Have a quick look at these lovely little vintage aprons I found last week

sweet aren't they...

Here's a closer look

those dear little embroided peg dollies on the top one, it was an awwww moment when I saw them...

I like the "tattoo" rose too

And I did a little happy dance when I found the original tag still attached to the bottom one, see...

I have never seen a peg apron before, have you? I can't believe housewives actually wore these, although I suppose they would come in handy...we use Lucy Violet's peg tin...my husband insisted on bringing it back from Melbourne

I'm glad he did because it really is the most useful thing...

and we still use Lucy's wooden pegs to hang out our washing...

don't you think that's nice...

No washing on the line today though...it's too wet x

Just a tea towel to end...

not a very old one, but because this is the place where Lucy and Tom decided to build their little weatherboard cottage and where they lived for many, many years, I thought it would be o.k. to include it.

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I'm going to t-r-y my very hardest to keep today's post as short as I can...this is NOT easy for me...Duh! I'm already on the verge of getting carried away and rambling on and on and on....

So I'll stop now and get to the point. Here's another treasure I found in an op-shop last week...

I don't buy old books that often (mostly because we don't have a place to put them) but I was glad I bought this one, because when I got home and opened it I found wonderful pictures like these...

there's that "Ikea horse" again...

 Seriously, it's just like looking through the current issue of Inside Out or Real Living ("trendy" Australian house and garden mags) yet this book was published in 1965! It just goes to show that good design never really loses its appeal...

(and apart from the coolness factor just consider the water-wise nature of these 60's gardens...)

We have a similar look in our garden

 we paid five dollars each for these beautiful vintage tripod pots...one of our most exciting garage sale finds/bargains of all time!!!

"House Plants" also came with an added bonus: tucked inside I found this

all in all not a bad way to spend a dollar...

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Norwegian...Mid-Century...Pewter...Salad Anyone?

I'll be it serving with these

pewter servers

invented by (that's how the Norwegians describe it)

Guttorm Gagnes

Guttorm Gagnes was a designer for the David Andersen gold and silversmithing company (established in Norway in 1876) from 1906-1964. This is his Old Norse pattern. These are lovely and chunky and I think, a wonderful example of 20th Century Scandinavian design. They conjur up images of Vikings sitting down to eat at an enormous medieval table, don't you think?

I found them at a local op-shop AND they came with a friend too...

I have been unable to discover very much about this piece...please help if you can...

(did you see the Ikea horsey?)

I do know that this is a 20th century mark belonging to Jacob Tostrup (founded in Oslo in 1832)

I've found lots of treasures at the oppys recently...I've had a lot of luck and so much fun...those op-shop Gods have definetely been smiling...I'll show you the rest of my haul over the course of the week so please check back to see some of the other wierd, wonderful and lovely things I was lucky enough to find.

There will also be more on the real Lucy Violet, thanks for your lovely comments on that post btw x

Just a couple of quick things before today's t.t.

Kel's vintage sheet swap is definetely a go-er. She has limited it to 40 participants this time so DON'T miss out!

Click here for more info.

And. If you'd like to win this fab poster

you can by visiting Aliya's lovely blog, Papermoons and Macarons here x

Today's t.towel is neither vintage or mine. It belongs to the little op-shop where I volunteer on Sunday mornings (more about that another time...and no, I haven't unearthed any real treasure. yet...) I bought it home to wash and took a pic because I thought you might like to see it

for the record, I am somewhere between Horrors and Hormones...

 linking to Sophie's

p.s. I have been asked how big the Norwegian pewter "cutlery" is...

the servers are 25cm long and the spoon is 18cm so we're not talking teaspoons!

Hello from me on a wet Friday arvo here in Perth...I wasn't going to post today but (how many times have you heard me say that?) I found something special while I was cleaning out the linen cupboard that I wanted to show you.

Look...

my most treasured vintage pennant of all

It belonged to the real Lucy Violet, my husband's Nan. I'd forgotten all about it and finding it tucked away on the very top shelf was such a lovely surprise. My husband and I found it when we were packing away Lucy's house when she died at very nearly one hundred years old! It is in wonderful condition and has obviously been looked after over the years...Lucy Violet must have treasured it as much as we do now.

Lucy at ten, with her big sister Ruby who is sixteen in this pic

Then I remembered this little tin we found at the same time

can you read the inscription?

it says

To Lovey

Love from

Boy

1932

How incredibly sweet are those words? Lovey and Boy. Oh my. Boy was Lucy's husband, she also called him Tommy. Here they are before they were married

on the back of this photo Lucy has written

Lucy and Tom, the youngest of the Four Musketeers (as we four call ourselves)

More sweetness...unfortunately I know nothing about the Four Musketeers, I wish I did...

This is what Lucy kept inside her little tin from Boy

I wonder if the tiny shell is from the beach in St Kilda?

