last year i visited the biggest antique
store in sydney it's called mitchell
road antiques and i went with my friends
millie tiata and caitlyn that place is
insane there is so much to look at and
you really need to set aside an entire
day to go i didn't realize that at the
time when i visited the first time i
thought oh yeah an hour or two that'll
be enough that was not enough so if any
of you watched this video here that i
posted last year you might remember that
there were some really amazing items i
pointed out in that video that i said
that i loved but i couldn't quite
justify buying them at the time i did
end up going back and in today's video
you're going to see some footage that i
shot when i went there the second time i
set aside a full day for my second visit
and it really paid off because i found
so many things that i wouldn't have seen
if i just hurried through the thing
about antique stores that are that big
with that much stock is that it's very
very easy to miss things there's so many
things on top of each other underneath
each other around each other there were
items i didn't see the first time that i
went but when i saw them on my second
trip i knew i had to have them now
there's a fun little game that i like to
play with myself every christmas at some
point throughout the year if i see
something that i really really like but
it's quite pricey and i can't really
justify buying it i say to myself you
know what i could buy this as a
christmas present for myself and i will
purchase the item and i will lock it
away and i will not look at it again
until christmas so that is exactly what
i did last year it's been exactly one
year since i bought these items before i
open this box and i show you guys what i
bought i'm gonna put on some lo-fi beets
and show you guys a tour of mitchell
road antiques
[Music]
all right so now that we've had a look
at the store i'm so excited to finally
have a look at what i got there are some
items in here i definitely remember
because i've been looking forward to
opening them for the past 12 months but
there's other things that i may have
bought impulsively that i don't actually
remember buying so this is as much of a
surprise for me as it is for you so
first up this is a lamp shade that is
part of an antique murano glass lamp
that i got it's a beautiful lampshade i
think that these lamps are from the 60s
because i saw them on a vintage website
once and the listing said that it was
from around the 60s so that's the
lampshade for the lamp that's hiding in
here somewhere i got this skirt which is
so beautiful this doesn't have any tag
no label nothing no information but it
feels to me like it's made of wool it
was in a vintage section of the antique
store whether or not it is vintage i i
don't entirely know next this feels like
a platter
a long time no see my old friend i had
forgotten how big this was this is the
blue and gold mirrored platter and
funnily enough the theme of my house
wasn't blue and gold when i last went to
this antique store but it is now big
thanks to my past self for getting
something that matches my new aesthetic
perfectly
[Applause]
another thing that's blue and gold what
i wonder if subconsciously i have ended
up styling my house in a blue and gold
theme because i bought so much of it in
the past and i just had it all lying
around and uh it just made sense to use
it all as my new style on the bottom
here it says hand decorated charleswear
i'm definitely going to have to research
some of the brands of the things that
i've thrifted over the years because
sometimes people pop into my comment
section and say alex that thing that you
got when you were thrifting is so rare
it's worth thousands of dollars and here
i am i've got no idea i'm just spray
painting it for fun
so i'm gonna have to do some googling
and look into this
child's wear but uh no worries my little
friend you are not at risk of being
spray painted this is very heavy oh my
god
i completely forgot about this this is
actually a olive oil and vinegar bottle
this is
so beautiful so this is hand blown glass
we've got a stopper here and a stopper
here so that you can keep balsamic
vinegar and olive oil in this it has
this little metal kind of hook thing
hanging off it here that someone's
fashioned and i guess maybe they used to
have that hanging in their kitchen i
might get sam to build me a timber stand
for it because i really don't like the
idea of hanging it i think it's too
precious and i really don't want to risk
it breaking
ah
i forgot i bought this in last year's
thriftmas i kept finding these
absolutely incredible onyx pieces i
currently have two very tall onyx visors
that i use for propagations and this one
i love the shape of it this urn shape is
so beautiful
another blue thing so this is very
strange this is a glass light fitting it
didn't come with any other pieces or
parts this is a hanging light shade and
i believe that you're supposed to attach
it to a single light bulb that is
hanging out of the ceiling so i was
thinking of repurposing it somehow i
wouldn't mind getting sam to build some
little legs for it that could kind of
sit like there and there for example and
i could use it like a bars it's just
such a beautiful piece of glass i
couldn't leave the store without it and
uh little did i know that the theme of
my house was going to end up blue and
gold so that's a great success too
ah
oh my god i completely forgot i got this
