Let's make it short. I went to a flea market (Golden Nugget around Princeton, NJ), I found a crate, I bought it.
Please, ignore the laundry in the background. My crate and I (as well as the crate intruder) are both saying Hi!
Still yours,
Frau Mayer
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Samstag, 7. Mai 2011
Guess who says Hi!
No, dear ghost readers, this blog is not dead. Its owner's life, however, has been quite busy! Three weeks in the States, wonderful, full of shopping and new impressions. No time for blogging! I'll write more about my list of must-sees in NYC and around later, promise!
Let's make it short. I went to a flea market (Golden Nugget around Princeton, NJ), I found a crate, I bought it.
Please, ignore the laundry in the background. My crate and I (as well as the crate intruder) are both saying Hi!
Still yours,
Frau Mayer
Let's make it short. I went to a flea market (Golden Nugget around Princeton, NJ), I found a crate, I bought it.
Please, ignore the laundry in the background. My crate and I (as well as the crate intruder) are both saying Hi!
Still yours,
Frau Mayer
Samstag, 3. Juli 2010
Progress report
It's been a while. Too hot to work, to be honest. Well, there's still something I'd love to show you, my dear non-existent readers.
Where shall we start?
What have we here? It's definitely blue...
But what can it be?
Oh! What soft lines... and more blue!
Oh yes! It's a cupboard!
It took me several weeks and many many hours of work to get this far. As you can see, there's still a couple of things to do - but I am already totally happy with the results. I've wallpapered the back wall and also the insides - more close ups to come!
More news from the dining room - my latest supermegaüberdeal from eBay. I paid an exact amount of 33 euros for 4 of these beautiful chairs. They're to become white, of course - and I'd love some advice on new fabric.
What was in the background again? My new shelves in the niche!
Well, there are more blue pics coming soon - let me know what you think, dear non-exis! Meanwhile, I'm gonna mix a mojito or two...
Where shall we start?
What have we here? It's definitely blue...
But what can it be?
Oh! What soft lines... and more blue!
Oh yes! It's a cupboard!
It took me several weeks and many many hours of work to get this far. As you can see, there's still a couple of things to do - but I am already totally happy with the results. I've wallpapered the back wall and also the insides - more close ups to come!
More news from the dining room - my latest supermegaüberdeal from eBay. I paid an exact amount of 33 euros for 4 of these beautiful chairs. They're to become white, of course - and I'd love some advice on new fabric.
What was in the background again? My new shelves in the niche!
Well, there are more blue pics coming soon - let me know what you think, dear non-exis! Meanwhile, I'm gonna mix a mojito or two...
Dienstag, 30. März 2010
New Küchenbüffet + a little store tour
As I still can't make myself tell you more about M...o, I thought I'd share my latest (well, not really as I shopped like mad in M..h) purchase with you! This one is going straight into my dining room. Have I just typed this? I am going to have WHAT? A DINING ROOM? Sound like a joke. Well, whatever, just look what I've found right next to my modest place in the village soon to be left!
The minute I saw this one, I knew it's going to be mine. Luckily, it was for sale - and cheap! I could hardly believe my ears as I heard the price - and immediately got another 20 Euros off. No shipping costs as the piece is standing right next to my apartment and it'll simply be carried into the moving truck.
The minute I saw this one, I knew it's going to be mine. Luckily, it was for sale - and cheap! I could hardly believe my ears as I heard the price - and immediately got another 20 Euros off. No shipping costs as the piece is standing right next to my apartment and it'll simply be carried into the moving truck.
Right now, this beauty is housing a lovely collection of antique tins and a bunch of beautiful china. Well, it should wait till it meets my beautiful, perfectly mismatched collection!
I was also thinking of taking these guys with me
It's a pity I already have some silverware - really simple, basic ones (17 Euros for a bunch of 40!)
Green Gate keeps following me - and look at this green little alarm clock! It's the sweetest one :)
Easter is around! I'm considering this lovely shell box for my future bathroom (it'll be newly tiled! Can you believe that?)
The lady who owns the store is most talented. She sources antique furniture everywhere in the vicinity, she teaches classes at an evening school where she shows people how to paint furniture and create that 'shabby look', she consults and she's just totally sweet. I planned to quickly look in and stayed for about 30 minutes chatting to her. So eager to help! She says her mission is to promote living with antique, unique pieces and she's much more interested in people being happy at home that in money making. I might be posting more about her later - and this is one of the rare cases where I'm really sad about my readers being so non-existent.
This little shop is so easy to walk by without seeing it - and this is exactly what one shouldn't do!
P.S. I' m not revealing the store name here as I' m rather sure I have no readers who live next to it and it doesn't have an online presence.
