Incoming Mail

A lovely letter from Marisa of omiyage. She painted the envelope to match the squirrel card and included some heart stickers and washi tape!! It made me awfully happy :-)

Vintage Cactus Postcards

Recently I bought a whole bunch of vintage cactus postcards off eBay and they arrived!! I am completely in love with them and can't wait to send some out! So if you would like a cactus postcard for free just email me at em.odonnell94@gmail.com and I will send you one :-)

Aren't they simply divine? Some of them are used and the postmarks show that they range from the 1940s to the 1970s. I love that some of them are used, it makes them so special. Below is one of my favourite used ones. I just find it so strange and funny that they asked for a rug catalogue on a cactus postcard- so random. And I love that it's typewritten.

I also bought some vintage Los Vegas postcards - mainly because of that divine pink hotel in the bottom left, oh how I would love to stay there!

New Goodies

It doesn't get better than a giant gold flamingo and a new cactus. 

 My wonderful boyfriend brought this all the way back from New Zealand because he knew I would absolutely love it. 

A lovely surprise gift from my sister :-)

Oppy Finds

Before I went to Canberra did a quick oppy shop and found some christmas decorations that they had put out for christmas in July. It made me so excited for christmas! I go crazy at the op shops during christmas time - I filled a whole suitcase with vintage christmas decorations last year alone!

Snail Mail

Hello again! Ok I'm back to posting for good now :-) Camping was a blast! It's winter here so it was pretty darn cold but we had a campfire to keep us warm and to toast marshmellows on :-D

I got back from Canberra to a heap of pretty mail, I was ever so excited! The pile below consists of various postcards (that horse one on top is holographic!), some lovely long letters and a parcel with a new ink ribbon for my typewriter!

I spent all of today catching up on the blogs I haven't read in the past week and replying to mail. It was delightful :-)

I received an absolutely amazing letter filled with vintage goodies from Sara who always posts beautiful pictures on her blog 'random places/familiar faces'. 

She also sent me two lovely photos which are now on my wall above my new cactus :-D

Camping

I'm back :-) Alas, I do not have any posts as I am going camping tomorrow. I know, crazy right. I am so ready to sit and relax and do something crafty, but adventure calls. Uni holidays will be over at the end of the month, and then I will be back to post about all the amazing snail mail I received whilst I was gone :-D

I love this photo. My camping spot will be nowhere near as scenic, but we are on the beach so it will still be lovely :-)

(vintage national geographic. source: http://wizvrd.tumblr.com/)

Goodbye for now

It's uni holidays here so tomorrow I will be leaving to work for a few weeks in Canberra at a cat and dog kennels :-) My little blog will be neglected whilst I am hanging out with all the adorable cats and dogs. So I will leave you with this great photo and be back in a couple of weeks. taa-taa!

A Hollywood audition for a black cat, 1961. 

(source: constantbuzz)

Vintage Cards

The other day my mum discovered a box with all the cards she received as a child, pictures she drew, awards and other little keepsakes. The cards are so darn sweet! I spent hours going through them and they all have such lovely messages and drawings inside.  

some mini cards and party invitations - these are all super small- all less than 10cm in length!

The box they are in is an old wooden cola box !

I scanned a few of my favourites. The scan definitely doesn't do them justice, especially because a lot of them have sparkles on them, but the images are still adorable. 

 

You spin the wheel around on this one, mixing up the animals faces and names. 

Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did :-) I wish cards were still as sweet as this! I always keep an eye out for unused vintage cards at op shops but I hardly ever find any, do you?

Collection Post: Planters

This collection is rather small and not too exciting as I only buy them if they are $3 or less but I thought I'd share anyway :-) I have to put price limits on myself or I would spend waaaay to much at op shops and antique malls. 

I have this weird love for super kitsch ugly shell art and the duck planter definitely fits this category with its tacky googly eyes. I have a whole collection of shell art that I will probably never post because I only buy them if they are especially ugly haha. I kind of love ugly things; I also have a collection of bright gold ornaments that are made in Japan (like the donkey planter below). 

Also I'm linking to op shop mama's collection post :-)