Little bits of this and that

Do you ever feel like you are running round like a headless chicken and achieving nothing?! - well that pretty much sums up the start to my week. Being quite productive, when my girls are behaving and my supplies allow. I really must get better at realising when I am low on essentials. There is nothing more frustrating than being in full flow and having to stop because, for example, you've run out of red thread. What do you do?

Anyway all this aside I spent a lovely Saturday afernoon here.......

.......with my very good and equally as lovely friend. The fair in itself was a smasher but the fact that it was held in a town as gorgeous as Olney was an added bonus. Full of  'those' sorts of shops that I know you ladies love and adore and did I take my camera? ......well..... er.... no actually. But have a look at what I picked up.

Gorgeous vintage fabric that on it's own is lovely but together.....ahhhhh just lovely......

 Look at the pattern........



....and those gorgeous colours.

I have in mind some grey and white linen that will co-ordinate beautifully and at the moment I'm thinking cushions, but that may change. Oh yes and my little green jug. Can a girl ever have too many?

You may notice it's sitting on more delicious fabric!

Later on in the week I hope to have some goodies to share with you as the state of my table is proof in point.

But until then I'll wish you all a very good and productive day!

 

Vintage Fair Finds

On Sunday morning, I escaped for an hour or so and went to the 'Winslow Handmade & Vintage Fair'. It's the third one they've had and is definitely gaining in popularity. Great stalls, lovely atmosphere, fabulous 1940's tunes from 'The Sasparillas', all on a pretty market square. Even the weather was good. So of course I spent  a few pennies........

Shall we see what's inside......?

Two girls annuals from 1949 and 1955, a wonderfully solid bread loaf tin, a fabulous vintage sewing pattern and buttons!!!

The girls annuals are marvellous. I've had such fun chuckling away at some of the gorgeous images inside but even moreso at the captions that go with them..... take a look at one or two of my favourites.....


"Miss Warner!" cried Mr Grittal. "Stop!"  Sally had been ordered to send her parrot away, but she had just been seen with it's cage!



They struggled with the goat




"You're two game lasses," he said



 Aren't they just wonderful? The bread tin was a real find too, hidden away at the bottom of a box, I'm not sure yet whether it's destined to be a plant holder or a receptacle for my ever increasing collection of craft pens. And the buttons,........ the glorious buttons, some of which have been put to good use already.

But what about the pattern......!

I bought it because I just couldn't resist the fabulous picture. I had an idea to frame it, but when I got home and explored it properly all the paper pattern pieces are there along with the instructions. I'd need to tweak it a bit as it's not my size, but now I'm starting to set myself up for another project to add to my long 'project wish list' so I think it's best I stop now.

I had a lovely time and on top of all this bumped into (more or less literally) lovely Annie from The Felt Fairy who was there supporting her daughter, my first face to face with a fellow blogger. So much excitement! My biggest regret is that I didn't buy the awe inspiringly beautiful pair of green suede shoes from the sixties that I spotted and almost certainly had my name on them,  maybe next time.

Well I hope you enjoyed todays post. Thank you for visiting me and leaving your lovely comments, they are all read and very much appreciated.

Come back tomorrow when I'll have some cards to show you.