A lot of our day-to-day kitchen stuff dates from the 60s and 70s.
This dish is used most days
For mashed potato
Or carrots
I think that it would have had a lid originally but as it was only a pound from the car boot I wasn't going to complain. The tablecoth is one of three of the same design that I have - all in a different colour arrangement!
Also comes in red - which I omitted to photograph
Still working on my tablecloth book..
Huffed and puffed my way through Kirstie's "Not So Vintage - But Does Need a Good Tidy Up (hark who's talking) Home" last night. In the first episode we spotted a framed tea towel that we also have framed in our dining room and last night the china that was shown at the end we also have (not including the Homemaker bits - those plates are our everyday plates as they are dishwasher proof). I think that spotting things that we have may be my only reason for watching it - that happens in museums too when the children say: "But we've got one of those...". I don't think that they can quite fathom why it should be in a museum....
I did learn something though - I was not aware that dipping the bottom of a nice basket into paint was a 'craft'
More Christmassy stuff on the horizon
Getting behind with proper job as usual
Keep warm
Best wishes
La Cootard
PS Thank you re: cards - I will do a separate little post about my favourite thing!
Beautiful pot...and very jolly tablecloths - supper time chez The Custards must be a swoon-a minute experience. :)
ReplyDeleteBut don't get me started on Kirstie - I watched the first episode 2 days ago and it had me shouting at the telly - those peculiar concrete lamps!! And those gawkish painted letters? A crime to call that craft. And that quilt? Horrifying!
I mean look - I like Kirstie and I have the book for the series (haven't read it yet though) and I want this series to be good but what I have seen so far has made me wonder.
We are recording it as the hubster watches something else at the time it's on so I shall watch last night's episode over the weekend..but really....a painted basket bottom? I hear ya.
It's like they've dumbed down crafts for the masses.
Dear wendz - you make me laugh muchly. We are in need of a vintage type of programme and like you I want to like this programme - and I will keep watching it - daft - and continue to huff and puff my way through it. I fear you may blow a gasket when you see prog. numero dos!
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best wishes
Jenny
Yes, painted basket bottoms. I didn't think they looked good and also there's a big margin for error if you ask me. I agree with Wendz re the concrete lamps - not nice.
ReplyDeleteLovely table cloths and the dish for a quid is so pretty. Well done for using your Homemaker crockery as every day crockety. I found it odd that people keep stuff "for best". Use it I say! xx
A bottom is best left unpainted I think!
DeleteThank you for kind words - stuff is made for using!
Have a lovely weekend
Best wishes
Jenny
I listened to Kirsty on Woman's Hour on 10th November and am totally in agreement with you over the dipped basket. Certainly this is not 'vintage'! Possibly Kirsty is laughing all the way to the bank...
ReplyDeleteI shall have to have a listen to that on iPlayer. I too was flummoxed at to what bit was vintage! Right up to that bank and through the door I think...
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jenny
Lovely dish and tablecloths ... yes, Kirstie ... it is all a little contrived this series I think ... my problem is I love to see the 'after' and will sit through anything to see it ... I did enjoy parts of the show ... I will continue to watch the series ... afraid of missing something, me ... :) ... enjoy your weekend ... Bee xx
ReplyDeleteAh yes Bee - that is where they have us isn't it? We are desparado to see the final result so we cling on in there to the very bitter end. Still worse things could be happening.
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Best wishes
Jenny
I think Kirsty has a lot of down to earth charm about her and I have always loved her in her house-hunting guise for saying what she thinks in a very matter of fact way. I loved it when she was doing up her own house although I would kill to know which streets she found such amazing skip discoveries in - I've never seen more than a load of earth and cement bags in them. But I agree with all the above comments about how ridiculous her idea of "craft" is in this series. If I'd known you could be so slap dash when making a quilt I would never have spent 4 years doing my City & Guilds Patchwork & Quilting Parts 1 & 2! Perhaps she should just be calling the series Repro Vintage Home.
ReplyDeleteRant over.....lovely dish. Dinners must be a joy to have such a dish to serve from. Philippa xx
i'm with you on the skip thing - I have only had one great find. It was an Victorian carved lectern (must have come from a church I think) - I gave it away. why did I do that!
DeleteIt has become crafting on the quick or something and makes a mockery of our hard work and training (very well done by the way). Keep up your standards!
