a trip to wigan and a charity shop origami book

Here are some scans from a book I picked up in a charity shop called Good Samaritans in Wigan. I think it's an origami book and the illustrations are super duper cute. The rest of the shop was pretty rubbish but I was drawn to this book and got it for 25p.
I actually had a surprisingly good day when I went to Wigan! Checked out "Cassette Store Day" at Static Records which is lovely and full of nice people. I got 2 tapes but haven't listened to them yet. I rummaged around the charity shops for a few hours and found one shop where all the clothes were £1! I got a black H&M mini skirt and a blazer, and a cute cushion cover for £2.50 in total. I got Lilo and Stitch for my sister on DVD and cried like a baby when we watched it. Then I had lunch at a cute veggie cafe called The Coven - I had Chinese vegetable fritters and noodles. Yum yum. I aso had a look in the 'normal' shops and got a tartan skirt in H&M and some earrings with horses on in the Topshop sale.

 

 

 

Russian Animal Jigsaw

Picked this jisgaw up from the St Rocco's charity shop in Warrington a few days ago for 25p, it was too cute not to! can't find any information about it because I can't read the box but maybe someone else will give me some insight. These images came inside as a guide for the jigsaw which is made of small blocks each with different images on the sides. Unfortunately the actual blocks arent in as lovely condition as these. I would like to turn these into something but I don't know what.

The end of International Zine Month and what zines mean to me

So today is the last day of International Zine Month and I am feeling pretty guilty about my lack of participation after my initial burst of interest in 24 Hour Zine Thing, and then going on holiday for 2 weeks without giving it a second thought. So now I am making up for this by writing for you about my zine collection, my favourite zines, + the importance of zines to me. Then I need to get back to my very-last-minute 24HZ cos i've only got a few hours left!

i begin to play...

I went out with my dad and granddad today to the garden centre (lol) via St. Roccos shop in Warrington this afternoon. Pretty poor selection for me today, however i found this Polish piano book for 50p and i couldnt resist the illustrations and bought it. The songs are by Feliks Rybicki and the art is by Janusz Bruchnalski. I found a bit of information about him here and other examples of his work here and here. I think the book is from the 50's or 60's- the only dates are at the bottom of the songs and they're all late 50's. hope you like 'em.

"living things"

got a bunch of school work books from a car boot sale for a pound, the woman selling them said her friend was "one of them hoarders" and she was helping her out. well she handed them over to another. anyway, i needed to be doing some proper things today but i had "artists block" so i decided to copy this from "beyond the classroom: living things" (1976) to get the creative juices flowing and it took ages but it was fun, i traced the picture first using my iphone as a light box and then painted it with gouache and then inked on top. cool.

1970's german textbook

best bits of a 70's german text book i found in oxfam, crewe, for 99p with excellent pictures - click to see them best..........