Get On Up!

Oh, I forgot to mention, while I was in the Oppy I was singing James Brown's 'Sex Machine', in my head, for no apparent reason. I was looking through the linen and sung 'shake your money maker' ..... not in my head, it just slipped out! One of the old girls was putting stuff away next me - how embarrassment! I imagine when I left she went out the back and said 'you know the one who always buys that 60's crap - mad as a hatter!!'

Op Shop Tuesday

Some 70's prints on board, lovely colours, in great condition, least they were till the op shop slapped the price tag on with sticky tape!

Boxing The Pleats

Ahh, box pleats ... love the look, and although they aren't hard to do, they're time consuming, all that marking out, turning in and pressing, blahdey blah.

I think I only swore a couple of times making this skirt, so on the whole, well worth it!

Backyard is covered in these perfect Autumn Leaves, great fun to kick around and throw about, we salute them for having the decency to fall on time.

Parker took this photo.
I like it, cause she held the camera up, rather than just taking photos at her own eye level. I like Big D's speedo's on the line - he wears these underneath board shorts, perhaps to avoid getting anything stuck in the Velcro? Or any wardrobe malfunctions that may occur?
And some op-shopped embroidery hanging up there too!
Quintessentially Australian I reckon.

Dear Granny and Grandad

We wrote to our Gran and Grandad from the minute we could write.

This letter is from me, slipped in with my Sister's on 11 January 1974.

Translation:

Dear Granny and Grandad.

Rene is barking at the Africans but the icecream boys mostly sow we smack her.

Now my Daddy is making Tim a fort for hes army to play in

we are haven OXTAIL soup.

I have just finishd and we had a loveley timen no HOLIDAY.

biddy granny and grandad.

see you next timer i rite a letur.

love from Leah Tim and I.

LOOK AT the dack.

.... and on the dack? Why drawings of course!

I am plucking up the courage to post some of the teenage ones I wrote when we first came to Australia, they are just so incredibly cringeworthy though.

Goodnight Uncle Arthur!

As promised, here are a couple of photos from the vintage book my big sister (Leah) sent.

Some are really sweet, like this one below.

And some are just weird, like this one below!

'As Daddy reached for his Bible, a deep scowl came over Vivian's face'.

(LOVE the chairs!)

Green Scream!

A gorgeous surprise birthday package from my sister, along with a hand made card.

A silk slip - love this, it comes in a fabric covered box, from gingerlilly. a yellow apron and a vintage bed time book, not show, as I'm going to scan that to show later, (along with the detail of the pini).

A close-up of the card (cause I love it). It reads:
'In Glad School parlance, Wattie, otherwise Nona Watson, was a scream; which meant that her friends found her irresistibly, if not unconsciously, amusing'

Big thanks sis!



Calico Kitty, made for Mirabel and going to Pip in the mail.

This is from cherryskin, thank so much, very generous to share this pattern. So sorry about the blurry photo - it's the camera you know!

League of Gentlemen?

Just a special thanks to everyone for putting face paints in lolly bags!