tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60866226872292152902024-03-13T15:16:12.721+00:00down to the cellarjonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-61789661921324797852014-05-14T06:38:00.003+01:002014-05-14T06:41:44.591+01:00Galt Wooden Tadpole fishing puzzle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A delightful find from last weeks car boot. A super 1960s wooden puzzle from Galt Toys. We think its designed by Fredun Shapur. We first encountered Shapurs <a href="http://stoppingoffplace.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/fredun-shapur-playsack.html">Playsacks</a> at the Bethnal Green toy museum in London. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He produced lots of fabulous items for Galt including several other wooden puzzles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We found the puzzle board above without any pieces, but hunting through the sellers other detritus we were delighted to find nearly all the pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you can see, we are still missing the girls leg. Weve seen a similar puzzle by <a href="http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VINTAGE-GALT-WOODEN-JIGSAW-PUZZLE-BIRDS-AND-THE-BEES-EDUCATIONAL-/00/s/MTYwMFgxMjAw/z/vmAAAMXQUaJRnSFh/$T2eC16F,!yUE9s6NEHv4BRnSFhTB6g~~60_35.JPG">galt</a>, but this appears to be a bit earlier. Below you can see the puzzle without the pieces in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> You may be interested to know that a Fredun Shapur show is coming to London's <a href="http://kemistrygallery.co.uk/">Kemistry Gallery</a> in October 2014, which should be very exciting. I understand Mr Shapur may even be there himself. Perhaps we'll be able to verify if this puzzle is actually by him. If you cant wait that long a 133 page booklet about Shapur was released a while back called playing with design, you can see it <a href="http://www.ideabooks.nl/9782919459056-fredun-shapur-playing-with-design">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh! and if you do happen to find the girls missing leg do drop me a line, and let me know!</span>jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-45299210539291816062013-10-14T22:09:00.003+01:002013-10-14T22:10:25.776+01:00BOAC CREW Luggage label<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nice vintage BOAC Crew Luggage label. We've sh</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">own the front and back.</span>jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-76037219906953350852013-10-10T20:27:00.001+01:002013-10-10T20:27:23.926+01:00Monkey Puppet with lenticular eyes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another recent car boot find. This unusual monkey has a plastic head with lenticular eyes. They wink and open when you tilt him. His body is made from anAfrican print towelling fabric and is roughly stitched.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Small collection of Sindy drink bottles and food stuff. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bottles measure around 25mm high and have fabulous Seventies graphics on paper labels. All great fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Once upon a time holiday makers would collect woven badges and sew them onto their rucksacks, in much the same way decals were collected and stuck into the back of car windscreens in America. Posted today are three delightful woven badges that remind us of that era. Enjoy!</span>jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-29889337662262928952013-02-08T22:35:00.004+00:002013-02-08T22:40:50.985+00:00Tootsie Toys plastic animals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyhow, back today with some more plastic animals, in the shape of Tootsie toys. I know nothing about them, but have been picking them up over the last few years. The dinosaur series seems to be much more sought after than the animals, but these fellas have a charm of their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">On the way back from Norfolk last year we stopped off at Stow in the Wold, and stumbled on this series of Indian plaster figures at a small antique shop. Battered and bruised and missing limbs they werent too expensive. We were told they wer<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">e </span>Rajasthan fort figures. Despite a yea<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">r long effort to find out more, we are still none the wiser. So here they are presented as is. </span>Hope you like them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you want to see the rest of the set, you should head over to <a href="http://www.mokarex.fr/kelloggs_jo1972_uk.html" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">Mokarex</a>. A rather good site full of more fabulous cereal giveaways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Super late Sixties beer mat promoting Walkers Crisps and Potato Sticks. The photo shows the front and back of the same beer mat. The bold stylized image, and the two colour