❤ For The Love Of A Vintage Tina ❤

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▲ Film It Friday ▲

HELLO !

And welcome to Film It Friday

Please join us here every Friday and link up with your own videos, we would LOVE 

to see them.

So here we go, this weeks movie

An InLinkz Link-up

▲ A Quick Paint Job ▲

It really didn't take long at all, and I really like the change.

Now I am on the hunt for a J. H. LYNCH or a

V. TRETCHIKOFF or both, to set the colour off nicely.

Before

After

Valerie

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▲ A WEE NOOK ▲

With Oscar back at nursery this week, the inevitable post Christmas sort out/spruce up has began. I have a pot of paint at the ready for the lounge (fireplace) wall, but with a migraine threatening (again) yesterday I decided to go for something a lot less strenuous.

I began a sewing project last week, which I will hopefully be able to show on the blog some time soon, but in the midst of the sewing I had to acknowledge to myself that my sewing stuff was in a real mess. Things were scattered around the house and the sewing kit box contained a giant ball of tangled threads with random sewing objects trapped in among it. It took me much longer than I had expected, an hour and a half, but I eventually sorted it all out and made myself a wee sewing nook at the desk in the dining room. Duncan uses the desk when he is working from home so the less desk space used the better, this is how it turned out.

I am fairly happy with it. My sewing is very much at the beginners stage so a whole sewing room (or even a whole desk), isn't warranted, but this will be just fine for an easy tidy up after 30 minutes of glaring at my wonky stitching ;-)

Valerie

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▲ SAME OLD SAME OLD ▲

I am under no illusions that my love of vintage things stems from a happy childhood, and most of the things I find myself looking for or have obtained already hold some link to a memory of the past.

This painting of The Crying Girl hung in my Grandma's spare bedroom when I was a little girl. My sister and I slept in that room when we stayed over with my Grandparents and they were very happy times (I rescued this painting right before my brother slung it in the skip when we were clearing Grandma's house, he obviously has a different sentimentality from me). She is now in my bedroom above the fireplace.

This little Cinderella is currently sitting on my sewing shelf, but she originates from the 1960's. The watch company Timex gave a whole load of these little figures away free with their watches in the 60s. My Grandma worked for Timex and so we all wore Timex watches growing up. My Mum had 2 of these Cinderella's, one on each end of the mantle piece ( I have one and she has one now).

When I saw this drinks decanter in the charity shop today for £2.50 I knew exactly what to do with it.

Fill it with bubble bath of course. I remember a huge box of decanters filled with bubble baths being sent over to my sister and I from my Nana (my Dad's Grandmother). They were probably all cheap as chips scents and I am surprised they didn't bring us out in rashes, but we had great fun mixing them in our baths. This is now sitting pretty in the bathroom (perhaps still needing a foil bow tied around the neck though).

Sometimes the same old same old really is the best, and speaking of which, its Saturday night so I am off to have some of this -

Chana Saag recipe HERE

Paint my nails with one of these old favorites

And watch a Tom Cruise movie (something I seem to have been doing my whole adult life).

Happy Saturday

Valerie

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At The Weekend

Christmas

 curried leftovers, naan and chips.

Food And A Bauble

Home made sweet potato and chickpea madras and Indian platter mix 

1960's Christmas baubles, bought from Ebay a few years ago

FREE KNITTING PATTERN - Vintage Skaters Hat

I will try and put this into a pdf format soon, but for now, here is my pattern for a Vintage Style Skaters Hat.

