Pink And Green

Bought this card* the other day; it's been hanging around, waiting for me to stick up other cards I've got above the sideboard.....

Then I noticed a bit of a pink and green theme, in the bits waiting to go onto the compost after making last night's pudding.

It was meant to be strawberries, raspberries and kiwi with brown sugar and creme fraiche. No raspberries, brown sugar or creme fraiche, so 2 fruits with vanilla sugar and natural yoghurt was still lovely.

* Kathy Behrens for Hallmark

New Charity Shop Find

Look what I came home with this week! A lovely 60s powder blue formica folding table. I have been disloyally contemplating changing our a-bit-too-large round table for a while for something a little bit more flexible space-wise.......

 .....but.......

....the 2nd pic shows the default setting of Trashsparkle HQ. Yes look away now if you are easily offended by slovenly ways. It is spectacularly horrible in this shot; there's bite cream as I'd just been zapped by something in the garden, a box of granny bandages as I'd strained an elbow lifting the 13 year old's bed to get something underneath it, a wallet to remind me to put money in it for the 12 year old for after half-term, a book called "Icons" I'm thinking of scanning and making into a collage, my parents' wedding photo for a future post, an Australian tea towel and a nursery-rhyme pillow case found last week, an old 70s round sewing basket and 2 old fans found at my mum's the week before, magazines, an Easter Dr Who mug which is cracked and should be a) thrown out or b) used upstairs as a pencil pot, a battery-powered lightbulb(!!) for the cellar, bits of newspaper from a collage I'd done the day before, and some scribblings to do with James Bond posters on ebay.... I need an office!

So. Which table should I keep? Should I take the Minimalist Challenge of the blue one, or stay with this one???



More on the How Good Am I At I.T./DIY: This morning I took the side off the computer tower, cleaned all the dust out, put it back together again. And it still works!

An Afternoon With Men In Make-Up

Nope, not been down Madame Jo-Jo's, but at the cinema.

We had a very pleasant excrutiatingly long 20 minutes

of trailers and adverts before the film. 

 One of them was Sam Taylor-Wood's Equals short film,

with Mr Craig All Dressed Up In A Frock And Everything.

Looks a bit alright in make-up with the short hair doesn't he! 

 

There was also a trailer for the new Keef film.

Well, ok, Johnny's film. Pirates of the Caribbean.

Made a mental note that the new Horrid Henry could be almost bearable,

as Noel Fielding popped up in the trailer. He is often wearing make-up too.

And then the film began, with this 19 year old actor being all Pete Doherty:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2, with guylinered Devon Bostick.


As some readers may have noticed, I like to comment on the quality of toilets at some of the venues I visit; shopping centres, ice rinks, cinemas. Such a hectic social life... Today's Toilet Report is that the loos were very glam; spaciously laid out, with very touchy feely fittings and surfaces. Although the hand dryers were not exactly conveniently located, so a minus point for ergonomics.

Bit Of A Quick Survey...

... how many people are STILL having Blogger related gremlins??? I can leave comments on some blogs, but not on others. The latter outweigh the former. Or have I had Super-Injunction-style blocks put on me to stop me annoying people? ;)

Collections 1

At last, some semblance of regularity in what I might post in the future, seeing as this is number one.... in a series.

Being a bit lazy always terribly busy doing other things, I don't always post pics of bits and pieces I've hauled back from junk markets, charity shops, and sometimes the roadside... so here are some recent finds.

 I totally adore old Quality Street tins, with this gorgeous pinky-lilac colour and the 101-Dalmations-era illustrations. Next time I'm at my dad's I'll look for the one I had back in the day - his house is a total time capsule, from 1957-1973. Furnished in the late 50s, and not significantly decorated since my mum moved out in 73. (She marked time until she could divorce him by taking out the frustration in papering whole rooms in a constant cycle of the latest patterns, and dad being a typical man just updates the electrical goodies and ignores the decor.) There'll be Some Serious Wallpaper Photos coming here, circa summertime. Come to think of it, I'd love to enlarge those prints onto canvas and put them on my walls!

No real idea about this one - it seems to be an hors d'oeuvre/condiments dish and I would imagine its late 60s, as there was a lot of paua shell knick knacks coming over from New Zealand at that time. My Grandma had the most fantastic tiered paua shell stand - probably for plants - that her brother got her, but my cousin nabbed it first! I've got some coasters and a tray up in the depths of the loft - time to resurrect them.

 And of course this ain't remotely vintage but its the nearest thing to a vintage phone I have at the moment ;)