Market day!

Hii :)

Camberwell market was such fun! It was nice to see so many faces I knew, and meet some nice bloggers. Thanks for coming and saying hi :)
I was completely raided and sold almost everything which was fantastic!
So much more room at home........ to refill no doubt.

I plan on doing another one in a few months so if you missed out this time, there'll be another. Not sure what sort of stuff I'll be selling yet, but I'll start sorting it all out now. Eee.

I shared (well 95:5 ratio) the stall with a friend, who has some crazy cool Michael Jackson stuff up on eBay for sale atm, so check it out here if you get a sec.

This was my.. our little stall



I begun the 4am day in a dress, but the promised 25 degree day never came, and everyone froze. People were buying winter woolies from me just to wear around the market! I ended up putting jeans on underneath and spent the day wishing I brought a blanket aha.



I picked up something cute for myself too! Cutie mermaid



Also found this 70's kaleidoscope that I've been completely addicted to ever since



And this completely flower power retro bean bag



Lastly, one of my favorite things. I came home and my bf had this Original Pop Art screen printed fabric wall hanging for me. Isn't it amazing? There's so many fabulous images throughout. I couldn't have asked for a better surprise.


I have a few items going up on eBay tonight... including



Boxed Polaroid camera WITH black and white film



The fabulously 50's/60's Gunda ashtray



Fab original 80's Australian Daybill for the Sex Pistols "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle"



And lastly, Cartlon Ware collectors this is a ripper!! Beautiful Forest Tree designed 1930s vase in fabulous condition!!

I hope to have them up by 7:30 tonight, you can find them here.

Enjoy the rest of your night
I'm cooking PIZZA! Mmmm

To Market to Market - Camberwell market tomorrow!

Okey doke!
My poor car is completely FULL!
I literally had to put all my weight on the boot to shut it.
I'm all ready and set to GO to Camberwell market tomorrow morning.

Very excited.

I'll be selling mostly 80's and 90's clothes that I've had stashed in my giant stripey bags for so long.
I have no idea what's even in there anymore.

All clothing will be $5 or $10!

Even though when I go to markets, I don't even bother rummaging through piles of clothing, I have way way way too many clothes to hang, so the $5 rummage pile will be a massive rummage pile. I can't help it!
It's a huge massive mound so get in early as there's some goodies!
(The $10 rack will be hung, just so you can differentiate between the two :) )

There's Blouses, dresses, cardi's, jumpers, leathers, skirts, everrrything.
It'll be completely rummageable because pretty much everything there will be vintage, so it'll be worth it! I promise :)

Ebay sellers!! Its a good time to stock up. Most stuffs cheaper than opshops these days, so buy up :)
I really do just have to get rid of it all!
AND... come after 11.00... and all clothing will be $1
Any clothing I don't sell will be going to the opshop afterwards.
So yeh... I really don't want to take anything home :)

I'll also be selling about 8 pairs of Genuine Vintage Raybans for $40-$60, Boxed Polaroid Camera's, Shoes, Winklepickers, Docs, Random bits and pieces, my badges and totes too!... and I'll be giving away my magnets of course :)


My fab bright green retro bike will be there for sale too! My Mum however will not be haha.




Even if you just come to say hi... oh and keep me awake from waking at some crazy hour, or take my mind off the hopefully not sizzling heat or heavy rain! That'd be lovely. :)

You can find me here ....



See you there and thennnn :)



YAY!

Fantastic Plastic lounge is BACK!!

Hi guys!
In my earlier post about my brown lounge (here) I mentioned that my fantastic plastic lounge has become my storage area for all things I sell in my shop.
Well the plastic side of retro has always been my favorite part, and not having access to my plastic lounge has been getting on my nerves, and the job just seemed to big to do anything about.
Until today.
As soon as I woke up I decided it was time to claim the plastic lounge back as my own!
And not even mutilating my toe by trying to carry a ridiculously too heavy shelf for one person out to the garage was going to stop me!

