Its a big week..

Hi y'all!
Yep, its a big week this week. Guess who's birthday it is tomorrow {questioning look}?..... Not to blow my own horn or anything, but.... MINE! And it's a big one. 3-0. OMG. Today is my last day in my 20's! {sobbing!} LOL! Nah, it'll be ok. Really, it will. It will, wont it?
Do you want a quick recap of some moments of my 20s?
Here goes!
I graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science (Microbiology). And started work in Pathology where I met Willy.I went to Disneyland 3 times and Disneyworld once!I went on this ridiculous Rollercoaster at Knott's Berry Farm, 3 times. I LOVE adrenaline!
I went to NZ and did the Canyon Swing and Paragliding off the top of Bob's Peak in Queenstown. (yes, those pics are me!)
I went to Hawaii twice, once with just Willy and once with Mum, Dad, Alicia, Xander, my Godparents and Willy!I visited Japan (loved it!)
Will and I got engaged on the top of Mt Fuji in Japan!
Then we got married :)And honeymooned in America. We went to LA, Vegas (been there 3 times), NY (been twice), Washington DC, Grand Canyon (been twice) and Disneyland (of course!)
Then I fell pregnant. Look at that tummy (and fat face!) When we were married I was 28 and I never thought that I'd have a baby by 30!I gave birth to the gorgeous little man, Jaimeson! A very uncomplicated labour and birth, just gas, no epidural. Hooray!
Wow! I guess I did do a lot in my 20s! I am so grateful for a supportive, loving husband and gorgeous son, my fantastic loving and caring family and my humourous and fun friends! I am very blessed! I guess turning 30 wont be so bad after all, if it's even a part as much fun as my 20s were, then it will be alright!
:) C

Scrappin' Saturday!

Hi y'all!
Happy Saturday! I'd like a quiet one at home, seeing as I keep going out every day. I just can't help myself. I plan to spend the day at home, then Willy goes to work and everyone at Hotel d'Lam goes out and it's me at home with Grandma and my MIL and I get itchy feet and feel the need to go out! Even if it is just for a wander around the shops and a coffee! I should stay at home. I will stay at home {chanting to self}.
Here are some pages of Jaimeson that I finished last year.
Oh I loved my baby's little pouty lips! I'm pleased to say Jaimeson inherited my mouth and chin (gotta get something from me!) but this little pouty thing is all his own! I know you're not supposed to kiss baby's lips and all (to do with bacteria transmission or something) but I've snuck a kiss now and then {giggles}. Those lips are too cute! Give me some sugar! {laughs!} I had to use that sticker on this LO!
And this second page has pics from Jaimeson's Woodland Baby Shower, when I was about 34 weeks pregnant. Look at that massive bump! Sweet! I love that "houseplan" BG paper and have been hoarding it for years but seeing as I don't have a house (and wont in the near future) and the colour matched my top so perfectly, it got used. Awesome {high five!} The pregnant lady cut out on the right side is a chipboard piece with a removable chipboard heart! Too cute! I coloured the heard with red ink and diamond glazed it so it would be shiny, while the rest of the girl I stamped all over in silver ink, then I replaced the red heart in the little cutout bit. I like her! A lot (2 words Yvette, happy?- LOL!)
Love that bright Apple paper too.
Hope you're having a great weekend!
:) C

Some Vintage Stuff for a Friday

Hi y'all!
Jaimeson and I have had a fun little day today. We started out this morning by popping by my cousins place where Aunty Julie was having a card making day with her grandchildren. Jami and Georgia are such good babysitters! They enjoyed lots of cuddles with Jaimeson, which was great for me cos it left my arms free to have a cuppa with AJ! Jaimeson loved Blake, and he would lean out around you, just so he could keep following Blake around the room! It was so cute! Jai's going to love playing with his second cousins when he grows bigger!
Then we jumped on the M5 into the city cos I had to pick up some Lego Primo I won on ebay, and it was conveniently only 10 mins from the giant Salvos Warehouse at Tempe. I guess I had to go {shrugging shoulders!}
Well, I was a little disappointed I have to say. It was pretty busy and seemed a little shopped out too. They hardly had any vintage homewares at all, like only a handful of things! Everything else was newer and boring. There were 2 small pyrex dishes I carried around in my basket for a while, but the patterns weren't my collections and I really am running out of space and can't possible house any new pattern collections (only add to what I have) so I put them back. Shock! {Hand across mouth!} They were a gold leaf pattern and a blue Japanese scene. If you want those patterns "Run RUN!!" they were still on the shelf at 2pm this arvo {firing starters gun!} They also had orange pyrex ramikins, but I already have them at home. So that was it! Nothing for me then {surprised face!}

