I could get up and back.... right on track

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following post contains an image of deceased persons.

Well, I'm back.... for now.

It's been so cold in Melbourne! It's hard to get up on a wintery saturday morning to brave the swells and blustery conditions of garage sailing, even if I do have a fine red yacht!

And I have a new housemate who's brought her stuff into the house and so I've actually had to get rid of some stuff rather than accumulate more.

So Saturday the 22nd July 2006 reaped these rewards....


a stainless steel stovetop espresso maker. An excellent replacement for the one I left down at Anglesea on the last weekend of summer (sigh).

A couple of albums...

cocteau twins - treasure

and

kate bush - hounds of love

And finally, the most excellent find of the day

Its a cork-backed TIN placement. Can you believe it? It's wonderful and was the subject of debate with the knitter, knitter's sister and prison guy (over delicious french toast at Empire Cafe) about whether I can cut it up and turn it into kangaroos. We decided, probably not.

That was fun, I'll try and do it again soon.

anna

Eureka - Back On Track 3

I'm such a novice, this is taking forever. And now, after having all that trouble, for some reason all of my previous posts have small green font. How did that happen?

Anyway the final 5...

Kande Kitchenware's famous
spring-form 3 way cake tin
30 cents

very sweet child's wheel barrow

2 tall plant stands $4 each

and yes, that's a concrete garden ornament

and 2 beautiful cymbidiums
one of which has 8 flower spikes
$10 each

Eureka - Back On Track 2

Bloody Blog! It takes forever to upload photos and then when I tried to publish the bloody thing I was told something was wrong with my html tag - And God only knows what that is, let alone how you fix it. So trying again with 5 more

Cute old ladder for $5 which I've already used
to change the lightbulb in the dunny

2 old suitcases which I'll use for storage.
top to bottom $3 and $5

Lovely little table for $15 (down from 20)
very sturdy a good size

gotta love an enamel billy for 20 cents!

This bowl is actually a beautiful 50's pink with yellow glaze inside
and it's big enough for a salad.

Eureka - Back On Track 1

What a great day of garage saleing! I only went to 2 - one in Northcote and one in Thornbury - but managed to spend $65 and got all of these great bargains!!!

However... Can I only publish 5 photos at a time? I've uploaded 15 of them but only 5 seem to have appeared. Maybe I have to do it as another post.

So, here's the first five...

the key is there to show size. these guys are soooo cute.
The little one is gazing lovingly at the big one
and the big one is gazing wistfully at the sky as if asking
how the f__ she ever thought motherhood was a good idea.
30 cents.

nice long wooden bowl/table centrepiece type thing
$1

really nice bag which contained the following...

and yes, that's a bone crochet hook!!
And all that for $1

Lamenting the existence of eBay

... for it is the only reason I can think of that that superbarn called Savers in Geebum could have nothing that I wished to purchase. And the Brotherhood shop underneath had only 3 books worthy of a second glance, one of which was $5! Five Dollars for a book from an op-shop. No Way!

yours in despondency, Anna