Handmade Christmas - Decorations

1. Vintage Doile Decoration

2. Buntings

3. Vintage Sheet Music Candle Holders
4. Vintage Paper Garlands

Buy Nothing New Parade

A festival of Future-Friendly Fashion. This October marked the Salvation Army's first ever "Buy Nothing New" month. During the whole month of October the Salvo are encouraging people to avoid making purchases of "new" clothing and accessories.

As a fund raiser and to increase the porfile of "pre-loved" goods the local Savlos held a rather intereting fashion show, featuring:

cute little kids,

this old dear who came to the catwalk with layers and layers of clothing (and just as many hand bags) and proceed to amuse the crowd with her own uniqe brand of strip tease

err...(um those women have beards!!)

and finally......ok....wtf!!

my sister also found a couple of creepy babies.

and finally at the end of the show (and after a pretty terrible quiz with prizes nobody wanted) all items worn in the show and many more could be purchased over a lovely supper.

Paper Garlands

1. Bird Rosettes
2. Vintage Maps
3. Vintage Sheet Music
4. Vintage Dictionary
5. Paper Lantern

simple repurpose tin project

materials:-
1. metal tin
2. scrapbook paper
3. tacky craft glue
4. acrylic sealer

A Table for Two

This weekend seems to be the weekend for the annual church and school fates. Today the local Catholic Church held there's. Outside the church hall , as always was the $2 sausage sizzle, with it's under-cooked snags, blackened onions and ice bucked of salad dressings, whilst inside could be found an aray of secondhand goods, old books, baked treats and tables of mysteriously labeled "potted plantings".
This year, running in a shed just behind the church was a nifty little garage sale, selling some really nice old furnishings and homewares. I was quite chuffed to find this cute little garden chair. Now my outdoor settings has a place for two, replacing a chair which was stolen when i still lived in South Yarra some years ago. Very Nice!!

New Buntings

Check out these sweet buntings which will be avaliable next week. Each are made from my huge vintage fabric stash and features 12 handmade flags measuring 15x20cm, and comes with a 30cm tie off section and metal ring for hanging.
These are perfect for dressing a room or nursery and makes a wonderful reusable party decoration.

At present they come is 3 different themes.
1. Boy blue
2. Chic Floral
3. Bohemian