SHOCK absorbers

I'm ashamed to say that I left someone out of the toilet roll family photo's.... I can't believe I did because he is the one thing that is constantly by my side,always happy to see me and eternally gratefull of everything I do... Sorry little Arn, I hope I have made amends!!!



On another note, I shouldn't really be here right now, I was supposed to be noodling around the Trafford Centre with a promise of maybe a little treat from the Cath K shop,a bite to eat and a film!!!! (boys away at grandparents!!) But in reality something fell off the car halfway there which resulted in us sitting in a shell garage forecourt, 'herman' munching on a cheese and onion pasty!( I politely declined ) Then being towed home,just in time for the neighbours to see me do a ridiculous Norman Wisdom-like trip getting down from the HUGE steps at the side of the truck! Yay!! It'll just have to be a bottle of wine and Kingpin again x x x x

The post with lots of Love in it!

Hands up who remembers these??? I have never been so happy to see the postman as I was this morning, he's LOVELY and all that but normally he just has LOTs of packages for 'Herman' (see last post!) Anyway today the little parcel all the way from the U.S finally arrived (it had me worried for a bit). Luckily yesterday the other half of this little nostlagia trip also arrived, otherwise it would have been a case of digging out the 3d glasses from Shrek, another toilet roll and some sticky back plastic. But I cannot tell you how happy this LOVELY little set makes me. If anyone asked me what my favourite toy as a child was, it would definately be my viewmaster,(closely followed by my Brittans Riding school set) and I am LOVE,LOVE,LOVING this LOVELY red version, I can remember gazing at the bambi reels for hours!. Fab!!!! Just LOVE it so much!!

Note added - I have spent most of today looking at it!! LOVE it even more x

Meet the Family

What do you do on a miserable day when your recycle bin is full???..You get your family to make themselves out of a toilet roll tube! The idea was to capture your true self and personality!!!???




I'm not sure if this was successfull, my boys are fantastic at drawing, really good, but give them a paintbrush and some P.V.A glue and it all goes a bit pear shaped.



That said I absolutely love what they came up with and I do think they look like us!.... Yes I am married to Herman Munster and I do really look like a Momjii crossed with Coraline......

The post with no name

Rubbish weather and school holidays go together like Morrissey and Marr... what can you do but go out with the dog and get wet A LOT.. or read, watch old films and draw. Surfing the internet for nice birthday treats is always good, as is looking through old photo albums and giggling at the enormous cheeks of your babes, (is it appropriate to tell your children that they used to have 'moobs'!!???)

Obsession

At the moment our house is full of piles!! Not nice ones like this one above, I love..love this pile!!! And I love this one.....



This is my total so far of crocheted blankets, in various colours and patterns, no two the same, very random!



Each room in the house has at least one now and all have a little or a lot of pink in them, which isn't bad considering I live in a house full of boys!!



Even our little dog has one.
I think this obsession may be coming to an end now but I already know what will be taking up most of my (rare) spare time this summer......


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Home thoughts

T'other Jane and I met at art college and, although I ended up looking after other peoples' creations for a living, I have kept my hand in by making clothes and soft furnishings for my home which has always been full of a mixture of vintage finds and family hand-me-downs. I like to look around each room and to see pieces of furniture with a story to tell. My iron and brass bed was a junk-shop find which I stripped, painted and polished before cutting the base from a piece of wood salvaged from the attics of the first National Trust mansion I lived in. It's a French double (spacious for one, cosy for two) and I can't imagine ever changing it. One particularly comfortable sofa is symbolic of my place in our modern extended family, having passed from my step-mother to my mother (a reasonable swap for my father at the time!) and then to me. Each of us has re-covered the sofa in our own style and I wonder which of my nephews or step-nieces I might pass it on to next and what memories might be stirred as they unpeel the layers of fabric and family history as they re-cover it themselves?

Etsy V Folksy and some Birds

Where did July go?? Well I know it's still here but not for long, next it will be august,septemb....christmas!!!!!! So as the summer holiday approaches and my time alone disappears for a while, not much sewing or painting or even computer time is planned for the next few weeks, it made perfect sense to go and open another online emporium of the baggy,flowery vintage kind???!!! hmmm not sure what I was thinking but it felt like the right thing to do.After all the huffing and puffing about dollars and Americanism's on etsy (not from me I might add but people unfamiliar with the world of etsy)I figured it would be worth trying an English site.The advantage being ££££'s and also a much smaller site so have a more visible presence. The 'plan' is to use Folksy for smaller items and maybe more commercial stuff but concentrate on etsy because I prefer it and because I am obsessed with all things American!



On to TEAWAGON news, well the first of our up cycled goodies are almost complete and we hope everyone will love them as much as we do x x



P.S I've been at it again with the tasteless stuff! see above..they were almost banned from the washing line in case anyone saw them!! I mean really they are pure gold!!!!