I'm in New Romantic Heaven

This is my first post from my new computer and it all feels a bit different. I've moved from pc to mac and there seem to be a few things missing. Like there's no hyperlink button and no way to format the text!! Oh well, it doesn't matter because I'm so excited about last weekend's purchase. Look what I found - 2 for $5








My fella and I sat and watched 'duran duran' (which is all the videos from the first two albums - including the soft porn 'night version' of girls on film) and we're saving 'sing blue silver' for one of those lazy post-Christmas afternoons

And, look what I dragged out of a skip last night and then carried home on a tram!







It's built to be attached to a wall. I'm gonna give it to my fella for Christmas so he can keep things in it at his new venture next year (I don't think he reads this as much as I thought - in fact, i don't think he reads it at all!)

And if anyone can help me with posting photos from photobucket and not cutting off the right hand side of the image I would be truly grateful.

Ednaville

You have to check this out!

I went to the thee-ay-tah last night to see Tom Foolery (which, by the way, was quite fun - Mitchell Butel was the stand-out) and in the George Adams gallery was the exhibition Ednaville. Now, this has garage sale relevance because, they've recreated a 1950's suburban home complete with all manner of wonderful treasures, such as...

a knitted owl tea cosy

a knitted toilet seat cover

a crocheted toilet roll holder

and, the peace of resistance...

sausages doin the fandango with pineapple rings - oh, glory glory

I want to live there.

Why I Love Melbourne

Garage Sale at the Builders Arms Hotel on Saturday morning.

Way back in 1994 I packed up my car in Sydney and drove down the Hume for my new life in Melbourne and on arrival I spent my first evening drinking at the Builders Arms hotel in Fitzroy.

Wow! I've just discovered photobucket! How excellent it is. (Thank you to Poppalina for unknowingly putting me on to it)

So, I couldn't help myself and I did go garage sailing on Saturday. I didn't go searching but just popped into ones that I passed in my travels. Unfortunately I didn't find anything worth buying at the Builders Arms but in Brunswick East I found these...

and these...

dolls for the knitter

the middle one has a dried chilli for a nose!

and these...

they're about 15cm high

I'm gonna make costumes for them and give them as presents.

and this was given to me by the garage sale vendor! How nice is that?!

feeling useless (sob!)

Why can't I post images this weekend? Why isn't it working? What's going on? Who do I turn to for help?