Sonntag, 14. März 2010
Vintage globes and other highs
Good news, dear non-existent readers! Frau Mayer is alive AND she went fleamarketing again.
And this is what The God of the Fleas had in store for her today:
The vintage globe in this picture (made in Denmark in 1980, obviously for Germany as everything on it is in German) says: Why do you dare take pictures of me that don't transfer a 1/10000 of my beauty?
Frau Mayer says: No one's gonna care cause all of them gonna be DAMN jealous!
So, just let it flow, my dear non-existent friends and I won't tell you the beauty cost 9 Euros!
I am SO looking forward to the fleamarketing season! Something's telling me it's gonna be one of the best ones in my entire life!
And this is what The God of the Fleas had in store for her today:
Frau Mayer says: No one's gonna care cause all of them gonna be DAMN jealous!
So, just let it flow, my dear non-existent friends and I won't tell you the beauty cost 9 Euros!
I am SO looking forward to the fleamarketing season! Something's telling me it's gonna be one of the best ones in my entire life!
Freitag, 15. Januar 2010
The hottest tea box ever
Guess what my latest, freshest, hottest Ebay find is, my dear non-existent readers! Oh, right, you don't exist so you can't really answer. It's alright cause I have a couple of pictures I just have to post because I've just picked up the hottest future side table in da hood!
Just look at the ornaments! Mmmh... And yeah, I'm a complete idiot, spending that much money on a tea box - I could ve bought a similar one for a tenner in HH - but the ornaments just broke my poor little heart.
Now I need cute little wheels to make the thingy even more practical and then we're all set (might use it as a night stand, though, still considering different options).
See you very soon!
Just look at the ornaments! Mmmh... And yeah, I'm a complete idiot, spending that much money on a tea box - I could ve bought a similar one for a tenner in HH - but the ornaments just broke my poor little heart.
Now I need cute little wheels to make the thingy even more practical and then we're all set (might use it as a night stand, though, still considering different options).
See you very soon!
Montag, 2. November 2009
Kitchen updates & a tiny pet store bonus
Been neglecting my lovely useless blog for a while. Heaps (not kidding, this is what I can see from my comfy bed) of work and no relief in sight..
However, you need something to cheer you up even in the most heapful (hm, is that a neologism?) times. Let's say, wallpaper. And frames. Mix them up and get:
Also in the picture: two deliriously expensive Rice bowls (OMG, did I REALLY pay 13 Euros for each? I must have been mad and there was no one to stop me!) which make me deliriously happy (look at that shape!), a tiny tin palace, loveliest Ikea cups ever (too bad eveybody has them) and, mmmh, well, more Ikea stuff.
I also made a third picture using the blue wallpaper but it just didn't fit.
By the way, this is my kitchen shelf before - I just removed all the things I never used.
Sorry bout the picutre quality, good that noone reads this blog anyway! The blue garbage can had to go (yes, I now possess a fashionable yellow one, who could imagine that?) and I managed to purchase a 1-euro-folding table at ebay which was kindly installed by a very dear friend (total cost of the project: 11 euros - had to pay the shipping, too.
And finally some eye candy for my non-existenst readers: a teeny tiny pet store I discovered at a flea market in Hamburg. I recall paying 2 euros for two houses. They are made in England and too die for.
Well, I guess that's it for today, see none of you ( there's no one here anyway, right?) later!
However, you need something to cheer you up even in the most heapful (hm, is that a neologism?) times. Let's say, wallpaper. And frames. Mix them up and get:
Also in the picture: two deliriously expensive Rice bowls (OMG, did I REALLY pay 13 Euros for each? I must have been mad and there was no one to stop me!) which make me deliriously happy (look at that shape!), a tiny tin palace, loveliest Ikea cups ever (too bad eveybody has them) and, mmmh, well, more Ikea stuff.
I also made a third picture using the blue wallpaper but it just didn't fit.
By the way, this is my kitchen shelf before - I just removed all the things I never used.
Sorry bout the picutre quality, good that noone reads this blog anyway! The blue garbage can had to go (yes, I now possess a fashionable yellow one, who could imagine that?) and I managed to purchase a 1-euro-folding table at ebay which was kindly installed by a very dear friend (total cost of the project: 11 euros - had to pay the shipping, too.
And finally some eye candy for my non-existenst readers: a teeny tiny pet store I discovered at a flea market in Hamburg. I recall paying 2 euros for two houses. They are made in England and too die for.
Well, I guess that's it for today, see none of you ( there's no one here anyway, right?) later!
Dienstag, 25. August 2009
More fleamarket finds
I need a break so badly! Somewhere in the world there are women busying themselves inventing a yummy dinner for their hubby and pulling scrapbooks together. Well... Not the case here.
