look at my cake! look at my scones!

hello hello. Whoops I haven't posted for ages. I'm not sure why, I have been reading others, buying lots (and lots...and lots) of treasures, and even actually CRAFTING!

I have also been baking! yes, actually using my bowl/scales/aprons/cake tin/cookie cutter collections instead of just ooh-ing and ah-ing and displaying them.

gratuitous baking pic...

gratuitous apron collection pic...

I made my mummy this cake for her birthday. It was the first cake anyone had made her since she was a little girl!!!! shocking stuff. She was very impressed by my baking talents

gratuitious cakey close-up

and I made scones too!

mmmmmm with cranberrys instead of boring old raisins. wow i feel so domestic x

the vintage bedding fairy has been!

I tiptoed through to bed at midnight last night....

and look! the vintage bedding fairy has been! and brought me a grannylicious candlewick bedspread!

mmmm pink

mmmm textured

mmmmm fringed

mmmmm snug as a bug in a candlewick rug!

thanks vintage bedding fairy! (she is the tooth fairy's sister, dontcha know).

And remember - every time you say you don't believe in the vintage bedding fairy, some fool with no taste throws their grannys eiderdown in a skip! You have been warned!

3-6-9 the goose drank wine...

My mama brought me this little lady from a car boot sale a few days ago. She has made herself right at home in my dollies house.

She totally reminds me of one of my most loved songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgnCB7oni8o

My friend once said that it made no sense, as who would want a rubber dolly AND be old enough to be kissing soldiers? then she said "oh wait, I can't believe I just asked you that"

I don't know what she means....




I much prefer sailors ;)

I'm baaaaa-aaack!

Did you miss me? I haven't actually been anywhere - my aged laptop finally gave up the fight and refused to switch on/sparked when I poked it last week.

So I now have a shiney new laptop, ooooh! (oh but the expense! I will not think about how many bargainous treasures it equates to, I shan't I shan't!)

£1 treasures like this dolly

And this knitting bag plus a few sets of my favourite coloured knitting needles

Or this fabby 'bambi' cross stitch

Which I have hung in my bedroom on my little £2 shelf that I have finally put up

Or the 50p wire heart I have finally hung beneath it (filled with cards that a few of you may recognise - plus my prized possession, a cupcake birthday card from 'the' colin & justin!)

Oh no. I'm not thinking about all the glorious pretty things that might have been

:( waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! why do boring necessities cost so much????

I am going to try and cheer myself up later with a cup of tea and an early night with not one but TWO brand new (to me) sets of pillow cases on my bed. Pretty rock and roll, huh?

humph :(

Boo hiss. I tried to get an early night last night, but my plan was scuppered by noisy people being noisy in my flat until very very late :(

Then I got up this morning, opened my curtains, and found out that my little windowbox garden had been BURGLED!


I had a little dolly sized watering can tied up just next to the birdhouse but it has been nicked during the night :(

I had better try and cheer myself up. Here are some pictures of my (10 year old) puppy Lucy (who is actually my mummy and daddys puppy)


All snuggled up in my granny blanket


Awwwww. Lucy and I won a3rd place rosette in the 'dog and owner most alike' category at a village fete last summer. I take this as a compliment!

is it a bird? is it a plane? no, it's needlewoman!

Remember this book I got a few weeks ago? Care for a nosey inside?


You know you are on to a winner when this is the first page...


I want to be this little girl!


Or maybe I'd rather be this vampy lady


I quite fancy making this tea cosy


or I could knock up a pair of 'evening mitts'


I love these little pixies too


And if anyone ever gets the urge to crochet their own brassiere let me know, I can sent you the instructions!

kitcheny bits

I finally found a home for these swap biscuit ornaments from annie. I re-jigged some stuff in the kitchen to fit this basket in, filled it with my vintage apron collection, and decorated it with the biscuits! Hope you like it - I risked life and limb taking this photo (kinda, I got pins and needles while standing on a chair)


While we are in the kitchen do you want a peek at my 'hanging tat' collection (where I put all my teeny tiny kitcheny bits)? I soted it out yesterday...well, it's as sorted as it gets


Eggcups and eggcosy type bits up the top


Teapot stands and teabag holdery bits in the middle (plus a gingerbread man that 'santas wife' fancied up with gingham)


And, em, rusty old tins and cookie cutter bits down the bottom


ps - thanks for all the get well soons - I am still sneezing away though!