Giveaway - Winner!

We picked a winner, thanks Dirty Bertie!

It's Leni & Rose!

This is how we did it really!!

Email me with your address, and I'll pop your bag off in the mail.

(I'll also swing by your blog and leave a comment)

My email is:

ethellovesfred(at)bigpond(dot)com

Thanks to everyone who left a silly joke! Some doozeys,

lots I haven't heard before and won't be repeating to anyone over the age of 5!

Girl-Centric Giveaway

I missed my 100th post giveaway, so this is a belated 100th post giveaway,

I can't let that tradition pass by (I'm superstitious)!

It's an over-the-shoulder number made with vintage denim weight fabric, which has girls gardening, flowers and polka dots. The lining is a vintage seersucker. It has button details at the side too, can't be seen in the pics. Uber cute for the little girl in your life, Niece, Cousin, friend, or your own little one!

All you have to do is tell me your favourite silly little joke, or tell me that you don't have one, and it's just way too silly, either way, you'll still go in the draw! I'll get Little P to pick a winner next Wednesday night (18 June).

So here's mine:

2 sewing machines go into a bar, one says to the other

'Are you a Singer' and the other says 'Why Janome?'

Lost in Translation

I mentioned dumb labelling in a previous post, but this is just hilarious!!
I bought this for Parker, it's a kid's painting kit, with glitter paint, and of course, made in China. The really funny bit is in the bottom left hand corner and reads as follows, verbatim:

1. Put the pigment to entrance inside absolutely not to.
2. Fill the colour after completing, please cover the bottle to cover good,
the in order to prevent pigment overflows.
3. If discover the pigment fucks too, can add just the right amount the few clear water mixes evenly.

On reading number 3 Big D and I laughed and laughed some more!
Click the picute to make it larger!

Opportune Find

I found this rather fetching T Shirt at the Oppy today, brand new, with tags, it's a limited edition Florence Braodhurst print, by Signature Prints, gotta love that!

On other things not Opp-shopped or crafted, but rather more blogish.

I was reading a post on a Craft Blog a couple of days ago, outlining some 'do's and don'ts' for setting up your very own Craft Blog. Some good advice in there, but on the whole, I found the emphasis placed too firmly on the general look of your blog, there was also a lot of advice on 'keeping it nice' and generating traffic to your blog. I'm all for being a total dag, and just being yourself and honest, and if that means putting up some photos that are amateurish, that's fine, long as the text is heartfelt.

So if you've got a craft blog, or just a blog for that matter, that's interesting and or funny, I'll be reading it - regardless if it has crappy photos, of you or anything you've made. I'm just a warts and all kind of girl, and as Linda so succinctly put it to me one day: 'Embrace the wonk'! That says it all really for me, life isn't perfect, mine certainly isn't and I'm not all that interested in portraying a perfect life, it's just my life, my blog, and I like to write in an uncensored kind of way, just from the cuff really.

The blogs I enjoy reading are not perfectly written but rather well written and by that I mean honest, I do struggle with perfect! I spend more time reading the blogs I love, than ensuring my blog is looking as lovely as it could be! I'm much more interested in YOU!

So if you have a blog that's a warts and all, down home, hanging out in your 'house pants' type affair, please leave me a comment - cause I'd love to read it!

Zwitsers

They don't look pretty, but these little Dutch biscuits are quite the yummiest biscuits out of a packet! If you haven't tried them, you must go to the shop right this minute and find them, bring them home, put the kettle on and enjoy.

Don't you just love the dumbing down of society when it comes to labelling? (actually lots of things) but check out the packet, it says 'BISCUITS' - just in case you thought you were buying a can of cat food! My all time fave dumb label would have to be some pencils I bought for Parker, which said on the box 'suitable for drawing and writing' right I thought, I'd better grab 2!

This is the way we.....

If you are adverse cynicism, STOP NOW!

So, this morning at Pre-school drop-off, I walked in with a couple who were carrying a baby bath, complete with all necessary bathing accoutrements, and a baby of course, all covered up in it's little car capsule, the natural question, I asked if they were going to give a demonstration on bathing a baby? They were a tad unfriendly, but replied that yes, they were - and together, how sweet. Their 5 year old pre-schooler was very excited. My 4.5 year old pre-schooler was perplexed. 'Mummy why are they bringing a baby to bath?' 'To show you how it's done' I said. It made me wonder why too. Maybe it's because my little girl isn't baby or dolly mad, perhaps if they had brought the family dog in to wash she would be really keen, but really what interest is there in bathing a baby? Why on earth would a 5 year old be remotely interested in the ins and outs of washing a baby? It was a little too self serving for me.

Am I too cynical? A smidge resentful, cause I don't have a baby to bath in front of the class? Maybe both those things.

1965 - Flickr Faves

for photo credits see here

Inspired by Pip I typed '1965' in to search on Flickr, above are some of my favourites. Happy Sunday (Go the Swans)!!