Showing posts with label flower press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flower press. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Flower Pressing

Life has been a bit up and down of late, so I thought I would pop in and show you guys that I finally pressed some flowers!


Now I just need to work on my print gocco design and start making some paper! I've been collecting a bunch of old paper scraps, it's amazing how much paper gets discarded (or at least thrown in the recycling bin) bit excited to be able to recycle them myself though :)

Hope everyone else is doing okay, I know there has been mega downs for people around me of late, possibly linking to some solar flare activity. If you're at all interested in the way our universe can have an effect on our lives, I definitely recommend you check out Elizabeth Peru on Facebook, I like to tell everyone about her because I find her information really valuable but I also understand its not everyone's cup of tea. I may even look slightly silly for mentioning her but if it helps just one other person out than it's worth it to me :)
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Op Shop Finds

This is such a fun post for me to put together - all my favourite op shop finds, most are new-ish (last few months) but there are some super old finds I've thrown in because I'm not sure I ever shared them.

My most recent and possibly favourite find was this silver tamagotchi. I was checking out the board games section and notice some familiar looking characters on the spine of a box and huzzah a tamagotchi! I'm kind of scared to start him up because I remember I used to kill my pets due to neglect when I had one in high school. 

Anyone else remember teachers being all concerned about tamagotchis and banning them from the classrooms? I guess they were just precursors to mobile phones (or is that too much of a stretch!) ahh kids like distractions :)

Some cute ornaments - I just can't resist! I'm really wanting to build up my collections of cats but its seems to be such a slow process probably because I'm too picky (though I'm sure others would disagree when seeing how much stuff I own - slight hoarder here!).

Measuring spoons, I realised you can just pick these up at a homewear store but I thought it was a good find, brand new, for two dollars. I honestly don't know what I ever did without measuring spoons - well actually I do, a lot of inaccurate measuring went on :p A normal tablespoon is really not a tablespoon measurement!

Continuing on with my lucky camera finds, a flash that I really needed, I love that it has the person name stuck on with a dymo maker - I honestly don't want to take that off :) Tell me why did you got rid of your flash C. Sumner? I'm going to do a little review on it soon too.

Tap shoes! I bought these as I was recovering from my broken ankle and made it a goal that I would learn a few steps as my ankle got better! I still haven't but I will :)


I've picked up a handful of "new" board games over the last year and this was a favourite find of mine. Perfect Match used to be this awesomely cheesy Australian dating show that aired in the 80s. I finally got all my room mates to play the board game the other week and although it isn't ground breaking everyone said they had fun playing :)

The board itself has the best graphics and there's pink love heart tokens!!

I got this mug last time I was visiting Ben's mum. Expo 88 was a huge deal for Brisbane folk, being born in 1984 means I was only four when I visited but I do have vague memories. The mug crazily had never been used but I have since rectified that with many mugs of chai tea (super addicted).

This is one of my super old finds, I picked this up at a Brisbane op shop when my friend Emaya was visiting from Melbourne - we actually got matching ones! I love this watch but I also love my pink watch I got from the little drom shop in Singapore - it's a hard decision which one to wear :p

Just incase you really want to see (or maybe I just really want to show you) a shot of the front of the box :)

And my last find, a flower press, actually it's the exact same flower press that I had as a kid, I still remember that box too! It had it's original price still on $4.99 and I picked it up for $3. I just need to start collecting some flowers so I can put it to work :)
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