flea market finds:my lovely horsey

when you only have your mind for company and you dont want a single iota of evil to get in there, you tend to use your imagination more (in a good way of course) and ideas come ebbing like the tide and you want to catch them before they disappear forever. wonderful ideas of course!
in my wanderings, i very often come across things that are too beautiful to pass up but i just cant take home with me. i practice tremendous (gargantuan to be precise) restraint in my thrifting. sometimes though, i realized that the things i leave behind i would need for another project. so i go back and hope to God its still there.
that is the case with this beautiful bohemian horse.now, we all love the new holiday decorations that pottery barn has come up. animal-themed bohemian christmas trimmings that are just sooooo cute but also way beyond my budget :( but, but, but.... this particular horsey below is one such trimming and reminded me a lot of the beautiful black and gold horsey above that i left behind in one of my favorite thrift shops. immediately i prayed he's still there and thank God he still was! i quickly snatched him up and told him i will never let him go. ever.

loot's a hoot

remember my distressed owl that i bought at a recent carboot sale?
well, a little TLC and here he is now :) good as gold! am so proud of him :)

flea market finds:hootin' and tootin'

first of all i am soooo excited to share with you once again my finds for this week :) second of all i actually made one of these babies new again! what i mean by that is: i just gave it some extra love and now its as good as new :) for 50p, these pearl seeds are perfect for a white christmas!
am loving this elephant dessert forks (perfect for posh olives!) theyre Spanish silver and heavy!and now one of my most treasured possessions! a teeny-weeny hand-carved wooden owl! (have i ever mentioned that i am loving owls at the moment? tee-hee!)now this baby right here is heavy (and distressed)! ill show u how i upgraded him next time :)

car-boot stuff

of course i couldnt resist another carboot sale and this one was organized by the spouses of the royal military here in Gib. everything was cheap and as always i exercised restraint in case i get carried away and buy everything on sight! hehe
aliens are out to invade us! these are perfect for a sci-fi geek :)had to laugh with these bad boys and to think the seller was a sweet old lady hehe
i know, i know its too cute :) but had to resist :(cute and cuddly what else can i say!

there's art and then there's also bad art

found myself at the Gibraltar Art Gallery last saturday and saw the latest of what art in Gibraltar can offer. there were hits and misses of course but judge for yourself. the painting below might impress some people or offend a lot. i think it would probably have made a much more thought-provoking impact if the monkey himself was holding the gun to his head. whatchathink?a headless pole-dancing blow-up doll (or some such)? bad art, i say... this could've been executed "properly" (no offence to the tuxedoed monkey)love the colors, but it lacks oomphone thing i like about this one is i want to get a hold of the typepress lettters myself!this is such a safe and timid painting that it doesnt push the boundaries for me

halloween on a budget

the plan was to just let it pass me by and focus on christmas instead. alas! an instant inspiration hit me one fine day and i just had to act on it or else it will go away. so i got out my scissors and a stack of old National Geographic mags and snip snip snip voila! i got meself some bats and 2 blackbirds (or ravens? or crows? whatever!)add some empty coffee containers, plonk down some tealights... instant spooky!
the mister had this glow in the dark skeleton and i hung it on a teeny-weeny dead branch from the landlord's dead plant and bob's my uncle :)
we had some trick-or-treaters too and since we forgot the candy, lucky the mister had some leftover lollies teehee

flea market finds: an owl and a cake pedestal

hello dear readers! i just want to show you my loot from last weekend's flea market all the way from far away fuengirola :) first up is my favorite owl cross-stitched thingy! i have mentioned before that i am loving owls atm (or anything birdy but owls most of all!)i have no idea where to put this one but i just love looking at it :) for 4euros, i really dont care :)
a milky white cake pedestal i got for 2euros! its unmarked and a bit lopsided but i love its imperfections!
this earthenware is by an unknown artist and i just love the design and the very haphazard blue paint :) am thinking stick breads already :)