Deers....

Thank you again for kind comments - it is so very kind of you.  I will be blog visiting tomorrow all being well (where does the time go....).  Thank you for asking where all this stuff is kept in between times - it is mainly, but not completely, contained here.  I ventured into this cupboard today - I have filled two bin liners ready to take to the CS today.  I am getting a grip!

However I am rather partial to a nice deer.

So these are some more old photographs of mine from Flickr and one or two more recent ones

The photograph above reminds me to do a post about seasonal aprons one day

These bowls are not uncommon I think - from the CS a few years ago, also in blue!

I have a 'farm' of plastic deers - well why not.  These are also CS finds over the years.  Dear Mary from The Vintage Cottage sent me the WONDERFUL deer wrapping paper that you can just see in the back of this photograph - it is quite lovely.

This fabric dates from the late 1930s I think - this little scrap I used to adorn the front a Christmas stocking that I made a few years ago -  I decorated the top with some lovely old lace and some old buttons

I will tell the tale of these very, very delicarto glass deer.  Two summers ago (I like to hold back until the time is right to share something!)  I went, as I always do, to the May Day Fayre : lots and lots of stalls with plants, cakes and old stuff.  On one stall was an old shoe box full of kernickerty  kerknackerties - glass boats, chinese figures and I could just see a deer head poking out.  The deer was 50p but I could have the box for £3:

 'I don't really want the box thank you all the same'....
'Oh go on we need to get rid of stuff'...
'So do I!'

I handed over my £3...cough, cough..... and carried the box under my arm (bike basket was full of plants.....and cake) whilst steering my bike. The bike and I rattled all the way home.  When I reached base camp I found not one deer but two!  How these have survived undamaged for years (and the bike journey) I do not know.

I had never seen anything like these before so I Googled 'glass deers' and found this information about them .  They are little mercury glass survivors from the 1920/30s so deserve their place in chez Cootard I think.

Ever since that summer they have lived on the mantle piece - enjoying the space around them and taking in the fresh air devoid of shoe box atmos!

I will be putting holly in them for  this month

Deerio!

 More deer puns welcome.