Just a couple of new items in my little Magpie shop on Used Victoria. There is something very handy about a tin tray. You can pile up your dinner or supper on it and head out to watch a movie on the couch. We enjoyed this matching set of two LaVada trays for just that [...]
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What happens when a couple of artists go out garage sailing for years? Well, short answer, they get way too much good stuff! We’re admittedly like a couple of magpies, looking for the goodies, so many different things attract us. From biscuit tins to tin trays, vintage and fun stuff. One day the dream [...]
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Last Saturday, unlike my last entry, was the most perfect summer day ever, sunny, warm and just generally full of promise. A good day for garage sailing.
I always have this little superstition that you must find something at the first sale or it won’t be a good day. OK I made up that [...]
We live on the West coast, on Vancouver Island. That said, as we watched the horrific video coming back from Japan last week, watched that black tsunami wave churning up buildings, cars and people in it’s path, we couldn’t help but see ourselves in that wave. As our hearts went out to those [...]
Ok, I don’t know what happened this year. I’m just way behind. It’s only 3 days til Christmas!
Now I have to tell you that I actually wrote this post 11 days ago, but due to problems with our internet provider doing some sort of change over, that caused some sort of technical mess [...]
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The thing with shopping at garage sales is that A. you never know what you will find and B. you never know where what you find will lead you.
I like to call it creative shopping.
This summer I snapped up a lovely pillow with a Japanese theme of a pagoda and a scooter. A few [...]
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the inspiration
I’d had this fantastic plate with the bridges of London all around the rim for ages. I’d had a few ideas for it but nothing that really inspired me into action. Nevertheless, I’d broken up the pieces and kept them together with masking tape for years. They were waiting for me, [...]
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Another Saturday morning of garage sailing has come and gone. We had a good morning, found a few things that will be useful for very little money. Things like a new wicker hamper for the bathroom, never used for $2. And some shelving perfect for drying and curing sculpture in the sculpture studio [...]
I’ve always been into recycling and have been creating my mosaics with old dishes and ornaments for years. So now more than ever, I like to discover other recyclers who are into creating art from recycled materials. And this morning while going through a Cloth Paper Scissors mag I found an artist [...]
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Saturday found us getting up late and dithering about whether or not the weather would hold out for garage sailing. But I found an ad for a plant sale or two so off we went. And you really couldn’t miss this sign.
And although I loved the way they’d planted things up in these [...]
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