Arts Addict

  Here are items that I have found thrifting in January. All from different charity shops on random days I have popped in there. Last post in this blog I said that I am going to thrift in Italy. Yes, I was in Italy and what amazing trip it was. One of my dream came true by visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum ancient towns, also different museums, exhibitions etc. From thrifting front I only found one charity shop were I popped in. I bought three necklaces from there what you see on photo, all chosen because I like glass bead necklaces and all these have aurora borealis coating that makes them sparkle. Bling-bling! I did look up few other thrift shops in Napoli from Google maps but they turned out to be too out of my trajectory. Oh well...you cant do it all. I think this brass and enamel container set find is pretty special.  Super decorative. I see similar for sale on Etsy and Ebay. Someone wrote that these are from India.  Maybe British India? I could not resist this cute b...

I still in disbelief that I found three original art pieces last weekend. You can go to charity shops for months and all there is in art section are prints. Rest of the items in photo I picked up in different charity shops in the middle of this week.   Look at these! Jaguar painting is done with oil pastels and Tiger is a linocut print.  A lot of effort has been put to both of these and they have been mounted same way and also signed on the back. Handwriting is same on both. Although signature on on both of the artworks is under the sticky tape that holds mount in place...tried to remove it but it starts to rip into the paper of artwork. I think I only deciphered first name of the artist. Emily. Sadly I cant read out what the artist last name is.  But they are both so good! I am over the moon. This is ink and watercolor painting by Joe O'Reilly, depicting Ephesus Library in Turkey and signed 1998. I am almost 100% that its original. When to zoom into the picture...pixels...