All posts in category Op Shop

A new law

Life has beautiful ebbs and flows. Right now it is raining and to appease my insatiable appetite for the slightly odd. I am wearing a shortish blue dress with brown knee high socks, a brown cardy, the marvelous red heart (a bit like this one), the favourite beret and have a whopping great big cup [...]

Opshop Dress

Grey dress from Savers. $17. Shortened by 20cm or so. Added belt also from Savers ~$2. Brooch from Oh My Cavalier.

Tree clouds

Everything about Bookhou is glorious. But these wooden clouds… my goodness. I wish I were more handy with a jigsaw (perhaps I can con my dad into doing something like this…) The Four Quartets – T.S Eliot At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the [...]

Tracking reads

Had very nice lunch out with Sam and while we were wandering, managed to bungle a few op-shops. I naturally found myself some books. The Christmas Books-Volume Two by Charles Dickens (includes: The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man) and a very nice new-looking copy of The Map That [...]

Opshop Typographic Finds

Last week I took myself down to a cafe for a motivational change of scenery. While in the ‘slowly improving’ main street, I ducked into an opshop and was rewarded in finding some quite lovely design things. All this for only $4.10. sheet music a novel and an old graphic design/print handbook!