Thrifty Sunday

Every sunday now, I want to show you one of my favourite vintage items. Today, it's this amazing childrens' book: Jussike's Sieben Freunde by finnish author and illustrator Silvi Väljal. It was printed in USSR in 1969, I bought it in a thrift store in my hometown, it is really torn down, but that fact makes it even cuter :) The brackets with which it is stapled are already rusted and its pages are very loose, so you have to be really careful when turning them.

I love the bright colours and the boldness and simplicity of the illustrations, nearly comic-like! And the story is sweet, too, Jussike, the little boy, travels through the seven lands of the weekdays and meets each day who is personalized by several friendly characters and they all have specific lessons teachig Jussike. In the end, they're all friends.

What is your favourite vintage item?

Favourite Shops: flex! Nuremberg

One of the shops that make it worth to live here: flex! in Nuremberg's funniest, strangest and kiez-iest district Gostenhof. I come here for buying 60ies dresses, vintage shoes, unique houseware, books and also independent music (they have a highly recommandable shelf filled with stuff of MONO-TON, a cool local music store)...

A Must-Go if you live in Nuremberg/Fürth/Erlangen or the surrounding area!!! And for any foreign visitor hunting for good stuff, the whole quarter will be a relief from all the tourist-crammed alleys in the city center.
There is, besides more Vintage Shops, for example a very well-sorted and super friendly Women's Bookstore (lots of highly interesting literature by and for girrrrls and ladies, but also loads of non-fiction about feminism, lesbian and queer culture, women's rights blablaba, AND you always get a fresh coffee for free!). Moreover, a nice big music store (specialized in guitars and amplifiers, but also with pan flutes and other funny instruments and very helpful, well trained staff), several nice snack bars and veggie cafés AND the LIEBLING shop (a crafters' cooperation) which happens !!surprise!! to be one of my favourites aswell.

And the best: all the described shops are located only a few metres from each other, in the Kernstraße and the Fürther Straße, right next to the subway station Gostenhof.

Happy Shopping, everyone!

Nostalgica

What happened last Wednesday:

I was at my parents' home, babysitting my very ill sister. She told me that our former artist teacher at school had called her earlier and offered us to come into our old school and look through the photo lab which had to be emptied due to renovation of the building.

Of course I had to go there. And this is what I found:



PURE BLISS! Sadly, the practica doesn't work.. BUT the Mamiya does, at least mechanically. MADE IN 1968!!!!! I need to check the electronic part and if it works, I will buy an objective.... does anyone have a M42 objective? Do you still use analogue SLR?

And any suggestions what to do with the old chemistry glass? I need to bring the content to the special waste department, but I can't decide what I could make out of the glass.

mädchenflohmarkt!

Last Sunday, it was finally thrifty girls' paradise day in Tiny Town. Had been working for the last three weeks to finish some cool projects for selling, and I WAS exited. It was my first own stall. YEAH :D Felt good, worked wonderful, got a lot of really nice feedback and made promo for my tattoist, too. haha :) The organizerettes made an amazing job, they had so much sweet granny style deco :)



Some people were strange (not speaking of me). We had much fun muttering about the people standing in front of the stall and not realizing that we watched them while they examined my stuff.




Also,for the cake buffet, I tried out two recipes from Post Punk Kitchen: Peanut Butter Chocolate Pillows and Pignoli Almond Cookies, and they turned out even better then I hoped.. Vegan cookies ROCK!

Alltogether, I think it was a success, but there's still some stuff left- kawaii and crochet AND vintage which I added to my dawanda shop. Lookee!

flea market sweeties

Cutie cute! Today's Sunday Fleamarket was a real DELIGHT. Gladly, I didn't have too much money with me, otherwise I might have spent a fortune on all these joyful little thingsies. I heart flea market :) And now, I have to go and look for some fabric where to sew on those laces, and then I need a flower for my emaille polka dot pot (polka dot pot is a great word play, isn't it?) haha :)


I managed to get a whole bundle of those pink fairytale merrygoround-whatnot-coathangers, and so they're now available in the vintage departement of my dawanda shop!!! So don't miss them and take a look :)