So, here are some pieces I have picked up lately, at op shops:

I have never seen Pink Pyrex to buy in Australia so I practically jumped at the flimsy shelf holding this baby when I saw it! It was at Lidcombe Salvos, which I would usually consider as a crap Op Shop. So this changed my mind! It was only $6 and is in perfect condition except for a little chip on the lid. So pretty!Then this Fireking bowl I had to buy, even though I have no other Fireking, cos I loved it's peach lustre and the sweet leaft edge around the rim (not sure if you can see it so well). It cost me $3 at our local Church's Monthly Market. Which, by the way, I had no idea about until December when my MIL casually mentioned it. Honestly, we've been living at Hotel d'Lam for a whole year, why am I only just finding out about this? It means I'd missed out on 12 opportunities to shop for retro stuff from the lovely dears at the local church! I'm bummed!!
And then there is this pie dish. We used to have this exact dish when I was growing up! Isn't it just gorgeous! I {heart} it! I got it on ebay cos I saw it and remembered it from my childhood. And the bonus was, the auction was actually a lot of 2 of them, and when I showed the pic to Mum she lamented how hers had broken years ago and how much she loved it. I knew then I had to bid cos we could both have one! I was the only bidder. SCORE! {high five!} I'm totally making my quiche in this from now on!
I am also linking up to Her Library Adventures for Flea Market Finds.
:) C
Oh and i haven't finished with a pic of Jaimeson for a while, so here you go. He's still the sweetest sleeper! And has awesome hair. And I'm only slightly biased {tongue in cheek!}

Finished!

Small round of applause please...



I just finished a pack of stickers!! Yep, a whole packet, gone!! Yay! This is a rare moment. Its only taken me 5 years (yes I remember When I got them!) I'd like to pop open a bottle of champagne, would u like some? {pop!}
:) C

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WJWW

Hi y'all!
Time for What Jai Wore Wednesday! And another awesome dance move. Great perspective hey!!



Shirt & Shorts: Target. (Hand-me-down from cousin Cooper, and I actually bought it for Cooper so it's nice to see Jai in it too! It's so cute :) I think Target quality has gone down since then tho, cos this outfit is nice thick, soft, quality cotton & they don't make em like that anymore!)
Toys: Harvey the taggy Hedgehog & the boat made by Mummy.
Oh and one more pic so you can see his scissor kick in action! Lol!
:) C



