Sunday, September 23, 2012

flea market finds: head to toe and everything in between

its lazy sunday!  

i finally went to my favorite shop last week and well, initially, i didn't find anything i like.  after a few more days of browsing and even with their new stuff coming in, i STILL didn't find anything i like.

oh well.  

yesterday was Clean Up The World day of which i am a regular volunteer (tell you all about it on my next post).  i thought... maybe... before i pick up litter i might as well drop by a church sale, the St. Andrew's craft and collector's fair.  might be good to check it out and maybe pick up a few things or two since i haven't dropped by in a while.  this church usually puts up this sale every first saturday of the month with just a handful of sellers.  true enough, i found a few treasures. these are my finds:
this is a small pair of black and gold stud earrings with a depiction of a bird.  i can't quite make out the maker because its so tiny but it looked like its made by hand. the clasps are a little crude but i think it has oodles of character which is why i bought it for a mere .50p!  tweet, tweet!  it also reminds me of Biba (an iconic fashion store in London in the '60's with an Art Deco vibe by Barbara Hulanicki which used a lot of black and gold back then)
if Sweden has their wooden dahla horses and Russia has their wooden nesting matryoshka dolls, Japan has their wooden kokeshi dolls!  this one however is made of ceramic and sporting pigtails instead of the usual bowl cut do the kokeshi dolls usually have.  she is 4 and a half inches tall, bought for a pound and is now best friends with my matryoshka dolls :)
y'all know i have a fondness for turquoise, teal, cobalt, seafoam... (well, basically all the variant colors in between blue and green. i can't quite make my mind up yet!) the tallest and bluest of 'em all in the picture above i bought for £3 in a Facebook page here in Gib selling secondhand stuff. forgot to mention that i didn't buy this in the church sale.
and lastly, in the church sale, i bought this brand new fluffy pink house slippers for .50p (but in the picture i have already worn them) all because my usual Homer Simpson house slippers were now looking a lot like Homey... in terribly bad shape!

i lurve my first finds for fall!

*linking to The PennyWorthy Project @ hey what's for dinner mom? :)

14 comments:

  1. Clean Up the World Day? Sounds interesting. I love Kokeshi dolls but never see them around here. She is adorable with her pigtails.
    Karen

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    1. hi karen! yeah CUTW is a worldwide movement to take care of our environment by picking up litter and promoting this mindset. look up a local office in your area :D its fun and you discover things, people and places that you didn't know before :)

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  2. OH! I just sold my necklace and bracelet that match your earrings! My uncle gave them to me as a child, bought on his trip to Spain. If I remember correctly, the setting is nothing fancy, but the painting is supposed to be 24k gold.
    Love the Kokeshi doll too, cute expression. I bet you could find them here too. Lots of Asian influences here. ;o)

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    1. REALLY heidilisa???? aawww, yes u are right, the setting is nothing fancy and i suspect that its 24k gold because its put on crudely and its a bit pliable :) i a sure theres a kokeshi doll lurking there somewhere :)

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  3. I love it all! Especially the pink fluffy slippers. Those earrings are really special and the Kokeshi doll is so cute!

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    1. thanks clare! i LOVE my fluffy slippers :) so girly compared to my Homer Simpson one.

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  4. Hehe it's always when you decide to just pop in to a market or a shop on the way to somewhere else that you find great stuff isn't it? (And then end up being really late at the place you were supposed to be!) :) I love the bird earrings and the Kokeshi Doll- so cute and such bargains too!

    xoxo Lauren

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    1. my thoughts exactly lauren hhahaha i was thankful because the CUTW parade was also late ;)

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  5. Great finds! I especially love the earrings...I've never seen anything like them. --Heather

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    1. thanks heather! me too! now am intrigued hahaha and will defo do some research on these online :)

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  6. What cute slippers, all for you and at a bargain. It's a surprise to see that one of your readers actually owned the matching pieces and had information to share! The doll is adorable.

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    1. its a small world after all jeanne! i would have never known :) thank you jeanne!

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