{"id":539,"date":"2007-11-04T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/portobello-road-oxfam-and-designers-guild\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:38:39","slug":"portobello-road-oxfam-and-designers-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/portobello-road-oxfam-and-designers-guild\/","title":{"rendered":"portobello road oxfam and designers guild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platinum and diamond Edwardian pin picked up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portobelloroad.co.uk\/\"target=_blank>Portobello Road<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Vintage Gucci wallet, 99p at Help the Aged in Cheshire &#8211; the elderly lady at the till imagined &#8216;pounds&#8217; to be a misprint and sold it to me for the pence version. I let her.  Because I&#8217;m bad.  Bless.   <\/p>\n<p>Complete works of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Farrar_Browne\"target=_blank>&#8220;Artemus Ward&#8221;<\/a>. London. 1893.  From my favourite Bond Street bookstore &#8211; Oxfam. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/portobello-road.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Portobello Road\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/portobello-road-s.jpg\" alt=\"Portobello Road\"\/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It pays to be discerning when it comes to second-hand perusing. Yesterday I brought home two Thonet chairs for a fiver each.  I plan on distressing them and making cushions with fabric from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designersguild.com\/\"target=_blank> Designers Guild<\/a>. Fingers crossed I wont run out of steam before the project&#8217;s complete.  Because, you know, sometimes I do.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taraz_01.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Designers Guild: Taraz\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/taraz-s.jpg\" alt=\"Designers Guild: Taraz'\"\/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platinum and diamond Edwardian pin picked up on Portobello Road. Vintage Gucci wallet, 99p at Help the Aged in Cheshire &#8211; the elderly lady at the till imagined &#8216;pounds&#8217; to be a misprint and sold it to me for the pence version. I let her. Because I&#8217;m bad. Bless. Complete works of &#8220;Artemus Ward&#8221;. London.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}