Handmaiden

Tea Time Birthday

Happy 86th Mum

Cinderella for a day

Sharon
 
 
 

Flashback Friday

When I was younger I did Calisthenics with my younger sister at the local church hall. My mother made all our costumes...when I look back she did a fantastic job. This particular costume needed a cottonwool wig that was tacked onto an onion bag. My mother tells us this story when she had a blonde moment! She asked what size tacks she would need and there she was thinking how she was going to use a hammer and "tack" the cottonwool onto the onion bag! What was she thinking. It brings a smile to my face everytime I retell this story.

 

 

 

Great costumes Mum

Sharon

Flashback Friday

If you have been a reader of this blog you will know that I have started scrapbooking all my old photos and I know many of you have commented that you want to know more about the stories behind them. A little bit about who I am and my background.

Well today I am sharing some more with you. This is me as a very young girl in the backyard on "cracker night" or Guy Fawkes night as its fomal name. We lived in Wonthaggi in Gippsland until I was 8 until we came to live in Carnegie. I always preferred Sparklers and Catherine Wheels to those loud crackers and perhaps thats where my love of Bling has come from. Of course today fireworks are banned but I have some fond memories of those times. In fact I was able to host my own Guy Fawkes night in London when we lived there. We even went to the Battersea Park Guy Fawkes night fireworks one year.

 

 

I still love sparklers and fireworks and enjoy the New Years Eve spectacular and even at Moomba I had 3 nights of fireworks. Of course the opening of the Commonwealth Games has been the most spectacular event I have ever seen. What's yours?

Play along if you want to.

Sharon

My Creative Space

I have been having a cleanup in Melbourne making room for more stuff to come from Singapore and part of that is looking at all my old photographs. So I have got into scrapbooking.

So My Creative Space this week is full of memories. This is me in my favourite TV chair and I must have been about 5 and with my favourite doll.

 

for more players check out Kirsty

Sharon 

 

Goldern Girl

Barbie turns 50 this week and she has a special place in my heart.

 

I was a product manager on Barbie along time ago and started the first Barbie Fan Club in Australia. This is me at Toyfair in Sydney. I think it's 1982!! I remember Day to Night Barbie, her townhouse, her pink corvette and lots of other stuff.

As part of the celebrations New York fashion week hosted a runway of famous designers dressing Barbie

1. Barbie in Vera Wang - Barbie Fashion Week, 2. Barbie in Diane von Furstenberg - Barbie Fashion Week, 3. Barbie in Monique Lhuillier - Barbie Fashion Week, 4. Barbie in Yigal Azrouel - Barbie Fashion Week, 5. Barbie in Anna Sui - Barbie Fashion Week, 6. Barbie in Bob Mackie - Barbie Fashion Week

This is such a collector's item, how beautiful has this been done. I wonder whether we will see it in Australia.

1. Barbie Vera Wang Wedding

 

Checkout Hostess With the Mostess for her Barbie party 

Happy Birthday Barbie

Sharon

Memory Keeping

One of my plans for this year was to learn new skills around paper and cards

So I have started off with this scapbooking class at Made with Love and I loved it. New jargon to learn, new tools to buy, oh and my goodness I can see another stash coming....so many beautiful pattern papers to choose.

 

We learnt how to put a template together

 

  This is my first page

 

and I love playing around with the embellishments.......it's really a mixed media collage

 

and one of my new tools...I am surprised it's not branded Clover as it comes from Japan.....is glue tape in this handy dispenser.

 

I can see this is the beginning of a new love.

Sharon