A Tale From Toadstool House..............

Saturday, 4 May 2013

Vintage Ladybird book collection,so far!

I haven't blogged about My Ladybird collection for ages. They are becoming so hard to find!
These are the latest ones from local charity shops...
The Snowman,Cinderella,learning to sew,Christmas customs,cub scouts,The Snow queen and gingers adventurers.

I found out on the Ladybird site, You can date the year the book was printed by the price paid on the back of the book
http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/ladybird/spotting_firsts.php

I've been listing mine and I'm Up to 49 collected. I'm going to keep adding to this post and link it to My side bar as and when I find more....
I've been very lucky to be sent some from fellow bloggers who have doubles or who come across them and don't collect. If I get any doubles I will do the same and give a shout out here on My blog :)

This is My total collection so far, stored in My little den :) ...
earlier post with Ladybird books http://atalefromtoadstoolhouse.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/blog-post.html

1.The magic porridge pot (1993)
2.Learnabout cooking(1975-78)
3.Tots T.V. (1995)
4.Plants and how they grow (1971)
5.A second book of British birds (1965)
6.The Princess and the pea~Well loved tales (1981-82)
7.The sly fox and the little red hen~Well loved tales (1982-83)
8. London (1971)
9.Garden flowers (1978-79)
10.Crochet (1975-78)
11.Bedtime(1985-86)
12. British wild flowers (1965-71)
13.The big pancake ~ Well loved tales (1972)
14.The Lords prayer (1979-80)
15.Piggly plays truant (1975-78)
16.Two stories Jesus told (1978-79)
17.Thing to make (1965-feb 1971)
18.The secret garden (1984-85)
19.Alice in Wonderland (1987)
20.Black Beauty (1990)
21.The wind in the willows (85/86)
22.Around the world in 80 days (84/85)
23.The railway children (85/86)
24.The three muskerteers (85/86)
25. The secret garden (82/83)
26. The blue book of bedtime stories (81/82)
27.Rumpelstiltskin (74/75)
28.Little Red riding hood (75/8)
29.Book of trees ((65/71)
30.Richard the Lionheart (65/71)
31.Cooking with Mother (79/80)
32.Hymns and songs (88)
33.nursery rhymes (84/85)
34.Action rhymes (84/85)
35.Hannibal runs away (75/8)
36.Jesus the helper (1960)
37.Jesus calls his disciples (72)
38.Snow white and the seven dwarfs (75/8)
39.The gingerbread boy. (81/2)
40.Things to make
41.Telling the time
42.Books are exciting (1988)
43.1a Play with us
44.The Snowman
45.Gingers adventures (85/6) 75p
46.The snow queen (85/86) 75p
47.Cub Scouts (78/79) 30p
48.Cinderella(85/86)
49.Learning to sew (74/75) 18p.

Saturday, 27 April 2013

April days 2013.

At last, the days have started warming up.

A spot of crochet in the garden!

An embroidered tablecloth had an airing :)

Trying to pick up as many thrifty tips as possible,got this Alys Fowler book from the book people for £3.50 :)
LOVED her series last year,The edible garden.

lots of seeds have been sown.

Couldn't resist these whilst shopping this week. Love these magical looking plants~Chinese lanterns,remind me of pixies and fairies ......

And bulbs.Lilies and Alium.

The Peony I planted last year has started growing,

This was it last year,I'm so happy!

The lawn had its first cut.

lovely spring flowers.

These pansies have lasted us all through the winter and are still looking lovely,they are in a shelted spot next to the back door and one on the porch of the summerhouse.

A new border has been dug,I hope to make this a cottage border.

I've planted lupin,foxglove,hollyhock,lavender and we devided and replanted an agapanthus plant from another border in the garden too.

Rosie with her daisy chain.

lets hope for lots more Sunny days.
lots of love All,
XxXxXx

Monday, 1 April 2013

March round~up.

Hello lovelies,
While I've been away I've started two new crafty projects. A 'Something pretty' blanket for My daughter and a hexy quilt inspired by Hettie Brown's http://hettiebrown.blogspot.co.uk/.

Also on the odd dry day, a bit of pottering about toadstool garden :)

Here's the crochet first...

My daughter chose the colours, pinks and a lovely deep red. I'm really enjoying making this one.
I'm joining as I go and sewing the ends in too. I hate getting to the end and having millions of ends to sew in .

During March here in the U.K. was Mothers Day. I decided to give My Mum the 'something pretty' blanket I finished in My last post.
The Dottie Angel inspired make.

I think She was surprised as She'd seen how many hours I put into it.
She loved it and tells Me its very warm and cosy.

I had some lovely gifts too .We joked as I took the gift out of the bag,what could it be?

A gorgeous new toadstool for the garden , of course! :o)

The next new project I've started upon is a hexy quilt. I was inspired by sophies at Fading Grace & Hettie Brown blog. Sophie VERY kindly agreed to part with some of her gorgeous fabric stash. I am truly grateful and love them.

Here's how I'm getting along,using some fabrics from my Christmas swap with Sarah http://squigglingabout.blogspot.co.uk/ at squiggling about too.
Click om the piccies to enlarge ;)

Some days its very difficult to choose between projects, crochet or hexy's... Decisions,decisions :)

I've found a great way to use up junk mail!

During March was My gorgeous nieces 18th birthday. I got to give another blanket I made away, the Rainbow granny squares one I made for her between August and December last year. She really, really loved it. I was so pleased.

The weather this past month has been so very cold and the garden is slow coming to life...

When the days have been dry I've managed to get out and potter around a little.Cleaning out pots and pruning back and tidying. I'm loving gardening more and more.
I feel so at peace out there.

A before and after, next to the summer house. A little effort and it looks much better and brings Me such joy seeing a little colour out there. The crocus,daffs and tulips I planted are slowly coming through.

And then it started snowing again! Only a little though. We've been very lucky here, compared with many parts of the U.K. having very bad snow.

A little Easter decorating around the home.

And gorgeous 'happy post' arrived for Me today. A giveaway win from Ada Bea,http://vintagesheetaddict.blogspot.co.uk/ . The perfume smells wonderful,the bottle amazing. And the vintage sheets will be lovingly used in my new hexy quilt.

Thanks so much Ada, you made My day :)

Saturday. My daughter did a bit of Easter baking,some yummy choccie crispie cakes.

Yesterday Easter Sunday,The weather was glorious!We spent the day at Mums,She cooked a delicious Turkey dinner :)

And the Easter bunny visited! Beautiful Roses from My lovely Mum.

Thankyou always for Your lovely comments, I love to hear from You.
See You soon,
lots of love,
XxXxXx

Friday, 29 March 2013

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all of My little chicks!
Hope you are all well and get to enjoy a happy and peaceful Easter break.
I'll be back next week with a little roundup of My March,I've started on a few new projects ,one crochet and one quilting. And I won a wonderful giveaway over at Ada Bea's blog~http://vintagesheetaddict.blogspot.co.uk/ I'm over the moon!

big hugs,
Juliexoxo