Finds and let's Swap

Well what a glorious Sunday... I do hope it was where you were too...

I slept okay last night so was able to go to a boot-sale earlier with my ever faithful old trolley at a nice civilised 11.30am start and we found a few things...

 I have many seer sucker tablecloths but this one was too lovely to leave behind...

 A pair of rather splendid Knitting needles...

A fabulous  Regency Ware Bin... though the inside is not...

Anyone have any good tips?
I thought wire wool then spray with I'm not sure what...


Some lovely old buttons...

wooden ones

Huge mother of pearl ones..

And a rather unusual one....

I, for one, believe one just can not have too many buttons...



And finally a rather nice large Enamel bowl...

So to the Swap...

Not a lot of takers but I have always thought Quality over Quantity so...

The pairs came out as follows:

Jo from Not tonight Josephine with  Jayne from Northern Mum Down South

and

Moi with Nikki from Tales from Swallow Barn


so ladies let Swap!!



I do hope you have all survived the wind and the rain...

Hugs and smiles to all Cass xx

Happy Jewellery Swap...

I can now show you some images of my homemade part of the swap I sent to, my new friend, Nancy over in Canada because it has arrived and even better it all made her happy too!!

This was part of The Four Happy Thing Swap organised by Lisa of mrsbobobun.blogspot.co.uk

Simple soldering and twisting of 925 silver wire and semi precious stones...

to create a pendant on a 18" snake chain and a pair of earrings...

I'm currently making another pendant in blue/green/ clear for Rachel of myrainbowvintagehome.blogspot.co.uk as a swap for some of her yummy fabric...

I'm open to more swapping but you'll need to not be in any sort of hurry!

Smiles  Cass x

Vintage arrivals...

Hello again!

Oh what a week full of goodies arriving...
To cheer up a rather cold spell...

First to arrive was my vintage fabric Swap from the lovely Joanne from Revamped Vintage, you can find her blog here...

We were partnered up via Ada of vintagesheetaddict.blogspot.co.uk/

I hope to make a lampshade from each of these lovely bits above...
My plans keep changing for the bit below...

After a good soak this beauty is vibrant again and I just love it!


and some sweet little handmade paper birdies...

THEN a much awaited box arrived from NewYork via Etsy...

After another good soak in ecover bleach....

























This beautiful 50's dress, lovely full skirt with the sweetest homemade flowers at the shoulder and cute bees to die for...

This was a real treat, paid for with paypal credit from selling a couple of things on ebay...

So what else has been happening... well thanks to the very talented Lucy of http://attic24.typepad.com/ 

I have been making crochet flowers from recently found yarn...


I can't really believe I can actually crochet!!

Well flowers anyway... granny squares next...

I also found this 70"s pattern yesterday on ebay so am waiting for it to arrive so I can make my first dress...

and I have another Swap to think about this time via Bobo Bun I am paired up with the lovely Nancy from Canada... a long way away maybe but we find we have a great deal in common...


So I feel content, the sun is out, I have washing being blown about on the line, first time this year so all is well...

The week before was a different story... cd player broke... both headlights stopped working on the car (on the way home in the dark!) and the fridge freezer died... always in threes eh always in threes...


Smiles Cass x