Roses are Red.....

Hello Everyone, hope you are all having a good week.  I have been quiet because I have had a disgusting head cold.  Yesterday was the first day I felt human and I had to take some of those cold and flu tablets because I went to listen to the Dalai Lama!!!!!! Sorry for all the exclamation marks, but I was so happy to get to see him and listen to him.  There's no photographic evidence, so you'll just have to take my word for it - he is an amazing man, lovely and funny, and would make a great dinner party guest.

Okay, so today I felt more human - still not my normal radiant self but definitely on the road to normality - so I wore roses:

Vintage velvet skirt refashioned to fit, Toffs $2
Vintage Lady Lichfield polyester shirt, Presbyterian Support $1
Cardigan, Savemart
Shoes and bangles and necklace all opshopped
Tights, belt, rose earrings and hair rose all retail

The lighting in my kitchen is rubbish - another halogen light blew out again.  Last week, I wore an outfit which almost matches my kitchen paintwork.  This was not intentional: 

Boots and Vintage paisley dress refashioned to fit, ReStore
Vintage lurex cardigan, Trademe
Vintage yellow and white glass necklace, Salvation Army
Tights and hair clips, retail

I felt pretty cool in yellow and a lovely colleague said to me that I looked like a character from Austin Powers (bless her).  Alas, we also had a fire alarm and I had to stand out in the cold while we waited for the "all clear" - not good for someone coming down with a cold!

Lastly, because I have no more outfit posts at present I want to share with you some pics of some absolutely awesome stuff I found at the Salvation Army a while back and photographed using my phone.  Being a bit of a techno-phobe it's take a while to get the photos off the phone, but without further ado....

I seriously wanted the bambi - it was about 20-30 cm tall and stamped made in Japan, but it was broken at the back and the glue job was really rough.  In hindsight I should have bought it as it was so cheap.  The black poodle (above) and the white poodle (below) made me think of Vix as I know she likes poodles....

You can see the white one is in a different pose, I think it was a vase.  There was also an Easter Egg container/box which was probably worth quite a lot more than $3 as it was in pristine condition.  It would be a nice Easter gift filled with chocolates.  Is it me, or is there something a bit odd about the position of the bunny on the egg?  Its kind of weird.  

Okay, I'm off for my hot drink and an episode of Elementary (I have a thing for Sherlock Holmes) so that's all folks.  
Bye
Penny-Rose