Ode to homewares

I bought the cutest little hot water bottle today! It's only small but it comes with it's very own stripey jumper! Look:

Say it with me now....awwwww! :)

I also got this little cup thing with a chandelier on 2 sides.

I'm not sure what I'll use it for but if all else fails, it'll become my toothbrush holder!

I'm 99.99999% sure that I will be moving to the Gold Coast in about 6 weeks so I'm busy collecting cute fun things, such as the above, to decorate my new flat with. This will be the 2nd official time I've moved out (not including the time I moved to the UK for 10 months), so I actually have a few large housey items such as a fridge, a microwave and various other bits n bobs. I dont have a kitchen table yet. The year that I was living in Melbourne, I didn't have a kitchen table at all! I borrowed someone's outdoor plastic lawn table and chairs. I think I ate at that table maybe once or twice. This time, I intend to buy myself a real live wooden table with real wooden chairs from IKEA! I love IKEA!

I can hear music...

I saw Music & Lyrics at the movies last night. Hilariously funny! Seriously...if you need a laugh there's nothing funnier than Hugh Grant dressed up in 80s gear singing a very cheesy pop song! And his dancing! Brilliant!

The weekend is pretty much over although the premier of Ugly Betty is on tonight so I'll probably watch that and flick over to the Biggest Loser as it's weigh in night tonight.

I bought a beautiful platter thing at Myer yesterday, it was on special as were the two colourful ceramic bowls I bought. I've also ordered about 270 photos on snapfish, which are most of my Las Vegas photos except for about 30 or so pics of the Bellagio fountains.

I've had a very lovely lazy afternoon watching TV. Serendipty with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. And How to Steal a Million with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. I've never seen it before and I missed the first half hour but what I saw was excellent. Great storyline! Fabulous cast!

I've almost finished my Statue of Liberty layout. I just need journalling. Unfortunately I have nothing to say about it so it's just sitting there waiting for words.

Poppy Ink!

So this very yummy box of stuff was sitting on my doorstep when I arrived home! There's some gorgeous colours and the coolest shrinky stickers! Ooh and some bling bazzil and lots of funky papers and fab ric rac!! Two of the ric rak colours go perfectly with a layout I'm working on at the moment of the Statue of Liberty! (would you believe blue and lime green!?) Gonna have fun with this.

I had hoped the earrings I purchased on Etsy would arrive today but I guess I'll just have to wait a bit longer.

Today's two peas challenge is a cracker:

Challenge - If you could live in any other time period of the world besides right now, what time period would you love to live in??? and why?

There's probably one or two different time periods I'd love to live in. The first one that came to mind was the time of the French Revolution. It's my favourite war. As in, the one I find most interesting. All wars are bad, but this one was sooo blood thirsty. I don't actually think I'd have liked to have lived through it, but it seems like such an interesting era. If you like getting your head chopped off that is! I've probably read the Scarlet Pimpernel a few too many times!

Another interesting era would be the 1950s-1970s. I'd love to witness the birth of rock n roll, back when music mattered so much and some seriously amazing musical artists came on the scene. I realise people who are a few years older than me got to live it but it's not the same hearing about it from people.

A Card!

I went on yet another mini shopping spree this morning. It wa'sn't intentional though. I really just wanted to get a copy of Elsie Flannigans book 52 Scrapbooking Challenges. I ended up getting that as well as:


Basic Grey Blush letter stickers, Heidi Swapp Center of Attention outline rubons and block black and white alpha stickers:
Black, white and dark pink Bazzil Bling cardstock and KI double sided patterned paper (reduced to 30 cents a sheet!!!)



And I have actually been productive this morning too. I made my cousin's 30th Birthday card.

I've been wanting to alter my style and make it more colourful and fun so I figured this card would be a good way to start.

I always make fun of this particular cousin by sending her cards pointing out how old she is (she's 3 years older than me) The quote on the card reads "Wisdom does not necessarily come with age"and on the inside it say "Sometimes age just shows up all by itself"

Front:


Inside:



Products used:

Poppy Ink Owl stamp
Making Memories tiny alphas
KI patterned paper
Heidi Swapp block alphas (for the 30)
Puffy red hearts from a Poppy Ink kit


I hope she likes it!

Etsy

I love Etsy. It's such a cool idea! I just bought myself my Valentine's Day present. I know I was thinking about getting a ipod armband but I saw these earrings and fell in love! The seller is j.nic designs and these are the earrings:



Beeeautiful! I love turquoise and I dont have any turquoise jewellery so I thought I'd do something about it!

I know which website I'm going to check out when buying my mum's mother's day pressie this year!

Vintage fun

I've had quite a bit of fun over the past 24hours, spending cash on various things.

Last night I popped into a shop on my way home called Bay Swiss. It's a homewares place but also does food. Anyway I ended up getting 4 bright pink place mats for $3 each! Reduced from $5 each. Bargain! And I got the cutest gingerbread man cookie cutters. There's 3 in the box and they're called Already Been Chewed Cookies because they look like someone's taken a bite out of them.

Aren't they cute! The pink stripy thing behind the box is one of the placemats I bought.

Today Mum and I went into the Valley to do some vintage/retro fabric shopping. The Valley is hard to describe. It's just outside the city centre, it's where China town is, is very hip and has lots of clubs but is also full of people you don't want meet late at night in a dark alley if you get my meaning. Anyway they have markets in the mall every Saturday and there's a lot of 2nd hand clothing/vintage shops. We managed to score some seriously scary stuff! It was so much fun. I actually bought 2 headscarfs at the markets which are quite nice. The blue one is more of an aqua colour:

The stuff below is stuff we found in 2nd hand stores. Most of the stuff we bought is 100% polyester!

In this picture we have a lovely bright green polyester shirt, a funky brown, orange and cream patterned shirt and a dark blue velvet skirt! How 70's is that patterned shirt?!

In this picture we have a red/pink striped top, another polyester dotted blue shirt, a flowery skirt and a very cool wavey blue shirt that makes your eyes go funny when you look at it!

In this photo we have a mini skirt that is black and brightly patterened with dangly bead things. I think it'll make a lovely cushion!. The pink flowery dress is actually really pretty in real life and the funky wavey red and black top would make a lovely head scarf.



And finally below there is a hideously scary shirt that's made up of quite a few different patterns. A almost as hideous red dress, a very lovely blue silk tie and a very funky red and white belt!

We also got a whole bunch of records, including some of the smaller ones! Some of them I'm actually keeping to listen to and the others are going to be altered.

We're probably going to be making hand bags, cushions, lamp shades and the like out of all our finds!