How Herr Mann changed his marital status and other fleamarket stories...

Hello everyone,

yesterday I went to a fleamarket but to my disapointment I only hunted down one souvenier brooch. However keeping in mind there was another one in the city today I figure I´d strike gold there instead. Oh how damn right I was!!!!! 

 You probaly saw Herr Mann (left side) in pin up pics of mine before. I once found him on a fleamarket for (I think) 8 or 10 €. He spent at least one year living with me as a bachelor.... Until today. I found those 3 black 50s poodles that I asume to be from the same brand (Herrman, hence Herr Manns name) because they wear the same ribbon. The big one is in very good condition, the small ones have flaws, but for 10 €for the three of them including the basket I couldn´t say no! So meet Herr Mann, Frau Mann (birth name Mademoiselle Femme) and their darling daughters Colette and Paulette.

As if having a bunch of French 50s poodles wouldn´t be enough I found this darling French lecture book for 50 Cent (and now it is once for all settled that I need to do a French-themed shooting including booklet and poodles), a handbag for 7 € (big enough to put a book in + everything else I need), the ABC book for boys AND girls for 1 € each (seruiously... I think a couple shooting with John is underway) and a book on good behaviour for 1 € - finally I can get a read on how to fix stocking seams in public in a appropriate way.

All of the things I got before would be enough to make me absolutely thrilled and cosider this a more than sucessfull fleamarket visit but it goes on.... This set of  1950s snack dishes for ALTOGETHER 2 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) €. I would have happily paid 1-2 € per DISH!

And on the way home we found this huuuuge tuscany themed 50s painting in a faux gold frame for 10€. We still have free space on our bed room wall. Well, not anymore once we put up this one!!!

I have rearely been that lucky and I have rarely spent so much money and got so much for it during one fleamarket visit. And the best thing. It was 5 minute walking distance and so HUGE!!!!!

My beautifull bargains...

 Hello everyone, 

I am a girl and bargain hunter. Well, you know that and as most of you are girls as well you understand my excitement ;-) Everyone else: Patience ;-)

A Lovely US 60s dress in my fave color. I hope it arrives soon and does not get lost!!! 

Cake hairclips by Now Voyager. They were like 6 BP each. I already have one I knew I get something fab and yummy! Can´t wait to shoot with them! 

And I´ve been looking for a sheer blouse forever! Next night out will see me either with a corset or a black bra underneath it! Got it at Orsay for 15 €

And today I found a vintage mirror and brush set with a cute asian scenery on it´s back for only 10€! The brouch on the left was just 2€ and the calendar was prized down from 4,50€ to 4€.

Me happy :-)
Sari

This weekends bargains!

Hello everyone,

my bargains of this weekend!

This is a little 80s number from ebay, however I gonna feel like a vintage gangster darling in it. Where´s Clyde and my pumpgun?

If you want an inexpensive basic shirt with a Peter Pan collar you can find the one above at H&M for 12,95 € at the moment! They had a white version with a black collar, too, but the material was too sheer for my taste. With the black one it´s fine.

blog competition?

Hi everyone,

if I ever hit 100 blog followers I consider doing a competition or something. Would you actually like that?

Iam happy to report that Iam still a good girl spending only 100 € a month on clothes (or at least only take money from things I sold to buy new clothes!). It´s working out well at the moment. Actually Iam under 100 even without considering the clothes I sold! If I have money left of it by the end of the month I will invest in a ration coupon from Able Grable!

http://www.ablegrable.com/page/view/rations-coupons-layaways


New Bargains:




Both of them cost me.... *drumroll* 7 € without shipping!!! The purse will be perfect to go with the skirts I bought from Bittersüß a month ago and the dress will make a cute outfit for work!

Random, but with many pictures :-D

Hi everyone,

this is a random post about my weekend and other stuff :-D

As I feel a bit out of power since the beginning of the week I just went to the mall on Saturday. No tidying up. No hand laundry. no sewing. Just a trip to the mall.

There I got my zipper stuck in a dress so bad that I had to get out ofthe changing room and had to find a saleslady to help me out of this dilemma. I think this is the worst shopping nightmare that can happen to a lady. Despite the fact that I totally lost the drive to try on any more dresses I bought me some cute acessoires on H & M. I LOVE cameos. The fact that they had matching brooches and earings made it even worse...

When I got home I put things on ebay. Check them out cause a lot of it wasn´t even offered on my blog before. I´m open towards international shiping, but contact me on ebay first - you´d have to do that anyway to ask how much the shippings costs. Most things have a 40 inch bust. Exept for the polka dotted and the turqouise dress.
http://shop.ebay.de/gurusari1/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
John said to me that by summer 2011 he wants us to move into a bigger apartment. My nesting mode is activated. I already browsed a book on how to decorate your home from the 50s and I found adorable pictures in a sewing book as well. I share them with you as I find them very inspiring!!! John will star to look for a better paid job, we will start to look for an apartment with 2-3 rooms (this seems like total luxury for me after living on 30 squaremeters for the past 8 years!) and I think about interieur...

In the same book I found colour recommndations for women. Detailed ones! Not like "if you have blond hair you can wear blue." more like "if you have blond hair and your eyes are brown you can wear this and that shade of blue!". It´s in German, but they are a nice guideline I think. Isn´t it weird that guidelines in a book from the 50s are way more detailed than the recommendations that you can read in modern magazines? go figure!