It's YOU! Hello! Nice to see you! Here you will find stuff about living a creative life in country Australia. I create with watercolour, pen, collage, mixed media and photos. I teach, hosts workshops, collect, dream. I love cheese, travel, my garden, faffing, colour and whimsy. I am crap at time management, and do way too many things, but it is all good. Oh yes, all pictures and photos on here by me too, just saying.

Wednesday 11 December 2013

THRIFTING OP-SHOPPING SALVAGING RECYCLING PRELOVED VINTAGE RETRO TIP SHOP


thrifting salvaging
recycling
secondhand 
pre-loved
vintage
retro
tip shop




These
are 
the 
kind 
of 
words 
that 
make 
me 
SWOON.















Cannot go past one,
even on holidays, without feeling a deep pang in my belly.(Am I weird? Does it matter?)                      
I have been doing this , thrifting etc, for YEARS, way before it became hip to do            so...yes I know... 
we all say that.                                                                              
It started age 13,     
year 8, when I walked past the                             local Vinnies on the way to and from school. 
In the window
one glorious day, I saw a rather fetching pair of "Dolly" style school shoes. I tried them They fitted. I was hooked. 
And so began my love in earnest...men's shirts, particularly tuxedo dress shirts..which I sewed funky vintage buttons onto.
I thought i was so goddamn COOL.
Now, a few decades on, my thrifting choices are geared towards purchases for my home. And boy, do I have a lot of cool stuff. No minimalism here...sorry.Do I neeed any more? NO. Will this stop me? NO...but you knew that already, huh?