Leaflike

You're probably thoroughly sick of photos of rubbish, but here's one more mattress photo...I couldn't resist jumping out of the car to photograph it.  

The swooshy patterns looked just like the leaves on the gingko tree across the road from it:

 Now I need to work out what to do with all these mattress photos.  I'm hoping to make some more cards like the ones in this post, maybe postcards this time...

Roses in a rush

 I photographed some mattress textiles in the inorganic collection on Sunday, but I was greedy for more.  I started to feel a mild panic that the start of the working week, leaving in a hurry, coming home in the dark, would mean that I wouldn't have any more photo opportunities before the rubbish was taken away.  So I decided that I would have to multitask, turn an early morning run into a mattress photo session, and that's what I did this morning. 

 If I looked weird taking photos of old mattresses before, I must have looked a whole lot weirder taking photos of them at 7am in my stripy running leggings (thank goodness I wasn't wearing the leopard-print headband that is often part of my running costume)!  But I was rewarded with the photos of this blousy blue rose fabric (above) and with not a moment to spare.  As I was running home the rubbish guys were driving down the street and collecting all the inorganic rubbish.  Whew!

Oh and here are some I photographed in the weekend.  You can see some of my other mattress-photographing endeavours here and here and other people's here. 

Inorganicing

 Thanks to BBC Homes and Antiques magazine, I have learnt the word "vintiquing" - when you have a minibreak and look at antiques in adorable small towns, preferebly with cobbled streets.  I did a more budget version in the weekend, which I've decided to call "inorganicing," where you wander round the streets taking photos of the rubbish people have put out for the inorganic collection (and maybe spot some treasure).  These beautiful yellow trees made it more picturesque:

 And there was a bit of a yellow theme going on with the things I found.  I liked this beautiful bungalow window without a house attached to it:

 And this beautiful 70s sun umbrella with raggedy tassels. 

How about you, do you enjoy a spot of inorganicing?

Rubbish photos

I had a very welcome day off work the other day and how did I spend it?  Rummaging through stuff like this:

I had heard the inorganic collection was in Avondale, so I grabbed my camera and jumped on the train, hoping to find some good mattresses to photograph.  And I was rewarded with these lovelies!  

Mr. Millicent Crow came along too and was very tolerant of spending hours in piles of rubbish in the rain!  We also had lunch at the lovely Salvation Kitchen, visited the great op shops of Avondale and found a gorgeous 70s sideboard in the inorganics that we were very tempted to bring home.  

 

 But this pink and red rose number was the find of the day!  I may have squealed when I found this beauty:

More mattress enthusiasts here!