Best wishes
Jenny
Love your pot Jenny and your tablecloths are wonderful..... I have recorded Kirsty's prog and will watch over the weekend, so will pass judgement later :)
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Thank you dear Barbara - I shall wait for your review
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Best wishes
Jenny
Kim with you on the baskets, I did like the playroom, I think the creative souls in bogland could come up with better though! I would love a tablecloth like that! :)
ReplyDeleteDear Ada - what a programme we bloggers could put together! Now there's a thought....
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Jenny
I love the pot, gorgeous, why do I never see such lovely things for £1!! Tablecloth(s) lovely too, made me smile :) Haven't watched this weeks Kirsty yet. Do like to watch it, but also do end up muttering all through it and ridiculous prices and totally agree with comments about the concrete...! x
ReplyDeleteDear Cheryl - compelled to watch and compelled to moan. It is my way! Price of things in particular - drives me mad!
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Jenny
Hah are you sure you didn't sneak in to watch Kirsty with my sister & I??!! We said exactly the same thing...a bloody good tidy up/chuck out would have sorted it to start with, dipping baskets is craft?...and Ooooo did you spot this n that!!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know how they picked the blue/white unit up for £130? I'd quite possibly swap a child or vital organ for one at that price.....
....still I'll be watching it again next week
Nicky
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Dear Nicky - how you make me laugh. I was indeed in the room with you - I was the one fizzing slightly...
DeleteThe cupboard I think was worth two vital organs...so out of my price range!
Like you I will watch again next week....
Best wishes
Jenny
...i have been fretting that i have missed Kirsty's programme as i work late on thursdays....maybe i shouldn't worry too much...oh boo how disappointing!love love love the print on your tablecloth - so gorgeous! have a happy week-end x
ReplyDeleteYour 'boo' made me chuckle I may have to adopt 'boo' as my expression of the week! Thank you for kind words and please don't fret!
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Jenny
Oh I have had a good chuckle at Kirsty's expense, I could not understand how the toy box they made was going to be large enough!! and the state of the place!!
ReplyDeleteI love your danish dish ..
Well Jenny I had better go now as I have some baskets to dip....I learnt a new craft recently don't you know
Thea x
Do you know that is just what Dom said and he was never even the 'toy putter awayer'!!
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Best wishes
Jenny
I have to confess to being a tad disappointed in Kirstie this series, only two episodes and its basically following the same format, as everyone else has said a blooming good tidy up and decluttering and a lick of paint. Honestly it isn't rocket science is it? As for the dipped baskets....Why? My husband wants to chuck something at the telly when kirstie appears!
ReplyDeleteI laughed reading this Anne - Dom has a similar feeling when Kirstie appears! I just didn't get the dipped basket thing...maybe I am getting old..
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Best wishes
Jenny
Hi Jenny, love the pot and tablecloth ... Think it must be fab to own things that are in museums!
ReplyDeleteYou know how I felt about the first episode of KVH ... I am speechless about the dipped baskets. Why would you ruin a perfectly nice piece if basketry by doing that to it? On a par with the concrete lights I think.
Enjoy your weekend, Jenny!
Love Claire xx
Fear not Claire - only the cruddy stuff appears in the 'social realism' section of the museum I think!
DeleteWhat was going on with dipped baskets - I just couldn't fathom it out!
Have a sunny weekend
Best wishes
Jenny
I'm not a crafter and I looked on in horror as a lovely basket was dipped in white Dulux! Has that woman lost the plot? What next? Carving her initials in George III mahogany sideboards? Using Robert Adam cellerettes for pot plants? The trouble is, the sort of ideas she is pedalling makes crafting (and by assocaition, women - for you don't see many blokes doing all this!) look bonkers. As I say, I'm not a crafter, I only know a needle when I prick my finger with one, but as for using one, I'm totally hopeless. But I can appreciate that some craft work is excellent. Not all mind, just some. And of course, when you're as old as I am, you will recall using a lot of what younger women think of now as retro and vintage the first time around, it's part of what we use on a daily basis, such as a Swedish casserole dish something like you are showing here, only it's lid is missing! I have a similar one but in shades of yellow - it was a wedding present to us in 1964!
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I have to say her last book is so useful. It is exactly the right depth to keep our film projector tilted at the right angle. But I'm sorry that might be a bit harsh. I am glad to see crafty programmes on TV at all but I can't say I've picked up much inspiration from anything shes done.
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