Follow my highs and lows of a small business, working with junk, repurposing, and creating original treasures!
Im a Visual Merchandiser, Interior Designer, Junk Artist, Collector, and Daydreamer!
My studio is filled with many old and new, shabby and chic, antique and vintage, one-of-a-kind items....
My life, and my home are much the same, 'cluttered and fabulous'!
Come and Browse....

21.5.07

REALITY HURTS....so good!!

My daughter has hit a nerve.....reality hurts! When it is just between close friends and family, then its not that bad, it is kind of acceptable...but when my kids involve their friends, it is just down right shocking!!!
They have come to her with concern for my health, they think I have a problem with hoarding, and she tends to agree. I laughed when she told me, they hadnt even entered the house at that point, that crazy observation was on the front verandah!!
But after lying in bed for a couple of hours, stewing on hers, and their words, I think they could be right.
I have been ignorant to the mess, no, the tip we have been living amongst for (at its worst) 2 years! Our $20,000 verandah we had built has never seen the light of day, I filled it to the brim the day it was finished...that is just the back verandah! Need I go on??
Today is the first day of my cleansing diet, the thinning down of junk and the like!
Keep an eye on my ebay store, Junkstudio on Karabah, you will be seeing many auctions over the next few weeks .I thankyou for your support.....

10.5.07

I CANT live without my junk!!







I no sooner sell some things, convincing myself it is for my own good and I have had the pleasure of owning them for a while, and now it is someone elses' turn..... and then before I know it, I have replaced them with something else!!

So why is that??

After moving house a while ago, there wasnt room to unpack some boxes until renovations had finished.Two years later, I was ready to open them, it felt like christmas!! But my friend told me to just throw it all away, I obviously didnt need it, or miss it, I didnt even know what was in there!

But curiosity got the better of me and I just had to know, so I opened the boxes, and would you believe I had replaced just about everything that was in those boxes!! They were full of kitchenalia, dust collectors, my husband would say....

I just cant live without it, all of my collections, they are 'me'!

(I feel so many of you smiling right now,Im not alone!)