my local junkatique

my local junk shop...or "junkatique"... is pretty close to heaven, heaven with a kind of "i hope i don't discover the source of that smell", "ooh that possum really should not be living in there!!"...feeling to it.

looking around our home from pretty much any angle I can spot something I unearthed in johns junk shop....

i think john is a local boy, he is always the first in the know about any major garage sales, and his knowledge of vintage and antique pieces is self taught through years of collecting and sorting through sheds and deceased estates.......

john doesn't have a website, twitter or blog about his treasure trove, actually his shop is bereft of any signage at all!! john is open when the door is, and if you see a folding chair outside you know he is not too far away.....

i don't go into john's shop every day, it is my first stop if i am on the hunt for something in particular.....and lately my daughters have discovered his treasure trove of barbies so visits have happened at their insistence.......which is how two timber picture frames found their way home......

i am a believer in other peoples treasures carrying the delight of their past with them into the next owners life?

 maybe i like this theory because i have never lived in a brand new home, or driven a brand new car, and not one piece of our furniture has been purchased new from the shop floor....
once or twice i have picked up a beautiful looking item only to put it down straight away...maybe the history had been an unhappy one, but usually the story or provenance behind an object adds a shiny gilded edge.......

bek&rob's wedding

one of my most special girlfriends bek, married her sweetheart rob a couple of weeks ago, and what a fantastic wedding it was!! 

we took all the kiddies to their organic avo farm in the hills and celebrated with them the sharing of their lives together......as did 100 or so of their nearest and dearest,  revelling in fantastic local food, great music, lawn games, fire works and hay bales!!

My wedding story started about 4 weeks out from the event when a phone convo with bek revealed she was still without a wedding frock, we got together a few days later and her dress was born.

A 1950's cut, boatneck with a princess line bodice, full skirt and lace cap sleeves, all created in 1940's cotton lace backed with silk satin and lined in cotton voile.

It was one of those meant to be creations, easy as can be and joyful to put together.......and she loved it.

My next mission was to find as much vintage crockery as I could to make the tables have bek's cupcake loving touch....and out popped the "Clarice Cliff" discovery of red and cream delight.....a half dinner set of 1940's china originally given as a wedding gift to a local couple who are still married and obviously downsizing.......

and then followed the queen anne, wedgewood, royal blah di blah and 1930's japanese pieces.....

I had so much fun........

to see the professional piccys of the wedding and all it entailed go to 

http://kariz-matik.com/ .......his work in amazing...and I saw him and his assistant in action on the night and would recommend them 100% to any brides or grooms to be!