A vintage desktop wallpaper for you .... click on the image to see and save it full size.

Christmas is fast approaching. Do you remember these little birds from years gone by. We had quite a few of them and I remember mum putting them onto the branches of our christmas trees when I was a little girl. They were shiny and bright and looked great. Clipped on with a metal peg like thing. I guess they still have them ...... but I've not seen any around. I love decorating our trees especially here in Canada when I can look out the window and see snow all around me. I'm going to do a pretty silver and white one this year.

Vintage glamour image .... I love all these pin up ladies. Save the card the original size by clicking on it .... hope you like it.

A birthday card for you .... to save and use ...

click on the image to save it full size..

Something yesterday reminded me of being back in Australia and a young girl and having my mum put the butter on a saucer and sit it near the fire ... so it would melt and she'd be able to put it on our sandwiches. I was talking about what we didn't have back then .. in the fifties and a microwave oven was one of them... so was margarine.... I guess that's why it became so popular because it was soft and more spreadable especially in the winter .... than butter was. :-)

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I remember not having a hair dryer .. and having to lean down in front of the fire or the heater to get my hair dry before I could go to school. And of course my lunch went into a brown paper bag ... there was no plastic wrap then either. Makes you wonder how we managed at all without the things we have now... but then again.... I sometimes think we were far better off. People took the time to say hello... you didn't have to lock your doors ... and things went by at a much slower pace.

Click to enlarge the desktop wallpaper ... hope you like it... Vibrant ... red and black... :-)

I shared this desktop wallpaper today in my new "Just From Jana" group... a pretty lady in amongst the flowers I painted when I was back in Australia. Click on it and save it from the original size. :-) Hope you like it... and you are invited to join my Yahoo group.

Click on the photo ... lots of vintage teapots... I love teapots.... :-)

Happy Halloween to everyone.

Watch out for those goblins and ghouls.

Stay safe and have fun.

As I reflect on the past it brings me back to Australia when I was a little girl. I was always afraid of the huntsmen spiders ... I and others call them tarantulas. They would scare me to bits and if I returned now I would still be scared of them. I wasn't scared of our snakes that would always be somewhere in the bush ... my cat brought one inside one day and it slithered under the door of the entry closet where we hung our coats and put our boots. It wasn't a big snake but it took me some time to get the junk out of the cupboard and finally get the snake out the front door.
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I remember one night when my then husband went to a lodge meeting. I was alone in the house and in the passageway there was a tarantula on the ceiling. I was so scared of it and couldn't remove it ... that I had to stay up that end of the house till he returned many hours later. And they would inevitably find their way into our cars. Urgh!!! just thinking about it gives me the heebee jeebies ....... lol....... but I do love my big imitation spider that I have put on the bush outside our window for Halloween. He's in a big cobweb and looks great.

There's a pretty new Collection at whimsydust.com

Misted Memories I've called it ...

its lots of paintshop pro tubes of vintage pretties for

you to use in your creations. Plus some gorgeous

desktop wallpapers for you to use on your computer screen.

You can check it out here.

A couple of pretty images for you .... hope you like them.

Click on the images to see them full size and save them from there...

some cards to add to your emails to family and friends... I hope you like them...

I don't know how they got around in the dresses

with the bustles... How did they ever sit down...

It must have taken quite a bit of "training" to park yourself elegantly on a chair or sofa... :-)

Gorgeouos fabrics, with laces, frills, bows, buttons etc.

I love watching shows like Murdoch Mysteries,

Sherlock Holmes, Jane Austen's great stories ...

to see all the glorious dresses and outfits in clear, crisp colour.

Hats with feathers and flowers, lots of white and cream ... stunning.

This is such a pretty tea cosy. More gorgeous in full size so click on the image.... I love cosies...

they are usually easy to make and there are so many styles. I remember my mum back in Australia would knit them or crochet them .... when I was a small girl. Her friends would always be wanting one too so it seemed she always had those needles in her hand.

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I'm all into white and pink.... just recently I re-arranged my shelves on the cupboard so that all the white crockery I had and pretty mugs etc were in the one place. The change was inspired by my purchase of white chairs and a table that were on sale at the end of summer .... and my garage sale finds earlier in the year of some really nice, textured white huge pillow shams. They are like tapestry almost ... so I made them into four cushions for my lounge suite.

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White always seems to be crisp and clean and bright .... always cheery and nice.

Click on the image to save it full size.... its very pretty with purple .. I love purple..

and of course the marvellous vintage hat. How they wore those is beyond me... :-)

One would certainly look a bit weird nowadays wearing something similar.

there's always new desktop wallpapers too at my other blog...

so check that out as well.

There is a whopping sale at whimsydust.com.

Check out the image above to see the details more clearly

... email me if you have any questions.