Scavenger Hunt!

I have been tagged in an online scavenger hunt by Fully Fashioned. I've never done one of these before so here goes!

Tell Everyone Who tagged You: Fully Fashioned.

Find and post the following items:

Your Favourite YouTube Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_no7xJk94

Any cat owner can relate to this!

A photo of something that will make people say 'awwwww' :



A Funny T-Shirt :



Something Geeky:



Some but not all of my Snoopy t-shirts!!

An Image From Your Favourite Movie:




I don't actually have a favourite movie but this is one of my favourites!

A Link to the Newest Blog You've Discovered:

http://landgirl1980.blogspot.com

A Picture of Something on your Wishlist:


Well it's on my christmas list anyway!

Tag 3 other blogs:

Land Girl 1980

Lady Cherry

Dolly Cool Clare

A long weekend of fun with nephews.

I have had a fabulous but tiring few days. On friday Himself and I travelled to Torquay for the christening of nephew number two (Oscar aged 10 months). I was on godmother duty which was a great honour and I dressed accordingly. I had aimed for a smart 1930s/40s look, with a red and black patterned dress, a gorgeous black and white spotted coat and the black shoes pictured in a previous post. I got told I looked like I had 'stepped out of an episode of Miss Marple' so I think I achieved my look.

It was somewhat windy so the hair took a battering. Should have worn a hat....
Apart from what has to have been the longest sermon I have ever had to sit through! the christening went like a breeze and the godson was an absolute angel, bless him.

We travelled home on Monday for the birthday of nephew number one, sweet sixteen and no longer my little man as he is as tall as me now!
For his birthday we took him to London yesterday to see the rock band Bowling for Soup play and do a meet and greet with the band.

To digress for a moment.....

For those of you who are new to following me. I am, and always will be an unashamed fan of rock music. I have had some, lets call them 'lively debates' with some vintage purists who almost died with horror at the fact that I adore loud music as much as I love vintage clothes. Apparently there are those who think if you love vintage you must immerse yourself in the era to such a degree you are only allowed to listen to the music of that era, therefore my love of rock makes me unworthy of the vintage I might choose to wear.
Well they are entitled to their opinion of course, but forgive me if I choose to take no notice of them whatsoever! Their narrow mindedness means they miss out on a whole bunch of interesting people (like me!) and that is their loss.

Right off the soapbox and back to last night! It was AMAZING! The band were fantastic, Himself had organised a signed birthday card from them to the nephew, which they handed over at the meet and greet. That was the highlight of his night apparently!


That's him in the middle by the way.

It was a great gig, I sang and danced and got home at 1am.
The best end to a lovely weekend.


Oh and check out the backdrop in this picture, it was drawn for the band by Himself, my extremely talented other half!

And still she shops!

So I have been off work for a week on complete rest because of a bad foot. Now in theory that should have stopped me shopping, however, of course there is the wonder of the interweb! I found myself spending an obscene amount of browsing time on places like Ebay looking up whatever random item popped into my head. I did keep Himself amused sending him links to various hideous things that I came across in my browsing! But I digress.....here are my purchases.

I my opinion a girl can never have too many elephants or too many bags so what better than an elephant bag I asked myself? Look at this little beauty!

Then I found this one!

*HAPPY SIGH*

To digress for a moment, I have to point out that in my workplace glamorous outfits are not a wise move. It is very dusty, very dirty and there are too many places to snag your precious vintage. So clothes-wise for work I'm a t-shirt, jeans and converse gal.
I just LOVED this shirt when I saw it. I'm not sure if Mr Whippy is an ice cream brand anywhere else than the U.K., but this is a print of their original 1950's logo. It was also in the sale half price = result!

As winter draws on I also got this cute little cardigan.

I did put my imposed rest to good use for some of my sewing projects. I prefer to use vintage thread where possible so I was very happy to find this job lot on Ebay for £23.

By the end of the week I was going a little stir crazy. I decided to take a slow stroll into town and see how the foot held up. Browsed through the charity shops and found a couple of lovely scarves.

With sewing still on my mind I rooted through the boxes of buttons and other stitching odds and ends one particular shop always has. I found this bag of buckles for 50p and this amazing 'bra repair set'!

A week off work.

So this week I have been signed off work by the doctor with a bad foot. She thinks that I have damaged the tendons but it could be a stress fracture so I am on painkillers and complete rest until it can be x-rayed.

I have had a blissful time catching up on reading



and watching old movies.


As well as stitching away on projects for Etsy shop. I could get used to this life!

