treasures from the fair...

Rotary book fair

winter edition

and my eyes are tuning in for a different booky treasure

(I'm no longer chasing the sets of encyclopaedias
that formed the base material of my MFA project work
hey ya'll - I still have a shed worth left!)

Now my eye is being drawn toward the less likely looking creatures
and it takes me a while to check through a book stacks

peeling off musty dust jackets to see what's underneath
(sometimes the least promising titles yield the BEST hard covers

check this out

underneath this...

is this...

 and this dust jacket...

 is hiding this sweet printed design...

behind this rather unpromising dust jacket ...

 

is this embossed treasure...

 

(who'dda thunk it!)

My favourite find of today however was this rather unpromising creature...

just check out the printed design on the covers will you!

too cool for school!

soooooooooo - are you thinking what I'm thinking?

that's right

wouldn't every single one of these unwanted tomes

make stunning new covers for 

REMADE journals from RECLAIMED books

(wellllllll - that's the plan - I can't wait to rip into that ratty copy of 'Aussie English'!)

stay tuned for the results

Also at the fair....

retro word games

has anyone heard of TUF-ABET?

inside the box are oodles of coloured letter cubes...

or how about scrabble anagram?

with piles of letter tiles...

 

mmmm mmmmm mmmmm

I don't know what will become of these
but there was *no way* I could leave them on the table wot!

 all in all I call it a good day out


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book fair (summer edition)

Rotary book fair

(I love book fairs!)

Bega's book fair is far more chaotic 

(and subsequesntly more charismatic and charming)

than many of the BIG affairs 

and the folk are used to me

"Hey Ronnie you've got to see the box at the back - 

its sooooo YOU!

(yep - it was)

 (I can't resist a box of encyclopaedias.... and while I like all encyclopaedias 

I must admit to having an ongoing Brittanica crush...)

After I have secured all the encyclopaedias in the hall 

in what you can only call a one-girl-encyclo-tornado

my beady book-eyes start to seek out other booky treasures...

oooooo look - a box of similiar sized somethings 

with curiously attractive mottled page edges...

 something with the word 'art' in the title...

a curious book cover...

 mmmm pretty pages.....

 

oooo looky a whole pile of books on BIRDS

 

yep I'll take the lot!

 ahhh then we turn out attention to the eternal problems-

how many books can my car hold before it breaks?.... 

and how many more books can I squeeze into my sheds 

before they simply BURST?!

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