Vintage Style Skaters Hat

Free Knitting Pattern

Materials

Chunky Yarn in your choice of colour 
7mm Straight Needles And 5mm Double Pointed Needles

Pattern : Seed Stitch

Seed stitch is , Knit, Purl, Knit, Purl (cont across row), on row 1, and on row 2 you Purl the Knit stitches and Knit the Purl Stitches
(instructions and image here - http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-knit-the-seed-stitch.html )

Using 5mm DP Needles
Cast On 3 Stitches
Make an i-cord aproximatley 18cm long (instructions for i-cord are at the end)
Change to 7mm Needles
Next Row [RS] : Knit 1, Knit Front and Back and Front again of next stitch, Knit 1 = 5 stitches
Next Row [WS]: Slip 1, Knit 1, Knit 1, Knit 2
Next Row [WS]: Slip 1, Knit Front and Back of next stitch, Knit 1, Knit Front And Back of next stitch, Knit 1 = 7 stitches
*Next Row [WS]: Slip 1, Knit 1, Purl the Knit Stitches and Knit the Purl stitches, until you reach the last 2 stitches, Knit 2 (all increase Wrong Side rows will be knitted like this)
Next Row [RS]: Slip 1, Knit 1, Knit Front and Back of next stitch, Knit the Purl stitches and Purl the Knit stitches until you reach the last 3 stitches , Knit Front And Back of next stitch, Knit 2 = 9 stitches* (all increase Right Side rows will be knitted like this)

You will have a 2 stitch Knit border, an increase stitch, Seed stitch in the middle, and increase stitch, then a 2 stitch Knit border at the other edge.

Repeat The [WS] and [RS] increase rows until you have 15 (for a medium sized head) or 17 (for a larger sized head) stitches in total, ending with a [WS] row.

You will now continue in Seed Stitch without increases
[RS] and [WS] Rows, Slip 1 Knit 1, Knit the Purl stitches and Purl the Knit stitches until you reach the last 2 stitches, Knit 2 stitches.
Continue until work measures 20cm from the start of the increases (end of the i-cord).

You now need to Decrease

[RS] and [WS] : Slip 1, Knit 1, Knit 2 together, Knit the Purl stitches and Purl the Knit stitches until you reach the last 4 stitches, Knit 2 together, Knit 2 stitches.
Once you have 7 stitches you will knit together the 1st and 2nd stitch and then the 6th and 7th stitch will be knit together, = 5 stitches, on the next [RS] row knit together 1st and 2nd stitch and then the 4th and 5th stitch will be knit together, 

Once you have 3 stitches, switch to 5mm DP Needles, you now need to make an i-cord the same length as the one on the other side, approximately 18cm.
Cast Off 3 stitches and sew in ends.

i-cord instructions are Here

** I am not a professional knitter so if there are any errors or if the instructions are not explained plainly enough, please let me know **

Valerie
xxx

Instead Of The Phone Dump

I really didn't have 15 photo's on my phone this week, to do a Friday Phone Dump (see last Friday), so instead I thought I would show you the things I picked up in the charity shop today. There are 6 charity shops on my way to and from nursery and I do pop in to them fairly regularly. I also moan quite a lot about the pricing in 4 of the 6 shops because I feel they are far too over priced. The Salvation Army shop seems to be the best for bargains and that's where today's purchases are from.

Striped tablecloth - £1.99
I know it is spoiling the look by plonking a big monitor on top of this, but the room is also a functional room and  this is what we do in here (download things, watch TV, and tucked underneath is a PS2 and a PS3).

Clock £1.99
Would you call this a starburst clock? I guess it is sort of. Anyway, it suits the room very well, and so far seems to keep good time.

Glasses / Egg Cups - £1 for the set
These London Monument glasses were so cute I couldnt leave them behind at £1. When I was very young, I was given a lemonade in a tall gold rimmed glass and cordial undiluted in a glass just like these, every New Year. It was the children equivalent of  'a pint and a nip'. I may have to reinstate it for Oscar next New Year.

And finally since I don't much like putting photo's of myself up, I will slip this in at the end, a vintage style 'Skating Hat' I knitted for myself in a couple of hours (I can see myself knitting up many colours of these for next winter).

If anyone wants the pattern, let me know and I will write it up.

Have a lovely weekend
Valerie