Yes, they even sold the kitchen sink
 Manager Louise Oliver laughs, “It was a busy morning and the volunteers and myself in the shop had been joking that we had everything but the kitchen sink.
“Then what do you know, someone handed one in that afternoon.
“We couldn’t believe it and we were all killing ourselves laughing.”
But the smiles were even wider half an hour later when a customer snapped up the brand new kitchen sink for a bargain £20.
Not long after, they were going through a box from a house clearance when they came across a beautifully painted ostrich egg — which sold for a cracking £30.
While raking through another box Louise had another unusual find.
“I came across a black tin and when I opened it my heart stopped,” she recalls. “I thought it was a stuffed hedgehog.”
But to her bewilderment she discovered it was a lawyer’s wig. And within a week it was snapped up for a hairy £35.
Most expensive sale was just a couple of weeks ago when an antique wooden mantel clock, made by James Richies and Son of Edinburgh, was sold for £195.
One item Bazaar has an abundance of is ties. Volunteer Jean Webster even went home one night and dreamt about them all.
But in her dream she had an idea, and decided to put it into practice. Why not turn the ties into a quilt?
Aided by her friends, Jean Erskine, Betty Bolton and Nan Douglas, the foursome, who have been making quilts for different charities for the past seven years, set about their most difficult challenge yet.
Jean explains, “We had to wash and iron all the ties. Then we bought some wine-coloured material from Bazaar for a couple of pounds and stitched the ties to it.
“Normally we do half the quilt on the sewing machine and half by hand,” Jean says, “but this quilt was done completely by hand.”
After a lot of hard graft, the women were delighted with the end result. More than 100 snazzy ties had been transformed into a bright, colourful and unique quilt which will be raffled to raise money for CHAS at Perth City Hall this weekend. |
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Pictured with the tie quilt are, Jean Erskine (back left), Betty Bolton (back right), Louise Oliver and Jean Webster (front right).