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Project 365 Collages 5 & 6

Hi Y'all!
Hey look, I'm at home and sitting at the computer, what a rare treat! Well, that's not entirely true. I have been on the computer a fair bit lately, but it's all been to book our NZ trip for March. Hooray {party hooters going off}! We got our airfares through the Travel Agent last Friday and I've spent the weekend and this week researching and booking all our accommodation. I'm looking forward to it! Tho, lets be honest here, my bid was in to go to Disneyland again. But Will and his sensible mind wanted to go somewhere that would be easy to take Jaimeson (ie. at 10 months he's not really going to enjoy Space Mountain as much as me) and that we could enjoy as a family, and Will has wanted to go to NZ for a while so I gave in and we're off to NZ for 2 weeks on March 10. I have been to the South Island back in 2005, but never the North Island and we're doing both on a whirlwind family driving adventure. And secretly, I am looking forward to it, a lot! I've marked out all the Kiwi Op Shops and everything {giggles!}
So here was the recent Project 365 Pics:17: My sister Yvette and niece Tassy visited Sydney and I was lucky to get some time to pick them up before their bus left, and visit some shops in the City, including Vinnies at Newtown, Made590 and Mitchell Road Antiques. It was almost as if she lived in Sydney and we had just popped out for the day. So much fun! I wish you did live nearby Yvette! {hugs!}
18:Jaimeson and I headed over to my sister Felicity's house for a card making day, as both Felicity's children were at Preschool (Sienna's first days at Preschool ever, so it was a big thing!) Jai slept for almost 3 hours so we got heaps of cards made. {High five!}
19: Another sociable occasion for us, Jaimeson and I met up with our friends Meleah and Claire at a local shopping centre for a coffee. Meleah and I are both whities, but our husbands are not, so it was so humorous for us to have people look at our half Asian, and half Sri Lankan, children then look at us with a surprised face. LOL!
20: flights to NZ are booked!
21: Just a lazy Saturday at home for Jaimeson and I, hanging out watching TV! We needed it after our very busy and sociable week! Phew! {wiping hand across forehead}
22: it's Council Cleanup time so Willy and I dived headfirst into cleaning out the shed! Do you have Council Cleanup in your neighbourhood? It's the BEST thing ever! I love getting rid of crap and seeing what crap of mine people pick up! It's highly amusing people watching at Council Cleanup time! And we've gotten some awesome things at cleanup time! (lounge, futon, single chair, bedside table, big toy sand truck for Jai, outdoor chairs etc etc!) My MIL is a hoarder of chairs and plastic bags, so we liberated her of some {wink!}
23: I was out doing the grocery shopping when my old High School friend Monique texted to say she was in Sydney for the day so could we meet up. (Nothing like a last minute text!) So I quickly rushed home, threw the cold groceries in the fridge, fed Jai and jumped on a train into the city. Luckily Jai is so easy going and just goes with the flow. What a good boy! It was so lovely to see her!
24: Felicity and I had an Op Shopping Day today and here she is with her bounty! She really wanted to go check out the Op Shops after all of Yvette's and my success getting some gems! We visited 4 shops and also had Pancakes at the Rocks (Northmead) for lunch. YUMMO! We had some success and she came away happy with what she got (me too!) and it was a lovely day to hang out together. I haven't driven her around for years so it was nice even just to chat while we drove around! LOL! {hugs}.
So that's my days! Better get back to booking {sigh!}
:) C

WJWW

Oops I'm a day late for my What Jai Wore Wednesday pic!! Well it's cos what he did wear yesty I'd already blogged about! So here he is today:



It's one of his new dance moves, this one! A high kick! It's so very Jazz of him. Lol!

Shorts & singlet: Target
Thongs: Best & Less

I love these tiny thongs! But being Velcro-backed means they don't stay on at all. They are so cute to look at on Jai tho! This morning when I put them on him & stood him up, he was staring down at them for ages with a look that said "what on earth are those ridiculous things!" lol!
:) C

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A little Scrappin'

Hi y'all!
Well, I've done so many more Scrapbooking Pages last year than I have posted about! So here are a couple more for you!
I am so pleased that I took some pics of Jaimeson in his Bassinet when he was just so small! And his Bassinet in relation to the rest of the stuff in our bedroom ('scuse the mess! I was suffering from Acute lack of sleep and lost-ness due to new baby! Oh wait, what's my excuse for our messy bedroom now?! LOL!) Oh look at my tiny tiny baby in the Bassinet. Oh how I love that little boy {heart melting} and I can't believe how much he's grown!
I love the owl sticker- I got it at Yamba, where there is (kinda surprisingly) a really good scrapbooking shop! Those round lettering stickers I bought in Tasmania in 2003. You may smack me on the back of the hand cos I still have them! LOL! Well at least I've used some of them!
And here is my Good Traveller! Jaimeson has always gone well in the car. Maybe it was our couple of trips to Wollongong in the first month of his life that helped him get used to it! He sleeps easily and comfortably in the car, or plays with Ollie his owl or the Dangleberry {snicker} (the chimey toy hung from the handle on the roof) He's such a good boy {hugs} I love his tiny hands outstretched on his blanket, too cute! I've been hoarding that blue woodgrain paper since our honeymoon- hooray to using some of it! And the map paper I've had for almost a decade {gasp!} It says "Buckingham" cos it's a map of England, only I've covered the "Bu" bit and the remaining CKINGHAM looks like C KINGMAN (who I was before marriage) so whenever I look at this page I see that and think it says my name! How funny! I have also been hoarding the car paper for about 5 years. I {heart} it sooo much and was uber happy to use it for this sweet pic of Jaimeson! And there are some vintage red buttons that were hanging about on my desk. High Five for using them {slap!}
Have you scrapped lately?
:) C