this is incredible this is
hand blown glass this is again a vase
that you use for like a single flower or
a couple of flowers on their stems this
is
so insane it's black glass and then in
here it's iridescent
isn't that
magical this is just
so beautiful
it's so beautiful oh my god
okay who remembers this this is
a little perfume bottle
i showed this in my last video isn't
this insane it's so beautiful that's the
little stopper and i believe that you
would fill this with perfume and when
you're ready to actually use the perfume
you just give it a tip you douse the
applicator and then you would put the
perfume on like this
this is such a unique piece i've never
seen anything like this before when i
went back for this i couldn't find it
and i thought someone must have bought
it but it actually just completely moved
the entire stall where this was being
sold had just up and moved to another
section of the store and i was gutted
that i couldn't find it but because i
went there for such a long time and i
took my time to walk around i did end up
finding the store's new location and i
was so happy but i had completely
forgotten that i actually managed to get
this
this is just so cute oh this is heavy
oh
this is the lamp for the lampshade so
this is a murano glass ball the cool
thing about this is that after i ended
up buying it a couple of days later a
vintage store that i follow on instagram
listed one identical to this and the
crazy thing is they sold it for eight
hundred dollars from memory i think it
was about a hundred dollars it could
possibly have been 200 but
i remember at the time thinking well
because it works and it's vintage murano
glass and it really is a collector's
piece
i'll go ahead and buy it and then when i
saw it listed on that vintage store and
i saw that someone actually bought one
of these for 800 us dollars i was like
well
not a bad investment on my part getting
this for under 200. oh
i remember what this is just by feeling
it this is another glass
lampshade i got this from the same store
that i got
this one from this pastel colored glass
is a dream this is another one that i
would love to try to repurpose i may
just get like a clear
glass jar and sit it in the bottom
filled with water i can treat this
almost like a bars i could have the
thing sitting in the base that's got the
water and i can have the flowers and
everything coming out the top i think
that that's going to suit me much better
than trying to use this as a lampshade
oh boy
oh i think i know what this is from the
feel of how heavy it is and the feel of
the shape i think this is an incredible
vars ah yes yay oh this is what i was so
excited to open this was the thing that
made it so hard for me to leave this box
of antiques untouched because this is
one of two vases that i got
oh my gosh look at this
look at this my absolute
favorite find so these are from sweden
the brand is a costa boater handmade in
sweden these two matching vases they are
the most beautiful glass the little
white one has flecks of speckled blue in
it the purple one is just the most
beautiful shade look at these colors
together
look at that is that not
absolutely insane oh
hang on a second have i forgotten
something i think i have
did i really get oh
i did
i got the third one
i forgot it was a set of three they are
truly magnificent from memory they were
the most expensive things that i got at
the store but i will treasure them
forever so i don't mind
[Music]
this one i showed this in my first video
and people like alex you've got to go
back for it i remember it was quite
expensive and that's why i didn't buy it
the first time but i couldn't stop
thinking about it so glad i went back
look at this isn't it stunning it's
white and speckled gold hand blown glass
it's
so beautiful
this is incredible i'm so happy about
this
oh okay right right
i you know what i got this because i was
so into the whole
murano glass thing last year and now i'm
being a lot more specific about what i
buy to style my house with and because
this is red and gold this to me
this is good for christmas yes but any
other time of the year i would probably
have this hidden away which is a real
shame because it's so beautiful so i may
actually gift this to someone that can
use it all year round and love it i
think it may be a tea light holder i
don't think it's a bars this is the only
thing so far that i look back and i kind
of regret buying it and finally the very
last item which feels to me
like a swan
i think it is i think oh it is
ah
look at that
i did buy this i couldn't remember if i
bought this or not this is a planter a
sponge-shaped planter and once again
blue fits in perfectly with the theme of
my house
i'm so glad i got this this is in
desperate need of a clean it's filthy
like in between its feathers is really
really dirty so i'm gonna have to do
some research on how to clean
this old sort of porcelain it's got no
markings on it doesn't say where it's
made how old it is or anything this one
is going to be very well loved in my
house so that's it for today keep an eye
out for a video i have coming up where
i'm going to be styling thrifted items
and antique items in my house so you
guys can see what i actually end up
doing with these things if you have any
suggestions for any of them leave them
in the comments down below but with that
thank you guys so much for watching and
i'll see you tomorrow
[Music]
you