My Flower garden

How Does your garden grow?   I love these cheery bright enamelled pins dating from the 1960 to the 1970.   I have seen many of these pins used by artist who attempt to create their own jewellery and render these pins unusable.  I am all for the recycling of items that can no longer be used in their intended way but to actual take the jewels of the "Flower Child" and use them in any other way I find disturbing to me.   I will be showing more of my collections  

Overshoe Evolution

Since I started this blog it has been an adventure Hunt for me.  Each time I think of an item that I would like to share with you I discover that I have two or three more to show.   This has become a form of house sorting which is long overdue.  Here is some good examples of the boot or rain boot from the 1940 to the 1960.  The fur trimmed overshoe I wore in the 1950's but the sexy heeled boots was popular in the 1960's.  The rubber overshoes judging from the shape of the heel would be typical of the 1040.  The most interesting is the black rubber protector which left the heel of your shoe out and only covered the sides and sole.  I do remember my mother having a pair of the clear plastic fold up shoe covers in her bag along with the little package with a  fold up head cover.

Vintage Wicker and Straw bags and Purses

I promise myself that I will post more often so that i can share with you some of my favourite things.  this collection of straw and wicker purses and totes are  novel lovely and great examples of some hand made bags.  Most I suspect are souvenirs from many different tropical vacations.  These are starting to require a lot of space, so I am not applying myself to acquire more I just keep the ones that come my way.

Vintage Petitie Point Handbags--Achievement Trophies

This collection of Petite Point handbags, have  a story hidden within them.  After retirement I joined a ladies fraternal organization with ties to the Masonic Lodge The Order Of The Eastern Star.  When joining I saw that some ladies in their travels visiting other Chapters in Ontario had these lovely handbags which they carried with pride.   The story told to me was that back in the late 70's early 80's these handbags were presented to women who achieved a certain level of achievement were rewarded with one of these purses. 

                                  Trophies of Achievement.

1929 Wedding Dress

                            
                                          August 28, 1929


                     Clayton H Parkinson married Sarah Ann Hill 
    
                                        Thornbury Ontario 
This vintage wedding dress is in wonderful condition  and the Lyle stockings remain with the dress.  It appears that artificial flowers were sewn lightly to the dress to update it for use later. The veil that is with this dress is not the original but it is from the same era.   The dress is a cream colour and has some smoking around the bottom at the hip area. This keepsake was given to me by Mrs. Dorothy Russell of Clarksburg Ontario.

Vintage Tapestry Carpet Bags

These wonderful carpet bags remind me of an old castle.   There is some patina on the frames and I had used these bags for one of the Victorian costumes for the gaslight Tour, I also teamed one up with a early 40's suit. Looked great.

Black and silver sparkle shoes and clutch bag

This set I feel is from the 1960's.  The shoes are a combination of black gro-grain type material and silver sparkle. The label inside the shoe says "Eaton's".   This is like a cinderella slipper. Am I correct about the date of these beauties?.