So the rest of my house looks like a bomb's hit it.
But I'm not going to worry about that now. All I can care about is that I can see all my favorite things again, and actually LIVE in my house! (Which I believe is what it's intended for.)

I of course couldn't wait to show you all pics because I'm so proud of myself for getting it how it is.
While clearing out I have discovered a lot more goodies to bring to Camberwell market on the 3rd Jan (read here for info)

Ok here is some piccies...

This is one of those panoramic shots I did similar to the other post.
I didn't use the tripod for this one so it turned out a bit.. dodgy but you can see it all anyway.


(Click to see a bigger view)





Hehe upside down he fits on my dress makers mannequin perfectly! Love it.



Now, I can actually sit on my couch and look at my favorite shelf. I couldn't see it before. Last time I took a pic of it, I had to shift half of the lounge to get in to take it! So yay!



You've seen it before, but now I can see it again!! This little Caroma vanity cabinet displays my S&P's perfectly



Gumby playing in Retro Barbie land



My Ellis Lamp and Kartell tables corner ♥



I've kinda gone overkill with my Twiggy heads I know, but they're in a fixed spot now. I promise.



I got this McLaren Bull for Christmas from Mum. He's huge! Unfortunately his horns broken off, but we still have it, so araldite will fix him up nice and good. And he's a keeper anyway so the value drop won't bother me. She found him about 10 years ago in a country op shop for $2. I saw his poor broken head sticking out of a box she was packing to move and said.. Um what's that? I will have that for Christmas please! haah.



I finally got to lay down that giant shag pile rug I bought a few months ago. And by giant I mean GIANT! I was certain it'd fit in my lounge until I started to unfold the monstrosity of a rug and started to doubt it!
It just fits. Fewf. But you can see how close it came in the next pic




So I can't move in the rest of my house, but at least there's heaps more room otherwise haha. I'll start the boring bit of finding places for the homeless objects tomorrow.

:)

And the winner is.... *Drumroll Please*

YAYY!! Happy Boxing day!

The day where the Winner of the THF comp is revealed Eeeee!!!

I recorded a video blog to show the draw, so have a watch.
I hope you don't cringe as much as I did when re-watching it!
The Sound and Video don't match which is just great!
But if you just look at it as a Shintaro style and not a muck-up, it'll be cool, not bad haha

Here we go....




HAPPY CHRISTMAS, Festivus, Chrismukkah, or whatever you celebrate! and a HUGE Huge Huge congratulations to the winner!!!!

:) :)

A Christmas Present to myself.

Books make me very happy.
Though I'm not a big novel reader, Reference books, and large hard cover books full of bright fun pictures really do make me happy.
I always have to tell myself 'no' at opshops when I see the abundance of coffee table books of which I have no relation to it's content. Yet I still feel the need to buy them as they're so pretty. (I don't! I'm strong... and well, have no room for them. )
I really do love learning, so when I find a reference book that relates to my interests, I get oh so excited!
My Christmas present to myself, arrived on the front porch this morning!
I ran inside sat down on the couch and ripped open the packaging to reveal this...



Isn't it a beautiful book? When I found out this book existed I knew I had to have it.
Nothing screams Trish more than a book titled "Fantastic Plastic, the Kitsch collectors guide" 4 of the 6 words are key Trish words.
I couldn't believe I didn't already own this!

SO.... Just as I was thinking that this book and I were a perfect match, I open the cover, turn the first page and check this out...



I turn to my right, and I'm not at all kidding, this is exactly what's set up in my house. I just had to take a photo!



