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!
Today I discovered that my neighbourly (and I really do literally mean neighbour) op-shop is selling earth-greetings cards, it’s a peculiar opshop in that it sells some new things as well as standard opshop things. Earth Greetings is Interesting in it’s philosophy, I not 100% sold on all their designs, but some of them a quite lovely, and hey – it’s Australian based. That’s another win on the environmental factor.
I’ve had to upload via Flickr, but it was necessary to share such a good opshop find.
So I got this jacket for $15, it’s some designer brand (Custo Barcelona), fits quite well and is nicely cut/good length. It’s a bit more crazy than what I’d wear normally, but it was far too fun to let pass.
I was so close the other week to buying an old op-shop chair and doing something with it.
I confess when I was younger and maybe even now, I had a small fascination with things being re-done or made-over. Tonight I found this chair that has been made over. I am a) jealous b) inspired. I shall have to go find myself a chair and I’ll also have to see if I can squeeze some kind of half nice material out of Spotlight (craft-store) – the last time I looked, all they had was boring as cack.
The opshop strikes happy again!
Today I managed to arrive home early and wander on in and managed to get myself two books (and a screen writing book for Jess)
CardArt. Which is nice for ideas if nothing else.
and a 1972 copy of Speedball Textbook 20th Edition… which is very interesting typographically.
