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Heavens! Bells....., not hells.

Posted by gem, 5th December 2009
This is Lola Bell, and her mother, Mother Bell. She looks like a Lola to me, and I'm sure there are no arguements that she is definietly a Mother Bell.



Isn't she pretty and sweet. I adopted them both from a secondhand store in Woodville.

I'm going to start collecting bells. Then maybe after I have many bells, I can attempt to do what this guy can do! Isn't he clever.

 

 

 

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This discovery originated from my recent obsession to find a simple gold locket necklace.

I have been browsing around secondhand stores for months, but the closest I got to the gold locket was one that had  'Love Peter' engraved on the front. Decided that I didn't want to sport something that obviously was bought with adoration for another....that would be a bit strange.... On one of these secondhand locket finding missions I came across miniture perfume... Read more
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Reminisce - Russian Dolls

Posted by gem, 17th August 2009
Recently I was stuck for a present idea for a friend of mine who just got engaged to a Russian man (pronounced moozh-chee-na, just a bit of random information for you). Through a bit of friend on friend brainstorming we remembered Russian Dolls aka Matryoshka Dolls, or, Nesting Dolls.



These wee guys I found on Trade me ( please don't go out bidding me, that... Read more
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