printing reminds me of the programme covers for <a href="http://www.footballzone.co.uk/images/i-29002/29312.jpg" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">Stoke</a> and <a href="http://www.footballzone.co.uk/images/i-8000/08408.jpg" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">Coventry City</a><span style="color: orange;"> </span>football club from the early Seventies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">John Elvin <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">& </span>Bernard Gallacher at Sportsgraphic were responsible for the programmes at Coventry and also produced work for Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion football clubs. In 1972 their work was recognised with a <a href="http://vads.ac.uk/diad/article.php?title=283&year=1972&article=d.283.27" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">D&AD award</a>. It would be nice to think they were responsible for the Walker beer mats too!</span>jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-61085485454548133232012-06-11T19:46:00.001+01:002012-06-11T20:01:42.928+01:001977 Newent Jubilee Celebrations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Picked up a few more rather nice elastoplast tins last week, which Im sure I'll post soon. But what I really liked (although I didnt know till I got home) was all three had the same phrase on the side of the tin. Reminds me of Abbevilles fantastic 1987 book, on the golden age of matchbook art <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Close-Cover-Before-Striking-Recollectibles/dp/0896596958">Close cover before striking.</a> Sadly, now out of stock, it has always been </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">one of my favourites!</span>jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-65380931727444439472012-06-01T17:49:00.003+01:002012-06-01T17:54:51.992+01:001981 Plastic Charles & Diana shaped badge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She sits on a wooden base, with wheels that roll along. On the base is a rather ornate gold label in Russian, but sadly Ive no knowledge of Russian and can make no headway with what it says. Below is a close up of the label in case anyone can unravel the cats history.<br />
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Its the Cup Final tomorrow, and not only is it not the last game of the English football season, the FA have even moved kick off to 5.15. Is nothing sacrosanct anymore? <br />
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The fabulous little label is taken from The London Transport Museum <a href="http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/index.html" rel="nofollow">archive</a>, from the days when the Cup Final was still a central part of the British sporting calendar. You can search the London Transport archive via theme, and there are lots more <a href="http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/themes/theme_sub.html?IXtoptheme=Sport&IXthemeid=1.KU.U">football</a> related posters if your interested!<br />
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Should you feel the urge for even more nostalgia, you can still download the 1975 FA Cup Final <a href="http://downtothecellar.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/fa-cup-final-souvenir-wallchart.html">wallchart</a>, that appeared in Tiger, that I posted back in 2009.jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-69242701603129243332012-04-21T23:25:00.002+01:002012-04-21T23:29:09.512+01:00Going Metric tea towels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of tea towels I missed out last week........Grrrrrrrr!jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-9716470028609988992012-04-14T00:10:00.003+01:002012-04-14T00:39:15.018+01:00We come in peace!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJKS75wED7gToEkBU4bjlgzprPj8_CGfyBmqNUk7mweJZ3OL9ninPSTMD9aYpywhl3n3brXBSxJo8wOaPxXpWR0NASnuhMzDdCCPFz4lzUkjQpv2drHZdiahMaFrFfqfxiJ0PaaOElVAy/s1600/DSCF3551.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJKS75wED7gToEkBU4bjlgzprPj8_CGfyBmqNUk7mweJZ3OL9ninPSTMD9aYpywhl3n3brXBSxJo8wOaPxXpWR0NASnuhMzDdCCPFz4lzUkjQpv2drHZdiahMaFrFfqfxiJ0PaaOElVAy/s400/DSCF3551.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5731027657634682002" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Absolutely superb and really rather strange, 4.5" pink plastic female figure that Im lead to believe was made by Letraset, of rub down transfer fame. I'm still to be convinced.......<br /><br />Apparently you were given sheets of colour that you rubbed down on to the figure (in this case her jumper). Unfortunately I cant find anymore to corroborate this story, but she does remind me of the rather awkward looking girl on the front of the Human League <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://991.com/NewGallery/Human-League-Being-Boiled---Re-17174.jpg">Being Boiled</a> 7" cover, that I do know was taken from a <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eversion/325344208/">Letraset catalogue</a>.jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-87193943876593865832012-04-12T21:57:00.004+01:002012-04-12T22:54:16.752+01:00Candy & Andy...... & Mr Bearanda<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQMfGcUldHPFYkppADPsqEPHZBp1cHvRv1s2YDFTpP68kAQ-Z-5NacMnlMOMson0htSEKHnOLZYa4VdsGEi2DjWWnAU8lIwrC5jfBHw1fAZG-Hk9SipfkZRMMOoH_hyCtxMyAKd0JA8AQ/s1600/DSCF9251.