feeling pious

Apparently little girls like to dress up as brides - I didn't, I always wanted put a blanket over my head to be a nun!

I had very romantic, fanciful notions of piety (I blame some of the stories in my vintage bunty annuals!)

I still have a little bit of a 'thing' about being a nun to this day

I got this little carved angel from a jumble sale when I was about 6 or 7, so I could play at being a pious nun

I don't think i would make a good nun in real life through - no. 10 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours goods' - I am forever coveting vintage treasures

so, I think I am stuck with the occasional pious daydream and trinket

But that won't stop me enjoying the jam I got at a church fair last saturday, 'Blessed and approved by the Cannon', apparently!

And I still adore my 'Monastique' (I kid you not!) rose hand cream made by australian nuns, that I won at tombola at a nunnery :)

Toothache

I have a toothache today where my wisdom teeth are coming through. Boo hoo. I don't even want to eat any dinner (unheard of!)

So I thought I would show you my tooth fairy pillow from when I was ickle, that I have hanging on my living room door handle...


The best bit is the little note to the tooth fairy that is still tucked in the pocket. I had to write it when my tooth fell out when we were out and about and my mum went and LOST IT! I was determined not to be done out of my 20p...



And it worked! Although technically I still owe the tooth fairy a tooth as it never did turn up. Hope she never comes looking for it with a pair of pliers...

Any excuse...

Am I the only one who literally cannot resist popping into charity shops? especially if they are 'little old ones' where things are cheap/unpriced and you have to root around!


My mummy picked me up from a training day today as it was in a funny place which would have been difficult to get to by public transport (yes, I am spoilt rotten) and said she had discovered a great little charity shop just round the corner... 15 minutes later I emerged with a hand crocheted granny blanket, a yellow top with a bow (still with tags on), 'the best of jackie' which i wanted when it hit the shops a few christmases ago but didnt want to pay full price for, two yellow stripey pillowcases for my princess and the pea bedding 'project' , a vintage tape measure (the old man serving me really did not get why I didnt want the brand new one they had which 'also has centimetres on it'!), a vintage jam jar lid (i have a collection of these on a cake stand in my kitchen), and a twee little cow sugar bowl which is exactly the same as one that was in the kitchen when I was a little girl. I had completely forgotten about it but recognised it instantly when I saw it.

oh how i love tat...

dolly obsessions

Does anyone remember this little lady?

I re-read this a while ago and it has sparked off a couple of my latest obsessions


I got this 50's tri-ang dolls house from a jumble sale when I was a little girl. It was full of furniture and, if I remember correctly it was £1 (I generally have a terrible memory but for some reason I nearly always remember the cost of things and where I bought them!)



I have had it in my room for a while. I used to use it as storage, but when I read about the dolls being deperate to live in a house, and wishing and wishing with all their might, I just had to reinstate it as a family home!


A peek through the window...


And through the front door... (you can't make it out in the picture, but the knocker is actually my teeny tiny 'avon calling' brooch)



This is the bedroom (the bear and looby lou were my mummys when she was little)



And I have always loved the little bathroom. The suite still has the prices written in pencil on the back, 2'6 & 2'4...



I didn't have enough kitchen furniture, so I added some modern stuff I found in a charity shop



And here is the family and their many dogs nestled together in the livinig room. The two 'children' were my mums (can you spot where she chewed one of their feet off?) and I have had the two 'parents' since I was little. I sat them all in the same room because the house has no doors or stairs, and obviously I didn't want them to be stuck in separate rooms when they come to life and run around after I have gone to sleep ;)



I have also developed an obsession with dutch dolls, so I got this reproduction Florence Upton book and doll set on ebay for 99p. I love the little gingham dress that some little girl handmade once-upon-a-time.


I love how the dolls in the book made their dresses from an american flag!



I think I am going to ask santa for an antique dutch doll, as my obsession doesn't seem to fading!