Vintage Finds

Hi y'all!
I gathered up some of my recent Vintage Finds to share with you!
I found these sweet little statues just after Christmas. The mouse came from Salvos at Sutherland and cost me an arm and a leg, it was 50c. LOL {belly laugh!} You know how I love all things Woodland, well he'll go on Jaimeson's Woodland shelf in our bedroom. He's so sweet and reminds me of a Beatrix Potter-esque Mouse! The squirrels are actually an Ash Tray and I got it at Vinnies in Wollongong while shopping with Mum, Yvette and Tassy. "It's an ASH TRAY" Said Mum! Well, not for me Mum, maybe I can put jewellry in it's little indent on the top. It was marked as $12 but the nice man at the counter gave it to me for $1. Can't argue with that!
Then I got this awesome silver frame at Salvos at Merrylands! Some Salvos I visit have the date on the price tag, which is really interesting! I love to see how long (or short) things have lasted in store! I bought this on the first day open after the New Year's Long Weekend, and it was marked 31/12, so it hadn't sat on the shelf for long! It was marked $5 but they were having 50% off frames, so $2.50 it was! Awesome {chest slam!}
And finally, this awesomely Retro Staffordshire Pottery Cup, Saucer and Plate set. It was in the windows at Vinnies Riverwood, and I had admired it and when I layed down my other retro treasures ready to buy, the sweet man behind the counter said "You like Retro do you? Well, do you like that tea set? It's been in the window for a while so if you like it you can have it for $6." WOW! It was originally $12, and I DO love it, though it means I could host a tea party for all the heaven full of angels at this rate, and I probably didn't need another tea set! I bought it. Wouldn't you have?
:) C
Ps I'm linking up with Her Library Adventures- come see what other awesome vintage treasures were found!

Project 354; Collage 4

Another Collage time!
What's doing these last 4 days?
13: outing with Willy to Parramatta Westfield. I cherish our Fridays together cos Willy doesn't usually do overtime on a Friday so we have family time. I look forward to it all week!
14: Jaimeson and I had to get out of the house cos everyone at home has been sick! We went to Bankstown Centro and had a little shop around and a cuppa together at Coffee Club
15: Grocery Shopping! Who can resist a giant pencil? Or 4.
16: to the Doctor's, cos Jai is still unwell and had the worst night sleep on Sunday night. I'm pleased to say he had a much better night last night & didn't cough near as much. YAY! Road to recovery!
:) C
P.S. Here is my 2009 collage for this time of year! Look at little Cooper!! And my Halloween party invites are there too!

