We are open!!!

Well, what a wonderful first week it has been here at Lost & Found! A big thank you to everyone who helped us get to this point and to everyone who's made such lovely donations.
Our opening day event was lots of fun with the Gramophone DJ's setting the tone playing some beautiful 1940's records. It was lovely to see the cast of The Diary of Ann Frank, RADS who came down in 1940's outfits. Vintage Tinsel did some brilliant up do's as you can see from the photos, it was delightful to see young girls running around The Station showing off their victory rolls!   The shop was full to the brim with lots of happy customers having a good rummage through all our bits and bobs, vintage linens were very popular as were our beautiful picnic blankets and railway memorabilia.
Over our first week we have lots more wonderful donations, some items are just getting taken out of their bags, priced, put on display and getting sold straight away. Interesting donations so far have been an old fashioned projector and screen, a Rolls Razor sharpener, vintage golf club, Bakelite View Masters, little Dinkie hairclips, fabulous vintage hats-very popular and some beautiful books. One of my favourites is pictured below which will certainly come in handy if you'd like to learn the 'saucy samba', 'the gay cha-cha-cha' or a 'quick twinkle' , all this knowledge for a bargain £4 :-)
I'm sure you will all be well aware, being the good sons and daughters you are, that it's Mothers Day tomorrow, we will be open 10-5pm so call in for that last minute gift or bring mummy along so she can pick her own treat. If you whisper " I love my mum' to any of our sales team this weekend you can have a 10% discount on your purchases.

Memories discovered!

Soooo we are almost, almost ready to open the doors. Our launch day on Saturday is going to be very special. We have the fabulous Gramophone DJs playing vintage classics between 11am and 2pm and also Vintage Tinsel coming along to do some 1940s style up-do's for the ladies. There will be sweets treats, giveaways, competitions and goody bags for our first ten customers! We also have (weather pending) two Austin Seven Tourers coming, it's all coming together :-)
Everyone is being very kind with their donations and we have discovered some lovely things hidden in the pages of old books. I discovered not one but two four leaf clovers in an old Agatha Christie hardback, I think that's definitely a good luck symbol for the shop and me! Even more intriguing is a letter from 1943 found in a copy of Charlotte Bronte's Villette from a young soldier called Bob ( no Blackadder references please ;-) )  talking about his life in the army. He'd been in the army for two years and claims to have spent most of his time so far going to the cinema, dancing and flirting! We hope the rest of his time as a soldier was so peaceful!   We're going to try to do a bit of research and perhaps find out what did happen to him!
Hope you can all make it to the launch, we're all really looking forward to showing off all our lovely bits and bobs. Bye for now LostandFoundLass xoxoxo

Things are taking shape here.  Although laced with mild amounts of hysteria as opening day (Sat 22nd 11am - don't forget!) approaches, we're actually starting to stock the shelves.

It's difficult not to get distracted as we have to keep looking at all the lovely things in much more detail - just to make sure they are all as mouth-wateringly gorgeous as we thought they were.

More updates soon.

Lost & Found Lass xoxo

Launch Date Announced

We now have a date confirmed for the launch of Lost and Found (fanfare please............) Saturday 22nd March at 11am! There will be lovely things going on, goody bags for the first ten customers, competitions,yummy free nibbles, vintage music and Vintage Tinsel will be coming along and doing 1940's hair doos!  There may even be a few more surprises so watch this space :-) Here is our latest picture of the  shop developments, we are in love with the bottle green tiles on our counter, it's not finished yet but you get the idea.
Oh and also, very importantly, here's your invite, hope you can make it, it will be super lovely to see you all, bye for now LostandFoundLass xoxox