Last weekend while out shopping with Chickie Little and our significant others we came across a wonderful place. A place full of trinkets, organised just enough that you can find what you’re looking for, a place where the price is right. An emporium so full of wonder it exclaims that there is something for everyone inside. We all scoffed and bet that The Boy wouldn’t find anything, but we were wrong (he bought some wheels)!

This magical place is Pete’s Emporium, in Porirua, about 20 minutes north of Wellington City.

It’s a little known fact that emporiums are one of my favourite places in the world. A favourite shopping destination second only to supermarkets (food emporiums if you will). I can shop for hours, sorting through the junk and inspecting the treasures, deciding how many of each brightly coloured button I’ll choose.

I ended up getting a few brightly coloured treasures for my jewellery making, including some pink and blue bunches of grapes. After much wrestling I managed to turn one pair of each colour into earrings. Get them in pink or blue in the shop now. :] The hooks are sterling silver so your ears stay pretty.

New regular post. :D In Indie Finds I’ll be listing some of my favourite finds from independent artists and crafters.
First up is a collection of pony finds. I love My Little Ponies, and have mini collection on one of my desks at work.
Ponies are always portrayed as nothing less than adorable. Just look as these cute finds…

1. Sterling Silver Horse Ring – monkeeboo $40 USD
2. Wild Pony Wire Earrings – WildPonyBrand $20 USD
3. Pink Pony Card – Imaginart $3 USD
4. Funky Junq Recycled Aluminum Soda Pop Can Art MAGNET COCA COLA HORSE COKE – FunkyRecycling

1. Ninja custom my little pony – fugsly $57 USD
2. My Little Alien – Mari Kasurinen
3. Push me Pull me custom my little pony – fugsly $55 USD
4. My Little Edward Scissorhand – Mari Kasurinen

1. Bloo Pony – Starrby $20 USD
2. The Lampwork Pony Bead – dianadear $28 USD
3. Cotton Candy Horse PDF Pattern – djonesgirlz $6 USD
4. RAEWADOLLY Amigurumi Pony, Okie Pokie Dokie – raewadolly $18.99 USD

Another absolute favourite is the My Little Pony Underbust Garter Corset – sweatshopbytiqcom $119.99 USD. Photo NSFW.

One of the “new me” outfits I purchased this weekend just gone.  The shopping trip was great, we spent from about 12.30pm till 5.30 pm at the mall in Lower Hutt scouring the chain stores and managed to score some good sale items.

I am particularly in love with my new check dress from Portmans. I’ve had my eye on it for a while so when I saw that it was $50 off I was stoked. It’s sleeveless and has a huge skirt that is able to be held up to my sides making a semi circle. It’s polyester and reminds me of raincoat material so it holds shapes really well and swooshes when I walk. It’s awesome. But you’ll have to wait for another day to see it.

There is still a lot more shopping to be done, I hope that the city, and in particular Cuba St, will hold some cute stuff. I see a lot more skirts in my future.

What I’m wearing

• Crazy eyes – Courtesy of my mother
• Knobbly knees – Courtesy of my mother
• White skin – Courtesy of my mother
• Black shirt dress – Jacqui E
  I plan on changing the buttons on this dress to something more eye catching. Don’t count on it happening anytime soon though.
• Pink belt – Supre
• Black knee high socks with lace detail – Farmers
• Sneakers – Babycham

As always you can click on the photos to see just how much the wind storm messed my hair.