It is so much fun shopping toys second hand. It is a lot cheaper and a lot more cool looking in my opinion.

Well… we do have some Easter deco in our house, not much but some.  And the house is getting ready for a warmer and sunnier season.

As soon as the small flowers start popping up Viola starts to pluck teeny tiny bouquets of flowers. I am so happy I have a lot of small vases, they are common at the local flea market.

New PJ´s. Looks like something Jem from Jem and the Holograms would wear. Impossible to resist.

I bought a new picnic basket. It a cooler from the 70´s.

Just in time for Easter I got the portrait of Viola made by Anna Ileby, a Swedish illustrator. You can order your own portrait from her. Visit her blog here!

Feathers for Easter.

And I am liking my new egg cups. All Swedish vintage. And look the vase works as an egg holder as well.

Since we are talking toys..   I thought I would show you some of my sister-in-law´s dollhouse furniture.

I photographed them a while back but I still like them. I think I am going to enlarge the kitchen-one and hang it in my kitchen.

I got a package today. From reader Nicole Rieser. And I am loving the content. 3 Big Jim dolls and a lot of accessories. Her husband Mark used to play a lot with them, but they have been stowed away for a long time and the couple felt the Jims would be better off in our house. I don´t now who will play with them the most: Me, Viola or Jens?

Mark and his brother made a lot of the outfits themselves. I am impressed.

Thank you so much!!

I got this challenge from The Swedish Retro -blog retronu.blogg.se

It was originally a challenge for my other blog Sammy Rose, but I decided I wanted to show it here instead.

“Post your 5 best fleamarket-finds ”

Even though the rules were simple I couldn’t stick with them. Because I have been up with my newborn baby Frank all night I decided to make it a bit easier for me, so I will show you only 3 finds instead.

Here goes:

1. I found this “Girl with Puppy” picture at a Antique Mall in Lincoln Nebraska. Both me and Jens fell for her and packed her in our suitcase with us back home to Sweden. I love to buy framed pictures as travel memorabilia.

2. … and we have many times. Like this other great find. A photo from the  “Gen´l Federation Women´s Clubs”. June 2-6 1958. Detroit. We found this at a Salvation Army, also in Nebraska, after several hours of walking. It was really to hot and to humid for a walk that day, but this find made it all worthwhile.

After playing “Where is Waldo” in the search for a man in the picture we have found TWO of them. One sitting at a table and one butler.

3. There is a local Flea market that I visit here a lot. It is located at the harbor of Ystad and the lady who owns it is a robust Polish lady with very high prices.  But since I am there a lot she kind of likes me and once she was in a really good mood and let me have these chairs almost for free. I think that she thought they were really ugly. But I love them.