Mikes loves Bill Murray… Bill Murray in ‘Stripes’, ‘Groundhog Day’, ‘Meatballs’, ‘Ghostbusters’ & ‘What About Bob’. We love Bill before he was Cool Bill. We love vintage Bill. In fact today we are spending the afternoon under a blanket watching Bill movies. xx mikes Hurrah!
Bunting, Buggies, Bears and Black Magic!
oh my goodness.. it is nearly christmas! in all the stocking up and confetti-ing and collaging and sparkling… i forgot about christmassing my own house! paper chains would be good i think. and some bunting (!) and some felt stockings to hang on the nonexistant …
Hundreds and Thousands and Tiny Nonsense
Yesterday at Mikes we threw handfuls of 100s and 1000s on the footpath in front of the shop. When people walked past, they heard the teeny tiny crunch.. and they looked down and smiled. It was a good day. I think that the rain washed …
Fisher Price. Turntables. Tape-Decks. Cassettes.
Awww.. i have a lovely Fisher-Price turntable. It is beige and blue and plugs into the power-point via a special adaptor which cost $120 at Dick Smith Electronics… it likes to play lovely old records… it plays them a tiny bit too fast though… it …
Pirates, Ships and Sailors! Molly’s Book! Yay!
Hurrah! Our new book arrived from our lovely eBay seller…. Molly found a beautiful first edition of this book at her favourite Nun-nny op-shop.. which we got to borrow .. but in the end we had to have our own copy… we bought a second-edition …
Hippity Hoppity Hurrah! How can it Be?
Today we hipped and hopped out to the country to see our favourite book man.. he had lots of lovely books for us… and vinyl too! Then we went to our lovely antiques lady.. and she had some pretty fabric, pillowcases, tea-cosies, aprons and even …
We heart Marcel Marlier! Our collection so far!
Marcel Marlier is an amazing Belgian illustrator who illustrated a large number of French childrens books – which were translated into many languages… In France they had ‘Martine Learns to Dance’ etc.. but here… we got ‘Debbie Learns to Dance’ and a whole series about …