Victorian baby carriage... :-)
sure is cute. Click on it to see its original size. I thought it might be fun looking up some images on internet to see what babies were being pushed around in .. back in the mid 1850's.
Our new little grandson .. born yesterday .. was the inspiration for my search. Little Connor James sure is a cutie ...
Mother and baby doing well.
Interesting site with lots of vintage patterns - really nice things...
Cute halo bonnet in teal green velvet over a wired frame. The base is a large covered circle that sits atop the head, with a center front circle and two large wings that stands off the front of the head. A wired bow in back also stands. The entire base of the bonnet is covered in ivory roses and greenery. I can just imagine a dainty little Victorian lady wearing this... :-)
Beautiful vintage brooch.
I found a great site last night ... surfed around for hours and it was all about Opera gloves.
Images of pinups like this one ... film stars, old and new, queens, princesses etc... all wearing those long pretty gloves.
I can remember when I started working .. I used to have gloves to match my shoes. *(s) ... would wear one and carry the other but they were short ones and every lady you saw in the street hurrying by going to some place or another was well dressed if they had or wore gloves. I had lots of colours. It's something you don't see nowadays....... unless of course you are dressing up formally and going to the opera. *(s)
The beautiful Titanic....Hear Celine sing that famous song from the movie. Go there if not to hear her sing, to see the beautiful hat in the opening of the clip.... love it love it love it...*(s)
Click on the image of the ship.
Wonderful site with lots of information about the ship, passengers etc.
More Victorian mysteries I have to read on my bedside table. *(s) My latest visit to the library got me three more of Anne Perry's enthralling books. She has written about one hundred I think and I'm working my way through them .. loving every minute... and each one is like meeting old friends because they have the same characters in them.
Charlotte is married to Thomas Pitt .. the detective... and there is also Inspector Monk and his wife Hester .. who was a nurse in the Crimean war with Florence Nightingale. All the stories are set in England in Victorian times .. and Anne's descriptions of costumes and buildings etc. are wonderful.....
I've just finished the Whitechapel Conspiracy ... about Jack the Ripper and associated links to the throne of England. It was thought the Ripper was the Royal surgeon. Interesting and intriguing.... check out her books if you are wanting a good read ......breathtaking tales of passion, principle and skulduggery, written with her unrivalled skill at evoking the world of Victorian England.
Something special for you...
$5.00 off any purchase from my whimsydust.com site. Only one per person ...till the end of October .... save the image, go to my site from the links on this page...... to choose what you would like to buy ....
Write me and tell me your selection and I'll provide a purchase button for you ....
Simple to do ... There's lots to choose from.... email me if you have any questions.
Thanksgiving this weekend in Canada...
and soon for the Americans. I want to wish you all a wonderful day ...
Turkey for the holidays... lots of things to see and enjoy at this site.
Thanksgiving Day - national holiday in the United States commemorating the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a winter of great starvation and privation.
In that year Gov. William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving, and the feast was shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native Americans.
A pretty desktop wallpaper for you ... Click on the image to get the full size and save from there....
I remember these old sewing machines.. my mum had one and I was always enthralled just watching the pedal at the bottom going up and down when she pressed her foot on it. They sure worked well.
And I imagine there would have been millions of them sold ....
An interesting page about the history of the sewing machine..... cute song too....:-)
VICTORIA (r. 1837-1901) Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, on 24 May 1819. She was the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. Her father died shortly after her birth and she became heir to the throne because the three uncles who were ahead of her in succession - George IV, Frederick Duke of York, and William IV - had no legitimate children who survived. Warmhearted and lively, Victoria had a gift for drawing and painting; educated by a governess at home, she was a natural diarist and kept a regular journal throughout her life. On William IV's death in 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18.
Beautiful portrait of her. Click on the image to see it full size.
Beautiful images in the advertisements from the Coca-Cola company... from yesteryear.
The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola®, and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink.
Carbonated water was teamed with the new syrup to produce a drink that was at once "Delicious and Refreshing," a theme that continues to echo today wherever Coca-Cola is enjoyed.
A very pretty crazy quilt pattern but this time its actually a needle holder. It has a lovely back and front and inside are white felt fabric pieces to insert your needles into so you don't lose them.
It resembles a little book .. back, front and "fabric pages" inside.
A dear friend back in Australia made this one for me.. and I use it a lot.
French Fashion Dolls in History
