Same ol' same ol'
Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11 Comments 
Another week another set of Hornsea. Another week another bunch of flowers. I'm so predictable. Found this coffee set and side plates for $12 and even though I don't need it I bought it. Help me I'm addicted to retro thrift. This is going straight to the giveaway cupboard. Yes I have one ... or should I say two or three. Look closely too and you can see that my bud branches are slowly opening. Yippee! I haven't killed them yet!
I love this time of year. It is a bit chilly in the morning but the days are warm. It is also the time of year that the wattle blooms and I certainly love wattle. Some can't stand the perfume and others break out in sniffles and weeping eyes, puffy faces, swollen throats and anaphylactic shock. Me? I just stalk the streets looking for trees to steal blossom from. Here it is in the breezeway ...
As bright and cheery as the sun shining in. I thought I'd show you how I keep Kelvin's retro hair clipper collection under control. I keep them coralled in this glass box.
The little round "box" with the dog's face on it (poorly captured in these photos) is a small scrimshawed piece of bone that opens to display a mirror. It was going to go in my online shop Faded Empire but I love it so much I can't part with it.
Guess what? There's more wattle blossom in the living room and beside me on my office desk as I type. I can't get enough of the stuff. It will not be so fun when the yellow balls begin to fall off the branch all over the floor but that's sometime next week. For now it is so perfectly sunny. Just like today.
Reader Comments (11)
Stop taunting me with your thrifty Hornsea!! xx
YES, stop taunting us with your Hornsea! Love that wattle stuff. And AS IF Kevin has a hair clipper collection.
Brismod told me about this brown crockery boon of yours! I had to come by and see. So wise of you to not leave it behind. Clever woman.
Ah much maligned and so readily available. These brown beauties always come home with me to wait patiently for a new home. Carmel I have a cupboard of brown crockery with your name on it if you ever come to visit 'cos I know how much you love them :)
How wonderful that both you and your hubby are collectors - is that how you met? And what do Mickey and the two handsome birds collect?
LOL Jenny! He didn't start collecting till he met me and now he is far worse!!!! Mickey collects shopkeepers who love him and keep treats to feed him and the birds don't go out much ;)
What a beautiful home you've created since buying the new old house. If I could manage to complete even a tenth of the projects you somehow master, my home would be vastly improved. Really, really well done.
Awww thanks Lin. Sometimes it's hard for me to see how far I have come when there is so much more to do.
I have no trouble seeing how far I've come, but that's because I haven't come very far!
Hi again, Jo,
That big square vase of thick antique glass looks like a few I retrieved from an abandoned late-19th-century hydroelectric plant years ago here in Granada. You know what they were? Backup batteries. They were filled with acid and lead (or whatever you put into a battery) and kept on hand for current outages. Do you think yours might have come from an old hydroelectric plant?
Cheers,
Mike
Mike it is an old glass battery. I have always wanted one. Not sure where it started out but it will be staying on my table for the foreseeable future :)