Click on the images if you want to save them full size. I hope you like them. Just add them to your emails to send special greetings to those you care about.

Do you remember these old sewing machines.... my mum had one. I used to love watching the treadle go back and forth. They worked great... and I think some of them would still be working fine today. Click on the image to see it full size and save your wallpaper from there... Hope you like it.

Pretty teapot... I love teapots... My obsession with them seems to have come only over the past 5 years or so. When I came to Canada to marry my Brian his mum had died .. and she had a couple of very pretty teapots which I "inherited".
There is nothing nicer than putting tea in a pot and sharing it with a friend or even oneself. Taking the time to really sit back and sip the refreshing brew. In a pretty teacup of course.....

Click on the images to save the cards full size. I hope you like them..... I love the jewelled look of it and of course its all vintage stuff ....

You can save the wallpaper by clicking on it to see it full size.... I hope you like it...

I love roses and some of the vintage ones on old postcards
are so pretty. Click on this one to save it full size.

Found a new book at our library yesterday .. and I'm already half way through it. By my favourite author... Anne Perry.
I had read all the books she had written and this one is the latest so it was a pleasant surprise to find it on the shelves. "Buckingham Palace Gardens" is
of course set in Victorian London ... and there's been a
murder committed at the Palace. The Prince of Wales
somehow I think is involved seeing that a lot of speculation
surrounded Jack the Ripper back in 1888 ....
Many people still think it had a royal involvement
and that royalty could have indeed been the Ripper.
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It's quite a story and one of her best I think although all of them are wonderful.

Click on the pretty lady to save the card full size .... hope you like it. I would love to have you sign my guestbook if you are regularly visiting and saving the goodies.... or if it's your first visit I'd also love to hear from you......

Some graphics for you to save ...

add them to your emails to send greetings to family and friends.

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Gorgeous old cottages ... I love these.... obviously built probably in the 1800's .... they are in

Shaftesbury, England. Click to see the steep, windy street in full size.

A desktop wallpaper from the Bows and Beauties Collection at whimsydust.com

For a few more days everything is half price at whimsydust .... heaps of bargain prices for heaps of pretty things...Click on the image to see and save it full size.

Save the card by clicking on the image and seeing it full size...

The big Christmas half price sale at whimsydust.com

is over next week so check it out .. click on the image above ..

there's well over a gigabyte of pretty goodies for you ...

so cheap.. so chic ... and sweet.

:-))

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Click on this little girl to see her up close... interesting to see the gifts she is clutching ... she's looking more than happy and contented with her presents from Santa ... but what a difference today and back then. Now its all electronic stuff and high priced goodies the kids want. Shame ... I don't think half of them know what its all about other than to see who gets the most presents.

Reflections of the Past - the name of my blog.... :-) I am often thinking of my past back home in Australia... when I had my mum and my dad alive and well. Our lives were happy even though our means were meagre. I had no brothers and sisters ... so I had lots of beautiful and cherished pets to adore and play with. Times were so different then. Christmas would come and we'd go up into the bush and find a tree .. often not a pine because they were few and far between but it would be put in a tin bucket filled with water and decorated with the shiny things we had in the big box in the shed.
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Gifts were often wrapped in brown paper and I was lucky enough to get cherries and oranges in my christmas stocking. Cherries seemed to be the biggest thing at Christmas. There were certainly no gorgeous children's clothes like I now see here in the shops for little ones or teenagers. Lives were simpler and somewhat nicer ....... Christmas reminds me of those I loved back then and now ...... and yesterday as I put up my tree here in Canada I added a small photo of my darling Wilbur dog in amongst the decorations. I will miss him this year ......