The Tale of Two Bucks in Wednesday Woods

Hello!

It's almost time for Two Bucks 'til Wednesday's winter sale! We'll be at the Banks Reserve Pavilion in Mt Lawley on the 23rd of May with racks of jumpers, dresses, blouses, scarves, jackets, skirts and much more!

All items are priced between $2 and $20 and all profits go to the Australian Cancer Research Foundation.

Check out the rest of our photo shoot, taken by the brilliant Cameron Etchells, at our facebook page!

Hope to see you there!

Love,

tbtw

xxxx

to the pole!

We've been a little quiet lately so I thought I'd let you know what's been going on. We've had some lucky trips out to Mandurah with lovely $2 clothing sale days at the shops off Pinjarra Rd. We've even found some amazing things at Zoila's and THAT'S sayin' something. As always, House Op Shop near the foreshore in Rockingham has provided us with armfuls of finds (and some really neat brass bunnies that Anna gave our Mum for Easter). Parish across from Rockingham City always has the sweetest old ladies so we recommend paying a visit there too.

We've got our plans for the next photo shoot so pictures will be posted by the beginning of may at the latest. Don't worry- none of those plans involve any of us being stretched to 6ft and losing 20 pounds so it'll be the same two bucks 'til wednesday-ness as usual.

AND we're heading down to Walpole this week where it's more than likely we'll do huge amounts of op-shopping and eating and playing Ligretto.

So, we hope you all had a lovely Easter break and fingers crossed we've got some rainy weather ahead of us!

Much love,

tbtw

xxxx

soon be wandering sale day

Hey Folks,

Thanks to everyone who came along last Sunday to help us raise just over $4100 for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. It was hot and sunny but people were lining up from 10am until the "doors" opened at 2! (Hopefully no one got sunburnt, eep!) Cheers to Emma from Dropstitch and Dani from Streetmuse who were there taking snaps of all the pretty people.

The racks were pretty much cleared out by 3pm and after packing up, Hannah, Martina and I went for a splash in the water fountain installation outside PICA. We could hear the kids screaming with laughter all day and had been looking forward to it from about 10am when we arrived, so it was a sweet, sweet victory.

A big thank you to Georgina Mavor at the Perth Markets for all of her help and being very lovely. Also cheers to Martina and Gordon for their crowd controlling and, of course, Bobby for his delicious cakey pops.

The next sale will be in about 3 months and we'll keep you posted here and on our facebook page.

Thanks again!
Sophia and two bucks 'til wednesday
xxx

Up, Up And Away: the day of the sale!

Thanks to everyone who came along this sunny Saturday to get their paws on some cracking vintage threads, you helped us raise $4,600 for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation!!


It was an amazing day, we hope you all had fun and got yourself a pretty piece or five! People were lining up from 9.30am, enjoying the sunshine, getting snapped by dropstitch's Emma (http://www.dropstitch.com.au) and, a bit later on, munching on delicious marshmallow cakie-pops from Bobby the Baker.

Now, wear your lovely new vintage outfits well, and we'll see you in January for the summer sale! Stay tuned...

Love, Two Bucks 'Til Wednesday
x

p.s.

We'll be handing out tokens for entry at about 1pm to the first 100 people and then when they've gone in, we'll hand out the next 100 tokens. So you'll have to stick around if you want to be in the first 200! We'll be setting up all morning so we won't really have time to hand out tokens any earlier than this. Sorry if I confused anyone with the last post there.

Okey doke, see you on Saturday!

Love,
tbtw

stampede in the gorge!

Hi all,

I thought I'd let you know that this time round we'll be doing things differently so as to avoid the "stampede in the gorge" effect of the last few sales.

At 2pm the first 100 people lined up will be let in and allowed 30 minutes inside. Then at 2:30pm the next 100 people will be let in and allowed 30 minutes inside. For this first hour it's 3 items max. per customer so that there'll be more to go 'round!

Then at 3pm it's doors open to anyone and everyone and there's no limit to the number of items you can buy!

