Labour Day Thrifts + Weekend After~!

Hey, everyone. It was Labour Day (in most places that aren't the US) a few weeks ago. In our town that often means a brocante (a big flea market) and this year did not disappoint! Here's all the stuff I found, I'll try to mention prices where I can for clarity (just to clarify the kind of prices you might see if you're doing common thrifting in the south of France). I've also picked up a few items during a different day at our local recyclerie. Also, annoying cute frames are back! Sometimes I just feel like slapping them on a photo, forgive me if you hate it.

 The Best Find Of Them All

Yes, I am now a proud owner of a Playstation 2. For 30 euros we were able to pick up a PS 2 with the AV and power cables and a controller. It has some minor issue with the disc reader which I think I can fix. Even if I can't, do not worry for I also bought a Free McBoot card to play games the bottle-of-rum kind of way. It runs amazing and there's a bunch of exclusives we can now get our hands on. After the disappointment with the recent PS4 news I'm not really looking to buy anything past the PS3. So far I've played a little Gran Turismo 4 and it runs like a dream.

CDs

A Cranberries Best Of. I've heard that some people don't like best-of albums but I find them pretty great when I jsut want the hits, or a shuffle style listening session of an artist. It was 1 euro.

Natalie Merchant's Tigerlily. I've been back to listening to Listen To Sassy ans they really trash talk Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs and I'm sure she was sort of obnoxious but I still like her music. Carnival off this album is pretty good. 1 euro.

This album has One Of These Mornings which is a song I recently heard on Miami Vice, the movie. So-so movie with amazing atmosphere and soundtrack, plus I do like Moby's Play and I'm currently in my trip-hop-aligned mood. 1 euro.

I actually think I heard this REM album once but since I have all their early work I think it's time to expand into the rest of their disco. Plus, who can resist the most blurry Gen X Soft Club looking cover of all time? 1 euro.

DVDs/Movies

Hurray, I have the first Scream on DVD at last! And wait, you may say, didn't you just pick up Aliens last week?! Er, yes... but this was a special edition with extras! I also had a funny exchange with the elderly fella selling it. He asks: aren't you scared to watch it? I'm getting mildly annoyed because I assume he's gonna comment how girls are probably easily scared of horror or something Boomer like that. I say: no, I love horror movies. He says: okay, I was too scared to finish it. Hah! Each 1 euro (2 euro total).

My 2nd favourite prequel movie, Revenge of the Sith. Duh! And the Josh Hartnett library continues with Black Hawk Down. 2 euro total.

Epic is such an underrated animated film. Little guys is my fave genre of all time. I wanted to be a small fairy or mermaid or something so bad as a kid. I picked up Avatar at our local thrift store and to be real with you guys, I don't like any of them, not the old one and not the new ones. But my sister really loves re-watching it so I decided to get it for her and it's true, the mechs and other tech in the movie is amazing. To bad it's wasted on the most boring ass story ever. 2 euro total.

For some reason my mum bought me this collector's book of these Star Wars pog looking things. If you collect a bunch you can play a Star Wars checkers type of thing with it. I might do that or repurpose it into a sketchbook because I love the cover. 1 euro.

Jewelry

Technically not thrifted, but my grandma recently sent some things to us via a friend who was travelling to France. She gifted me some of her old pearl earrings and a beautiful necklace with some shimmering little jewel. She was very proud to tell me it's all real silver but I don't even care if it was fake, I love it because I got it from her. 

Fashion

I found three amazing summer-y items and all are 100% cotton. Annoyingly, while they all have materials tag still, the brand tags have all been removed to I have no idea where they are from. Anyway! First, this gradient brown skirt with some sequins. It's so cute and for some reason makes me think of Shakira... 2 euros!

Before that I stumbled onto the cutest summer dress with a brown hibiscus print and a lovely light underlayer. 2 euros.

I picked up the last two items during a different week at the local thrift store. The bag we actually got for free! It's faux leather is incredibly damaged so at first we decided not to buy it, even though the studs look amazing. However, the ladies working there decided to give it to us for free so me and my mum will replace the broken material with a new textile.

