Our backyard is turning into a concrete jungle!
We found another nine pots to add to our collection at a great garage sale on Sunday (if it was up to me we would have twice as many, but two trips back and forth on a Sunday morning was enough and those suckers are heavy!)
The garage sale was at the loveliest 70's house-the wallpaper inside was amazing! (If I bought the house that wallpaper would NOT be coming down!) It was in such original condition and must have been pretty cutting-edge for it's time. The old lady told me that they'd had 41 happy years living there and you could tell.

Anyway even though there was some good stuff inside I made a bee-line for the garden because I just knew there would be some concrete pots out there and as I've already said there was! Here are pictures (very boring if you're not obsessed with concrete pots like me...)

Too boring if I show you all of them! I love the texture, the peeling paint, the patterns...I even love the old bore stains! Some people say "they'll look great with a coat of paint" but I would never paint them.

These also came home with us

five dollars! Almost impossible to find in Perth and usually expensive. We have two now. Yay!

I'll end today with something sweet...

Belmont Swap Meet.

Garage Sales were a bit thin on the ground this weekend (well they were for me anyway...)Despite this there was still treasure to be found and eight dollars later here are pics of the goodies I brought home...

Orange loveliness and handy too.

For the hunter and gatherer in me.

To add to my daughter's collection.

Old copper.

Afternoon tea tray. Willow Australia.

Caddy's for the tea.

And my favourite treasure of the day...

All the cool girl's are reading this!

Apart from fascinating articles including "Fresh Ideas for Party Drinks"(anyone care for a glass of hot tomato flip?),
"Acquiring A Cat" and "Plants in Pots", and riviting short stories like "The Tale of a Lame Pigeon" (called Stumpy of course!) the best and most lovely thing about the Modern Girls Annual are its coloured plates...

My favourite.

If anyone would like the recipe for hot tomato flip let me know, after all "this drink is appreciated by the sophisticated over-sixteens, and is good for serving at the end of the party"

And lastly for today,thank you to Laura for being my very first follower. Hooray!

Wallpaper " paper, usually with printed decorative patterns in colour, for pasting on and covering the walls or ceilings of rooms, hallways etc."

That's what the dictionary says, but wallpaper is oh so much more than that! Have a look at these...

This is the wallpaper in the t.v. room at my house. It has a lovely copper thread running through it which you can't see in the photos.
It's by Harlequin and called Virtue. It was very tricky to hang though...

Here's some more retro loveliness:

Retro tulips found at Belmont swap meet.

 Sweet vintage wallpaper bought from Elvins in Osborne Park. The ONLY place to buy wallpaper if you live in Perth!

It's quite literally a museum for wallpaper! Plus current wallpaper too. For my daughter's bedroom.

Now for something a bit different...

Very old wallpaper lining a cupboard built in the depression.

This one reminds me of old,worn lino. Francesca Floral Tea by Ralph Lauren. From sample book found at swap meet.

An old roll I bought at a garage sale. Shabby but still lovely.

Flowers...

Rhododendrons and Lilies. Zoffany.

Samphire. Zoffany.



Sussex Gardens Floral. Ralph Lauren.

Fern. Zoffany.

A touch of the Orient...

Oriental Garden. Oriental Trellis. Zoffany.

Loud and Noisy...

Selsby. Cole and Son.

Acanthus. Cole and Son.

Dorothy. Cole and Son. This is much nicer in the flesh-grey rather than purple and a more mustardy yellow. I love the name.

Casimir. Cole and Son.

Cheyne Walk. Cole and Son.

Phew! Are you all wallpapered out? Which one is your favourite? Or didn't you like any of them? I have taken most of the photos from discarded sample books that I was lucky to find at swap meets.

One more photo of a chest of drawers in my daughter's room wallpapered with scraps of paper...





Here (as promised) are photos of some of the treasures I bought yesterday

And here are some snaps of treasure I found at the Salvo's in Midland on Friday.

Don't you love the Humphrey B Bear cushion(two dollars fifty!) My sister had one when she was little and I couldn't resist! He looks especially cute sitting next to my Queensland cushion from Penelope Durston and my lovely,lovely cocky cushion from Bonnie and Neil (bought from the equally lovely Storia in Guildford)

Lastly one more snap of a few of my concrete pots just because I love them so much!