Remembering 'The Few'.

The last two weeks have seen me wearing my silver R.A.F wings with pride in the memory of all those incredible people who were involved in The Battle of Britain, the 70th anniversary of which was last week.
The brooch is a reproduction of the ones pilots gave to their wives/girlfriends in WW2.
There have bee some fantastic and fascinating programmes on television that I have been lapping up. One called Spitfire Women came just as I am part way through the brilliant book of the same title.



Oh, it just made me want to be one of them so badly! I would love to learn to fly but not modern planes or jets, oh no, for me it would have to be a Spitfire, a Mustang or nothing.
I have to say planes have been a part of my life since it began. My father was in the R.A.F for 50 years and I have been going to air shows since I was a babe in arms, literally! All through my childhood years they were a source of ice creams and not much else and as I got older 'Boooooring' but by my early teens I became interested in the 1940's and WW2 planes in particular and a passion was born. Now just the sound of a merlin engine sends a thrill to my heart and I will run out of the house and look skywards as soon as I hear it. The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is one of my favourite places in the world to go.
So this time has been one to remember all those who served and just what they did for us. When you go to the American Air Museum at Duxford you have to walk a winding path up the slope to the entrance. It has these beautiful glass screens on each side of the pathway, etched with the outlines of American WW2 planes. I remember thinking what a clever design idea it was, to make the long pathway more attractive, then you get to the top and there is a little sign that says 'each plane etched in the glass represents an American airman who took off but never returned' . So you turn and look back at this screen and the sheer number of tiny planes is almost overwhelming.



But I digress, this was meant to be about the Battle of Britain. There are many who claim the tide of the war was turned by this epic period of warfare only because Goering changed his fighting tactics, or because of the arrival of the Spitfire, or the use of the Hurricane. Perhaps it was because of the highly experienced Polish airmen who gave up everything to fight for what they believed in, or those incredible women who delivered the planes freeing up more male pilots to fly in combat. Or perhaps the incredible young men who flew mission after mission after mission to the point of exhaustion. I say it was due to them all and I remember and thank them all.

An Afternoon of Thrift Shopping.

This week I have been on jury duty. I dare not say any more than that cos we aren't allowed to talk about it! lol. Anyway today we reached our verdict and I was released for the rest of the day so on my way home I decided to browse the charity shops in my town.
I managed to find two lovely dresses, I think the blue one may be perfect for a christening I've got coming up soon!


In the same shop I bought this satin shirt for £1.99. I'm not a huge fan of 3/4 length sleeves so I may shorten them before I wear it.



Next I found this sweet little jug for my Mum who is collecting pieces to make up a mismatched tea set. I also got 3 plates for a £1 but I suspect I will end up keeping them!


Finally I found these darning silks for 10p each.

I did buy a vest top in Topshop because I just loved it SO much.

Oh and the necklace obsession thing still goes on as you can see.......

A Visit to Bath.

This sunday Himself and I decided to use up 2 of my freebie train tickets and go to Bath. I ADORE Bath, it's such a beautiful city, notwithstanding the fact I am also a die hard Jane Austen fan! (this is the street at the end of Persuasion)

Last year the city had lifesized wooden pigs all painted up and dotted around the city. After much coercion I got Himself to go and see them and we had such a great time that when I saw this year it was lions I had no difficulty talking him into another visit. This year there were over 150 lions so we didn't see all of them but we did see most.


Here are some of my favourites.
We walked around the shops and ambled up and down various streets dodging the rain showers until we reached the Assembly Rooms which also house The Fashion Museum. Last year Himself refused point blank to go in and this year was no different! However he did seem happy with the idea of him going of for an hour or two (to the pub) whilst I went in so that is what we did. Now on the one hand I was very disappointed the 'museum' turns out to actually be just an exhibition within the Assembly Rooms. So you kept seeing signs saying things like 'we have over 2500 handbags in our collection' next to a case of say 20! *so* frustrating when you would just LOVE to see them all.

Some of the 1500 or so hats they have!
On the other hand it was well displayed with long and interesting explainations.

Like the story behind this lovely wedding dress including all the bills and receipts for the whole wedding itself.

In the final case their predictions for this autumn. I loved the above prediction the best.
On the way out there happened to be a Vintage sale.

Which was blissful to browse round but sad in that now so many people have jumped on the 'Vintage' is cool bandwagon the prices of a lot of the items are crazy high.
Finally it was time to drag myself away and meet Himself in the pub of his choice for a delicious glass of wine or two before catching the train home.