Flea market finds...

My aunt gave me this gorgeous apron for Christmas. I absolutely love it.





So imagine my excitement this week when I found this one at the op shop. It is exactly the same pattern, with similar handiwork. I love, love, love it. I don't think either one has ever been worn.



I feel a strong urge to bake cookies and slices, so I guess it was lucky that I also found this book for 20 cents. I think I might just be well on my way to becoming a fifties housewife.

A big thanks goes to my little model. It is impossible to photograph yourself wearing an apron. Miss Moo Moo was very patient with me. My special little helper.

Go here, to see what other treasures have been found this week.

Also....

Would you like to make a doll or softie for the Queensland Flood Appeal Dolly Drive? There is still plenty of time. The close date is the 18th of March. We would love you to join us. Please read more on my original post.

Cookbook love

Recently a friend asked if I really did own over 300 cookbooks (this fact is written somewhere in one of my posts). Yes, it is true. I counted them when we last moved, it seemed that all I was putting on the bookshelves were cookbooks, cookbooks and more cookbooks.

And... I am afraid to tell you, that I have just ordered this one with birthday money. However, they are not all expensive coffee table style cookbooks. I really love collecting quirky old style cookbooks. There is nothing better than rummaging through an old pile of dusty books and discovering a forgotten treasure. Op shops, garage sales, markets, church jumble sales, secondhand book stores.

Here are a couple of my favourites:







What dinner parties were cooked from these pages? What recipes became family favourites. How many romantic candlelit dinners were planned? Oh, if only these pages could talk.