Steals & deals: Etsy tapestry bag and thrifted N. E. From pendant

Photo courtesy edenfound, Etsy.

I have a confession: I've had this tapestry doctor's bag for weeks and I haven't shown you.

After stalking it on Etsy for several days, I took the plunge. It's made in Italy and has this amazing hardware. It was a great price, and I saw a similar bag that cost waaay more. I just love it. The seller identified it as 1970s but I would have guessed it was more 1990s - what do you think?

For its first outing, on a chilly English spring day, I took it out with my cashmere Jimmy Hourihan of Dublin cape (see a few posts below for another peep at the cape). Believe it or not, the pants, 70s-style purple sweater, black cashmere sweater underneath and booties are ALL NEW- a rare thing for the Grunge Queen, let me tell you!

But the 1970s purple sunnies were thrifted for three Canadian dollars in an ancient hardware store in Toronto that just happened to sell second-hand items in its window - I kid you not!

The steal: the pendant I'm wearing, a Modernist amethyst sterling pendant found for A DOLLAR in my local thrift shop back in Canada. It's signed "N. E. From", standing for Nils Erik From, a Danish silversmith who designed in the 1960s. His Modernist jewellery is all over Ebay (in fact a rose quartz pendant exactly like this is now listed at $450).  I'm increasingly attracted to Modernist bling and this piece is another fave in my collection.