Heath's Old Wares

I had an article from an old Virgin Blue magazine about vintage and collectables in the Byron Bay area... when I was there last week I spent at least an hour in this fantastic vintage shop in Bangalow, Heath's Old Wares... I had a lovely natter with Eva, and took a bunch of photos while I was at it :) Um I also bought a vintage ship's wheel, I couldn't help myself! For Ash, of course...

Eva pointed out this gorgeous viewer thingy that I can't remember what it's called, LOL, and let me experiment photographing it for a little while... it's impossible to get the impression that you get in real life, it's so fun and nostalgic, the special prints become three dimensional through the viewer. The tin surround also has a lovely pressed design...

Apparently the South Steyne is iconic in Sydney, the original ferry, but I had never heard about it...

Oh and I have a thing for old bikes. Spokes and peeling paint, love it!

OPEN 7 DAYS - 12 STATION STREET BANGALOW NSW :)

Giveaway winner

A pretty hectic week meant that this was later than I intended, but it is now time! The winner of the 700 post 7 item giveaway is comment number 3 - Natalie!

And now it's time for me to head off to another Mulgrave Maker's Market - here is one of the newest canvases I have for sale today...

Every cloud

I have a gazillion things on my to-do list and I should have been in bed an hour ago, but right now my heart is beating a little faster at this series of cloud photos... intended for wall art and cards sometime soon. But unlikely to be before this weekend's Grassroots and Mulgrave Maker's markets! Soon, though... *happy sigh*

A week later

And a lot of things having happened, beautiful places visited and wonderful people met... photos of Byron Bay to come!

In the meantime, I wanted to share a few favourite things :)

Paper Boat Press I have mentioned before, but the new news is that Kylie Johnson now has three of her ceramic poetry vessels available through Anthropologie, how exciting!

The Book Depository is one of my regular book shopping destinations (virtually, that is!). This is just one of the books on my wishlist there...




A few selections from my etsy favourites list - Custom Heart Tree Pillow

I love these skirts

And I love trinket-y little jewellery with vintage details, like this bee bracelet

Rob Ryan is a favourite of mine, a brilliant paper craft artist, but I also discovered this other paper cut artist on etsy... Tina Tarnoff. Love this one with my weakness for the Neverland theme (not to mention the Wonderland themes...) and this one is so lovely too...

And this pendant is so sweet

On the discoveries front, one of my favourite places to (window) shop is Lark, which I've mentioned plenty of times before, but they always have fresh inspiration there...

And a couple that I've meant to visit but so far haven't made it to are Little Shop Of in Carnegie and Meet Me At Mikes in Fitzroy. The sort of places I see when I travel but don't get around to visiting the Melbourne alternatives, funnily enough!

It's fun shopping and dreaming but it also inspires me to make stuff myself. Hmm. Now, to find the time...

Making art on the kitchen table

The last few days I've been making 8 new 8"x10" canvases and 30 new magnets... covering my kitchen table with newspaper and paintbrushes and whatever. Here are two of my new pieces, the tree is one of my favourites ever :)

P.S. My 700 post, 7 item giveaway is still open for another week or so, comment on the Cooks hill blog post to enter!