Made my day! Best gift to myself ever :)

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day!
I'll speak to you all on Boxing day when the winner of my competition is revealed YAYYY!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve

New shop goodies :)



Yey

So I picked up a Nintendo DS at market on Sun.
It was at the same stall as a Gameboy advance that after the guy told me allll about what it was "This is a Nintendo gameboy, now Nintendo's one of the best brands you can get you know, these are in the second hand shops for $80.. blaa blaa blaa", ended up wanting $50 for it.
I then picked up the DS expecting at least $50 and he says "Not sure what that one is, some kind of hand held game, I dunno, $10."
"COOL YES THANKS COOL SURE OKAY I'LL TAKE THAT THANKS HERE YOU GO OK BYE"
I was out of there quick smart and happy as Luigi.

My old Gameboy has a broken screen part so getting a new one meant I could bring out my games again.. and have a go at some newbys.
Zelda Spirit Tracks is currently my latest game. I'm feeling a bit so-so about it so far but I'll give it a few more hours tomorrow and see how I go.
Until then, I'm off to bed to play some Mario Kart and I might even get some sleep while I'm there.

3 days to go to enter the comp Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


Happy Christmas Eve Eve all!

4 days left to enter my Christmas Competition!!!

Hey guys!! Just a reminder that there's only 4 days left to enter my competition!! If you haven't heard about it, here's an update of what goodies are up for grabs :)

A BIG HUGE thanks to everyone who has entered. Your blog posts were absolutely lovely and it's all helped me out so very much!

Another Fab competition is being run by Candice from Super Kawaii Mama! Check it out Here! My gosh you can win a Camera and all!!

To win my prize, all you have to do is post a special blog letting people know about my new online shop, with my banner (as shown below) linked to my site!
Then comment on this blog letting me know you have done so and you're in the draw!

On Boxing Day, (As Christmas is always too crazy to fit in one more thing unless it's food) I will pull one of your names out of a Santa hat and the goodies will be all yours!!


Ok here's what you can win!! (Which comes to over $80 in total!)

Yay!









This is the Bible for all Vintage fashion lovers!!! Full to the brim of info and fabulous photos. Carter's LOVE VINTAGE is a fantastic book and a great reference on all Australian and International Vintage as it's written by Nicole from Circa Vintage Clothing in Fitzroy!

(If you don't happen to win this specific one, They are available for sale at my shop too! :) )



Also coming your way is a Trish Hunter Finds Tote bag to take with you when you go on your shopping adventures!


5 x Hand made badges made from Vintage childrens fairytale books

And of course 20% off your next purchase as my shop :)


You have to be in it to win it, so here's the image and the link :)




<a href="http://www.trishhunterfinds.com/shop.htm"><img src="http://www.trishhunterfinds.com/Advertising/ad.jpg"></a>
Just click in the box above and copy the text and paste it straight to your page :)

If you're feeling super nice, it'd be lovely if you have room on your site to put a small version of my banner there for visitors to see too. But of course you don't have to :)


To those who don't have a blog but are just readers of THF, you can still enter too! Just email me and we'll figure out something that works for you :)


Goodluck guys!! Eeeee!

The brown lounge's newest edition!

Hii :)

While cleaning my house today, I realised it's been a while since I've shown you parts of my house. It changes around so often as I buy new bits, and sell old bits that I don't realise how much it's changed!
A few months ago I purchased a fabulous new pair of arm chairs that I'm desperately wanting to show you, so I took a few pics to show you what my Brown Lounge is looking like.

My Fantastic Plastic lounge is now my storage area for all items in my shop, so regrettably it's pretty much non existent and looks like well... a giant mess. But an orderly giant mess!
So it's nice to have this lounge to come home and relax in.

Ok..
So the first one is actually 3 photos that I mushed together using a program called 'hugin panorama' which was a nice lazy Saturday activity and quite rewarding to see the finished result!



(Click to see a bigger view)

And here are a few others...









And lastly, on a friend and I's opshopping journey the other day, we parked outside this Aquarium only to see a cliche that you only see in childrens books.



Very cute. Unfortunately we were still rummaging through my bag for my camera when it had both front paws up on the door!



Happy Saturday :)