More December Daily Pages

Hi y'all!
I'm happy to announce that I have finished my December Daily Album! Wahoo! {punching the air with delight!} It was on my "Achievable To-Do List" and I finished everything bar one (taking ebay pics) but I feel like I did lots of other things that I hadn't put on my list so I'm still a happy chappy! Why did I title a list "Achieveable"? Cos usually my lists are acres long and I list everything I need to do (like... everything I need to do in life, LOL!) and it would take me forever to do it all and I never get the time then I feel bad about it, so an "Achieveable" list was a better plan. And it worked! I am super happy with what I did! I should do another list to do by the end of this week now!
So here are some more pages from my December Daily album.Day 12: Out to dinner with Will's Dad and brother & sisters. Benny always takes us out for interesting Chinese, but he always orders Sweet & Sour Pork and chicken fried rice for me. LOL! I'm such a cliche whitie! {tongue in cheek!} Tho I have eaten Goat once at his dinners! And chilli crab, and this time they had mango beef (imagine a chunk of mango inside a rolled up minute-steak), a little weirdly textured but not too bad! Fun Stuff: the "HO HO HO" border was all around a 12x12 paper which I'd had for years and thought I would never use. I cut the border off and used it like a decorative strip and used the white paper inside to layer a pic on another layout! Sweet!Day 13: Jai and I had a day trip to Wollongong to visit Mum and Dad before the Christmas rush of visitors. Fun stuff: That sweet angel sticker, which I've had for eons! And I love the paper with the tiny presents on it. Cute!
Day 14: Willy's Birthday! You can read all about that in a previous post, it was a great day anyway {smiles}. Fun stuff: clear acetate page on the right! Love the number stickers with the heart and spade on them :) Suits boy pages!
Day 15: Baking my cookies for our family Cookie Swap. Fun stuff: the acetate page again! It was fun lining up the embellishments so that they overlapped on each side of the acetate and the pages would still look good (and not like the "back side" of the other page! The acetate adds an interesting dimension to my album!
How is your week treating you so far? Still doing Project 365? I am!
:) C

Project 365; Collage 3

So what have Jaimeson & I been up to these last 4 days?

Jan 9: Jai & I called in to have a coffee with Daddy at work! Everyone always loves to come have a cuddle with Jai when we visit!
10: Granny & Papa called in on their way thru to Aunty Alicia's. I totally forgot to take a pic of them with us {gasp!} so mum took this one just after they left & texted it to me. Thanks mum!
11: Jai & I had a day trip to the city to meet up with some old friends from Grafton. It was a great day, so sunny & warm & a great day to go walking around the city! And a lovely catch-up too :)
12: I baked a cake! I haven't baked a cake (other than mini cakes) for such a long time! And it was gooooood!
Happy Friday Night!!
:) C

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Aloha!

The invites are out... at the end of this month It's My Birthday!! Hooray {clapping hands!} It's a rather significant birthday too... I'm turning 30. WOW! I can't believe I'm almost 30. I still think of my oldest sister Yvette as being 30! So I guess that means we're the same age then! LOL!
Because I love Hawaii so much, I'm having a Hawaii 3-0 Party! (LOL! Nice play on words!) I whipped up these invites in one afternoon from supplies I had on-hand. Awesome {high five!} I love when that happens, and you don't need to buy a single thing for them! I was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest (there's my Pinterest love!) and it turned out just how I wanted it.
I'm no stranger to making invites, I must have made at least 30 major invites in my time. Off the top of my head here are a few I can think of right now: Wedding invites for Alicia, Felicity, Mike & Kath and me, Engagement Invites for Felicity and Me, Kitchen Tea invites for Alicia and me, Baby Shower invites for Cooper, Xander & Jaimeson, Xander's Baptism invites, Birthday invites for my 21st, Felicity's 30th, Matt's 30th, Jenny W's 50th, my Halloween party and now my 30th. And that's just off the top of my head!
I didn't have to make a plethora of them, I only made 24, I should make an extra few though cos I didn't get to keep one and I would have liked one! Someone keep one for me will you?!
I'm very excited about my Birthday, I always love birthdays, even if it does mean I'm getting older {soB!} {giggles}. The important thing in life is to always have friends who are older than you, then you still have someone to tease about being old while you're so young (even if it is by a couple of months!)
:) C

Bake Cake

Third thing off my list done!Bake Cake {tick!}
I made Sticky Date & Coconut Cake from a "Quick Baking" bookazine I bought at Wholefoods in Hawaii. {sweet!}


Mmmm.... Still warm!
:) C
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The Case of the Overwhelming Mind

Sometimes my mind just runs away with itself! Lately I have been feeling more and more frustrated by my overwhelming to-do list & my lack of time to do it in! I blame Pinterest! I LOVE Pinterest & how inspired I am by it, but at the same time it is a massive Vice for me, cos while I am totally inspired, I don't have all that much free time to do all the things I want to and so I get frustrated & annoyed at myself! My mind was become more clouded & I was getting angry inside. I had to focus! And tell my brain to "STOP! Collaborate and Listen!" {thanks Vanilla Ice!} So I took a deep breath, regrouped & focussed. I wrote an "Achievable To-Do List", cos my other long to-do list was gettin' me down! And I'm not a melancholy kind of person!


