I’ve recently acquired approximately 200 hundred vintage (mostly) Australian magazines. The plan is to start archiving the best bits (read, the pictures), and then quite

It will be forever, indelibly etched into my mind thanks to Lorraine Cuthbert… fastest runner at Doncaster High (niece of Betty Cuthbert), a body all

How to make soft toys and dolls is a Sunset Book originally published in 1977. It has about 64 projects to make; some of them

Neue Stick-Ideen by Lis Paludan is a vintage craft book published in Copenhagen in 1973. This version is in German (auf Deutsch) and has some

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A selection of pictures from my collection of Leisure Crafts books published in the 1970s. When i’m retired I’m going to create all these things

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]So happy to have won the auction for these vintage doll postcards by Kruger of West Germany and others. The Kruger cards have two cute

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’ve started picking up vintage magazines just to collect the old ads I remember. Please wait a few seconds while they load.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_masonry_media_grid grid_id=”vc_gid:1546722009500-d672cc87-000a-4″ include=”5310,5311,5313,5314,5315,5316,5317,5318,5319,5320,5321,5322,5323,5324,5325,5326,5327,5328,5329,5330″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Woman’s Day Handicraft series was published in 1973 by Octopus Books. It was a 13 part series, the best parts of which later showed

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Childcraft How and Why Library was first published in the 1930s. The World Book Encyclopaedia company was the holder of the Childcraft imprint. The

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I collected swap cards when I was between 8 and twelve years old – back in the 70s. It still makes me happy to

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Since my Mother died I’ve been spending more time at her house and have unearthed some treasures belonging to (mainly) my Grandmother – who

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Aflush with the making of Mirabelle I decided to make something more boy friendly. Meet Bunner: I couldn’t really get a good photo of him.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was so thrilled when I found this at the op shop. Even the boys like it. I don’t know anything about Robert Lyons, except

While many of the ladies around me these days plan only that their husband will update their black 4WD (pref. BMW or Mercedes) every three

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Got this today – released by the Women’s Weekly in November of 1972. Can you believe someone’s held onto it that long? Can’t write

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Neue Stick-Ideen – New Embroidery Ideas I spotted this book on eBay.de months ago, and as it was only about 1 euro I bid

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This poodle bottle cover has lenticular eyes and the bottle sits in a chair. Crocheting bottle covers gained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s when

So… I’m totally obsessed with pose dolls at the moment, and those japanese fairground dolls, made of felt with those big sparkly eyes. My mum