Beautiful Things PART 2

I’ve been all over the internet, looking for beautiful things and pictures... Again!

Oh, there will be more...

Flea Market Findings & Other Findings

I’ve got lost in, oh, so wonderful world of Flea Markets again... Last week I found a mini top hat from a strange flea market I had never gone before and now I found myself digging in to my local one. Here’s what I found:

This stamp collection called “Miss Empire” with stamps of Victorian ladies, a clock and a key – just what I like. From the same table I found handmade cards, which one in particular, caught my eye:

I love how the maker of the cards had taken all of the details in considering, for example, when I opened the card from its plastic wrap, I saw this little piggy with striped background on the back of the card: 

The whole card looked like this:

I don’t think I’m sending this card to anyone but myself...

And still, from the same table I found this decoration heart with a pretty Victorian lady and a tiny gear (yay, steampunk-ish!) – I hung it to the other end of my bed, but I will have to protect it from the cats for Lara already tried to take a bite of it already! Silly cat... 

And then I found this necklace from the other table for only 1 euro, and from the very first time I tried it on I fell in for it and have been using it almost every day: 

I have made findings outside from flea markets also - gladly! I went to an interior decoration shop which was closing up their business and selling everything with 10-70 % discount and found blackish wine glasses which I guarded until the shop assistant came and took them so she could wrap them in paper. I also found this card which I should have found for myself three weeks ago when it was my birthday: 

We went shopping to the near shopping center after my dentist and I found these jewelries from a damn 50 % discount! 

A pair of earrings and this beautiful bracelet:

Even all this didn’t become that expensive after all for they were either from a flea market or discount, but for the further notice and in conclusion: do not let me get into flea markets of any kind nor shops with discounted items. I’m so under the influence!

Antique & Mini Top Hats

Oh my, how I love all things antique! There’s this one antique shop near city center where I like to go. Last time I walked by it, I saw a beautiful wooden ink bottle holder with a glass ink bottle set in the middle of it and wooden ink pen in front of it. Unfortunately the antique shop was already closed so I called there on the next day and asked the owner (a very nice woman who likes to talk) to put it aside. She said she would hold it to the next day still on display but she would not sell it to anyone else. When I went there on the next day the owner said I was very smart to call her because a young man had come to ask for the price of the ink bottle holder and pen. The pen was sold separately but it was very affordable and seemed unused. I will always receive a history lesson on whatever I’m buying there – the woman told the wooden ink bottle holder was made of apple tree and was made in the turning of 1800’s and 1900’s and that the ink bottle itself was made of crystal. Unfortunately, I didn’t have more time to chat with her or look around but if I would have had, I would have been all over the shop digging through old photographs and medicine bottles.

Here’s the ink bottle holder, crystal ink bottle and ink pen:

The brim on the bottle is tarnished over its one-hundred-year existence and I love it. First I thought of filling it with black ink and actually use it but now when I’m thinking of it, I won’t – I will put it in my vitrine and when I have a big wooden writing desk one day, I will display it on it.

Underneath the crystal ink bottle, on the wood is carved a handmade Russian seal. The owner of the antique shop couldn’t read it and neither can I but I think it’s great!

Speaking of getting lost in antique shops... I found a new one today. It was filled old bird cages, photos, books, skulls (I don’t particularly like them because I’m vegetarian and I can not know how they are ended up in the shelves of a store – through cruelty or by natural death?)... And today happened what always seems to happen when I step into an antique store; something got my eye. This time it was old binoculars which was absolutely gorgeous and the price could still be negotiated. I think they are kind of steampunk-ish, don’t you think? And the best part? They actually do work! Shame I didn’t notice to ask how old they were...

And what would this entry be without mini top hats, I promised in the title?

I found a little top hat on the front, with a feather (faux I think and hope!) from a flea market we just decided to go and see what it was like. I added it to my (still) very small “collection” of mini top hats...

Here’s my other two mini top hats:

And here’s my tiny “collection” so far:

This is it for this time... I will post more of my flea market findings and other findings on my next post, if you’re interested. They all just didn’t fit in this post.

More Space to Write On...

The modern age has made writing so much easier and faster with all of these computers around us. Oh, well, it is easy to write by hand but not so fast. Still I sometimes savour the moment when I’m writing my thoughts on an actual paper by hand.

Which was left off from my Christmas post was that I had bought an early Christmas present for myself; notebooks! They caught my eye right when I saw them and I felt like moth into to the flame and I had to buy them.

The color pink first confused me a little bit, and I think the notebook would have looked way better with red wine coloured pages, but I thought that sometimes it’s nice to have a little spark of color in between all of my black and white things...

I still have been saving them for something “special” – I kind of have an idea on what to write to the actual tinier, pink paged notebook, and the other, black one, is actually for kitchen notes. Which is awesome, so now I can write all of my recipes down on paper, instead of opening my computer every time I need to make vegan scones or vegetable lasagna.

I also remembered I have my ink pen in my vitrine. My mom has gave it to me, and I have been saving it, but now when I have these beautiful notebooks, why should I anymore? 

I also got a beautiful purple quill pen and a calligraphy pen and ink from my friend as a Christmas present... 

Now it is time to write!

p.s. I have talk a little bit about digital writing also. I have written my “book” project lately; I translated a bit over eight pages today and have now written 268 A4 sized pages. I can’t wait to finish my project!

Beautiful Things

On these last days - like always – I’ve been looking for beautiful things and pictures.

So there you go... A set of beautiful things and women – oh! More of these later, I promise.