my goodies from the vide-grenier

vintage buttons, most of them are in glass.

I am going to use them to customize some of the clothes of my son.

this is the silver fish necklace that i bought last weekend. the fish can actually move...

i remember my mum had a similar fish pendant, someone told me that for the Jewish, the fish is a symbol to protect you from the bad vibes. So i look out for some other meaning of fish. In Japan, the koi fish represents non-conformity. The koi swims upstream, which can be interpreted as showing the philosophy of non-conformism because the koi does not "go with the flow". This represent independence, not easily influenced by others. There are many other interesting symbolic meanings of FISH in different culture.