central market finds

I love that I'm still able to post to garage sailor from over here in Estonia. My luggage is gonna be sooo overlimit! I'm trying to restrain myself from buying glass and ceramic but sometimes it's hard to resist.

I found the central market while on route to buy stainless steel dental wire for my other life. And it turns out they have "junk" stalls as well as fresh fruit and veg etc, and here are some of the things I found... (warning: present spoilers ahead)



it's a tray, it's tin, it has a picture of a strange black sausage on it. My buddies here tell me that it's traditional Estonian sausage, and it's traditional to serve it with a bowl of cranberries and beer. Lucky Max gets this as his travel present.


I got this at the same time...



as it seemed appropriate to not separate them. I don't, however, have any friends who hunt, so maybe it will go and live with Mitzi in the hills


And this is, of course, for the knitter who needs to start a blog herself







cheers, a

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russian market finds

I'd heard about the Russian market here in Tallinn but it doesn't appear in any of the guidebooks.

What I'd heard about it was that you have to keep your belongings very close to your body. I got someone to point it out to me on the map and headed over there yesterday (sat). It's really grotty and it's like being in a foreign correspondent report about chechnya but they did have some second hand stalls. There was also lots of cheap synthetic trash, some crowded food halls and the stinkiest fish market I've ever been in, I thought I was going to pass out!

So, of course, here are the spoils.



It's an old toy game and the back of it with the picture is made of tin so it'll probably be turned into jewellery, here you can see the stamp of the Russian Federation...




I also found this beautiful toy doll which will be coming back home unadulterated as a present for the knitter. She's about 7cm high and she's got one of those weighted bottoms so she always bounces back upright.






from the same stall I got these fantastic badges. They are made of tin and not plastic coated. My favourite is the blue eskimo. They're already jewellery so it's hard to think about cutting them up to make jewellery but i might just have to.



The doll was about $5 and the badges $10 which is cheap but I'm sure I was overcharged as I was a tourist. It's hard to bargain with someone with sores on their mouth and holes in the fingers of their gloves.


I also got this great collection of drink coasters...





again, all made of tin.

So, that's my first garage sailing post from Estonia, hopefully there'll be more. I've also found some great postcards in antique shops but I've sent them before photographing them.

Till next time, Anna

hiatus

oh dear, it's been a long time between garage sails! I'm going away for four months so I may not be posting here regularly. I'll be keeping Davernator up to date and who knows? maybe I'll find some old eurovision costumes at a garage sale in Estonia. I'll be sure to post if I do.
farewell,
Anna

In January...

...there are no garage sales! Not a one! ...oh well, ok, one. At which I got for $5 each:

2 outdoor, falling apart chairs which are (apparently)
from the French Riviera!

Otherwise, there's only 2nd hand bookshop and expensive op-shop purchases. The op-shop in Warrandyte may be open on Sunday's but that's no excuse for daylight robbery. I found these beautiful Micasa coffee cups...



with 10 cents very clearly written on the bottom...



And the shop assistant tried to convince me that it said 1 dollar!!

I also got these fabulous glasses for $2 which make things appear brighter (good for when you're in a melancholy mood) but strangely work very well at cutting out the glare.



And this gorgeous bag - which I've dubbed my 80's Mosman bag - and its contents:

some finished and unfinished needlepoint and wool

and 1941 which I remember seeing when I was in high school and being strangely aroused by the make out scene in the B52.



And from the 2nd hand bookshop, I got this excellent resource...



And this was an absolute find



which contained many wonderous things including this...

yes, it's some fluffy slippers on a shag rug with an illustration of the yarra

more research material

dunno what this is like but my sailing buddy pursuaded me to get it.

and this...



which contains these gems...

making acrylic jewellery

"An attractive hold-all in Indian style"!!

and I believe these are all the rage in crafty blog-land

So altogether, not a bad start to the year.

cheers, Anna

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!)