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQMfGcUldHPFYkppADPsqEPHZBp1cHvRv1s2YDFTpP68kAQ-Z-5NacMnlMOMson0htSEKHnOLZYa4VdsGEi2DjWWnAU8lIwrC5jfBHw1fAZG-Hk9SipfkZRMMOoH_hyCtxMyAKd0JA8AQ/s400/DSCF9251.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730621566478492146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Apologies for the lack of recent posts, but back again with more plastic, this time in the shape of the rather unusual, Mr Bearanda.<br /><br />Mr Bearanda was a Gerry Anderson creation that apparently, never really took off. Not surprising really given the very strange mix of dolls, animals and humans. Id not heard of the Candy & Andy series, until finding out who this little figure was. Like so many of Gerry Andersons TV shows, it appears he licensed the rights to Dinky, who created a diecast version of the car, <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://www.antiquetoyworld.com.au/images/01561/">Stripey </a>(the magic mini) and a set of small plastic figures to go with it. Mr Bearanda is one of those Dinky figures.<br /><br />I found out all about Candy & Andy at the very good <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://ageofuncertainty.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/candy-and-andy.html">Age of Uncertainty</a>. Well worth a trawl. The comments on the post make interesting reading too.<br /><br />Until next time...jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-59930725346734811802012-02-08T18:43:00.002+00:002012-02-08T18:52:10.663+00:001950s I-SPY books<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj05nZwEEcY52AFvdPf-8aueS7x2gQzXEWz9yg4ccJhTAApblnYuVMp0DFc2u1Arf_2kfEWO_8z_MFb1l8eXAITg5dI-IFGps4RJ28yqyCjTu2HzQrh0-DuZ4PRBbvXc6Qub9u-pP65NSl_/s1600/ispy.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj05nZwEEcY52AFvdPf-8aueS7x2gQzXEWz9yg4ccJhTAApblnYuVMp0DFc2u1Arf_2kfEWO_8z_MFb1l8eXAITg5dI-IFGps4RJ28yqyCjTu2HzQrh0-DuZ4PRBbvXc6Qub9u-pP65NSl_/s400/ispy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706838203669130626" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Very excited to see I-spy <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://betweenchannels.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-spy-people.html">People</a>, over at between channels, last week. Its a real treat. It reminded me of my own collection of 1950s I spy books. Im sure there were more, but for the moment this will have to do.jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-22539614729160685422012-01-25T22:19:00.004+00:002012-06-24T06:49:12.866+01:00The Maharajah- Air India's character trademark<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV_6IzqMnrGG0iMgEg078Qsf_OsaHA7TZ376QDQRS8gVM_5a-sLKw0PxdZGHFzz01o-u-N7RXSsut6nw7Xzvge2DS3n5EZYl-VUFDUBFLU5m3GJSop_MastqrkgqabtgheDeUAlV2CbF5u/s1600/DSCF2833.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701698427354872290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV_6IzqMnrGG0iMgEg078Qsf_OsaHA7TZ376QDQRS8gVM_5a-sLKw0PxdZGHFzz01o-u-N7RXSsut6nw7Xzvge2DS3n5EZYl-VUFDUBFLU5m3GJSop_MastqrkgqabtgheDeUAlV2CbF5u/s400/DSCF2833.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 286px;" /></a><br />
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In keeping with the recent aeronautical theme, here is The Maharajah. Created in 1946 by Bobby Kooka & Umesh Rao at J Walter Thompson, The Maharajah serves as a character trademark for Air India. Even with one hand missing, he cuts a fine figure. For the life of me, I cant remember where I found him, but possibly it was up at The Stanley Dock in Liverpool, in the late Eighties.<br />
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You can see The Maharajah at his splendid best, over at Demonstrate, where theres a nice collection of assorted <a href="http://demonstrate.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/vintage-india-and-airindia-posters/" target="_blank">Air India posters</a>. Below is the sticker on the base of the 4" figurine.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQG7l9XABjqy0kuiH8WKD0f13jAXJqBZfm7-sxckYvxDEVBxcUHzK7ugMGKfdnB1eiUkrDP5nn9lqjxJle5oLss7snpyfP7WWDl4PpaGuFBYQ9G__9kMbh2hPueYdSeAq6b0uyhNm4Aze/s1600/DSCF2835.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701704228490880690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQG7l9XABjqy0kuiH8WKD0f13jAXJqBZfm7-sxckYvxDEVBxcUHzK7ugMGKfdnB1eiUkrDP5nn9lqjxJle5oLss7snpyfP7WWDl4PpaGuFBYQ9G__9kMbh2hPueYdSeAq6b0uyhNm4Aze/s400/DSCF2835.JPG" style="float: left; height: 294px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 400px;" /></a>jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-43515371073052332342012-01-18T17:45:00.007+00:002012-01-23T20:52:18.139+00:00Belinda Lyon clothkit oxfam cut out doll<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB80fIRm23x_72iYlTQVtdjZ-sLX_NJRfUZkNegvp_A21ipu2DICrSxSDEj8lzVfQdDWzFwifBr5mVTVfV9BA-5naE9fTQij27YULF5-ZixMHkxo3GL2SCXO07Po5bb3sbtDsT_18jAEMT/s1600/oxfam+doll.