I love my trash and tresh, I dress in more layers of polar fleece than is seemly for a newly minted public servant. I have my struggle outside the donut van with its smell of hot cinnamon and rancid cooking oil. Should I add to the spare tyre or should I stride self-righteously past? Mostly I'm dusting the cinnamon off my fingers as I drop my coins in the donations box. Then there are my favourites like the chook man who croons to his flock and couldn't give a stuff if he sold one or not, the cheeky Thai women who sell chemical free treasures from their community garden allotment and my button lady whose button drawer is bottomless.
Sunday wasn't a red letter day but I didn't leave without a few jewels in my empty donut bag. Those buttons up there had just been sewn carefully into their cardboard when I snapped them up and those Wodehouse down there are part of my IOU to that lovely secondhand bookseller I told you about. Hope you're having a super week. xxxx
My spare tyre seems to be growing.
Love those buttons x
Posted by: Kate | May 26, 2011 at 08:35 PM
I know the button lady - she also makes beautiful quilts! Nice haul you have there.
I really need to get back to the trash and treas one of these days - I used to live only 5 minute's walk away.
Posted by: Michelle | May 26, 2011 at 09:09 PM
I love your trash and treasure posts although they always make me a bit toey and slightly agitated that I am missing out. I remember frosty cold Sunday mornings and the doughnut van!! Thanks
Posted by: sarah | May 27, 2011 at 01:14 AM
oh my!!! i LOVE your trash.... those buttons are so lovely, i could eat them :)
Posted by: Z | May 27, 2011 at 08:05 PM
Oh lovely buttons! Buttons are always super treasure to find.
I want to know more about this trash and treasure market. I am heading down to Canberra in July and would love to spend some time searching for goodies. I have been reading your Canberra guide but I don't think you mentioned any details?
Posted by: ingrid | June 01, 2011 at 08:12 PM
Is that Jammo Markets? They were probably my favourite place when I resided in the Can.
Posted by: Anna | June 03, 2011 at 08:05 AM
ohhhh nice buttons! I grew up in canberra and I have to laugh because I've been in sydney too long - when I came down to do a market there was definitely less of a dresscode compared to my sydney markets! but it was so much colder that if I had to live there again I'd probably dress up in fleece too:)
love the pink floral ones!
Corrie;)
Posted by: corrie | June 25, 2011 at 08:30 PM
I'm a sucker for Penguin Classics. Good find.
Posted by: Ro | August 02, 2011 at 03:33 PM