Pink Saturday, on a Sunday again, oops.

I was looking for some trims to make a collage with this morning, and realised that I had some pink trims which I hadn't shown before. I had better make this a short post, so that I can go and get crafting with those trims!

This next one is my favourite though, a very old trim, ever so soft, and in lovely muted shades of old gold and dusky rose -


Found a pair of vintage tassel ropes as well, delicously shell pink -


and I will be using some this gorgeous antique French damask ticking fabric as well -


I am glad I found some pink today, pink makes me smile.

I hope you are enjoying your day, wherever you are. Toodlepip xxx

Linking this post to PINK SATURDAY on How Sweet the Sound, where you can find loads more pink loveliness.

Thank you!

I don't think I will ever get used to the kindness of bloggers, however long I'll be in blogland. I got mail from Kimberly from ArtJoyStuff, and this lovely lady sent me this -






Why? Just because I had put a link to her gorgeous giveaway on my sidebar. You all know how much I love tags, so I was delighted to be able to add another tag from a much admired blogger to my collection. YEAH! -


This is only part of my little collection. The gorgeous birdsong tags from the swap I had been in, are on a different shelf. I still have to find a good place for all the tags I have made myself for the Tag Tuesday challenge. Now that the weekly Tag Tuesday challenge has finished, I feel somewhat lost, so if anybody knows of another tag challenge anywhere, do let me know.

I have to go now and have a rummage through my stuff to find something pink for Pink Saturday, lol. Quite shocking really how quickly I have run out of pink stuff. If I am successful, I'll be back later with a Pink Saturday post.

Toodlepip xxx

White Wednesday - Pearls, Girls!

I was playing with some pieces of costume jewellery earlier, well, actually I was trying to get some order into the heaps of stuff, and I realised that I had quite a few faux pearl necklaces. Pearls, aaah, they are such tactile little things, round, smooth, cool and softly shimmering and I love running strands of them through my hands.

So, for this week's White Wednesday over at FADED CHARM, I took a few photographs of my pearls. The first few are of a necklace which I really adore. Pearls combined with Swarovski crystals, doesn't get much better than that -


These gorgeous vintage pieces always have such wonderful clasps -


This is so much fun, piling them all up and playing with them -


Happy White Wednesday to all who are playing along as well. For more beautiful Whiteness, hope over to the FADED CHARM blog and check out the links.

Every Inchie Monday Challenge - DREAMS

DREAMS, hah, that should be easy, I thought. It is nothing abstract or complicated. Yeah right. Once I tried to project all the ideas I had on to a one inch square, things didn't look quite so easy anymore. In the end I decided to use part of one of my most precious French postcards, a very sweet little girl fast asleep on a pile of cushions, and have her dreaming of Christmas.



Of course then there was also the usual dilemma of which background to use, lol, so once again, I photographed the inchie on three different backgrounds. You have got all three here, because again as usual, I can't decide which one I prefer.

I'll have to make this post short and sweet, as I want to list some more French treasures on my Vintageland blog in a little while. Here are some of the little treasures -

A fine quality rosary from Lourdes


So hard to find these days, vintage parcel carry handles-

Some precious French religious medals, including this beautiful blue glass one-

as well as this sweet cherub one-

and an absolutely gorgeous French fabric covered chocolate box-
I should be making a tag today, but alas, the Tag Tuesday challenge is no more, the lovely Rebecca who had set us the weekly challenges had to stop due to health reasons. I need another Tuesday challenge! Any suggestions?

Right, I had better get on with things, toodlepip xxx

At last, some French Brocante/Vide Greniers finds listed

It has taken me a while to get round to it, but I have finally started listing some of my French finds from this summer on my Vintageland blog.

Some lace, some tins, some pretty things and some things PARIS, lol. It is only a small start, I'll try my best to list lots more over the next few days. Here are just a few pics of what has been listed so far -











More tomorrow!

Goodness, I am up way past my bedtime! I am off, lol. Toodlepip xxx

Pink Saturday - 1930s Lingerie Lace Trims

Just a very short Pink Saturday post today as my DH and DS3 are returning from France this afternoon, and I am way too excited to sit on the computer for long.

I found these beautiful lace trims at a vide greniers in France this summer. I have them in the sweet light sky blue as well, but the ones I am showing you today are a very lightest soft shell pink and so beautiful. I was planning to use one on a really dainty lacy collage or pillow or perhaps even a small bag. What would you do with some of these? -





Have a great weekend wherever you are, go find some fabulous bargains, craft something wonderful, and above all have fun!

Toodlepip xxx

Linking to PINK SATURDAY at HOW SWEET THE SOUND. Oodles of pink goodness!

White Wednesday - Vintage Shaving Mugs

For this week's White Wednesday at the fabulous Faded Charm blog I wanted to show you a small collection of vintage shaving mugs. Yes I know, yet another collection, lol, but there was a good reason for this one. I am a soapmaker and have used these shaving mugs in soap photo shoots.




The majority of my shaving mugs are Wade, but this white one is an Ironstone Mason's one, which is of course part of the Wedgwood Group -



Toodlepip xxx