Tala Tin Tango...

Mmmmm - a beaten up Tala tin bought at the car boot for one of our British pounds (I reckon that was about 99p too much!)...also bought whilst wearing the wrong glasses (as usual) so I did not realise that it was missing its handle and had no paint on the lid.  Still not to be downhearted...what to do....what to do....thumb twiddle...thumb twiddle.....

Paint of course...
Then what? I still had the handle to fix but that was very simple to do with some florists wire and thread some buttons on to it.  By tightening the wire the buttons are nicely fixed on the wire and don't swivel round....tra la la....thus...The orange button is modern but the others were from my neighbour

Handle in action......with blue paint on my hand

Had various ideas about what else to put on the tin - used the raggedly ends (very raggedly!) of this lovely original (underlined)1950s wallpaper (I have gone on (and on!) before about this super paper - now being reproduced by Sanderson, but not in this same colour I notice). The modern paper version is called 'Fi Fi' - not sure if it was also called that back in the fifties.

I haven't glued this down properly in these pictures....

Whilst looking for scrap paper for the children's homework I found some very, very old Letraset sheets in the back of the cupboard - how opportune! I only had two 'Ws' so had to tread carefully and not too many 'Bs' either! Please tell me that I am not the only person in the world who can ferret around for five minutes and find such stuff...it is a sad reflection of the contents of our home...

Also only had two ampersands to go round!

Now all I need to do is sort some buttons and bows!

RE: Clarification on my umbrella - ella -ella post.  Feeling awful that I may have misled into thinking that I did actually run a workshop - that was all in my head (dreams and aspirations!!).  If I did run a workshop I would be ENCOURAGING Can Can dancing and oom pah pahs on the beach (my children would be mortified to see me leading the Conga down the seafront....with us all twirling umbrellas as we go).  Mollie Makes kindly emailed asking more about said workshops...in my head I have even baked the Victoria Sponges (one each should cover it!).  I had other 'amusing' posts planned but now fear of leading readers astray and thinking that I was something that I am not!! Oh dearie me - you have no idea how much I worry (and still got to keep world peace and global warming on the go too!).  However I did do the umbrella - ella -ellla (thank you for all who joined in the singing! I have made another lovely (in my very short sighted eyes) one with 50s fabric but need to finish off.  In my head there are all sorts created just need to find the time to do the doing.  

 Off up the hospital to work now and will relay my workshop antics to my students this morning

Thank you always for kind words - in my efforts to maintain reciprocity (see early postings regarding apparent paucity of this via Pinterest...) I will be having a 'Custards follower' give away (this is me be real not joking - oh dear).  I am carefully making three items in an attempt to cover the three types of design that I lurve most - when I feel they are up to scratch I will announce the announcement. Any followers would then be able to choose which they like best and the winner chosen out of the vintage hat.  Already worrying that I will be infringing some sort of lottery law...

I must stop and get ready for work!!!