On Saturday, I was out all day at the Home Festival here in Brisbane to show my Altered Book and an artistic view of what my book collection meant to me. Well, the day went off well! The weather was perfect with blue skies, the sun out nice and bright and a gorgeous cool sea breeze to keep the whole day from keeping us from getting too hot.
The stalls were varied from organic foods to doing your own screen-printing to second-hand books (which I didn't seen until the end of the day). But there was a jumble sale near our Pop-Up Museum which I had a look at with my niece, Riley, and I found myself a first edition of a poetry book by Helen Steiner Rice which was printed in 1968; and I paid only $2.00 for it! What a lovely little book it is!
And to add to my collection, one of my friends and artists - Doug Cartwright - found a 5-book set of gothic romance for me for $5.00. He told me that when he saw it he knew it was very much me. So, he bought it for me. How cool is that? I was so happy to see it as I've been eyeing it off at QBD and can't afford the $30 price tag attached to it; and now I've got it for so much less!
I found other things at the jumble sale - but they weren't books - to add to my other collections and they really made my day. So, what have you found at jumble or garage or yard sales recently that you thought was a great find recently? Was it found at a big festival - like mine was - or at a local market? Do tell. Until my next post, happy reading! 
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