squeeze me quick!

this post is inspired by this little guy that i found last week. i just love the sign he's holding and the cheeky way he sticks out his tongue just so to remind you to squeeze someone today, if not everyday!

i have been so busy the past week that i haven't really written anything noteworthy. i have been helping the mister with his model-making and now that he's finally happy with his figures, its time i post some of my finds from last week:

a pair of vintage, ceramic christmas ornaments from Spain that i found in a pick-and-mix bag in the shop

i love coming across hard to find books such as these hardbound, limited handmade edition "illustrated novels" by the author of the bestseller, "The Time Traveller's Wife", Audrey Niffenegger

i love its eerie, almost weird, postmodern etchings... the stories have a supernatural quality to it and the drawings are surreal

this is not a picture book for kids nor for the fainthearted. it has graphic images complementing its implicative nature

these books are an acquired taste so much so that when you read them, you need to have an open heart and an open mind because art resides inside its pages

this last book is a collection of not-so-old photographs depicting Gibraltar life in 2002

looking at the pics, one thing is sure.... Gib is very much laid-back and its charm lies in its people. warm and patriotic, fiercely protective of each other but very accomodating to people from other places

i love how Gib opened its arms to me when i first came here. never demanding so much from me and loving me solely for who i am :)

*linking to Thrift Share Monday @ Apron Thrift Girl :)