Thrift Sunday Finds /2

I'm picking up the pace again with my thrifting - always fun to come away with some surprises :)

 First up, something that will hopefully come in handy for the next Floral Friday challenge (sssh, it's a surprise) you can email Trishie (trishie@underlockandkeyblog. com) if you too want to join in too!

I know these musical boxes are pretty common but I think they're sweet. This one plays "when you wish upon a star" which I love so much :)

I also love that Nasa fridge magnet though I suspect might be lame for an Australian to say? The excessive blue glitter made it easy to love though!

 another butterfly brooch for my collection :)

 Some random book section finds. This tarot set is currently on my wishlist but for now, the thrifted one below is a nice edition to my (new) curiosity of tarot cards.  If you have any info or want to point me in the direction of a good online tarot card source let me know for sure :)
and a cat book :p (don't judge)

 I have to say my most amazing find, at a very cheap five dollars was a Print Gocco! I never thought I'd find one of these bad boys on the Sunshine Coast.

I first spotted the empty red ink box floating around on the stationery shelves and got an even bigger shock when I found the actual Print Gocco box!

It came with a bunch of inks, 2 screens and four bulbs. If you know anything about gocco you know that combo only makes 2 prints (damn!)

Actually I should probably totally track back. Print gocco is screen printing device, invented in Japan in the 70s in Japan and was hugely popular as it made screen printing possible without the use of chemicals. The size is somewhat limiting (you can see that happy white family on the front busy making birthday cards) although I believe they did sell larger gocco's too :) I googled to see if I could buy more screens and bulbs and yes you can so that's handy - although quite expensive!

I have a confession, whilst in Japan and thrifting (oh my god what an amazing combo of words) I did buy my own gocco and I think I've made two screen from it. Yikes slightly indulgent to now own two but I kind of figure with this one only costing five bucks I won't be so scared to make the two screens up (there is some trial and error with burning your screen design!) I think I'm going to make a happy birthday design and maybe print it out on my handmade paper?!!!

Back when I got my first gocco 2005-ish? Print Gocco was pretty huge in the indie community but I haven't really seen/heard much about it in recent times.  Do any of you guys own one? In a million years I never thought I'd be picking up another one whilst thrifting!

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