Trash.

White Elephant.

 What not

Not

What

Bric

A Brac

Will you take

One dollar

for that?

Knick

Knack

Click

 Clack

Break

Sorry!

To spruik

Or not to

Spruik

Shall I

become

A vulgar

Squeaky door?

Will you

Buy into

My past,

Wear my

Vintage dress

That

Still

Smells

Of

My dancing

Sweat?

Pick up

A glass

Trinket

That my

Grandmother

Chose once

Long ago

On a

Spring day

In a

Sunny

Market

After she

Had eaten

Scones

I want

More than

One

Dollar

My

Sentimentality

Has

Nothing

On your

Sweat beaded

Lip curling

Desire

For a

Bargain.

But

My

Grandmother’s

Hands

Held

That

Once

And for

That

You

Must

Pay.

No?

Ok!

David Weeks Studio.

Book shelves in our house

Found objects.

This Guy Boyd plate in perfect condition, found on the side of the road in Park Orchards.

Swizzle sticks cheap $1.50 (for a whole bag of them) at our local op-shop.

This beautiful ply wood and plastic 70's lamp found on the side of the road in Park Orchards.

These Dinosaur Design salad servers found at the children's fete at the end of the day by me. "You can have those". Didn't know they were Dinosaur until I got home. Just liked the look of them.

Things on our walls and in our windows.

Here are some of the lovely things that adorn our walls and windows in our home. Some were gifts, some bought at garage sales and markets.

Below is a mermaid from the Apollo Bay market made by a local artist. I think she is exquisite.

Below is a wooden carved mermaid found at an op-shop.

Below: a Noah's Ark wooden hanging that I bought for our 18 month old as a first Christmas present.

I found this great '70's glass piece at an op-shop many years ago before everyone wanted this stuff and it is a fantastic thing, I think.

I got this glazed pottery flower at a church garage sale. It's also a '70's piece and it was about $2.00.

Below is a plaque that hangs out the front of our house, given to us as a gift.

My favourite plaque below, a '70's piece I think, that I bought at the Camberwell Market more than 10 years ago for about $2.50. I loved it, but had to convince my husband. He understands now.

Below are some of my collection of beautiful tiles. Some are Delft tiles and others are from Italy and England and the mermaid was made for us by an artist. I use them as pot stands and have them sitting looking pretty on my kitchen bench.

A lead light hand holding balloons. I love this.

Gus McLaren pottery fish below.

Some recent op-shop finds.

Hooray, I have my camera back. It broke down and it's been at the camera repair place for so long it seems. Now I can get back to doing a bit of posting.

Below are some relatively recent finds at our surrounding op-shops. I have noticed that some of my opportunity shops of late have been going down hill at increasing rates. But I have still managed to find a few treasures.

This is a lovely little vintage vase/bottle which charmed me and I spent a little more on it than I normally would have (about $18), but I loved it.

The yellow elephant below was a bargain at $2.50 and our 18 month old bub loves it a lot; carries it around making elephant trumpet noises and that alone has already paid it off 100 times over.
An Indian wooden fabric print block.

A religious icon gear stick set in resin (coolyschmooly).

A little set of opium scales.

Silk Paintings.

Below are some of my silk paintings that I did a long time ago. They were inspired by one of my favourite artists, Vali Myers. They are not ironed, just pulled out of a drawer in the garage. It was nice to see them again. It reminded me of how enjoyable silk painting is, how immediate and how relaxing. A very forgiving medium and you don't have to be an artistic genius.

This week at my fabulous NQR.

Below: My favourite buys for this week including: Watherthins parmesan and poppyseed straws, Waterthins chocolate and caramel biscuits, Free range ham (I think this is brilliant as I don't buy anything but free-range or organic pork products) and some SPC apricot sticks that I put in lunch boxes.

Below: frozen inari sushi made in Japan. Frozen?? I'll give it a try. No one makes sushi like the Japanese.

Below: delicious chocolate coated dried strawberries. They are covered in really beautiful, high quality dark chocolate. The packaging does not do this product justice. They are gorgeous and only $2.00 a punnet.

I love this below: Iced tea by Moby (you know the bald rock star?). I just picked this up because I was thirsty and it was 60 cents or something stupid like that. Then I read the label and had to get a photo. Moby has opened his own tea house in England and as a spinoff, has begun to bottle his flavoured teas. They are sweetened with organic cane sugar and use all organic flavours. Pretty great. I'll get some more of these.

The Danish butter below is yummy, usually extremely expensive and so I stocked up on these. I love Lurpak butter and have scored this before at NQR.

Organic, fair trade mint chocolate below. So cheap and with lots of use-by left. It is a lovely chocolate, rich and dark and anit-oxidenty, I think.

The bargains just keep on coming and I always get a kick out of finding goodies at this big, yellow, no-frills establishment.