However in
recent months I have been getting rather peeved, this weekend my sister gave me
a book. It was beautifully done,
smelling of that lovely uncut pages, filled with glorious images of vintage
close ups of wooden cotton reels and fabric you dream about finding and to cap
it all it had a ribbon to use as a book mark… I was in seventh heaven until I
made the cardinal error of reading it!
Now I am not an
expert but I do have a pretty good knowledge of a number of crafts – knitting,
sewing crochet, quilting, papercrafts – but this woman could not be bothered
with such things. The comment about covering a jar of shop bought jam with a remnant of fabric and claiming you have made it... priceless. I
could not believe it, this is a craft book, supposedly sharing with me the
secrets of amazing gifts from vintage sources.
However my current favourite was the idea of displaying plates by means
of gluing ribbon onto the back of your most cherished bone china and then
pinning the ribbon to the wall… the pics looked gorgeous, but then I got to
thinking how long would the glue be able to cope with the stresses of gravity?
Were we back in the days of the Araldite man being lifted into the air by a
chopper when he was stuck onto a billboard?
He did not fall off, I think due in no small part to the copious amounts
of glue that was used! In the States
they stuck cars to billboards, I wonder how long they would last on the US
highways today?
