Sunburnt Seaham haul

Today we made a trip to Seaham car boot. It's quite a big one but for us being non drivers not so easy to get to. It was a decent hike from the train and what seemed to be a cloudy windy day...we've come back horribly burnt...why did I wear a top with funny shapes cut in the arms. I'm also shattered but considering the distance we covered I'm not surprised. I did however get an excellent haul of thimbles for my troubles.

All were about 50p or under so good on prices. A couple of royal ones and a Blackpool tower 100 years which is pretty cool.

I do still have ones to add in the galleries along with these now but hoping to be up to date very soon.

Scotland

My parents recently came for a visit. They had been to Edinburgh for my mother's birthday to see the pandas at the zoo. Knowing about my thimble collecting I now have a new thimble from their trip to add to my collection.

A sheep with tartan wellies how cute is that.

I've made huge progress with the galleries. I now only have my mother in laws collection to add and caption in the various categories, that's still  few but more than halfway.

Maps

The map thimbles I had were always some of my favourites. I found this lot  on eBay and got for a good price.

I did get a couple of swaps but that's all parcel of buying job lots.

I'd managed to nearly caption all the photos in the galleries. I'd added in one to show my mother in laws collection in its entirety alongside my reblog collection as well as the galleries showing the whole collection together. I'm currently working from a massive list to  finish off adding the photos. Just with two small boys and a suddenly expanded collection it's finishing the time.

My latest big issue is to work out storage. I have the small racks from my mother in law to display some favourites. But the rest I don't want to just be tossed in a box but it's finding the best option.

Royal additions

I got this lot from eBay recently to add to my royal thimble collection.

There's some great ones there, the queen mother's 85th, 90th and 100th birthdays. Prince Charles and Diana's wedding, Princess Diana's 21st and life. The birth of Prince William and 2 for his first birthday.

My mother in law also found out some more of her collection

Some interesting ones in there too. Hubby loved that the boxed Scotland thimble has a made in Taiwan sticker on its side...snicker.

She also had some thimble display cases

So I can now decide which are my favourites to display. I'm also looking as to how I'm going to store my collection as they are just in boxes at the moment which is probably not the best way to keep them.

Only thing now is I've got a lot of organising to do to fill out the galleries ha

Newcastle

I had a trip into Newcastle yesterday. The charity shops were a bust but I did manage to get to the tourist information shop which had a handful of thimbles. I got these two

 Newcastle Tyne Bridge and

Hadrians wall.

Pleases to be adding to my collection and I spent some time making notes so I now have a list to work from for checking where I'm up to with the picture galleries, as they are taking some organising.

Inheritance

After mentioning to a few of the family about my rekindled collecting of thimble, it came to light my mother in law used to collect them too. I then was offered her collection to add to mine. I was over the moon with the ones I've come home with but have been assured that stuffed away somewhere she has more!

There's some fab ones in there and a couple swaps but I'm pretty sure they are older versions so maybe not quite swaps after all. My hubby was happy to see me get passed these they remind him of all the places they visited as kids and his mother used to have them displayed.

I am still sorting and adding all the individual pictures to the galleries and having had an influx of thimbles to add it's taking a bit of time to sort. So bear with me. And I may yet have more to add if mother in law remembers where she stashed the rest.

Thimbles thimbles every where

The job lot I got from eBay arrived yesterday. I picked it up for a bargain price and its got some great additions to my collection.

There was quite a few Mallorca thimbles:

 Some map thimble, I quite like the map ones

 Some places

 Nature thimble including a Spode flower flower of the year iris from 1991

 A few royal thimble, I now have two Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson wedding and and one engagement thimble. I'm looking a working on my royal thimble collection.

 Some random ones of various materials

 A load of places from abroad

 And some lovely scenic ones

There was only one swap that I already had and two doubles within this lot itself so not bad going on that front.

I have been adding all my thimbles to to the photo galleries down the side in categories and adding any info into the captions. But it's taking a little bit of time so bear with me while I get it up and running.

Getting to grips with pricings again

I'm currently getting to grips with where to start back collecting.

My first thought was to check out the local charity shops for some but charity shops seem to check eBay as they were wanting £3 each in one shop for two unremarkable ones and £25 for a set of royal ones. The royal ones maybe we're on their money but from a charity shop and not knowing their worth I wasn't gonna pay that much in a charity shop.

I've since been checking things out on eBay and Google to get a feel for things.

Yesterday I went to the local indoor market and found these little beauties on a stall selling trinkets.

They only cost me a pound each and 1.50 for the domed one which considering that's new ones is a vast difference on the charity shop prices.

Hello

I collected thimbles as a girl when my grandma gave me some as a Christmas present. I had put them away when I left home on my adventures to becoming a wife and mother of two.  My grandma recently passed and I bugged my hubby to dig out the box of thimbles from the loft.

I was surprised to find how many i actually had. I forgot how much fun I'd had collecting them.

Since then Ive got thimbles on the brain and am raring to get collecting again.

So bear with me and ill add to this blog more pics and the like.