Whachu wishing for? :)

I found this photo album about a month ago at my favourite opshop and I thought the cover pattern alone was pretty sweet but baulked at the price ($20). Opening it up, it was full of vintage postcards, almost 100. The collection seems to have belonged to a woman in the seventies, most of the postcards are to "Jan from Mummy", though there are a couple to and from other members of the family so perhaps it was a family album. There are postcards from Wales, England, Scotland, Belgium, Holland, Brussels, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy. It looked and sounded like some holiday!

I um-ed and ah-ed about buying it at that price, but since I didn't find anything else to buy that day I decided to take it home. And vintage postcards are often at least a dollar each, so it was a pretty good buy. I considered taking the postcards out and using them for collages, but I think the collection is pretty interesting on its own and at least for the time being, I'm going to keep intact.







Each page folds out and holds 12 postcards.






What made the album even more cute was that they seemed to live in a Tasmanian town called 'Snug'!

...in September (albeit a day late).


I realised that Summer is coming.



Strawberry eating and sandal wearing commenced.




We said goodbye to our old house and moved into our new home.


I started nesting (but the boxes are still not all unpacked).


We had a games night with some friends.


Some fun collaging was done.



I made my cats wear a hat and one became quite taken with a basket.


I made a whole bunch of woodcuts.



And on the very last day of September, C and I took a day trip to see the last of the snow for the year. C wanted to make a massive snowman, but found it very tiring work. I feel lucky to have snow AND beaches about an hour away.

I watched: Love My Way, Puberty Blues, Scrubs, The Hairy Bird, Downton Abbey.
I listened to: The new Clare Bowditch and Ben Folds Five albums (both great).
I consumed: Mandarin, apple and passionfruit juice, sour peach hearts and French vanilla almonds.
I made: Woodcuts, collages and postcards.