After nearly a full day yesterday of fine tuning and tweaking this blog, I thought I’d better start posting some content, this is where I struggled. Its not the fact that I can’t find things to blog about, its the fact with have too much stuff…. rooms, cupboards, trunks , boxes and tins crammed full of vintage ‘junk’ & more stuff being added daily.
Some off the stuff we really like to collect:
- Vintage Clothing: I think we own about twelve items between us that we have actually purchased new!
- Fabrics and Trimmings: One full room full! Will photograph one day when its tidy (never)
- Vintage Cosmetics: Bottles, Compacts, Boxes & Advertising
- Vintage Costume Jewellery: Tracey teaches me something new everyday (even if i don’t want teaching)
- Vintage Toys: Not the stuff you see behind glass in antiques centres…we collect the stuff that ensures strange looks when you purchase from the charity shop, the stuff the owner gives that smug ‘I cant believe I’ve sold that’ look when you hand over your money at the car boot sale.
- Books: We have hundreds of books that we cherish, last year when we were told to evacuate due to possible flooding, these were one of the few things we moved upstairs as they would take ages to replace.
I thought I might post some articles and patterns on vintage sewing and knitting as we have a huge amount and people like free stuff! So whilst going through our ‘craft section’ I came across a book I purchased a while ago at an antique fair…
Art and Craft Education…. A magazine for all teachers of Art and Craft
The book is amazing!! I just wasted an hour reading it! Its a bound volume of the magazine dating from the outbreak of WWII through to May 1940. The deco style picture and colours are stunning… its the ultimate vintage thrift book. So many beautiful and quirky articles….I now know how to mend my own boots, use broken bakelite to make presents and have found hundreds of uses for old newspaper and loads of stuff to do If we are ever evacuated!
Heres a few pictures below, click on the first one it should, fingers crossed bring up a gallery which you can scan through, please comment me if it doesn’t work..
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Oh thats very clever – all worked fine! The ‘bags for evacuees’ are so poignant – I cannot even begin to imagine making one for our boy! and I LoVE the cigarette box animals. Can’t think many children will get the chance to make those – the school won’t even take egg boxes anymore! t.x