( the newspaper article is about the marriage of my husband's parents)

Here she is on her wedding day

look at that bouquet...water lillies...beautiful

I still have Lucy's wedding dress, but in the tradition of mending and making do Lucy dyed it blue and made it into a suit. I need to wear sucking-in pants to wear it though, her waist was tiny!

(my wedding dress was very similar to Lucy's btw)

We have lots of other treasures too including Lucy's teen-age diaries and her love letters to and from Boy which are charming and lovely and quaintly innocent. I promise, there will be more about Lucy Violet to come...

Now for something colourful

my favourite shelf in my clean and tidy linen cupboard...

and I don't think I'm letting the cat out of the bag when I tell you that I think Kel is planning to host another wonderful vintage sheet swap soon...check out her blog here and send her some love and encouragement if you're interested in being part of it. You can see the lovely vintage sheet fqs I received  here

As always, thanks for reading, take care and have a lovely, lovely weekend x

just one of the tea towels sent to me from lovely Scarlett

Contrary Mary

Just a few quirky, funny little bits and pieces I've found recently that I thought you might like to see. I know my husband would like to see how I've been spending our money while he's away, so this post is a catch-up for you Anth, and for anyone else out there who would like a sticky-beak...

NOTE: I am a very cheap wifey, most of the things I buy come from op-shops, or, even better, the side of the road!

Alrighty...first up this sweet little home-made dolls cradle

it came home with me because I couldn't resist the dear little nursery rhyme transfers it has been decorated with. There's...

Little Jack Horner

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

 (I've only got two children and most of the time I still "don't know what  to do"!)

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Indians.

I think it's sweet that one of the cradle's previous owners has painted rays on the sun with nail polish. The cradle also came with funny net curtains hanging on the sides, I was going to throw them away until I noticed how lovingly they were made...ribbons and runching. Oh. They are soaking in Napisan at the moment and when they are whiter than white I will put them back...where they belong.

I also found: this rustic little stool

for one dollar at a garage sale

I'm trying to scrape off the chipboard someone naughty has stuck to the top.

this metal chair

freebie!

on the side of the road

I'm going to paint it bright yellow so it will say "look at me!" against our charcoal coloured house. And yes, I know, I need to make us some marmalade!

a lovely Italian vase and a pile of vintage Ladybirds

all bible stories though...

my favourite would have to be Animals, Birds and Plants of the Bible!

a pretty blue flowery beauty case

it's just as pretty inside too

see.

a slightly crazy copper fish, which looks pretty good against our copperish wallpaper

And...I think I've saved the best till last...

a windmill!

but not just a windmill, it's a lamp and a music box too!

It needs "attention" (the music box sometimes quite scarily starts playing of its own accord!) but I am besotted...and I've got enough clogs anyway!

I know this is a l-o-n-g post, but because it's going to be my one and only for the week, I've tried to cram in as much as I can...believe me when I say it could easily be longer!

Before I show you today's tea towel I want to thank you for your nice comments on my "quilt" Thanks guys, you are very supportive and encouraging and I really appreciate it. And I'm also happy to see I have some new followers. Yay!

Maybe I should do one of those wordless post's next time...

Here's the tea towel

xxx

p.s. next time I'll show you the gorgeous tea towels I recently received from lovely Scarlett...she loves Elvis, doncha know...

oops, linking to thrift share Monday

Ok, so I had absolutely no intention of posting today...zero, zilch, nada BUT then I saw this a-m-a-z-i-n-g house on Modernist Australia and before I knew it I was saving pics and typing in my Blogger password!

look at those blue tiles!

I love this house! If I had $750 000 in my back pocket I'd be moving in instead of typing this!

The real estate blurb about this gorgeous gorgeous house says this

original 50's home (grand in in its day) waiting to be restored or a block of land with duplex potential at the top of the golf course

What do they mean, grand in its day?
Huh?

The kicker is the bit about the block of land with duplex potential...it would be so sad if this house was demolished...it's sitting on a primo piece of real estate so sadly this will probably be the case...sigh. I so hope someone lovely buys it and keeps it to live in. 

Check out the kitchen:

perfection!

 the tiles in the bathroom:

the study:



and a corner of one of the living rooms:



I know modernist architecture isn't everyones cup of tea, but it's certainly mine. What do you think? Do you like this house too? Do you think it would it be a shame to knock this down and replace it with a couple of Mc Mansions? Or not? (it's totally o.k. if you do...I'm about to climb down from my soap box!)

Thanks for reading...the house is in Yokine if you're interested. All pics are from Reiwa.com...where you can find more to look at if you're interested...maybe someone out there with the readies reads my little blog...fingers crossed.

On a completely unrelated note, I have the loveliest followers and I think you are all terrific. Really.

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