MY SATURDAY DELIGHTS..!! BRINGING A SMILE TO MY FACE..

Hello ladies....just a little post to share with you about what is making my SATURDAY bringing a smile to my face..

With winter in australia just a few days away now...the wonderful JONQUILS are just starting to hit the market...

SOO of course i had to buy some bunches and place them in my left over (washed!!) tin cans..tied with some string...

(hey..re my last post..more scales have been added!!)..~~ soo they are sitting with some of these scales...!!

PLUS with this season my favourite ALL time fruit is in abundance right now...MANDARINS...!!! (& i eat the skin as well!!! well some pieces..NOT all)...

AND I purchased my brand new TENNIS runners which have been on order for a few months now...as my old ones have worn out..

CHECK out the sexy MAROON colour??? what do ya think??...

whilst down the street a friend reminded me they match my glasses!!!

(a skirt matching is apparently on the horizon to come into the sports store)..~~

AND I have kind of gone a bit TIN BIRD psycho..?? a few posts ago i showed my new laptop/ebay/table blogging arrangement with some tin birds hanging from my centre piece..

Well i found a few NEW tin birds & a butterfly tucked away in my "ebay" room...so they have been added to this little tree branch...(which is now leaning far way to the right with the extra weight!)...

HEY!! leaning to THE RIGHT!!! nudge nudge wink wink!! re the election...~~~~just realised what I kind of said...??? shall leave it there!!!

AND in my bathroom I had a blank space left when removing a picture etc...SOO I went to KIMS shop (the white artichoke) the other day & bought two lovely cream tin birds...& i have hung them up on the vacant hook with differing blue ribbon that i have..

AND last but NOT least...lovely little photo of my gorgeous SOOTY (my 11yo toy poodle for bloggers who have no idea what I am talking about)..

ps...my dad is still in hospital re his new knee op...hopefully coming home to MOIS this wednesday..?? going well...but has lost weight & colour again...which i guess is associated with lying in a hospital bed...hardly able to move for 3 weeks...(would HATE to think what I would look like???)~~~~~

xx andrea

LOVING VINTAGE KITCHEN SCALES??~~~~

Hello ladies...

quick little post featuring a little collection of MY VINTAGE kitchen scales..

They are a FANTASTIC goodie...available at quite a cheap price on ebay and Oztion..

Great grouped together...

I have a couple in my bathroom with some soaps in their dish..

I have shown some which I have in my kitchen...

I am continually ADDING to this collection!!!

xx andrea

BOY!! HOW TIME LITERALLY FLIES..LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!

Hello ladies...hope you are all having a fabulous productive week??

Well today is my eldest son's 23rd birthday...AND quite by accident whilst searching through boxes & stuff....(with the BIG clean out continuing).

I found this BIG THICK HARDCOVOURED book that i used to write in...& MR B would try to copy....re learning the alphabet....numbers etc...

It started when he was in prep at age 5.......& going through a few years when HE LOVED the X FILES show...

& signed his brother up to a "contract" to star in HIS movie version of the same!!

WELL....how funny is that...?? as MR B is now about to graduate with his law degree..

& maybe specialising in contract/media law...

SOO he has gone from hardly able to read/write....(as a little preppie)....

TO becoming a fully fledged lawyer...hopefully eventually working in a TOKYO LAW office speaking his japanese...

also... Dont you just love childrens naive drawings...are they NOT the BEST???

thats ME in the pink dress???!!! never wear PINK...but what the hec??

anyway...enough ramblings from a proud OLD mum...

ps....my dad sounds better today...hopefully going to the rehab section to work on his new knee...

anyway........~~~~~~~~

HAPPY 23rd birthday gorgeous MAN!!!

xx mum & dad.. your brother!!! & sooty!!

HOME DUTIES TUESDAY!! RE ARRANGING & MORE RE ARRANGING!!!

Thanks ladies for your lovely concerns re my dad's knee operation...He is still quite "groggy" when i speak to him/visit him..

I guess that is to be expected with a BIG new KNEE operation at 86 years old..

But of course I am still really worried about him & miss his DAILY trips to my house..sitting in his chair reading the paper whilst I am on the internet nearby...& with lots of friends "tooting" their horn at him as they pass by our house..

I took him in a big bowl of STEW & heaps of BIG BANANAS on saturday...so I think he is gobbling them up!!

SOO when I am stressed...I just have TO CLEAN...(okay I clean even when NOT stressed)!!!~~~~

BUT today was one of those days where I have shifted/moved lots of stuff around..from framed photos...to my "dried roses"...

& I have started on my "MAD MAX" display...A wonderful ICONIC AUSSIE MOVIE...which is very close to my heart....

soo..thats been my day...GORGEOUS SUNNY weather...PERFECT! late AUTUMN MELBOURNE DAY~~~~~~

ps...a friend of mine has a gorgeous chic little FRENCH shop in williamstown called "THE WHITE ARTICHOKE"...she has JUST started a blog today...HER FIRST ever...& hasnt got it ALL organised as yet...

