Japan days 1&2

Moshi Moshi. Here I am in amazing Japan! we are in Kyoto for a few days which is beautiful here are some photos of the trip so far.....

The most exciting bit by far is........ME AS A GEISHA!!  It was  so interesting to see how all the make-up, hair and Kimono is all put together.

It's been ages

Man it has been ages since I have blogged. I can't even say it's because I have been super busy, because I haven't really. London was fun, It involved seeing lots of old friends I haven't seen for years and lots of dancing! 

I have managed to stop myself going to carboots for the last couple of weeks, so there have been no fun treasures to show you. I did get this yellow tree thingy from a vintage shop a few weeks ago, It is perfect for accessories.

The main reason for the lack of carbooting is to save money for Japan and to save space for all the purchases from Japan!! I have spent days researching Japanese food as being celiac I have to be careful what I eat and don't want to be poorly over there. It seems that pretty much everything over there contains wheat. I have printed out and laminated some cards in Japanese, to flash in restaurants stating I can't eat certain foods, so this should help. I got them free from killerpeanut This site is great, you can custom make your own cards to suit your own allergies. I sneaked on meat and fish too as I want to make sure I don't get any in my meals either. I have made a little journal too that I am going to keep to document what we get up to as well as hopefully blogging along the way. 

As I write this now we are in the Hotel near Heathrow, ready to fly out to the land of my dreams tomorrow, eeeek I am so excited.

This is the view of the hotel pool from our window, I really want to go for a swim/splash around but am worried my swimming costume won't dry in time and will send everything in my case mouldy.

I'm off to London for a friends 30th birthday tomorrow..now which case to take mmmm.

Last weeks Finds

60s Coffee pot with matching cups and saucers
2.00

50s Casserole dish
1.00

 70s Plant pot
50p

 Vintage Buttons 6 of each
1.50

Mable Lucie Atwell Prints
3.00

This weeks finds and more..

Last week I was honoured to be asked by Joe of blackest-rainbow if he could use my Owl doodle for a T-shirt...of course I agreed, and here is how they look....................

available here for a very reasonable GBP11.50

Here's me in a couple of mine....thanks Joe

Now onto this weeks treasures from my travels.......

 

Little wooden display shelf

49p

Fox egg cup/vase

50p

Orange plastic trays

20p

Green 60s shoes by 'Popsicle'..who could resist with a name like that!

2.50

Big Navy blue holdall (be nice with a wash)

20p

Cute 60s shoes

2.50 each

Framed Fairy/Goblin picture

50p

Dreamy Boudoir chair 

4.00

- I am especially happy about my dream chair because, I got the exact same one last year from a carboot, and the lady said she had another and would bring it if I went back next week. Sadly I never went back, and have been kicking myself about it and wished I had got it. Then amazingly today I went to the same carboot and she was there! and so was my chair! It was meant to be.

Head scarves are the future

Today I am feeling head scarves.

 They are good for the allotment......

 ......and lounging.

My screen saver

My new screen saver from here.

Lovely Leeks

 I made a tasty Leek and Potato soup using these guys fresh from the allotment.

This weeks finds/gifts

 

1.00 each

  

Free! - present from Sarah

 

10p

      

20p each

 

2.00

Craft update

Here is a little peek at some of my new Plush creatures, which will be on sale at a lovely vintage shop called  aaltomoderna very soon!

This weeks finds

Cute dog cup 50p

Slightly snooty looking deer 50p

Why why why?

 I have been rummaging around the house, for new things to look at. I have loads of stuff horded away in draws and boxes because I just don't have the room to have everything out....anyway I found a set of picture domino cards I forgot I had, I love the colours and images on them......

....then I found an old sketch book .............

...........It appears I cut this bird out from something, and man I wish I hadn't. There are a couple of other pages with similar badly cut out images. I can't really remember where they came from but I think they may have been some picture dominos. Why would I do such a thing? How could I think it was a good idea to use these lovely illustrations in the pages of a crappy sketchbook? But wait it gets worse,  in the very same sketchbook................. 

  .............How cool is this little Japanese lady? I remember that this was from the box of an old game. I got it from Help the aged  when I worked there many years ago. Again..WHY? why destroy it for an experimental page in a sketchbook. I am usually really precious about things, so I can only guess I was trying to free up some creativity, rebel and stop being so precious about stuff.....glad that phase is over!

I got this diary at a charity shop 10 years ago!!! it was only 50p and was part of a set, it also had an address book with it. They were unopened in a cute little gift box....and there were 2 of them, identical. SO WHY DID I ONLY BUY ONE???????? everyime I come across it I get relly pissed off at myself. I even used it as my notebook and just wrote in it, it's full of contact numbers for  flats to rent, jobs I applied for, and shopping lists. It is really grubby and dog eared now, and I lost the address book years ago. If I was going to use them, why didn't I buy both sets and keep one new and pretty. I am an idiot.