Vintage Motel Signs

Hi all, sorry, I haven't posted in forever! Studying in America has been amazing but I'm leaving in two weeks :-( Then I'll be travelling for about a month, THEN BACK HOME TO AUSTRALIA!

I have seen so many beautiful vintage signs over here but most of my photos are taken out of the car window and are super blurry. But here are a few of my favourites that I got semi-decent snaps of. Enjoy xx

Yellowstone

We've been doing so much at uni that I haven't had time to write about my trip to Yellowstone yet! We headed here after Palm Springs and it was so darn pretty!

I'm a little in love with smokey bear- I bought a vintage smokey bear poster off eBay and I'm so excited for it to arrive!

There are squirrels and chipmunks everywhere- they are so sweet! I still haven't gotten over how cutely they prance around. 

Just a pretty view :-)

This big bull elk was only about 2m away! His antlers were crazy big!

So I probably won't be posting much for a long time because most of my uni photos are taken with my terrible quality old phone and I haven't been travelling anywhere or doing much op shopping so toodaloo for now :-)

Thrift finds

Ok so I've been super bad at posting on here, I'm at uni now and I've been so busy! You will just have to ignore the terrible quality of the photos and admire all the tacky goodness. 

The thrift shops in America are AMAZING! I've been to about 5 in the past few weeks and all have had so many goodies. It's been so hard to resist, knowing that I somehow have to get it all back to Australia. 

There is so much american kitsch stuff here. I am in love! I am especially taken with the 1977 plaster horse wall hanging! Pretty darn ugly, but so good. I have two that are really similar, so that makes it a collection, yay!

I hardly ever find vintage planters and one goodwill had a whole heap, all for $1-$2, each! Isn't the donkey one too cute? Can't wait to plant a cactus in him :-)

 I've also found about a dozen beautiful cards to add to my ever expanding card collection. I find it so hard to actually use them because they are just too lovely! 

Hope you're all having a lovely week and having good luck at the op shops! 

Palm Springs

Howdy ya'll (getting in the american spirit). I've finally found a bit of time to put a haphazard post together of some photos of palm springs, my first destination. It was pretty darn awesome!

We stopped at the dinosaurs of Cabazon, which were as fantastic as expected. So big and tacky. And one had a giftshop inside!

I saw a few of these cactus letterboxes whilst cruising round looking at houses and I so badly want one!

Just a cute little daggy cafe at the aeroplane museum. Had lots of vintage aeroplane decorations.

The houses there were absolutely amazing! And there were so many of them. Just whole streets of mid-century goodness. 

Anyway, hopefully get a chance to share some of my amazing thrift finds soon. Hope you all have a lovely week :-)

Adios

Off to America today, hooray! My knee is an awful lot better and I'm off crutches now :-D First stop is Palm Springs, then Yellowstone National Park for about a week, then I'm off to uni at Colorado. I'm getting super excited!

Just an old photo from when my fam and I visited America in 2000 (?).  I'm the one getting carried :-P

I'll probably be pretty absent here for the next 6 months what with being in America, but I'm sure I'll keep y'all updated on my travels and (hopefully awesome) thrift finds.

but taa taa for now x