Childhood chores....

Me and hubby were talking about childhood chores that we used to have to do as children to help around the house. Mine used to be to iron all the hankerchiefs on a Sunday morning and there used to be loads...Mums Dads mine and my 2 brothers. I didn't mind doing Mums as they were so pretty with embroidered edgings and lace corners etc...but the big ones yeuk!!!! and then of course there was the shoe cleaning to do several pairs lined up, actually used to share this job with my Dad there was an old dresser in what we used to call our "breakfast room" in the home I grew up in the dresser was built in with huge great drawers and doors under and for some reason Dad kept all the shoe polishes etc in there....hmm! couldn't see that happen knowadays. Does anybody clean shoes anymore or get shoes heeled, or is it just me? Another job, cleaning out the fire grate, used to loathe that job back then....oh and used to have to polish the wood floorboards either side of the carpet runner in the hallway, the hall was long Mum and Dad used to live in a Victorian terrace house and it was big but so very very cold, no central heating then....the hallway used to run from the beautiful front door mosaic glass entrance vestibule along from hallway, down 5 steps to another hallway, along there and then down 2 more steps to back lounge...polishing seemed to take me for ever....and then of course there were the jobs to help my Grandma....oh the joy of using an old turn handle wringer to wring the clothes, it used to fill me with glee to put the clothes through 2 or 3 times so they came out cardboard stiff......such sweet memories.....what are yours?

Long time no blog...but hello...

Hi.....been a tad lazy of late keeping my blog up.....put it down to "what on earth do I write about syndrome" But anyway am here now and a few bits and pieces to show you....well have given the ol' blog a spring look, hope you like it, the header picture is one of my watercolours, well a copy of a painting by artist Terry Harrison, love his stuff..understand I have to put this down...but anyway don't you feel that you could just wander down that lane with all the bluebells, step over that sty into a beautiful meadow, I just feel the need to blow away those winter cobwebs don't you? First off have been making some doiley type mats for the table, red set for me and blue/green set for my friend to go with her birthday pressie. Mind you she might read this before end of week and will know that I've made them for her. Mind you its a bit like coals to Newcastle as she has her own embroidery machine and is very clever with her ideas and designs...But anyway hope she likes them.

Started to do a couple of Easter card designs....hmmmm!!! edges look terrible on here but the cards in reality look Ok.AND THEN SQUEALS WITH DELIGHT.....................TREAT FOR

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GORGEOUS NEW CATH KIDSTON BAG...will see me through the whole summer...goes with most things, very roomy. I looked high and low for a bag I liked, tad expensive for what it is I think but CK seems to have the cache on this floral stuff...so for girls like me a must have.