We'll be giving out tokens for entry to the first 200 people as they arrive, so no sneaky pushing in!!!

Thank you for all of your support, we hope to see you at the sale!!!

Love,
tbtw

P.S. If you have any questions about the sale or what we do, please send your queries to twobuckstilwednesday@hotmail.com.

Up, up and away!

Here's a small peek of some of the treasures you'll be able to score yourself at our next sale!
(Which, incidently, is on saturday the 26th of september at the Mount Hawthorn Community Hall at 2pm)




All photos are taken by the incendiary Cameron Etchells. To see them all, and RSVP to the event, go to http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2964949&id=540261734&comments&alert#/event.php?eid=120361929447&ref=ts

We're so excited about the sale and we can't wait to see you there!

Hannah and the Two Bucks-ers
xx

Help us name our spring sale!

Hooray! It's time for Two Bucks 'til Wednesday's Spring sale!

The sun will be shining, the freesias blooming, the birds singing, and you'll be coming along to the Mount Hawthorn Community Hall on Saturday the 26th of September.

The sale begins at 2pm and will be chock full of lovely vintage dresses, jackets, cardigans, skirts, blouses, tees, jeans, shorts, scarves, shoes, belts, bags and jewellery. And of course, everything is priced between $2 and $20 and all goes to the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (http://www.acrf.com.au)!

What could be better than cheerfully-priced charitable vintage goodies in a pretty park on a spring afternoon? Not much, that's what!

The only thing is, we can't think up a suitable name for our upcoming sale. We need your help! Post your suggestions in the comments section and give us a hand... (Past names have been "Winter Wonderland", "Joyeux Anniversaire", "Thrills are Cheap", "Sweet as a Plum", etc)

See you at the sale, we'll have photos posted up very soon so stay tuned...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120361929447 - RSVP on our facebook!

Since we started up Two Bucks a few years back, we've been blessed with having lovely people get in contact with us and help us out. It means so much to us and without those people we wouldn't have come as far as we have and raised as much money as we have for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation!

One such act of generousity was just last week, from a lovely lady named Helen who owns and runs Hey Joe Retro, a vintage clothing and collectables shop on South St about 10 minutes drive out of Fremantle. She's been really interested in the Two Bucks sales since I first went in there a couple of months ago and got chatting to her about good op shops to visit.

Then, on my last visit, she donated four big bags full of amazing vintage clothes and shoes she had no room for in the shop (seriously, the place is a crammed-full treasure trove). The stuff she gave us was wonderful (and will be on sale at our spring sale at the end of September), and all of us were so touched by her thoughtfulness!

Thanks so much, Helen!

Hannah x

Winter workshops!

Looking for something fun and creative to do on Saturday? Well, Anna and I will be holding our first vintage DIY workshop in the new cabin artspace next door to Bon Marche Pigeonhole, you should come along!

The workshops will be devoted to showing you how to alter, style or renovate your op shop finds into something that will fit you well, doesn't smell like grandma's moth-balls, but is still a classic and genuine vintage piece of clothing! You'll be taught how to always have luck at the op shop and how to have the foresight to turn that size 26 floral muu-muu with a lovely print into a pretty and wearable dress. The workshop will cover basic sewing, op-shopping tips, some knowledge of fashion and textile styles from 1950-1990, and result in a renovated piece of vintage clothing that fits like a dream!

Attendees must bring with them:
- a piece or two of op shop/vintage clothing you've found that needs to be altered/renovated/ styled to be more wearable. Example: huge, long dresses with shoulder pads, maybe, or skirts and blouses with awesome fabric that are just not generally wearable
- a pair of scissors
- a notebook and pen
- a sense of adventure!

Date: Vintage 1 – Saturday August 1st, 2 - 4pm
Vintage 2 – Saturday August 29th, 2 - 4pm
Cost: $20 at the door

There are limited places available so get in quick!

To register, email your contact details to: cabinfever@pigeonhole.com.au with VINTAGE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION in the subject line, specifying which date you would like to attend.

See you there!

Love, Hannah x