Show & Tell Sunday

Show and Tell Sunday is back and today's topic is Vintage Figures... here's my collection

These figures are around my home

Mum is a fan of art deco style ladies





I'm a fan of these style of ladies





And love cute Japanese figures

These were a bargain steal at a car boot sale, £1

Here is my Christmas Collection from Sweet Rembrance

If you would like to see more collections visit Cerri here

I'm of to the boot sale now so fingers crossed I find some pretties to add to my collection

Show & Tell Sunday - Container Week!

I wasn't able to join in Show & Tell Sunday last week as most of my china pieces are in storage for when I move home but I can join in today!

My bedroom is my craft space and unfortunately also doubles as a storage facility for all the bits and pieces I'm buying for what has far exceeded any "bottom draw".

I showed you in previous posts (here & here) some glass jars I'd found whilst thrifting and decided filled with craft supplies they could become decorative on my shelves

I did manage to clear one draw out to house some craft supplies but didn't want to just throw them in.

I gathered some small designer giftbags I had hanging around

and found they were a perfect fit in the draw

for my ribbons

I'm off to visit Cerri & see what everyone else uses to store their supplies

I can feel craft room envy coming on!!!

Show & Tell Sunday.... Mother's

Well it isn't Mother's Day in the UK (we had ours in March) but I don't see any reason why I can't celebrate again?!!

So here's some photos and facts about my mum!

We all joke MI5 would have trouble cracking the code in mum's text messages!

Friends will pop round and ask "where you going tonight, you look nice" and mum is going nowhere she just likes to dress up to have dinner with my dad

She runs all my errands whilst I'm at work... dry cleaning... post office runs

My dinner is ready every night I get home from work and she does all my washing and ironing... declicately handwashing anything that needs it!

Every evening she brings me up a cup of tea and a biscuit

She hates to hear of anyone going without and has loaded friends and family with goodies from the cupboards... only yesterday I mentioned having to pick up some perfume for a friend from a cheaper brand because they were short of cash this month and she produced some small tester bottles from her draws to give her instead

Mum loves entertaining and tends to host a number of family events at our home.... she's always found some extra something to put on the table - she was my first teacher before Martha!

If mum reads something in the paper she'll pull the pages out and put them on my bed to read and we take it turns with passing on books and magazines we've read that we know the other will too

Mum is a die hard shopper.... she'll announce she's cutting back one week and the next is strolling home from Fortnum & Mason armed with shopping bags...

In New York last year I took mum to a Super Target for her first visit. We had 1 hour before our taxi came to collect us.... We seperated for ease... when i tried to track mum down 40 mins later she was still in the same place I'd left her!

My mum is crazy... fun....caring and I wouldn't be without her and most of all I LOVE her!

I hope you enjoyed hearing about mum today and wishing you all a lovely Mother's Day and for more bloggers posting about their mum's visit here

Show and Tell Sunday

Today's topic for Show & Tell Sunday is your favourite place to go thrifting and I think for me it has to be Boot Sales and I love it when the season starts.

It gets me out of bed on a Sunday, driving round my home town to various sales and you never quite know what you will find amongst people clearing out their homes and dealers.

I also find the prices to be better than the charity shops which seem to be getting more expensive every time I look in them!

I was pleased to find a new boot sale for this year being held on a Saturday so took myself for a visit yesterday and wasn't disappointed!

How gorgeous is this bed?

This was the state of my poor car - I need something more practical for boot sale season I think!

These were the treasures I found....

Some ribbon for 20p

This letter rack which will be perfect painted white for £1 and basket for 50p

The collection of photo's was a steal for £1.50!

I loved this picture for it's Marie feel... some bling and one of the dolls I've admired from afar of many blogs I've visited!

I visited 2 boot sales this morning and these guys greeted me at the first on the list

Here's some boot sale photos for you...

And my treasures, bundles of ribbon

More alphabet cards for crafting

Bling!

an old button card and scrabble tiles

So all in all a successful weekends thrifting and that was without thrifting all day due to family committments.

For more bloggers joining in today, pop over to Cerri's site for a list.

I know I said I would pick my giveaway winners today but I'm going to hold off until Tuesday 6th May. You can leave your comment here but any comment left since Sunday 27th Maywill be included!

Show & Tell Sunday

I've been admiring Show & Tell Sundays throughout blogland, hosted by Cerri & Analise and decided to join in today following a raid of my mum's jewellery box!

I love these spider brooches, of which mum has a couple and always borrow one at Halloween!

I also managed to get to a boot sale today, favouring the one held in a car park over the one in a field after last nights rain.

I picked up these cute Japanese figures

and some board games... for the tiles to use in crafting of course!

I'm now off to sort my photographs. I thought these new pink boxes were more pleasing than the old!

Hope you're all having a lovely Sunday.