Flea Market Finds

It's been so long. Life just keeps getting in the way. This time, no promises. I'm here, I want to do this. So watch me blog. I may slip away at any moment!!
I chose this week to make a dramatic comeback, because I was over on one of my favourite blogs Her Library Adventures Checking out this weeks flea market finds, and I thought, I've got some of those!

The first one, I an adorable little bright blue (the picture doesn't do it justice!) vintage piece of Sheerline luggage, that I picked up from the Chandler Markets this morning. It reminds me so much, especially the colour, of the case my mother travelled around Europe with in the seventies. Love!



The second is a lovely rural landscape, lovingly handpainted. There were a few of these but the colours are what won me over with this one, again the photo just doesn't show how colourful it is. And for $4, you must adore. As you can see, it's already been hung!



And last, but not least, (not even really last, since I bought much more that I haven't been able to photograph!) this colourful piece of framed, wintery, needlework. Winter is my favourite time of the year, and I just wish I had a fireplace to hang this beauty above. It's yet to find a home, but I'm sure it will soon.



This and the painting were picked up on a midweek thrifting adventure with my sister out to Capalaba. That particular trip also turned up a bowl in a matching print to a plate set I picked up a year or so ago (score!) and a print of Van Gough's 'Sunflowers' which was something that hung in my family home as a child, and made me happy. Weekend garage saleing also saw me pick up a (not so vintage!) but flawless faux-suede three seater lounge suite for $20. They were selling it as they had lost the cushions, but I think it will look fab with a bunch of mismatched cushions all along it,and it's so comfy!

Let's see if I can get back here in the next week!! xx

It's been a while.....

What can I say, consistency is not one of my strong points. Not to mention this year has been hectic. It's just settling down after moving house, birthdays and a particularly busy couple of months with my studies. And the slowing pace is a welcome change, let me tell you!

In all the hustle and bustle of the last few months, I have very little to report. My studies are going surprisingly well, my little boy is as clever and beautiful as ever, our new apartment is ok (think seventies tile, and not the good kind) but very sunny spacious and liveable, and the location is fantastic, right in the thick of it all, near the city. I definitely can't complain.

I have an exam tomorrow, it's Mr C's second birthday on Saturday, I've started and exercise regime and we're having to be a bit more strict with our budget than usual, but rather than the stress that all of this would have caused me a little while ago, I'm feeling quite relaxed. I don't really know why, but i hope it lasts.

I will endeavour to pop in more often, but who knows? Life is crazy like that.

APRON!

Well. Last week I got a package. I don't often get packages, and when I do they are uni books, or presents for Mr C. This one wasn't! It was just for me!



I opened it carefully, and found to my delight, not only an apron, but a cosy and some oven mits. After the guilt of not having provided extra gifts myself subsided (I'm new to this craft swap bizzo). I got very excited!



Funny thing is, even though it was an apron swap, the apron has just been hanging in my kitchen looking pretty. The cosy on the other hand has been getting a very good working out! I promise to get a photo of me wearing the apron as soon as I look a bit more presentable, pjs and pigtails are my comfortable packing wear at the moment, but not so attractive!

I love love love my items Lisa, I can't thank you enough, and I hope you like mine, even just a little bit! (It's a celebration of one of my great kitchen loves!)

I am a terrible person.....

Is it because I didn't finish my apron for the fantastic apron swap? No, because I finished it on time, and was quite happy with it despite my limited sewing ability (which I didn't think was too bad until I got Lisa's apron!).

Is it because I didn't send my apron? No because I did that too, all be it three days late as I couldn't afford postage before that.

Well, why then? Because at the end of last week when I received not only her package, but my own back to me, (with this note unceremoniously sticky taped to the front):



I didn't email her straight away. I have to be held accountable for that. How hard is it to email, you may well ask. Well. Not very. In my defence I have been flat out, house hunting for weeks, assignments due, and this last week spent packing up my house for the move starting this weekend. On top of that I have been teetering on the edge of depression, having panic attacks at the thought of moving house (it is entirely my partners mission, and I didn't want to do it, but he's a stubborn bugger) And am only just today feeling resigned to the fact that it's going to happen, for real, and I should follow my mothers wonderful advice and embrace that which I cannot change.

Anyway I am running off on a tangent. I will devote a whole post of it's own to my lovely new apron, so as not to marr it with the way I feel as i write this post. One last thing though, if you work in a post office, or any other kind of customer service and a woman with a screeching child comes in and asks how to post something internationally, if you are unsure, or you just can't be bothered, just tell her so. Otherwise she is liable to end up at your workplace in a couple of weeks in pyjama bottoms and pigtails with previously mentioned screeching child, and no makeup, and have a big complain about you to your co-workers and boss. Not happy Birdale PO. Not happy.

It's exam time

Can you tell?

Absent from blogger, absent from facebook (for the most part :P), absent from life. Unfortunately not absent from mind numbing fear and panic. I HATE exams. One of the not so wonderful things I inherited from my mothers side of the family (and there are many wonderful things so I'm not complaining) is a propensity for anxiety and stress disorders, and one of my weak points is being tested. I get sweaty, my hands shake, my breathing becomes shallow, I can get light headed and overcome with nausea. Even just studying has me all shook up, to the point where I'm here, writing this, just to avoid it.

I'll be back in next week, with details about a couple of swaps that I'm involved with (yes, I have found time to craft!) but in the mean time I might go an enjoy my son while he's still shorter than me, and hop back into study at nap time.

Have a great weekend!!

What I wish I was doing

It's such a lovely rainy day today, being a Tuesday, Mr C is off at childcare, and I am working hard completing this weeks assignment. But I'd much rather be curled up in bed reading books with my little man.






I suppose I'll have to save it up for tomorrow. Now, back to work!

Biting off more than I can chew.

Have you ever done this? I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment, and as a result I don't seem to be getting much done. Funny how that happens (though I'm sure it's a personality-type thing, rather than a being-human thing).

I have become involved in two swaps, so I need crafting time. I have to assignments due, and exams to madly cram for, so I need study time. I have a son, so I need parenting time. I have a house, so I need housework time. I have a parter, so I need wifey time. I have a very small amount of sanity left, so I need alone time. Not to mention my Mum is coming for a visit next week, which, while absolutely lovely, will severely eat into my allocated study days.

When I write it down it doesn't look so bad. Just life really. But I feel stretched, and I want to enjoy my life, and Mr C's life before it all flies before my eyes, but it seems I just don't have time!

Breathe.

Just

Breathe.....