Perpetual One

Just recently I (and some other bloggy commenters) won a lovely little suprise from Georgina of Perpetual One just for leaving a comment on her blog.  It was very unexpected and dreadfully nice.  Wasn't that kind and sweet of her?  Here she is!

This gorgeous pic is from Georgina's blog

I have been wanting to visit Georgina for ages - she has a gorgeous caravan-stall at the Peregian Beach markets in Queensland and her next market date is on April 17...not far away at all!  She sells all sorts of lovely vintagey, hand assembled goodness there, has her own Etsy shop, and has even been featured in Country Style, which is one of my most favourite mags.  Good-O!!

This one is too

 

 

So you can imagine my delight at being the recipient of a lovely little brown paper envelope which held a pretty little package inside.

And just look what it was!  A gorgeous vintage hankerchief, hand embroidered with the word "hope" and a sweet card from Georgina, herself.

So lovely, no?

Georgina, do you know - I had some pretty dreadful, nasty things happen to me last week and the very thing I needed most of all was just a little bit of hope.  Thankyou for sending some (and on a hanky to help dry my tears!)  You've no idea how much your small kindness changed my week.  I will hope...over and over.

Cuteness from Bluebird Russian

Right at the beginning of my blog, I posted about and entered a giveaway for a cute clip from Bluebird Russian, which I (amazingly!) won.  That really doesn't happen very often!  I was very excited to receive it in the mail and then life in general got in the way and I never got to post about it.  So here it is, better late than never!

Bluebird Russian makes funky knitted and embroidered wear and can even do custom orders!  Her Etsy shop is fairly new and I always think that it's lovely to support a new Etsy-er, especially when they are creating something a little different from the norm.

Here's Miss Five doing a wonderful job modelling our cricket cola clip...

It's a pretty cute clip, is it not?

It says "Twist For Happiness".  Miss Five likes to pretend to twist it and cranks her smile up with each twist.  I told her her that she should actually do "The Twist" while she's wearing it.  Her response was *eye roll* "Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum!"
Something tells me I'm not going to have much of a chance of wearing this when Miss Five is around.