Picture Book Interlude

Giveaway is still open! Just leave a comment here, not on this post. Although I'd love some comments in this and any post of course.

So these books are monsters- 12x14"

There's these little index pix that will actually make sweet mini shrines.


And all kinds of things to make resin charms of.

Or use as decoupage?

Or friggin' stick on my wall for chrissakes, they're So Good.

This one is chock-full of little faces that I can make into earring pairs. You always want them facing each other, see?

They're not all religious, these are just the ones that pop on this blerg format, feel me?

I also got these four mini books I already took apart. There were so many books! 

People sell them on the street just like they do all other old things. Tons of tattered book lined up on tables, it's lovely.

Here's some really small images from the mini books.

Of course the books cost just a couple bucks each.

And many would be horrified to see me tear them up, though once they see all the stuff Imna make they'd shut their pie holes.

Of course the reason for these picturesque market scenes is that rents and bills are super high in Uruguay and incomes are stupid low. It's hard to imagine how people survive sometimes. Every year we come upon a street seller who tells us how they were living in the US and had to come back for some family biz and how they're going right back asap, etc. Then they sit back and keep chatting with their neighbor, drinking their maté and just having a chill life, dreaming of going back to shoveling snow in New Jersey ... idk....

Jeebus' eyeballs are too big for his head here.


I got this book about artists following in the steps of Torres Garcia, Uruguay's most famousest artist.

Inside which all kinds of grungy loveliness can be found.

This one isn't for makies, it's just for me to drool over.

And omg- artists in Uruguay are broke as fuck! And there so deserving of, like, not being broke...

Look at this little object from, yeah we're still looking at that same book.

Hello cuteness!

Finally I got this book on contemporary art in Montevideo, the capital.

So much goodness!

Though most of it is not coming across in my pix so ...

Oh I love this one because it makes me think of a rickety old tv among precarious tables and shelves while also looking like a fantastical building. Really just more different kinds of grungy wonderfulness. Why do I love all things grungy so damned much? Because there's none of that here probly.

Oh I also gots new stuff listed...

Ultri Cosmi                                  Joseph and Mary                       Lady

And then a bunch that sold:

I should clearly stick to making shimmery bead pairs of these as they really flew off the shelves. Unlike everything else... Dudes- what am I gonna do with all these billions of medals I got?

SO MANY THEEEENGS (and 3 giveaways!!)

Yes, Jorji I'm bundled up because remember how different hemispheres are in different seasons? So its winter down south!

See it sez "I heart my hood" but my hood is actually:Because the street fair is named Tristan Narvaja after that street. Which is named after some dude. (Who ever remembers who these guys even are that we name so many streets after? Like who the hell was Main anyways? Sorry, that was awful.) (And another thing about my bundling up, even though the temperature is something like 55ºF /13 ºC, there's something called the Frio Humedo- wet cold- that fucking makes your bones cold. It's soooo much colder than it should be and I'll never make fun of Uruguayans for bitching about the cold ever again.)

Enough of my goofy mug.

Even this to' up hanky Imna use for something. 

So much stuuuuf.

So here's yr damned eye candy I've spent all day photoing and editing even tho I have a billion other things I should be doing.

←One of my splurges ($22) because I have no self-control.

I think those are teeny glass drums? And I got 2 of these thin frames that I might cut in half for earrings. 

That bottle upper left was free! It was a bit smushed, easily fixed.

And you can see the edges have come apart. Soder'll fix her right up. Makes me wanna start making little metal bottles, actually.

And here's the little bird, missing a bit of ivory detail that came off the tail. Easy fix.

Hexagonal coins smaller than a dime, for earrings.

I'll certainly pop that gold crap out of that drool-inducing frame.

All these medals...

Happen to have gorgeous backs as well. The one lower right actually is gorgeous because it somehow developed an entire rainbow-titanium finish all by its lonesome, though you can't see it here.

Let's check the details, hm?

I'm in love with the back of this, how they made prongs with some clever cuts.

This artisan-made single earring looks like a bunch of random parts joined- easily unjoined for, you know, random parts.

Someone put a teeny arrow stamping in a figa hand. Squeeee. 

More tiny hexagonal coins for earrings. The coin upper left has this elaborate connector- part of a medal I think. Perfect for a thick cut-tin clasp for a bracelet.

Before we continue with the eye-candy, some bidness. New listings of a zillion things I had waiting for me when I got back:

Faux Ancients                                 Rocket Kids beach glass charm         Krishna beach glass charm

Grungy Virgin                                       Communion                                   Pop Drama

India                                                         Clever                                            Faux Ancients 

Faux Ancients                                   Glimmering Gnome Caps.                Dark Crackle Babies, 

 

Blue Crackle Babies                                Crackle Baby Trio.

This isn't even a third of it. Goddamnit.
So I'm thinking since I'm back I should celebrate with either a giveaway or a shop sale?

Let's start with a giveaway!

I'll make it good- three different prizes. And all y'all who can't afford my stuff, here's your chance.

Found metal and Hebron bead ring with inverted pyrite drop and gold leafed tin. Adjustable.

Hair pins made of all kinds of antique and artisan treasure.

Just leave a comment if you want it.
Really awesome tiny asymmetrical earrings.

All this blogging got me wore out, as Mr. Devices would say. To which I can't stop myself from yelling, "WORN out! It's worn not wore! Were you raised by wolves?" .... Which any linguist would tisk at- he's just displaying local color.
*wanders away still mumbling to self*