I thought I'd take this oppurtunity of my two top girls sleeping on the sofa in front of QI on a sunny Sunday evening to just give you all a small update on what's going down, down here..
As some of you might know, and others may not, I recently started collecting the old fashioned ladybird books, I saw them several months ago at a car boot and they instantly took me back to being little and gazing at the pictures, I bought a couple for 20p each and later my Mother saw them on one of her visits. She told me how they also reminded her of her childhood, and as I was about to enter fatherdom I thought about how nice it would be to have a collection for Lia, to one day come across and get that same feeling. SO, for a few weeks I dug through car boot sale boxes of books and charity shop bookcases trying to find cheap nice copies. But the other night curiosity got the better of me and I decided just to see what the value was for one of these old books, so I could be sure I wasn't being over charged, I found a specialist website for ladybird books which had a feature where you could type in some of the details from your copy and it would give you the value. The collection you see in the photo cost me no more £15 to date, two of my books are worth £45 each, and also that sellers wanted them, and many others in the region of £15 - £30. I have decided not to sell, if now I have a collection worth a few hundred pounds imagine what a gift it'll be for my daughter, if ever she did decide to sell it...Other books that are upon my vintage library shelf include some 1950's Beatrix Potter books and Observer Guides.. Plus a few less well known children's stories published by F. Warne & Co (who published Beatrix Potter's delightful children's stories, they really did have an eye for good classic stories) There are also reference books on Growing Herbs, The History of London to the 'current day' (which was.. 1920) and a book of compiled essays on Shakespeare.
I have also today finished this little set of drawers, it's hard to gage the size of them, but they basically stand somewhere just below my knee, they are a lovely piece I just don't know where they'll live. I have distressed these further than I usually go, but I am quite happy with the result. They've been painted in my usual Nutshell Organic Paint, which is produced down the road and is entirely free of unnatural and harmful products. The Gold trim around the bottom is another locally produced paint by a different company which I've been meaning to try for ages. I think it has created a lovely finish and I'm really looking forward to using them again, also a nice little fact is unlike many paints which are acrylic, chalk etc based this one is milk! and I don't even like milk...
So I'll leave this there, I apologise to those who are only interested in this blog for stories about Lia, but I want to keep some aspect of my blog about me! But I have included a photo for you! Here she is in her Aunty Gloria's arms... (yesterday)
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