Beautiful signage at Dick Smith Foods General Store

I've found some lovely in store signage with black & white vintage theme, these explain the core values at the new Dick Smith Foods General Store the message conveys to customers his ideals.

Its going to be a white and black Christmas

A collection of eclectic furniture pieces from the 1930's that have been placed in an inspired set of interiors.

Enjoy your sunday.

Natural Curiosities from Under The Sea

Following my passion for antiquities and old illustrations I have combined the two and created a range of prints. I managed to source a wonderful tattered old encyclopedia from 1877. The leather covers are long gone though the pages are perfect, still edged in gilt and full of the patina that marks their longevity, I came up with these.

From the Arctic region and quite a rare creature is the Narwhal, characterised by its one long spindle tusk. 

The detail shown in the red coral illustration is wonderfully contrasted with the fine letterset of the  antique encyclopedia page. 

An unusual jelly fish magestically displayed. These under sea curiosities are a fascination of mine. Their delicate form and appearance have great appeal to me.

King of the deep sea fish kingdom is the Blue Marlin. And of course, many a cigar shell gets washed up on the sea shore, here's the family portrait!

You can find these at www.empressionista.etsy.com and www.madeit.com.au/empressionista plus a new shop of mine called www.downthatlittlelane.com.au/empressionista

Enjoy your Friday.

Christmas Sale on at Empressionista

Hi everyone

I have a sale on the Natural Curiosities Art Prints on Antique Encyclopedia pages at $12 each at my Empressionista shop on etsy, so if you're after great nautical christmas ideas - look no further for Under The Sea prints for family and friends.

I've also selected a few Christmas treasuries that were full of the joys of Noel.

If you'd like to look for Christmas ideas via the treasuries type in www.etsy.com/treasuries and you'll find a whole ream of them. Beautifully curated by members  the world over.

Enjoy these Christmas treasuries from etsy. 

To visit any of the sellers just type in www.theirnamehere.etsy.com

Finders Keepers Market continued

I was going to put some images up of the Bondi to Bronte Ocean Swim Mr Empressionista took part in this Sunday, which was over a distance of 2km from our most famous city beach to Bronte two cliffs and beaches south of Bondi.

The event received 2000 participants of different ages from 15 upwards, the ceiling being 60. As the race started so did the wind, a Southerly, known for bring down the temperature on a hot summer's day by 10 degrees.

Who knew it would bring down the sea temperature too. Churning up 2 metre waves into the paths of the swimmers, they made gallant progress past all the bouys toward their final bouy 50 metres off the beach at Bronte. 

Flanked by surf life saving paddle boarders and wrc's who keep an eye on the progress of the swimmers, the world famous life savers from Bondi Rescue, seen on channel 10, were actively on duty. 

Sun turned to cloud, and in turn to grey storm clouds and thunder, the wind howled causing a brisk clifftop walk to turn into an obstacle course with flying debris and sand blasting into your eyes.  

Perish the thought of being in the water. Apparently, when it's a paddle board race from A to B if the wind is in the face of the competitors, they turn the course direction around. Not in this case. All swimmers faced raging wind and swell coming straight at them.

Mr Empressionista, bless his cotton budgie smugglers, did what nearly every other gent did, and that was plough on through rough waters, til the sand shores of Bronte were visible through his Zoggs.

Told by a surf lifesaver paddle boarder to rest a while by holding the side of the surf craft, Mr Empressionista decided to continue on, so close to shore. Fighting leg cramp and functionless arms, his arm went up and before he knew it, he was hauled into a boat and delivered to the surf club, wrapped in a thermal blanket, prostate upon a stretcher.

Having experienced the above, of his own volition, he now had to be treated for hypothermia. It took an hour or more to raise his body temperature from 32 degrees (89.6 Fahrenheit) back to 37.5 degrees celsius (98.6 fahrenheit). So there are no photos of this event. 

Enjoy the Finders Keepers market.

Finders Keepers Market at Carriageworks, Sydney

I had a full and wonderful afternoon at Finder keepers Market this Saturday. For me it was pure indulgence seeing all these talented crafters and their wares.

Polli create some wildly fun laser cut brooches, you can find them here

More fascinations from Finders Keepers to follow tomorrow.

Have yourselves a lovely weekend.

Bexpert from Etsy Australia at Finders Keepers Sydney

Hi Everyone

I am delighted to let you all know that I have been chosen to have my Code Flags shown on behalf of Etsy Australia at the Finders Keepers market at Carriageworks in Eveleigh this Friday 2nd December for the night market and Saturday 3rd December.

I'm giving away sew-on / iron-on mini code flag patches on my cards if you're there pick up some and hand them out to your friends. Come visit my sites for info on prints you may like as Christmas pressies. They're ideal for "office colleagues" and "hard to buy for" family and friends.

Make sure you visit stand B3 near the cafe to view the Etsy Australia collection and say hi to Kirsteene from Melbourne who'll be there looking after the show.

So don't forget to head on over to the market tomorrow night and Saturday to Eveleigh at Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, for a market full of homewares, unique, quirky art and design, fashion, great live music and sensational food. 

Have a great time and see you there on Saturday.