Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Thursday, April 23, 2009

1954 Vogue Knitting Jumper


I have just finished this jumper, I'm so proud
And I hope however gets to wear it will love it as 
it's being sent to Melb. 

You can read more about it on My Ravelry page


Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Collecting

I thought I'd join in with Meet Me At Mikes weekly blog homework and this week theme is collecting. Well I racked my brain trying to choose what to include; Crockery, napery, stationary, knit patterns, uke music, my precious complete Golden Hands books or my magazine collection. 

My husband decided to make this easier by taking the camera into work, but I still have the scanner!

Now I haven't counted, but I would have over 100 vintage mags from the '20s through to now (though I wish I'd kept that 3D Dolly from the '80s- it was magical) so I had to narrow it down.
 I chose the '50s because there is a sumptuousness to these covers, war was over, lifestyles and incomes were on the up and there seems to be an air of possibility. 

So please enjoy








Thursday, February 5, 2009

Pears Cyclopaedia Vocabulary B

Blackguard- (n)-vulgar fellow
Bumptious-(adj)-boastful, self assertive

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Vocabulary early 20 century style

Well hello!

I have a Pears' Cyclopaedia with many fabulous sections such as the Ready Reckoner, wireless, office compendium and many others. However the dictionary is something else.
So lets start at the beginning shall we...

A
Acephalous-  (adj) headless
Agglomerate- (v) to mass together

Now try to use these in a sentence