In October 2006 these beautiful monstrosities invaded Boat Quay and Orchard pedestrian mall.
They've all left us and gone home or to visit other countries.
Pity they didn't leave at least one behind.
Space Elephant (left)
Surrealist Piano (bottom left)
Alice in Wonderland (bottom right)
Profile of Time (above left)
Space Venus (above right)
Unicorn (bottom left)
Surrealist Piano (bottom right)
Woman Alfame (above left)
Horse saddled with Time (bottom left)
Dali in Singapore
On the windowsills
That's a toadstool (mushroom or fungus if you prefer) with a little container into which Penny's plonked some Eucalypt fruits and some fuzzy stuff.
Those in the photos below are worms. Nice and earthy brown, with blue eyes.
Please click here to see house in Perth.
Lots more stuff in the living room and balcony
Not a big deal, this wall, or photo - just snapping lots of pics.
The old oil lamp and inca idol from Perth and Mexican exhibit at Epcot Centre respectively were located to deny Leia's rabbits when free-roaming access to rear of furniture where they chew on AV cables and wires.
The old Panasonic, still in excellent condition after >10 years , is standing its ground against replacement by an LCD tv.
Anyhow, I don't want anything smaller than this (50") and I find that the new wide screens distort images into short and fat ones.
That's a whole menagerie of dragons from UK, US, NZ and Oz.
Half a wall of papertole in frames.
Leia did a couple of miniature Anton Peck's.
The huge one was made from fantasy posters while the long ones (one is partly cut off) were from postcards (of the Oz tropical forests).
If you click to enalrge the pic, you can also see one made from a set of bookmarks.
Three doors to storage under the stairs.
There are 6 animals in this photo (left) - dog, frog, cat, tortoise, elephant and a dinosaur!
Cat bought at a garage sale for $2 in Perth the dog from Covent Garden, London and the dinosaur from a shop in Tanjong Katong Shopping Centre.
This is a view of a part of the balcony which gets the western sun and with the added windows and roof-over , is pretty hot in the daytime.
Loads of stuff in photo, including more of the little dinosaurs.
That dragon urn is being fed with aircon condensate via the red coloured hose. Water for our potted plants.
There are a few critters on the window sill.
A witch and a castle. Not clear. Will add additional photos in future.
The dinosaurs - 6 in the red ceramic ashtry in a fishbowl, and 2 in a hug.
Kitchen
A 'modernised' country kitchen. We cook with bottled gas as there's no piped gas in our block. It's safer with bottled gas, I think. You'll never have a gas-filled kitchen as there's only so much in the bottle, and if you leave windows opened a bit.
That's one of the five coffee shop tables in the house. And one of the six coffee shop chairs. Got that honey tin (above exhaust hood) from the first train stop on the line from Straun to Queenstown, Tasmania. You could buy it filled or empty.
That cup (on table) with the MND letters is 16 years old.
The peppers poster in the second photo exactly covered the service door to the pipes in the fake column.
How you like the chook on straw behind netting piece? It was a very satisfying morning's work with odds and ends. Bought only the netting. From Bunnings.
Come on in
The downstairs room just off the left side of the entrance 'hall', with 3 huge panel-backed posters of Rosemary (the mouse, of course!)
There's a small papertole (not in photo) of her on the opposite of the room.
That's a country buffet cupboard full of items collected from garage sales and flea market visits.
The living room is beyond those "ping-pahng" or saloon doors (above left) carted all the way 40 years ago from a Wife's uncle's house in Penang.
The next photo (above right) was taken from the living room side of those swing doors. See the little cupboard against wall? Still waiting its distressed paint job from Penny.
Among the stuff sitting on it is a cabbage patch doll bought for $12 at a Perth flea mart.
Here's a close-up shot (left), but it's more fun to click on photo above and zoom in and search.
That's (above right) a longish papertole hanging centrally on the wall. It was made from 4 kids' height measuring posters (they're very narrow pictures).
The shot of an enlarged bit (left) doesn't do the tole justice, as it was one of my better pieces of work.
A wall-full of papertole (left).
The clock's not one of them.
Open sesame!
Front door of uneven panels with a little grass house wind chime from Shirakawago, Japan.
The gate of curly twirls and a few flowers is in metallic pink, yup.
House number is a composition of painted tiles bought in Perth, set in a photo frame sans glass.
That's a rustic shoe polish box at the foot of the closed panel of the door. Got it at a garage sale in Perth.
More of the garden
Close-up of cover plant that had nice red flowers. It grows without any effort on our part. Looks very nice in the mornings when wet with dew.
Garden panorama
This is a number of shots merged together. It looks terribly small here, doesn't it?
So click on it and see it as it should be seen!
Junk and Rose
Right there in front of the garden shed, those two white structures, one resting on the other. Two potted plant 'surrounds' or 'enclosures'. You place potted plants within them so the pots are not seen.
Picked them from the lot left outside by neighbour Kate Sorenstam for removal by council. Sold them a year later for $1 each at our garage sale.
That rose (below) was a potted 'standard' outside the lounge patio.
The steps were paving slabs discarded by a new resident in the neighbourhood.
looking good
The garden bench was cemented to some hardcore and was too much trouble to be brought down to new ground level and so the floral bed had to incorporate it as is.
Gave rise to the need for some 'stepping up' from pea gravel path implemented with discarded remnant narrow long bricks from a new house being constructed nearby.
That's a letterbox, not a birdhouse.
Those three grasstrees were salvaged from a lot where a new house was being built. Sadly they didn't make it.
That framework guard was another something we picked up.
See that Frangipani cutting from Vincent's house two streets away in same estate? Actually, it was an overhanging branch from his neighbour's tree.
All in, we derived three nice cuttings from the pruning of those overhanging branches.
All three established successfully in a few weeks.
That long bendy stalk-like skinny thing just behind the tin watering can is an inflorescence of one of the succulents in the groundbed.
That circular cobblestone feature cost $110. Consisted of quadrants of cobblestones on string mat to facilitate laying out. Needed minor adjustments to get the size to suit site, leaving some spares. We planted multicoloured Portulaca in the central space. And filled gaps with very small sized (really 'pea-sized') pea gravel.
Notice those two pot surrounds in the bed behind? We planted two Woolly Bushes in that bed.
The freshly laid paved area in the backyard with spaces filled with gravel. Weeds came up out of those gaps but were easily plucked out or sprayed with Zero weedkiller. Not a problem.
The boardwalk material was treated and varnished hardwood remnants from construction of a staircase in a neighbouring lot. Real heavy stuff, almost broke my back lugging them. This boaedwalk is at the rear of the house. Those lallang-like leaves are from one of the few varieties of Kangaroo's Paws. This one had yellow flowers. Nearside bed was Penny's herb plot.
See the new anaks growing from the succulent 'leaflets' ?
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