Tonight there're more fleamarket finds to adore.
I found this beauty in an old paper box full of 50 cent garbage. It's handmade in Greece.
Here it is, enjoying its second life. (I absolutely HATE the wallpaper. Can't wait to get into a place with plain walls in need of some lovely paint).
This bat-marked treasure cost me 3 euros. I couldn't believe my luck! There are many lamps like this to be found at German flea markets - in all possible colours.
Yet another proof of my tiny-bottle-fetish. This baby cost me 50 cent - and it looks so unique compared to the mass Ikea bottles with a terrible plastic cork.
The peppers come from my MOST favourite Turkish store round the corner. NB: you shouldn't keep olive oil exposed to direct sunlight unless you REALLY need to showcase the bottle it's in.
The final pic for today: my flower-pot-to-be:
You got it all right! 50 cent!
Tonight there're more fleamarket finds to adore.
I found this beauty in an old paper box full of 50 cent garbage. It's handmade in Greece.
Here it is, enjoying its second life. (I absolutely HATE the wallpaper. Can't wait to get into a place with plain walls in need of some lovely paint).
This bat-marked treasure cost me 3 euros. I couldn't believe my luck! There are many lamps like this to be found at German flea markets - in all possible colours.
Yet another proof of my tiny-bottle-fetish. This baby cost me 50 cent - and it looks so unique compared to the mass Ikea bottles with a terrible plastic cork.
The peppers come from my MOST favourite Turkish store round the corner. NB: you shouldn't keep olive oil exposed to direct sunlight unless you REALLY need to showcase the bottle it's in.
The final pic for today: my flower-pot-to-be:
You got it all right! 50 cent!
Sonntag, 23. August 2009
Ghost of the Flea
I finally made myself take some pictures!
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours at the Langenhagen flea market. The place is huge and a visit without a thick layer of spf and your own coffee flask is highly non-reccomended (it got REALLY hot and the coffee was sensationally BAD).
And this is what came home with me yesterday (apart from some pimp-my-bike thingies like a basket and a bell that cost €4 together and that still need to be fastened)
The biggest highlight of them all. I fell in love at once. Imagine some fancy shabby chic online store selling this cuteness for €49,99 :) I got it for 5! (pls dont pay attention to the spots on my kitchen table, it really needs to be sanded and lacquered)
It's time to admit it. I have a tin fetish. This one is going to hold my baking supplies (although I virtually never bake).
The lid view. Isn't it just beautiful? 50 cent (no hip hop allusions here!)
I also have a clear tiny-bottle-fetish. When I grow up and have a kitchen larger than 2,5 square metres, I'll have loads of shelves to exhibit my passion (filled with all kinds of olive oil).
€ 2,50 for three.
This glass is shabby chic pure. It says "Le Parfait super" and I still have no clue what to fill it with as I don't eat any sugary stuff.
That is probably one of my most grown-up purchases ever. A silver cutlery set from Solingen (50 pieces). I happily invested € 17 and can get rid of my ugly IKEA cutlery (worn out plastic blue handles, brrr) now.
The shells were for free. Oh yeah, and have I mentioned I have a shell fetish, too?
I'll be uploading part II today with some older, wonderful flea market finds and right now I'll be heading to the garden to get some work done (on Sunday, yes).
And this is what came home with me yesterday (apart from some pimp-my-bike thingies like a basket and a bell that cost €4 together and that still need to be fastened)
The biggest highlight of them all. I fell in love at once. Imagine some fancy shabby chic online store selling this cuteness for €49,99 :) I got it for 5! (pls dont pay attention to the spots on my kitchen table, it really needs to be sanded and lacquered)
It's time to admit it. I have a tin fetish. This one is going to hold my baking supplies (although I virtually never bake).
The lid view. Isn't it just beautiful? 50 cent (no hip hop allusions here!)
I also have a clear tiny-bottle-fetish. When I grow up and have a kitchen larger than 2,5 square metres, I'll have loads of shelves to exhibit my passion (filled with all kinds of olive oil).
€ 2,50 for three.
This glass is shabby chic pure. It says "Le Parfait super" and I still have no clue what to fill it with as I don't eat any sugary stuff.
That is probably one of my most grown-up purchases ever. A silver cutlery set from Solingen (50 pieces). I happily invested € 17 and can get rid of my ugly IKEA cutlery (worn out plastic blue handles, brrr) now.
The shells were for free. Oh yeah, and have I mentioned I have a shell fetish, too?
I'll be uploading part II today with some older, wonderful flea market finds and right now I'll be heading to the garden to get some work done (on Sunday, yes).
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