Guess who is giving her advice?? (YEP ME!!...no wonder its NOT organised!!)!!~~~

BUT her shop is SOOO Cute...FULL of GORGEOUS goodies...AT A great price...

SO it would be awesome to have a little peek at her blog...& support her over the next week or so whilst she gets it organised...& looking FAB....

encourage her with comments...as THAT is what we ALL love??....

http://www.thewhiteartichoke.blogspot.com

Her shop is a delightful LITTLE goodie nestled in williamstown...& her blog is very basic at the minute..as she just rushed it this arvo...

BUT give it time...& I think you girls WILL LOVE it...AS her shop IS STOCKED full of yummy things...

xx andrea

MIXED VINTAGE CROCHET DOILEY/DOILIES THURSDAY.!!..

Hello again ladies...well I am KIND of getting a bit MORE enamoured with MY new laptop!! (there could be a few cough & splutters associated therein...BUT we shall persist..)..

OKAY....well today...I am a tad STRESSED as my gorgeous nearly 87 yo old DAD has gone back into hospital to have ANOTHER NEW KNEE operation...

whilst typing this he will be under going this op....

Last year he had a new knee op (on his other knee)......& got a bleed...lost 2 kgs...& was in hospital for 3 weeks...

SOO I am totally dreading DAD having HIS other knee operated on..

Even though he swims 3 kms every morning....& is as fit as a fiddle...GORGEOUS LOOKING MAN....TRUE GENTLEMAN...WW2 PILOT...

I am worried sick...& doing other stuff to fill in time until the surgeon rings to say it has all gone well...

I am sitting here...forgetting really what i was originally trying to blog about?

OH YEP...My vintage LOT of crochet linen/doilies listing on ebay today...

just thought you might like to see some NICE vintage linen...

ecru...pink...white...

Fab LOT of goodies..

xx andrea

HERE GOES!! NEW POST WITH NEW LAPTOP??? TRYING..!!!~~~

Hello everyone..well i am still getting accustomed to my NEW APPLE computer re last post.. (just bought the "mouse" today which makes it much easier for me~!!)..

hubby has set the computer up for me BUT I havent had time to book in any lessons yet from the "apple" store...so that will be an interesting experience...!!...

I am just soo scared...as I am worried I will NOT remember anything they tell me..!!

& this from an ex lawyer...jee wiz...I have become very scared of learning new stuff in my 53rd year...(is this NORMAL??)...~~~~~

But i DID manage to get the nice chic roses edging on my new blog I am trying to list...

"The Vintage Hatbox"......(which will eventually match my new internet store)..

BUT I CANNOT GET the header to match it...

even hubby couldn't do it!! SHHHHH!!

soo ANY help with that would be APPRECIATED!!!

anyway with having this fab new piece of computer... I am in the process of cleaning up the table i work from at the front of my house..

SOO today i have shifted the chic candlelabra I LOVED on this table to another position in this room..

bought a nice little office tray thingey to stand beside my table/laptop..with several drawers containing bills to pay...ebay stuff...tape measures...aussie post guide..etc etc..

placed mags to read..

mags to list on ebay.."

books I LOVE...etc & other lots of bits & bobs on my "computer table"..as I call it!!

HEY!!!! it CANNOT BE A BLANK canvas ..that is NOT MOIS!!

I have to HAVE STUFF on a top of a blank piece of furniture!!!

I have even hung some little tin birds i have had for ages from the faux berry arrangement..

I changed all my bookcases around re my "FRENCH" books/magazines etc...

SOO this is MY first post with my new computer...I have been struggling to kind of find where I have kept the photos??

on my OLD computer they came up in a "date" folder...& I could look at ALL of them and pick & choose which ones I wanted.

With this computer...I am NOT sure where I have put them...so I am just going through all kind of "jpeg" images...(which isnt showing me their image)..so I am just clicking on what I think i can remember photoing in order??

NOT very effective.....SOO that is something I need to work on...

AND I have tried to delete photos I have duplicated...I did press "delete" & thought they had gone...BUT I have messed this up......

Soo please bear with me..

apologies for repetitive photos...MMM!! how to DELETE...is my next hurdle??

I thought holding down the "mouse" & pressing the delete button would do it??

Obviously doing something VERY basically incorrect.....

shall ASK the MEN of the house when they get home!!

ANYWAY......~~~~~~~~~~~~

hopefully I am kind of getting there..???

(ladies with MACs ...please DONT laugh)!!!

I was struggling with my PC...soooo this is A BIG BIG STEP for this OLD GIRL!!~~~

xx andrea