Saturday 20 February 2010

cool cotton reel




found this in the back bedroom today. Why don't they label stuff like this anymore?

A Day's Admissions



Love this little box so much. It has always - in my lifetime anyway - sat on the telephone table in the hall (The telephone that was here til about 1985 is another story altogether!). It's a Barnardos collecting box. On the bottom is a form you fill in and you send the collected money back to them to feed the waifs and strays. Can you see that on the form it's called a 'self-denial offering'? wow!

Selvedge - a fabulous magazine


They obviously saw me coming because I just spent TEN QUID on this magazine. But it is gorgeous. In my head I decided to pretend it was a book - because £10 on a book doesn't really sound too bad.... does it?
All the things in it are too desirable for words - I want to live in a distressed wood world, where all my utensils are enamelled metal and I drift about in linen clothes pottering in the garden in between creating hugely sellable artwork.
Unfortunately cos I spent £10 on the magazine I can't afford to do any of those things so I'm off to work in Tesco in my drip-dry poly-nylon.