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB80fIRm23x_72iYlTQVtdjZ-sLX_NJRfUZkNegvp_A21ipu2DICrSxSDEj8lzVfQdDWzFwifBr5mVTVfV9BA-5naE9fTQij27YULF5-ZixMHkxo3GL2SCXO07Po5bb3sbtDsT_18jAEMT/s400/oxfam+doll.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5699030903554990242" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Last week my brother in law was clearing out his parents loft and he found this old doll. It looks remarkably like a <a href="http://downtothecellar.blogspot.com/2010/02/clothkits-doll.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">figure</span></a> I posted back in 2010. It turns out that she is designed by illustrator, Belinda Lyon who created a whole series of dolls for Oxfam, called cut out dolls. Sold as a pattern, and printed on a cotton <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://downtothecellar.blogspot.com/search/label/tea%20towel">tea towel</a>, which you then, cut, stuffed and made up as the doll. It was a pretty impressive series, and so, of its time.<br /><br />This doll is Malee, a Thai Temple dancer, you can see <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://hisforhomeblog.com/craft/nada/#axzz1jpheD8mF">Nada</a>, the Algerian girl from the series at <span style="font-style: italic;">h is for home</span>, who have also set up a small <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/belinda-lyon">flickr </a>site celebrating Belinda Lyon.jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-83095092562187156892012-01-11T17:11:00.008+00:002012-01-11T18:18:33.790+00:00Late Seventies Horror show<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIM_8Zs6RiSXHuuJsC8oVllE_ZU0Rpih6_CExXE_6n4MkBMO4opImBK_GsRTQy1UO6PV7SHvSwA-EbQzFeYEmYwrm9oVfp2id-wARA7S4cGGOSGBIvQ_u-NtMv6DTCNkjsjy0Shi3t516p/s1600/mothercare+dungarees.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIM_8Zs6RiSXHuuJsC8oVllE_ZU0Rpih6_CExXE_6n4MkBMO4opImBK_GsRTQy1UO6PV7SHvSwA-EbQzFeYEmYwrm9oVfp2id-wARA7S4cGGOSGBIvQ_u-NtMv6DTCNkjsjy0Shi3t516p/s400/mothercare+dungarees.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696423545490380370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I just could not leave these frightening relics from the Seventies behind, at a car boot, last summer! The heady mix of 68% polyester and 42% acrylic was just all too consuming!<br /><br />Now, while the urge to buy them may have been strong, there was never any intention to wear them! It should be noted that they fit a 3/4 year old, but there is no way Id put anyone I know through the shame of wearing them, even as a joke!<br /><br /> For anyone who's interested the labels are below.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRCx3B6pujuYAj4N8tg3JtYTIJgOlP78GAHuCNKJkYQ1I4U2gTIdSh7_0HEcU9yzmd1S8_wMOXZrDJqr2JXTJTlftsfShihEKd5KDUavB3qkMVtuNsyOhrNnJETVEIydE5X80psf6kbmr/s1600/Mothercare+labels.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRCx3B6pujuYAj4N8tg3JtYTIJgOlP78GAHuCNKJkYQ1I4U2gTIdSh7_0HEcU9yzmd1S8_wMOXZrDJqr2JXTJTlftsfShihEKd5KDUavB3qkMVtuNsyOhrNnJETVEIydE5X80psf6kbmr/s400/Mothercare+labels.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696428775809437506" border="0" /></a>jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6086622687229215290.post-9708153347372593742012-01-05T15:12:00.004+00:002012-01-05T17:18:53.382+00:00"I know what you did on holiday" Knitting pattern.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFQmFOUt6zOaW2vcIbFy29euA-NE7RTrFmjVXfkG3jdKWLah7oooU4MdrhtcpIObrMsjjZtY6FNoGHAn8AZN-fD0UxP4fD2ZjnqhlvTv3c-jg4cWN_ozUDjPMoSaI_hzvEHTBa72_Md1U/s1600/slide+knit.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFQmFOUt6zOaW2vcIbFy29euA-NE7RTrFmjVXfkG3jdKWLah7oooU4MdrhtcpIObrMsjjZtY6FNoGHAn8AZN-fD0UxP4fD2ZjnqhlvTv3c-jg4cWN_ozUDjPMoSaI_hzvEHTBa72_Md1U/s400/slide+knit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694166218479652002" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Happy New Year! I do hope 2012 will be kind.<br /><br />With the holidays behind us, here is the first post for 2012. Todays post is knitting pattern 4078 from Ladyship wools. It kind of follows on from the last post of last year, where I shared some slides, from Canada. The last three posts create a visual form of word association, which is kind of fun. There was the Fisher Price air stewardess, then the slide of the Canadian hostess , and then, todays knitting pattern of a family viewing a slide collection!<br /><br />Over the years Ive amassed a vast collection of knitting patterns. The contrived, staged family togetherness is always amusing. Like most things these days, you used to pick them up for pennies, but now the more interesting ones cost 50p or more. I dont know! It doesnt seem quite the same!jonny mendelssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979079430268766090noreply@blogger.com1