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View-Master, Knitting and Drug of Choice

1 My sorting continues – I think it will last a lifetime! Today I came across my View-Master, a toy I had when I was nine or ten. It is a three dimensional viewer into which you add discs with tiny pictures. You click the handle and a scene comes into view. I’m thinking these had something to do with my love of/interest in Italy, The Pyramids, Japan and lots of other ‘exotic’ places. There is one of Cornwall too but I was living in Cornwall at the time though we didn’t have a car so many of these places were as unknown to me as Italy or Japan!

The View-Master ‘machine’

Some of the discs, some came with information leaflets

2 I made a pair of Sally-boots for a special baby due soon and today I heard that he has arrived safely. I shall post these tomorrow.

Sally-boots for a new baby

3 Words not needed!

Books are my drug of choice!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 13, 2015 in Beauty, books, Humour, knitting, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: old toys, Sally-boots, View-Master

Restoration, Old Games and Knitting Nancy

12 Dec

1 In order for the furniture restorer to work on the flood damaged desk, I had to empty out the top section very quickly into a box and have today been sorting through it all. I’ve discovered lots of long forgotten treasures, old letters, a Christmas list written by one of our daughters and some old toys…….

Mum’s desk, restored and more beautiful than ever

Inside the desk. I just love all the little compartments and the drawers – and the old, old ink stains.

2 There’s a fabulous collection of dice of all sizes and in different materials. Most of the dice are ordinary 1-6 for board games but there are some others in sets of five with King, Queen, Jack, the Ace of Spades and the 9 of Clubs, Spades, Diamonds or Hearts. I wonder if anyone reading this knows what game they were for?

Dice -but to play which game?

There are some card games including Lexicon and Main Line and there are some tiddlywinks – remember those anyone?

‘Main Line’ the railway card game

Tiddlywinks

There are some small puzzles where the pieces had to be moved around to be in a particular order.

Puzzles, to be ordered correctly. The Football one cost 1/11d

3 I remember this lovely Knitting Nancy! As a little girl I made yards and yards of ‘knitting’ with her and then sewed it into mats of all sizes, coaster size and dinner plate size that everyone was then given for Christmas.