This last dress I found is so magical and weird I instantly liked it. The colours remind me of W.I.T.C.H so much it's crazy. It was also 2 euros.

Have you read the comics or watched the cartoon? It was like the coolest cartoon of my childhood. I love all the girls but my fave characters have to be Hay Lin and Irma. Do you have a fave W.I.T.C.H girl?

The pockets looked kind of off to me and they also messed with the shape of the dress a bit when I wore it so I decided to remove them. They were also like 2mm deep...so, useless. Luckily they were not sewn into the inseams and were simple to remove.

And so these were the thrift finds of May so far, there's no brocantes in the near future so I don't think I'll be getting anything until the big brocantes in June or July.

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Witch Hat Volume 15 Pika Collector's Edition + Make~!

Hey everyone. On the 12th of May the new volume of Witch Hat Atelier became available in bookstores! Even better, many bookstores around France hosted mini-events where visitors could get some goodies and do some challenges. Sadly, I was not able to stay for the actual event in Agen as I had stuff to do on the day but I got what I really wanted which was the collector's edition and the dip pen that came as a gift only on that day. 

Here's the collector's edition manga with the inverted sleeve, it also has a box on the back with the collector's edition item and the little container which held the dip pen.

Here's the volume all packed up.

The cover of the manga, both sides.

The collector's edition item: a waterproof-material tote and a small bag in which it goes. Very cute! It does get super scrunched up though.

So, the event promised a little acrylic keyring, a cardboard hat, and a diploma which are very cute goodies but I wasn't too tempted by any of them. I am sad to have missed the event as I'd have loved to meet up with other fans of the manga. But again, I feared that it would be a bunch of kids and me at my big ass age... I would have to jump out the closest door/window in that case.

I did manage to get the item that I actually did want and I was also surprised by how pretty it is. The dip pen!

It's so beautiful... I think I can't even write with it, in case I ruin it or something. I'm just gonna put it near all my other Witch Hat memorabilia and appreciate it like that. It's a cool little rarity.

I did some light make up for the day, I probably should have taken the pics at the start of the day when it wasn't borderline smudged to hell. It wasn't much: a peachy and brown eyeshadow, a clear lipgloss, brown eyeliner, brown mascara, and some pink blush. 

A small rant: a few weeks ago someone told me I NEED to shave/wax my mini-mustache and ever since then all I've thought about is how I'm never going to do that now. Born to be a contrarian. But also, I really don't know where people get off commenting about other people's faces and bodies. When women do it to other women I become even more disappointed. I've never been insecure about my body hair, even my pretty obvious but small 'stache, and only trim it if it gets in the way (last time was more than a year ago). No one's gonna get me to fall for it and make me feel bad about being hairy.

Here's my most essential beauty tip of all time: you don't NEED to do anything. Yes, even shave. It's not more hygienic to shave. I don't look down on women who do, everyone has their own preferences, but I'm also not gonna sit here and pretend that shaving isn't a marketing ploy of the misogynistic kind. If a man can do it, I don't really care how anyone feels about it, a woman can do it too. If a woman for some reason wants to grow a whole ass viking beard, go ahead. Why the fuck not? 

For every social media influencer who tries to sell you the new scam-du-jour by making you insecure about your totally natural features, I'll be here telling you that you're a hottie just the way you are. You might like yourself more with make-up and skin-care and a bunch of operations but you're not ugly without them. You don't NEED any of these things. 

I'm sure many people will not agree but I do not find my weird mustache ugly and will not be bothering with lasering or waxing it off or anything until food gets stuck in it or something. And I think this is also such a transphobic point of view on things, if anyone, cis or trans, has slightly masculine features they are immediately not 'woman' enough. I don't even have any strong feelings about being perceived as a woman or not but it's so easy to see how that kind of perspective on appearances leads to transphobia, racism, and everyone being crushed under white beauty standards. Sorry for the rant, but it has been annoying me. When you feel insecure, get off social media and look around at real people. Everyone's so different and they are always gonna be more than their looks. 

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.☘︎ ݁˖ April 2026 Poupee Girl .☘︎ ݁˖

It's the end of April, my birthday month! It was a very busy month and I am currently exhausted and not very happy by how warm the weather is getting fast over here.

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