olioboard spirit of sports contest

we have just gotten back to jakarta from australia, and frantically looking for a furnished apartment. with a baby there are so many other things to consider; bath tub, mosquitos, kid friendly furnishings. then there are things like - could i stand seeing a bright red couch and matching dining set every day, or bad wall paper that ill want to rip off? all the hard questions in life of course!

any how after having so much fun designing the room for the olioboard posh tots contest (i came third!) now ive done a sports man cave for their spirit of sports contest. i kept asking the mr. what he would want and short of a ping pong table this is what i came up with...

...mind you he says that the bookshelf and the carpets are "girly"...but hey the modern man has to have some taste!

antique street

today we headed out to Jalan Surabaya where the antique street market is. the small stalls line the street for about half a km, and boy was there lots to see and touch. despite being in sweltering heat we spent a good hour and half walking the strip (little d stayed in the air conditioned car, except for a ten minute walk around to see the puppets). needless to say there was so many things i saw that would love to live at my place, but you have to bargain hard and it can get tiring... although i would say you can get about 50 per cent off the original asking price. now that i've been there a second time i think i will have to investigate how to spot the true antiques from the replicas and figure out how much is reasonable to pay... or take someone with me who knows what they are doing.

of course i picked a little something up. probably is an aged replica (no idea!)... now i just need to figure out where it should live.