Can it be true? Has May come to an end? How is this so? Where did it go? Sigh. With the end of this month, so comes an end to my weekly give aways (booooo). Up for grabs this week - and only av...
With a bit of time to spare at the moment, I thought that I would try and teach myself how to work a vintage dress pattern. I have only ever made one dress before and that was from a moder...
There are few things that please me more than a festival of retro-ness. I have been to a few over the past couple of years, and the majority have ticked most of my boxes. The following seems se...
Is it that time of the week already? Whoosh! Where has that time gone? Apparently, it has landed Blighty in proper summertime weather, which I am trying not to read too much into, on account of...
Finally - I have found one. A time machine!! And where do you think I headed? Yes folks. I was there - on VE Day, 1945, getting my feet into a good old shin dig and ...
For your piercing pleasu re in week three of the May Days Give Aways, we have some rather cute buttony goodness from my on line store Well Rounded Vintage... Potentially winging their way to...
Having been lent this by Penny Dreadful Vintage, and with my time of looking after The Christmas Cat coming to a rapid end, I thought I had better give this a butchers before I had to handed it, and ...
Do you, good people of Jubilee celebrating stylee, fancy a glorious day out in Portsmouth, where the history is all encompassing, the people friendly and the sun shall be forthcoming?* And for free e...
Allo again! Here we have the second of the May Days Give Aways... This has be brought to you by one of my lovely sponsors - Acorn & Will. If you have not checked them out - plea...
Today is the 67th anniversary of VE Day and I thought I would spend time remembering a group of young women who are often left off the radar. We have all heard of Land Girls. The headscarves, the dun...
Do you like historical cookery? Are you allergic to eggs? Are you fresh out of them? Do you fail, like me, to crack an egg into anything without the addition of shell? Or do you just like cake ...
So here we go folks - the first of the May Days Give Aways... Could this be winging its way to you, in all its glorious teapot-ness? I have too many pots for tea. I have been told th...
Oh yes my pretties - you read that right! Over the course of May 2012 - I shall be running a little nest of give aways. Once a week upon a Thursday there shall be a new one for your delec...
I had been messing about with rough pin curls for a while before The Beard cut my hair. They held ok, but didnt really last all day, leaving me with wavy naffness. I am pleased that this seems not to...
Or hats. Or jackets. Or dresses. The places you can pin a brooch are endless. click pic to view And so is the combination of buttons. Here are but a few. I have been busy designing and making m...
On April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the worlds largest passenger ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Walter Lords classic bestselling history of the voyage, the...
Just before the end of 2011, the wonderful Mat from Southern Retro, paid me a visit. We had met at The Chap in the summer (well..the supposed summer) and had a brief hello. We then bumped i...
I have been well and truly bitten by the Spring-clean-out-your-clutter bug. I have the achy joints and broken nails to prove it. Plus a whole tonne of treats for the charity shops. The spare do...
A very long time before I saw the now infamous James Cameron movie (which I shall tell you now, I saw approximately 12 times at the cinema - I kid you not and make no apologies - and the ...
"There are books that should be read by every generation. The latest translation and republication of Remarques story of German trench soldiers of the 1914-18 war gains even more authority in the...
I am pleased to say that I managed to dodge vast quantities of chocolatey goodness this Easter. The same cannot be said of cheese cake, brownie & ice cream, cider and one of the biggest and beste...
Ahh- HA! Remember this little series of posts? Well , here be Day Four which has (finally) landed and is so heavy it has been cleft in two from the sheer weight. You will notice that this post ...
Allo allo you lovely lot. You may have noticed of late that I have added some brand spanking new sponsors to the right hand side bar of my humble home page. It is tres rude of me to have not introduc...
Can it really be here? The end of March? Where the heck did the other months go? I dont think I even got to see Feb? It did happen, right? You know I adore cold weather but, since we were robbed of a...
Ooohhh - it has been a bit busy over at tshop - Well Rounded Vintage - of late - which is fabbalussss! And I thank you most graciously for all the support I have had so ...
I feel like I have been a resident in Crooks-Ville for a good long while now. I have been spending my days in sinus infection hell, eyes closed against the bright sun from the, I am sure, glorious Sp...
Whilst reading more books about The Great War than I dare to mention just yet, although the reviews are all nestled in my draft folder, I have been on a search for more information about the female r...
I do not make resolutions for the new year. A lifetime of making and failing has left me sticking 2 fingers up to the whole concept. Instead, this year, I have decided to change my routine a little. ...
Funny to think that, not so very long ago, parts of the UK were covered in snow. It seems that within 2 weeks Spring has decided to surge forth and has told the cold weather to jog on. And righ...
Yes, yes. I buckled. Gone are the days of me spouting forth how pointless I felt them to be. That I dont need one, and more to the point, cannot justify the expense of one. Or want one cont...
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