Thanks for the notepad too Mum! I feel so much happier now I have a shorter list to work from. Yay! {breathing deeply & happily}. I think I can accomplish this all by Sunday, I already made one of the purees yesterday so I'm on my way! :) C {feeling a lot less stressed!} - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

WJWW

Hi y'all!Jai and I are on a train into the city to meet up with some old friends :) Here is what Jai wore yesterday when we met up with Mum & Dad, cos what he's wearing today I've actually already posted about before!


Bodysuit: appliquéd by Granny! I just love the fish! It's homage to Will loving fishing, and by default Jai will love fishing too!Shorts: BigW. They are size 00 and I posted another WJWW about 3 months ago of him wearing them! They almost reached his feet then, and now they are up to his knees!! Too cute! They still fit him on the waistband tho cos he's gotten heaps skinnier. Not my chubby bubby anymore! Except his knees. He still has chubby knees {hearts rising from head}.The Blur: it's Harvey the taggy hedgehog I made being waved madly!Crochet Rug: Auburn Hospital Auxilliary Stall. I bought it for Peabody and I love it!!:) C- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Project 365; Collage 2

Hi y'all!
Hope you've had a great weekend! Here is the second collage of pics for my Project 365.I'm gonna number them by the date, so don't get confused that we're starting at 5!
Jan 5: A trip to Bunnings. Jai loves being in the Baby Bjorn, it's Willy who usually wears him too. He kicks his legs and flaps his arms. Too cute!
6: He also loves a trip in MaMa's Mei Tai. She takes him for a walk around the neighbourhood sometimes in the arvo. She says it's for him, but I really know it's cos she likes showing him off to the neighbours.
7: Oliver Brown Chocolate Cafe. OH. MY. YUM! Yvette, you would adore this place! This was only the second night ever we have left Jaimeson and gone out, it was a friend's farewell BBQ. We left a little early so we could make it a bit of a date night and stop for Coffee on the way home. We were deciding where to go when Will remembered Oliver Brown, and that it shuts late. Oh it was heavenly! I had a Dark Chocolate Hot Chocolate with waffle balls (odd little pea sized things floating in the creme on top of the hot choc, but delicious!) and a piece of Swiss Truffle cake (exceptionally rich chocolate mousse cake). Will had a cappucino and a slice of Cheesecake. I even think it was better than Max Brenner. Dare I say it! I highly recommend it!
(BTW, it was nice to wear a dress that I don't have to think about "Feeding access" and I even wore high heels! A real date night {high five!})
8: Will as "Iron Chef.....?" What is it? It's the weirdest looking fruit ever. Any ideas? Have a guess...

So that's a wrap on the last 4 days!
:) C
P.S. Oh here's something fun! Here is my first 9 pics from 2009! The last time I tried Project 365. Maybe I should do a comparison!

