The Winner Takes It All

Or rather, we have THREE winners of the Jumbles and Pompoms Vintage Tat Treasures Giveaway.  Whoop!  Whoop!

Little Ms J and P and I carefully wrote out all the entrants on slips of paper and three lovely winners were picked out of a vintage jar.

Little Miss J and P, eyes closed, picking names from a jar

Vintage Tea Time wins the Paperchase goodies:

Rachael (spelled correctly this time) @ CleverCheshireCats wins the books:

And finally:

Dawn, aka Country Girl @ Life on the East Coast wins my old tat  this charming selection of vintage goodies:

Ladies, plse email me with your address so that I can send your prizes off to you.

Thank you everybody for entering my first giveaway.  It was soooo much fun!

One last thing.  I'm taking part in Sarah from Modern Country Style's garden party on Weds.  See the button on the side.  Why don't you come too?



A shoal of fishy dishies

Mr J and P came home t'other day very pleased with himself indeed.  He'd bought, from the charity shop close to his work, a set of 9 (yes, 9!) fish plates for the princely sum of £1.50!!  That's a bargain and a half isn't it? 

Made in the 1960s by Arcoroc of France, a firm which produces glassware for restaurants.

Luckily, we had friends over for the weekend where they could be shown off at every opportunity.  The problem is that we are awash with plates and there is no room for our little fishy dishies in the plate cupboard. So they are cluttering up our work top at the moment together with our jars and trays as well as the regular sort of kitchen paraphernelia.  What is a body to do?

I, too, am feeling v pleased with myself.  I've finally made something from the 1950s piece of material that I blogged about here,  Not one but two cushion covers.  I even added some pompom trimming which has been festering (not literally, I hasten to add) in my sewing stool for over 10 years!

Here they are nestling together on the armchair.

Here's a close-up of one:

And a close-up of the other.  They're subtley different, I'll have you know!

Now folks, there's still time to enter the JUMBLES AND POMPOMS VINTAGE TAT TREASURES GIVEAWAY.  Go on, you know you want to....... Just see my previous post or click on the Giveaway button on the top right of the page and voila! 

Finally, inspired by my reasonably successful attempt at cushion cover making with pompoms, I've joined the fabulous Felt Fairy's monthly make pledge.  Yes, little old me, making things once a month (we'll see how long that will last shall we?).  I'm off now to look at some of the wonderful makes on show.  Byeeeeeee.

Jumbles and Pompoms Vintage Tat - oops I mean - Treasures Giveaway

Whoop!  Whoop!  Yes, folks, I'm whooping and clapping like crazy today.  To celebrate the fact that I have now got a whole 100 followers, I am having a GIVEAWAY.  Yes, it's the Jumbles and Pompoms Vintage Tat Treasures Giveaway. 

There are THREE sets of prizes up for grabs.

Firstly, this little lot consisting of a vintage apron (50s or 60s), my Jumble Sale game which I bored you about here and a terrible picture of a rather cute Welsh tapestry purse (it's blue, purple and green).  I love Welsh tapestry.

The second set of prizes consists of the fascinating and very useful "Make Do and Mend" book (originally published in 1942 by the Ministry of Information) and the less useful (methinks) Shopping for Vintage:  The Definitive Guide to Vintage Fashion.  The latter has got nice pics though - see below:

The third set of prizes is not vintage in any shape or form but consists of bargains bought at the recent Paperchase sale.  A pretty box containing 6 HB pencils, a cute tea towel with a cat on one end and a dog at t'other and a set of four snack boxes that fit inside each other:

Like so:

I was going to include The Merry Game of Floundering pictured below and which I posted about here but I noticed that four out of the twelve fish are each missing a piece - boo hoo.  I already have a complete set but if anyone is interested in having an incomplete set(!), please let me know below:



 So, to be in with a chance of winning:  you have to be a follower and leave a comment below telling me which set of prizes you'd like to be considered for.  You can be considered for all three sets of prizes or just one or two - it doesn't matter!  Remember if you want to be considered for the incomplete Merry Floundering game just let me know!  Is that clear?  (Let me know if this is confusing!).   Little Miss J and P will pull the winners out of a vintage jar(!) on Sunday 6 Feb.

Finally, thank you all for following me and putting up with my crazed ramblings.  Byeeeeeeeeeeeee.