General Chat

Having time on my hands, and no job, I occasionally look around for things to clear out.
For her birthday, I gave my eldest a painting she'd always liked, that had spent the past 20+ years slotted down by a chest of drawers. It cost me £2.50 in a jumble sale, about 25 years ago - I bought it for the frame, but did nothing with it.
When 'Google' came along, I looked it up. It's by LeForestiere, and is worth £250!
Daughter has been told she can sell it. Instead, she keeps asking me if I meant to give it to her!

Also hidden away, I have a Harris tweed suit I made about 40 years ago, from a Vogue pattern. It's a straight skirt, with long sleeved bolero jacket. I've worn it once, because I then got pregnant, and for years, the opportunity to wear it never came along, and I grew from a size 8 to a size 10 (and more every decade since!)
My youngest is a size 8! I Iooked up the cost of a Harris tweed jacket - alone, that's worth nigh on £200 - and that is a 'normal' jacket not a bolero! Actually it wasn't meant to be a bolero jacket - but I hate doing buttonholes!
Guess what she's getting for Christmas.

For Christmas, eldest is getting a leather tray I bought years ago, and never used - apart from as a dust-gathering ornament - it has a duck painted on it.
She's always liked it. Just looked up the price - it's labelled as 'vintage' on Etsy, and is for sale at £40. I never spent that much on it - probably a fiver! :-D

One of the old ladies on my paper round in the eighties was going to a wedding. She showed me the suit she intended to wear and I was most impressed to see that a woman in her eighties was going to wear something so very on trend.

On trend, just as it had been when she bought it in the fifties before she carefully stored it away in moth balls!

:-D :-D :-D :-D

When my daughter was very young I used to buy ladies clothes at jumble sales so I could cut them up and make things for daughter. Some I did use but the rest ended up in the loft. I rooted a lot out early this year, washed, mended and pressed them, and took them to the Vintage charity shop. They were very grateful.

Haha I knew I was right to hoard so much stuff lol

All I have to do now is find all these treasures!

Lizxx

Maggie....Harris Tweed jacket ,oh they are really so expensive here .Only the tourists like the Americans can afford them. Very chic. A very expensive xmas pressie

Florence in the hebrides

It's a beautiful green, too, Florence.
Similar to this lampshade!???

https://lucywagtail.com/shop/lampshades/harris-tweed-lampshades/green-harris-tweed-lampshade/

I was wondering (for 40 years) what to do with the left over material - I now have an idea! :-D :-D

Very lovely shade of green, but the turqouise shade is beautiful as well..

Florence in the hebrides