Hotch potch........

Thank you again for kind words re: gloves - much needed on these colder days.

Here are some old photographs of mine from Flickr - I was looking at them all recently and thought that I would transplant them to here.

I have an box of these glass cottages.  

I am rather partial to a nice old decoration.....

She looks a bit worried doesn't she?

Have you seen the price of these Father Christmas jugs on ebay!! Despite what you may read these are not rare in the slightest.  I saw one only three weeks ago in a charity shop for 4.99 - I did not buy it though....I felt that I had enough.  As a child we knew it was Christmas when the Father Christmas jug appeared (given by Bird's custard if you saved up tokens I think)

I am rather partial to a tin or two........I went through them the other day and found a few duplicates...gulp

The bunting above I made years ago and below is my festive bag

Below is my festive bowl...

 

This took an age to make a long time ago now and it was very fiddly.  I do not have a special cutter outer machine so I drew the letters by hand (trying to get them vaguely similar sizes) and then used bondaweb (unbranded cheaper version!) to adhere letters - I did sew round them but forgot to photograph that bit. Note that the shelf is not as full up here....this was taken a few years back...

From time to time I also use NEW fabric

Smelling salts......

The photograph below is our local museum - I love it

I think that I have missed a page of verse here

I will do a separate post on deers.....

...and robins

...and tea towels.....

These are tiny crackers that I have had for years - I added the little buttons because the motif was missing on a few of them

Poor old Dom.....

....actually he is several years younger than me...but he is still poor old Dom....

PS: Yesterday I had occasion to travel on a Number 26 red  London double decker bus heading north towards  Hackney Wick....a very nice bus route I think.  I trundled across the bridge, past my old haunt - The National Theatre -  through the old City, Old Bailey, St Pauls, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Columbia Road (not the same any more) and the Geffrye Museum.  Nearly as good as my favourite bus routes, namely the 68 and the 159 : both of course very good indeed if you just wish to take in views as you trundle through town.  LONDON was PACKED.   I think someone had told them that I was in town!   We went to 'Liberty' for old times sake.  I am getting very, very old....'Liberty' (I felt) was not how it used to be....'Liberty' used to be magnifico.....I would visit just to gaze upon it.....'Liberty' used to have 'special things'....yesterday 'Liberty' just had just expensive things.  I have seen the trailer for the telly programme where the  new'ish manager says (in a derisory way) that it is like 'Are you Being Served'. I think that Mr Burstell is gradually shaping 'Liberty' into yet another ordinary department store  - for me the essence of Liberty was that idiosyncratic individualism (I can identify with that!).  They were filming  yesterday for the programme and I was wistfully thinking that I wished they would ask me what I thought....I like a bit of old fashioned me....

PPS: 'Tis odd how many of my photographs appear on Pinterest but now attributed to that well known blogger...Google...Ahem!