The queen of tea cosies, the queen of chooks and the queen of buttons (that’s me!) went up the hill for lunch, for op-shopping and for browsing antiques and collectibles. Then back down the hill a-ways to look at chooks, drink tea and eat home-made plum cake.
It was so great to meet you both, and thankyou Loani for my new orange socks – they really are a size 10!
Last weekend I took a drive up the mountains and found an antique shopped tucked away in a little road off the highway. It was full of beautiful vintage sewing paraphernalia, some lovely antique smocked children’s dresses, and some of the loveliest china I’ve seen in a while.
It also had this:
It doesn’t have it anymore. How could I walk past this beauty and not buy it? It still has the ant-capping on the feet.
I just love the cream and green colours so typical of the period. It kind of matches my canisters, previously featured on VTT.
It also matches some of my vintage buttons, which is always a good thing. I mean, how many people can say that they have a meat safe that matches their buttons???
I’m going to hang it on my back verandah, but I don’t think I’ll keep meat in it. I value my digestive system too much for that. But I bet it’ll be great for drying fruit and herbs.
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We all know how devastating the bushfires in Victoria were last weekend. So many people lost their property, their livelihood, and too many people lost their lives. There has been a wonderful response from the public, both in Australia and from overseas, in pledging donations to help those so badly affected by the fires.
If you’re not familiar with Etsy, it is an online site where people sell handmade goods. The Australian Etsy DUST team (Down Under Street Team) has set up a shop where Etsy artists can donate an item(s) that they’ve made for sale, and all the money will go to the Australian Red Cross for distribution to those in need.
There is a wide variety of beautiful items available, and at this point in time, $2800 (update on 14.2.09 total $5000) (update 15.2.09 $7500!!) has already been raised.
I’m donating some of my button flowers. If you’d like to help out, either by buying an item or by donating an item, please check out the store:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6902734
UPDATE: 14.2.09 I’m delighted to say that both of my bouquets have been sold. But there are many other stunning items for sale, so please dig deep!
Marian over at Marian Edwards Dreamweaver is auctioning one of her stunning scarves for the bushfire appeal. Pop over to her blog to find out more!
I’ve been wanting to participate in a craft swap for a while, and thanks to one of the Aussie Etsy teams, the down under street team (DUST), my wish has come true. So here’s a sneak peek at the bits and pieces I’m using in my swap gift. The theme, by the way, is LOVE.
I’ll be posting it to my swap partner Michvanetta in the next couple of days, so will post a pic of the finished item when I’m sure she’s received it!
From time to time people contact me to see if I’m interested in buying their old buttons. Recently I was contacted by a lovely lady whose father owned a drapery store in Sydney in the 1940s. She had inherited the buttons when the store closed down, and has had them tucked away for the last 60 years or so. Evidently her father had catalogued them by attaching them to the back of advertising signs:
There’s lots of lovely interesting old plastic buttons, some very funky 2-piece spotty plastics, and a fair bit of Czech glass. There was also about a dozen old Sylko thread boxes and these interesting rolls of old fisheye buttons, attached to double-sided tape so the quantity could easily be snipped off.
So I came home with lots of vintage treasures.
I just wanted to share a couple of pics from my walk around the garden the other evening, white plumbago and snail creeper:
I just love the sculptural flowers of snail creeper – its grown right up into the melaleuca tree and has formed a liane so thick I think I could swing on it like Tarzan … or Jane!
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