So, I got the "5 Weekday Challenge" on
Facebook from my friend. The idea is to photograph your daily life for 5 days and put the
photos on the internet and challenge a friend every day. Since most of my
Facebook messages shows only to my friends, I decided to post my pictures in
here also.
Weekday Challenge 1/5
In a library, choosing a bleach and having a beauty sleep with my cat.
Weekday Challenge 2/5
Afternoon Tea (Cherry-Rooibos), lazy evening’s ready-made-pizza and a movie (Now
You See Me).
Weekday Challenge 3/5
Celebrating May Day, enjoying and vegan doughnuts!
Weekday Challenge 4/5
Feasting and shopping with my friend! What a wonderful day… :)
Weekday Challenge 5/5
A creative day. Drawing, writing and listening to music.
I had so much fun doing this challenge!
Therefore I challenge all of you to do this challenge as well (on your Facebook
page, on your Instagram, in your blog, etc.)...
Some time ago, I bought a new cellphone. It
was about time, for I had had the old, old cellphone from the Stone Age never
having a smartphone in my life! And I needed a new phone for my old piece of
antique cellphone had started to broke to the point of unusable...
And then I found these synthetic boots:
And what started as ”just” a lunch with my mom last
Monday stretched to a 7 hour long journey at the city center, the library and clothing
stores! From the library I got a book about music theory and sheet music from
popular pop songs...
But, oh, the clothing stores were pulling me in like a magnet! I tried a bunch
of clothes on and I made some great finds from second hand shop also!
I know the “Giorgio Armani” bad must be fake,
but I like the way it look. I don’t really care about the brand name...
You have no idea how good it feels to fit in
dresses and clothes size S and even XS. I'm not that big after all...
Later, on another day I went on a hunt for high heels for the snow and ice has
melted (if a few cold spells in spring doesn’t count!) and I have now declared
my high heel season opened! So I found these beautiful open toe shoes with
silver rim:
They were last of my size and they are synthetic and the lining inside is
textile!
I got a new black-and-white striped skirt also – it was the last one of that
size at it fit me perfectly! This is my outfit today:
Now I know I need to close the strings of my
purse but all of the spring and soon summer clothes and shoes are filling the
shelves of the shops and I can’t resist them...
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!
I’m having a craving to go to flea markets –
both in person and on the internet.
I got a new bag – it was about time for I had used my old bag which is still perfectly
functional and all in good shape but it was time for a change. I finally got it
from my mom who found it from a flea market and bought it right in front of my
nose...
Later, my mom were to the same flea market on
her own and found this cameo necklace for me – I know it’s so fake cameo but I
like it. It had too long chain that didn’t suit to the cameo at all. So I
bought a new, much shorter silver chain to it so I can now use it. I love cameo
things from necklaces to ear rings and bookmarks – even if the cameo is real or
fake. I still don’t buy the most cheaper looking ones which are screaming they
are coming from a mass production and they sure look like it!
I also love all things antique and things that look like antique; keys, frames,
vitrines, chairs, tables, and for some reason I really like old antique glass
medicine bottles. This one day we were just dropping by at our near flea market
and I found an old medicine bottle for only 5 euros – my mom told me that on
the internet they can cost dozens of euros. It didn’t have a lit but I bought
it right away. Then I really got excited and searched old antique medicine
bottles from the internet flea markets. I found a gorgeous one which was a
little bigger than what I had just bought and it had a lid. There was still two
weeks to bid on it, so I calmed myself and waited until the very end and I was
the first bidder and no one bid against me. But like my mom had said, the old
medicine bottles were more expensive on the internet. But the medicine bottle I
had just bought was worth 30 euros. My mom has spotted old medicine bottles in
the window of one antique shop. I then went inside and bought the tiniest
bottle with a glass top and then I spotted even more medicine bottle and bought
a bigger one with a cork.
Two medicine bottles without labels on the back are
from the antique shop. On the front, the one on the left I got from the
internet and the one on the right I got from near flea market – they have fancy
labels. The other one “Cinchophen” I read was introduced in 1910 and frequently
used to treat gout. This drug is still used by veterinarians to treat arthritis
in animals but use of this drug in humans ceased in the 1930s due to the
discovery that “Cinchophen” can cause serious liver damage. Pretty
fascinating... I can’t imagine I have over 100-year-old medicine bottle. The
other medicine bottle labeled “Hydrochloret. Chinic.” I have no idea what it
has been for or how old it is. But it’s still very cool...
I also found this beautiful candelabrum with red
stones hanging from it. I immediately fell for it and it cost only 4 euros so
it came home with me. For the first time I saw it, I imagined it with red
candles and perfect for Christmas time – I have already used it.
Lately I went to the same flea market for I had
a feeling I might find something awesome again and I did. I found this
beautiful, white, tiny tea pot which I immediately bought and it was half a
price. It makes just one cup of tea. In comparison, I put a teacup next to the
pot, so you can see how tiny it is:
To be honest, I’m surfing on the internet flea
markets at the moment looking for more beautiful stuff. Is there a cure for
flea market fever?
