Badge Bonanza!

Following on from the buttons.......

After some searching of the attic & garage mum finally located my badge collection from the 70s & early 80's. I'm not sure how I obtained all these sports badges as I'm not keen on anything too athletic now!!! Looks like some of them might have been through the washing machine????

I think these must have been my mum's??

Very retro!

Always a cat fan...

Baileys visit

On Sunday we finally managed a visit to Baileys!

Wow what an amazing place.... for those of you who have never been it's well worth a visit. Situated on the outskirts of Ross on Wye in amazing converted farm buildings they stock all sorts of useful & desirable stuff!

The picture illustrates our purchases...the cork floats I'm going to frame, the little cute dustpan & brush is ideal for keeping my bench clean & the mother of pearl button as inspired me to once again sort through my gran's old button tins... more on that later this week!

Take a look at the site: www.baileyshomeandgarden.com

I think regular visits will be a must from now on after all it's only down the M50 from Worcester!

Lino print experiments

The past couple of evenings I've got all enthusiastic about lino printing! I've not done it before & after buying some tools from Ebay about 2 years ago I've finally got round to having a go.....

I really like the process of cutting the lino, it's so immediate (being an impatient person!) & rather addictive - plus I only cut myself once!

The actual lino pieces are lovely - it would be great to translate some of the designs on to metal for panels?

These images are some of my first attempts... not sure how I will develop them but just enjoying experimenting at the moment.

Retro Cat Postcards

Yesterday we went to the Giant Flea Market at the 3 Counties Showground, organised by B2B Events http://www.b2bevents.info/

It was brillaint - found some really funky stuff this time....Whitefrairs set of wine glasses, groovy owl vase, Jersey Pottery retro style dish plus these cute postcards... not sure what I'm going to do with them yet but couldn't resist them!