quite wanted. We however decided not to get it as it would be so expensive to buy film :(

In the end, we ended up buying something much more exciting though: handfuls of photo slides. There was a basket of them in the front of the shop with a tag outlining they were 20 for 99p. What a bargain! We therefore spent quite a while having a look at the different slides, some of which seemed to be high quality images and rather nice. We ended up buying 40 of them, so our total purchase was just under £2, and we knew we'd be able to make something with them. 

And just to give you an idea of the kinds of images we bought, I've tried to take pictures of a couple of them, although it didn't work out too well!

At some point we think we might make a lampshade (or two) out of the slides (as shown here), although we have no immediate plans to do this. I'm also relatively sure that my Grandad has more of these slides that his aunt took, so if it works out well with these slides, we may at some point reclaim those and put them to good use also! All in all, an excellent Saturday afternoon walk and a marvellous purchase.