Link of the week #2

Last weekend,my husband was sorting trough old boxes and trunks in our garage, and we found lots and lots of old magazines.
So here's just a glance in one of these magazines:
And if you can't get enough of vintage fashion and things related, go here.

Day#7

Vintage children's books (this is an illustration By Alice and Martin Provensen, 1962)

Day#2

Vintage sewing supplies

A long time ago..

...publicity looked like this:


and movie stars were like gods.


This blog is all about old movies, posters, and the crazy twenties and thirties.

Thank you ebay!

As a child, I always wanted this doll, a cute Francie, but I never got it somehow (not that I didn't have any toys, I was a rather spoiled brat, really...).
And now I found this beautiful doll and a case and clothes(!) on ebay. And not even too expensive!
So I am really happy now.

Busy weekend

Last saturday, there was a free podium in the garden of our neighbours. It was the first stage performance of the group of

my son Oswald

and his friends. And it was great!
And on sunday, it was the annual flea market in our village. I bought a lot of silly stuff there, like this fifties bunny.
I made my first stage performance as well, we had to dance with our tapdance group. I didn't stumble or fall of the stage, and I was a very happy person when it was all over!

Cuteness

What always strikes me: japanese books, crafts, objects...are often very cute and attractive.

These little frogs are in an amigurumi book I bought on ebay, I did not yet try to make them, I have to study the patterns a bit, before I can start.


And these illustrations are in a very cute book I found in France last year, a day in the life of a bear (his name is Kuma Kuma), illustrations by Kazue Takahashi. The story is a bit sad and melancholic, the bear is living alone in a little house. At the end of the book you wonder if the bear has a happy or a lonely life.



These illustrations are in a book my father brought from a trip to Japan, way back in the sixties. I love the layout of these pages!

And finally, I made another mosaic, with cute and lovely things.

1. kittendoll Ava, 2. Sad Bird, 3. Forest of Mushrooms., 4. old russian illustration II, 5. red kokeshi, 6. Decole - Peter & Paul hook, 7. Baby, the Stars Shine Bright Sleeping Beauty jsk (sax), 8. Tibbles, 9. FRÖSI #6, 1962 (Detail), 10. michiko chan 1, 11. DSCF0042, 12. o passaro no seu ninho, 13. Jenn Docherty (blog image), 14. branchbird, 15. pillows, 16. vintage children´s book 1977

Gustaf Tenggren

While clearing my daughters room, I found a little book illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren.
I think he draws the cutest cats ever. He also did a few golden books.

French flea market finds

You can always find cheap, lovely things in France, when you go to a vintage sale on the 14th or 15th of July.

Like these embroidered tablecloth and little sachets.




Or these buttons and ribbons!

Cute duckies!

Collecting

One of the things I can't resist buying: beautiful tins, old and new ones. Here are a few tins I found on the shelves in my studio.

Peter and the wolf, oh, I love this one!

Detail of a very old biscuit tin.

Inside is a scented candle.

Peter Rabbit on an Easter egg

...and a "Tintin" tin.

A sewing project

I want to make this bag (pattern in Marie Claire Idées) with these fabrics. I want to take it on holiday with me, so this will be a quick project! The fabric with the blue bird was bought by my mother in the sixties, and it's a Boussac fabric. I didn't like it for years, and now I do. It's strange how your taste changes.

Mon Larousse en images

Another nice book I found on a flea market, a french vocabulary for children, edited in 1956, illustrated by Hélène Poirié.
This illustrations would be nice to use as an embroidery inspiration.

Vintage finds

Look what I bought on the flea market last weekend: a nice monkey, a fifties patterned fabric, a tin box and a handbag, for less than 10 euro!

Little golden books

This is a little golden book, "Wim is gone", especially made for the dutch market, published in 1959, illustrated by Rogier Boon.
It was one of the favourites of my children.

The story is about a little boy who decides to go with his bike to Spain. And then of course, the whole city goes looking for him.

I would love to have fabric with little cars like these printed on it.

This little golden book "I can fly" was illustrated by Mary Blair, so very cute! I saw some illustrations she made, when I visited a Disney exposition In Paris last winter. You can see some of her other work here.

Golden book

These are only 3 books of a serie of 10: "Golden book of the world".
These were informative books for children. The illustrations below are made by Tenggren and the Provensen, but I am not sure who made the drawing of the birds in the forest.
I wonder if there is a website or a blog, where you can find all these talented illustrators of the past. It's already amazing what you can find on the internet though.





The little indians are so very cute!