Featured Gem 7
Real Photo Postcard

‘Stick’em Up’

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People: Unidentified
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Notes: While I don’t really like guns at all (or even condone littlies playing with toy guns!), I think this photograph is brilliant despite it’s poor print quality.

The expression on the little girls face and her body language is so perfect. She’s the one that means business even if her gun is upside down! Her big brother(?) looks far less threatening.

This image is just begging for a dialogue. If you listen carefully you can hear them…

Eloise and I made cookies this morning. She doesn’t get many foodie treats because of the dairy thing. I feared these gingerbread cookies may be a bit too spicy, but no, sure enough she comes toddling over and drags me into the kitchen asking for ‘more star peaaseee, more star’. (this also explains why only one star made its way into the photo above!)

Cooking doesn’t come naturally to me, actually I’m not very good at it at all. So when I had to improvise and use a wine bottle as a rolling pin I freaked out a little. I think I also overcooked them a bit….but hey…my little customer isn’t complaining….although she did call my gingerbread man a bear!

It’s cloudy and bleak outside, actually it’s so dark I have had to put the light on even though it’s daytime. The leaves have long fallen from the trees and the air smells like open fires (ooo I wish we had one of these!). Rohan has rugged Eloise up and taken her down to the park and I am sitting back all toasty and warm with a coffee, and going through some of my latest treasures. Wow…there are lots…a lot more than I had thought…oh dear…I think I have another problem!

I have always loved op-shopping but lately my addiction has leapt to new heights as I find myself wandering into my local thrift store with alarming frequency. The sign does say ‘1000’s of new items arriving daily’ and indeed it’s true! It’s like a different shop every day so the temptation is huge! Too rainy to go to the park? Too ‘can’t be bothered’ to sit in a cafe trying to keep Eloise still long enough for me to finish a coffee? Well lets go spend an hour in Savers playing peek-a-boo up and down the aisles and maybe a treasure will jump out at me while we’re at it!

I can’t walk past a good looking tin if I see one! The colours, the illustration and the size of the old Sunkist Ice Cream tin above make it perfect for display and for storage. Left is another gorgeous tin. Yes it’s battered and weathered, but for me that adds to it’s charm.

I also found these two small plates (for 99c a piece!). They’re designed by Kathie Winkle for Broadhurst. The top one is from the series called ‘October’ and the bottom one is called ‘Olympus’. I am not sure what I’m going to do with them yet….but there was something about the graphic hand painted looking leafy patterns that I could not resist.

I don’t often find fabric in good usable sizes, but these two pieces below are huge! I have also come across a lot of vintage buttons lately. This is just a random handful. The ice cream tin above is full to the brim of vintage buttons to sort through.

More show and tell to come. The family is home from the park, new ‘pet rock’ and all!