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Sunday Social: A vintage gem at Winn Lane

In our house Sundays are truly as easy as a Sunday morning. Given our unusual work schedules, we try to reserve the day for relaxing, catching up and basically doing our best impersonations of lizards who graze all day. Just bliss. While the word Sunday can strike fear in many with its close proximity to […]

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Can you keep a secret?

Can you keep a secret? Well, I can’t. One of my favourite vintage shops in Brisbane, Can You Keep A Secret, is moving and expanding. The cool vintage shop was located at Greenslopes for more than four years, but for a number of reasons they needed to move. Owners Ajanta and Emily are moving their much-loved […]

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A chat with Circa Vintage’s Nicole Jenkins

Circa Vintage’s Nicole Jenkins lives by one motto: ‘fashion fades, style is eternal.’ While Yves St Laurent may have famously said the line, Nicole lives and breathes it. As the owner of one of Australia’s largest vintage web shops, Nicole is a true purveyor of quality and authentic vintage clothing. I should know I’ve been admiring […]

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Recent scouts

I’ve been rather busy with life of late. New job, new renovations in the pipeline, new vegetable garden and, well, just loving life. But don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about Scout & Finch. In my recent travels, I’ve been collecting a few things that I’ve scouted out and want to share with you. So here […]

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Gwangjang Market – Vintage shopping in Seoul

When we first decided to visit Seoul, I did what any normal vintage lover does and Googled Vintage + Seoul. I do this every time we decide to visit a new place.  Normally I find a lot of references to fake vintage shops that really mean overpriced yuppy stuff that someone has already been through, […]

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Hollywood glamour comes to Brisbane

The iconic costumes of Judy Garland, Grace Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers, Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis and Marlon Brando (to name a few) will be made available to the public in a magical exhibition late November at the Museum of Brisbane. I’m beside myself. My love of old glamour and vintage combined with […]

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Big Vintage at Salisbury

Last December three things happened. Some big fat jolly dude who has a serious obsession with red fell down some chimney after too many egg nogs; I turned a year older and got more grey hair; and one of Brisbane’s coolest furniture stores swung open their big antique doors. Big Vintage at Salisbury. Mark it […]

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SWOP at West End, Brisbane

When I stumbled across SWOP in West End (often part of the Boundary Street Markets) I thought I had simply come across a cool vintage shop. But then I had a “wait there is more” moment that would make any telemarketer very proud. As I sifted through the racks and racks of cool items, I […]

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Adding vintage to home decor

It sounds nerdy, but I have been on the hunt for a cool lampshade for almost eight months. A lampshade that isn’t boring. A lampshade that isn’t just 50 shades of grey (boring!). Come on people, someone please make lampshades that aren’t so boring or cost the same amount as my first car. Anyhow, I […]

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Paddington Antique Centre

I know this place isn’t new. I know everyone has written about this place, visited it, bought things from here, taken their mums here … yadda yadda yadda. But I haven’t, so it’s new to me, and that’s what this whole blog is all about – places that I’m discovering for the first time. This […]

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