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I'm an artist and designer living in rural Australia, volunteering at the local heritage museum, where I find inspiration for my work. I'm preparing to move back to the city which means a purging of the retro and vintage I've gathered over the years.

retro, vintage, mid-century, Danish, funky, old, 80s, nostalgic, elegant, shabby chic, old-fashioned, second-hand, obsolete, kitsch, awesome, rad, cute junk. China, kitchenware, jewellery, ephemera, books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records, clothing, accessories, pop culture, magazines, weird stuff.

antiques, Deco, Depression, Victorian, era, fabrics, dirty, worn, faded, rusted, chipped, foxed, crazed, rotted, distressed junk. Buttons, purses, jewellery, paper ephemera, keys, boxes, tins

scissors, keys, Union Jack, rusty tins, stars, rabbits, numbers, letters, ephemera, antique buttons

English

art, junk searching, writing fantasy novels, local history, photography, fashion, interior design, eco politics, self-sustainable living, playing the guitar, Geoffrey Rush, eating!

Wind in the Willows, Harry Potter, Elidor, Over Sea Under Stone, The ghost of Thomas Kempe; really anything by Peter Ackroyd, Brian Froud, Alan Garner, Penelope Lively or Susan Cooper.

Ghostbusters, The Goonies, The Wizard of Speed and Time, Willow, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Mystery Men, Quills, Big Trouble in Little China, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, School of Rock.

Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennitt, Bjork, early Tori Amos, Steve Miller band, Joan Baez, Wendy Rule, Joze Gonzalez, The Be Good Tanyas, The Old Crow Medicine Show, The Gourds, Ben Harper.

The Goodies, Red Dwarf, Antiques Roadshow, Time Team, Chaser, Spicks and Specks, Changing Rooms, Absolutely Fabulous, Maid Marian and her Merry Men- anything British really, and anything not a reality show, except maybe Wife Swap, that's hilarious!