Finding and keeping crochet

Yesterday I popped down to the Finders Keepers markets at Carriageworks, not especially expecting my crochet radar to go off, but I walked in and was confronted by a poster of a crocheted rug, on the front cover of the Frankie Spaces magazine. Then flicking through the book was more and more crochet.

Then I found this crochet bunting. I like it, but I'm not really sold out on bunting. I mean, what does one do with it? - one of those purely decorative things one needs a place for (and note the doilie bunting hanging in front of the book poster above).

Then I spied these little crochet Christmas stockings.

I didn't actually buy a thing, and got rather exasperated with scarcely being able to move, but I gathered a few ideas. The problem is, I look at stuff and think I don't need to buy it because I could make it myself, but then I never actually do.