"Me and my Tree" The Christmas 2020 portrait series

 I've always loved old photos from the 1960's.  I love looking at the fashion, "the what people wore", the furniture and imagining "how people lived" based on their photos.  I particularly love Christmas ones.  People dressed up for parties, such glamour! And their cocktails!  The craft cocktails of our day can't hold a candle to the old classics of a Saturday night, in my opinion.

My friend Feliz came up with a great facebook idea for this Christmas:

"We need a little glamour in our lives right now.  This Christmas season 2020, let's put on our fanciest dresses, pour ourselves a martin, and pose in front of a tree.  Post those pictures! Extra credit if you have a silver tree, or those silver tinsel thingies".

So taking Feliz's idea I put this challenge out to my friends on facebook and the photos are coming in!  Photo of my album so far, plus of my pics.  I'm really loving this fun little project and I think it will be a nice little memory of this crazy coronavirus pandemic year.

If you're reading this blog and you want to be part of it that would be great! Just send me your pic :)

Where is Barbara Curran now??

I ventured in to the local pawn shop today.  My, was that quite the cornucopia of all things I like i.e. JUNK! What can I say?  I do love whiling away an hour or two looking through JUNK for TREASURE.

And then I saw THIS.

I may, or may not, have bought it.

Ha! Do you know me, or what?! Of course I bought it.  Barbara lives with me now :)

Ps. Anyone want to venture a guess how much I paid for this little gem?!
Comment below!

Retro Ice bucket (vintage)

I am so delighted! My vintage "Britvic" pineapple ice bucket holder has arrived from Ireland!

I love this guy :) I first saw one of these in my friend's holiday home in Wexford - it was her aunt's, an original from the 1960's.  As soon as I saw it I was on a mission to find one for myself (at the right price) and finally I found one in the Dublin flea.  It was the princely sum of euro40, which at the time felt at the upper end of my budget, but ten years later feels like the bargain of the century.



"Entertaining in Singapore"

I may or may not have pulled this book out of some trash that my neighbor had ready to be collected and dumped.

It's an absolute gem! 

Published by the American Women's Association of Singapore - seems to be expat diplomat's wives from what I can make out.

I cannot find a year anywhere on it.  Judging from some of the photos I would say it was printed/self published around the early 1980's

I myself, had the page boy hair style of the child on the left around 1982.

Fish moolie sounds good!

Decorated sugar cubes sound only delightful!

Anyone out there in interwebs world recognize any of these women??  Get in touch!

Saturday morning cartoons

When you were young did you watch cartoons on Saturday mornings?

 

I thought it was ironic to drink my coffee out of this mug this morning while relaxing and watching tv.   

 

 

 

It is vintage Metro-Goldwyn Mayer from 1967 and I love it.

Shopping Saturday

 We were up nice and early this morning - I went and watched our neighbours doing a 5km park run.  After the run (10am) I got a lift over to the towncentre where I treated myself to a nice breakfast, coffee and a small bit of shopping.

 

There are some good sales on so I enjoyed the potter.  I was happy to see wrapping paper in Marks & Spencers reduced from €4.75 to €1.75 so I picked up a couple of rolls which I have now thrown into the Christmas tree bag for next year.

 

I was especially happy with this cute little Bev Ridge (geddit?!) caddy from Debenhams

 

I saw it last week when it was €10, reduced from €20.  Today I got it for €6

 

It came with some lovely hand wash, hand cream and nail files.  And while I'll use these products this wasn't the main reason for me buying this caddy.

 

I  am going to use it as part of my "barphanelia"!

It will be used to store my sugar for making caiproskas.  Doesn't it look well displayed on my drinks cabinet with the cute vintage Britvic pineapple ice bucket!