Monthly Archives: June 2009

1940′s Fashion Magazines…Raffia and Felt

Antiques fair in the forum in Norwich picked these amazing German fashion magazines fom 1942.  Absolutely adore the colours, the magazines also have their original sewing patterns although thay are a tad more complicated than our patterns! Also got a couple of nice 1920s/30s Raffia pattern books….but best of all a whole stack of vintage ...

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Vintage 1950′s Eye Candy Prom Dress Stunner!!!

Its the same every year, around February, March we start getting crazed for Vintage Prom dresses.  Every year June/July time the moment prom season is almost over, we find a stunner!  It would make sense to save them up and have prom dress extraganza for the following year, but we never do!  Last night after a busy ...

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1970′s Super Size Floor Toys Pattern

We find plenty of patterns and how tos for the smaller ones but have never found a pattern for the larger ones, until now!  Will post the result if Tracey ever decides to make one..  Or if anyone wants to buy this am happy to sell it on… Cx

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These girls just love to dance!

Awoke this morning to an inavasion of paper dolls…….how they loved to dance! We managed to catch a few, will look perfect in the boudoir, covering Tracey’s perfume bottles.. Tags: crepe+paper+dolls, dolls, handmade

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Free Vintage Knitting Pattern Cutest 1940′s Wool Toy Rabbit

We have hundreds of Vintage Knitting Patterns, though I would share a few for free.  Here’s the first, a cute wooly rabbit form the 1940’s.  You can download this vintage pattern here.  The pattern is in pdf form so you will need a pdf reader such as Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader ...

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Sunday Booty!!

Car Booting on a scorching hot Sunday morning… we went to three different sales heres what we found…. Cute Art Deco Tea Cup Some nice pieces of costume jewellery Two Holly Hobbie 1970s embroideries

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Tiny Treasures… Vintage 1950s Summer Dress

This week amongst our regular haul, we came across some childrens stuff..  These two pieces are so cute we just had to share. Tiny 1950s St Michaels floral cotton dress, I would guess it would fit a two year old. Cute 1950s knitted cardigan with matching knitted cloche skull cap ...

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