Thrifty Finds.

Today being New Years Eve and not having made any plans for the day when I woke up this morning I went about making myself comfortable for a very chilled out day- i.e. lying in my pajamas watching YouTube videos whilst slowly working my way through a half eaten Milk Tray (it's a hard life, I know).  So when my aunt asked if I wanted to go for a dig through the SPCA charity shop I had second thoughts about leaving the cosy nest on my bed.  Needless to say I came home very chuffed that I had decided to go in the end as even though I wasn't really looking for anything I particular I purchased a fair bit.

Firstly I got this old brown leather suitcase to store records in.  I've been looking for one for a while now as all the suitcases I've seen in thrift stores have invariably been the wrong color or too big or both.  I was very excited when I found this as it wasn't even on the shop floor but in a pile of stuff in the back room that I found when looking through their boxes of records.  I'm very pleased with it and look forward to filling it up with even more records.

Next I got this cute little owl.  I picked it up at the last minute just before paying and thought why not? He'll fit right in with everything else on my desk.

I also picked up these two glass jars, for my room, which as you can see in the picture have already been decorated and are ready to be used.

Last but certainly not least I got this old Star Wars movie poster.  Now I can't claim to be the world's biggest Star Wars fan as I only got round to watching them this year and whilst I did enjoy it I wouldn't say it made my top ten.  I think there's something quite geeky yet cool about this poster and I decided it would make a great addition to my wall.  When I first found it there were a tense couple seconds in which I thought that my morning could end like something out of a chick flick- in a battle to see who got to buy it but fortunately it didn't go that way and the poster is now mine, and I think it's pretty darn cool.

Anyway, Happy New Year and all that jazz.  I was going to write a blog post on some of my goals for next year but due to lack of forethought, planning, time, energy, tea, chocolate, etc, etc I think it shall wait for tomorrow.  Adios muchachos.  

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Girl put your records on.

About a week ago I went shopping at the Kloof SPCA and bought these records to add to my collection.  I also bought a big frame for my room and some shirts-some of which shall remain as they are and others that will be changed- but I'll shall those some other time.  I particularly love the cover of the Elvis Blue Hawaii one, it's just too cool.

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D.I.Y.

Following my evening of lounging around the house, feeding my face and watching movies, I was in a very creative mood for the rest of the weekend.  On Sunday afternoon, somewhere in between digging through the dress up box, oil paints and boxes of crayons, I came across this old printers tray.  I initially bought it, for about R5, from the SPCA to use for an art project at school but soon decided it was too small and forgot about it.  After looking at it again I decided that it was actually quite cool, and proceeded to spend the remainder of my afternoon fixing it up.

I had to clean it quite well, as it was home to a couple spiders.

Next I cut out a bunch of pictures from old magazines.

I used wallpaper glue to stick in old pages from Black Beauty.  Please don't think of me as a horrible, book-murdering person it was already broken and torn up from past projects:(  

I stuck in my collage and put the shelves back inside...

And then it was finished:D

It's now hanging on my wall and is already filled with a bunch of stuff from my dressing table.  I think this was the first time I've started and completed a project within the same day, so I'll admit I'm pretty darn proud of myself;)

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Vinyl.

For a while now I've been thinking about how amazingly cool it would be to have a record player.  In fact I've even bought some records before, despite not having anything to play them on and have used them to decorate my room.  Anyway this changed recently when my grandad said that I could have his old record player.  I was as excited as a five year old on Christmas Day and rushed home to set it up.  Considering it's over 40 years old it still works really well.  My grandparents also passed on their record collection to me and so the sounds of Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Queen have been filling the house since Thursday.

I also had a chance to buy a few records from the SPCA Kloof secondhand shop.  It's basically a garage with roof to floor shelves of records ranging from R5 to R20.  It's like record heaven.  I also bought another from the iheart market this morning.  They cost more around R50 but they are in slightly better shape.

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