Vintage Sheet Swap

Hi y'all!
Well, it's been a week of posting! Hooray me {party poppers spraying streamers around the room!}
Take a look at this sweet package that arrived after Christmas! Isn't it wrapped so nicely!
Since the awesome success of the Op Shop Swap Swap I participated in back in November (and got Lotti, thanks Lotti!), I decided that swaps are heaps of fun and I'm going to participate in more swaps! Yvette encouraged me to join the Vintage Sheet Swap that Mardi from The Love Supreme was hosting, so I got my Op Shop self into mode and went on the hunt for Vintage Sheets! I do love all things retro and I'm pleased to say I got quite a sweet little collection of sheets together to send off. My phone is being a pain in the butt so it wont let me download a pic of the sheets I sent, so I'll have to leave that for another time. But here are pics of what I got back! Aren't they all so pretty! What a sweet little pile of squares! I sent 72 in total, and Mardi had the unenviable job of compiling all the squares, diving them up and sending them back to us. She did such an amazing job cos I don't think I even got one of my own squares back, and I only got two doubles! What a mammoth task!
So in this swap the idea was to cut your sheets into 6x6 inch squares to swap, which could then be sewn into a quilt-top and you back the quilt with another vintage sheet. Mardi scored pay-dirt this year when she came across a Vintage Sheet Quilt already made up at the Op Shop (awesome score!) and she wanted us all to get enjoyment out of a Vintage Sheet Quilt like she has! I decided I'll make a "Lounge Quilt", not a bed quilt, cos I do love snuggling up under a doona when I watch TV on the lounge in winter, and I know I would get lots of enjoyment out of a Lounge Quilt that is made from Vintage Sheets! I still haven't decided the size, I use a single bed doona at the moment, but I might make more of a square shape for the Vintage Quilt.
The last pic shows some of my fave's from the swap. Isn't the mushroom one cute! Yvette even got an awesome Snow White square. It's totally beautiful {swoon!} I've never seen a cute vintage sheet like that one!
So I'm really keen to get sewing and put together a gorgeous Vintage Sheet Quilt! Mum is gonna have to help me when I get to the batting and backing (thanks Mum {hugs!}) as I've never completed a Quilt before, but in the mean-time, I'm pretty sure I've got 'sewing the squares together' in the bag!
:) C
Edited to add:
Ah Ha! My computer bent to my will! Here are some of the sheets I sent, I had a few others but these were within reach! Me likey! Did you get any of my squares?

Vintaging from last year!

Hi y'all!
I realised I have a whole bunch of awesome Vintage finds that I haven't blogged about yet! It's time for a little sharing!
I found these oh-so-retro Willow Cake Tin and Matching Bread Bin at Vinnies at Guildford. They are in Super MINT condition, like no-one had even breathed on them before. Will wouldn't let me go to Guildford on my own due to the slightly less than savoury reputation of that suburb, and I have to say I'm happy he came along! There were some uber-dodgy people hanging around and heaps of boarded up shops and graffiti. Actually, it broke my long-held belief that the more I worry about where I've parked my car, the better a Vinnies will be {snicker!}! Cos it was only a small Vinnies and I only came away with this duo, but for the bargain price of $3 for the pair, I couldn't leave them behind!
Next up is this collection I found at Vinnies at Riverwood. Score! The lovely boss there did me a deal on the orange Pyrex ramekins, he said they were $2 each but they'd been in the window a while so I could have the lot for $6. {high five!} The Pyrex Friendship Casserole dish was also $6 {jumping off seat with excitement!}, it has a beautiful solid orange base with the sweet bird pattern on the lid. It's a little worn, but I still love it. And the oh so sweet JAJ Pyrex mini-casserole with snowflake pattern was $4. It's totally child-size. I don't know what you'd cook in there except maybe peas? Oh, I could reheat Jaimeson's frozen baby puree cubes in there! He only eats 2 or 3 at a time! LOL! I already have another one in the same snowflake series so I was SO happy to find this one!
And how about these awesome placemats? They combine two of my fave things- geometric patterns (the cool brackets), colour, and vintage!
Oh, that's three things. Lol. They came from Eastwood (I get around) and they were $4. I haven't put them out on the table at Hotel d'Lam, I'm waiting for a special dinner with just Willy and I so they don't get trashed. Who am I kidding, it's Will who spreads his food from here to next Sunday! So embarrassing when we go out for dinner and they clear our plates and Will could eat a second course from what he's left on the table (or his shorts!) {belly laugh!} I can't take him anywhere!
Have you had any cool vintage finds lately?
:) C
P.s. I'm linking back to Her Library Adventures Flea Market Finds.. go check them out, they're beautiful!