***vintage again***

hand-painted french wardrobe

tapestry wall hanging

cherub


detailed chairs

cloakroom shelf

jewelery etc

***fellow vintage lovers***

my favourite vintage stall

and the people who have it are great .....anything you like (if not sold) you can e-mail arthur_falla@hotmail.com and he can sometimes source stuff....I do love pottering around here...we have this marque once a year in our parish and all sorts turn up....in fact a lady who is from Jersey and lives in Hobart Tasmania has a jewellery stall and we got chatting and when she said she was from Hobart I was over the moon as we would love to live there in the future... she told me all about her house which is one of the oldest sandstone homes and is right in the middle of the city....can't believe she lives there and comes back here every year...the world is a small place even if one lives on the other side of the world....

fabrics for Kali

cool toast rack

more later from other stalls .....some photo were too blurred so have to go through them and retrieve what I can..... toodleooooo

***pretty maids all in a row***

as are these lovely vintage aprons, red one isn't though....Stepford Wives (movie) will get a run for their money....a couple of these I wore for the bar-b-que....and seeing as how I had to wash two I thought I would do the lot...I do so love these older prints and should look out for more....could't sleep so thought I would put these pics up instead of shuteye....

I loved the movie Stepford Wives, it really is a fantasy only cos of the pretend perfection though sometimes life would be cool like that just for a minute. Reminds me of Pleasantville and The Truman Show two other pretend that I am fond of....always said I should have been born a little earlier so I could have taken part in that era....not that there is anything wrong with this one...it's just the nice manners, when men were polite and kids were respectful and OOOhhhh...I don't know.....when everything seemed all suger and spice....dream on baby....

***the day after***

outside the front door are my home grown hanging baskets with my favoutite surfinas (petunias) these smell lovely in the late evening....



the church bar-b-que and all is over for another year.....each year we do the same thing...a day to set up, a day to shop and cook, a day to eat and enjoy the company and a day to pack all away again....so we are completly stuffed....I was going to take loads of photos but with running around like a blue a......d fly I never had a chance as it was I was still washing dishes and the floor at ten o'clock last night....some of the girls helped out but after feeding nearly 60 people, and this was a quiet year, it still takes time. The setting looked great ....bunting, gazebos, brollies, rugs, croquet, three tressle tables with all sorts of rice , pasta, salads, bread, basil toms, new spuds, etc....you get the picture..very pleasant....soooooooooo I will have to just put up a couple of photos of our little cottage instead...and then I will try to get some sewing done...ha ha!
Have also put four loads of washing out...mainly teatowels aprons and tableclothes ....very boring...till soon....



a corner of our kitchen....brought the table from Oz and the meat safe and Brian made the plate dresser shelf from an old pine wardrobe that was too big and heavy to cart everywhere.....30's bread bin ws £1.00 from L'Hospeeeece ...some china came from Oz as well...

some glasses from Oz and L'Hospeeece.......well you never can have enough lol....

this lot is the back up supply....

***Thinking I'd let you know***

about this lamp

This lamp was put together by ME.....All of it was made up from the bits and pieces I bought over several months from my local op-shop...here we call it the Hospice shop.....and I call it ....now say ..... L'hhhospeece boutique....in a french accent....not that I am french

and anyway before I lose the drift...back to the lamp....

the base was bought seperatly for £3.00 $6.00

the glass shade was £3.00 $6.00

the vintage crystals where in a big bowl loads and loads of them too many to count...

£10.00 $20.00 so I glued some satin braid to the outside of the glass shade and hooked the crystals one by one into the braid thereby creating a new old looking lamp...well the base is the oldest probably 30's ...it is fluted wood with a brassy base and the crystals? don't know...still it was cheaper than buying a proper one...and I still have crystals over....Simple really aaaaaaaa....

You can't really see the cream swirls in the glass shade though.... pity cos the bulb is too bright and it looks better in real life ...perehaps I'll take another photo at a later date....toodleoooooo

***boot fairs and books***

Well what a beautiful hot and sunny day....got up early this morning to help a mate take a load of donated stuff to the boot fair to raise money for the street kids in Mongolia...a lot have no parents and they survive by living in the heat shafts under the city and eat from the volunteer run soup kitchen that my mate helps at....She has spent the last six months out there and is due back soon...
Needless to say I did not return empy handed either...I bought some books after allowing myself time out for a wander....I have a weakness for books especially older ones...I found three from 1859 which were 'conducted' by Charles Dickens whatever that means...and they well smell old and musty....plus a few other odds and ends...
I love the ladies one showing how 'one does one's hair and something about a girl should have braids....the fabric kind....It is a kind of ladies house keeping book from the Forties... I haven't checked out the date yet....

And anyway I wanted to try my hand at this new photo thingy and see if it works...
till soooooooooon

***days gone by***