New Wallpaper book and some new small stash

Me and the girls have been walking on another hill today in the sunshine, sitting on logs and collecting sheeps wool off fences, mainly for leaving around the house in untidy lumps.  A bit of sewing, bath, dinner and bed.

 A little pile of small pieces of fabric we collected at the garage sale on Sunday.  Mostly offcuts and left-overs so good for dolly clothes and patchwork and small things.

 I also bought this book which has lots of cool wallpaper and some weird and wacky wallpaper and some pretty stuff too. 

 above, interesting deer on the shirt.

 These were in big scale, wall height, would be very dramatic but a bit nerve racking in the bathroom. 

 I love the pattern idea on these by Johanna Basford who I blogged about yesterday.

 This is so beautiful and dreamy and summery.  My photos never turn out like this!

 I'm not sure where I would put this, nowhere in my house is cool enough for, neither am I mind you.

 I have not taken a very good  picture which is a shame as the paper was very pretty old style.

 This was so sweet, I love the coloured flowers which look a bit like stick-ons

 beautiful and probably v. exspensive.

Would brighten up your room, this would go anywhere in my house, might disguise the bumpy walls too.

lovely new stash.

My lovely friend came round with a bag of material and lace and embroidered table-things for me a few days ago. They are small pieces that she couldn't throw away as they are beautiful, but not really big enough for anything, except dolly clothes, accessories etc.  The embroidered stuff is good for dolly bodies as it looks like they have pretty flowery tattoos. I was so excited!  It was like my birthday.  Thank you very much.  And now I shall have a fab time thinking up new outfits.   

All these amazing embroidered, table-mats and doily type things must have taken so long to make and most of them are so neat and perfect.  Mind you they were probably made by the ladies of my grandmothers generation and there would be no social forgiveness if there was ever a stitch out of place.  It would be noted!

Lots of sweet little pieces and colours.  Just about the right size for some small dolly clothes.

I love Pink.

And lots of terrific old lace.  Some of this must be hand-made too, the hearts are so cool. 

The dollies have wrapped themselves in some material to see how it suits them and are checking out the bunny rabbit, polar bear fabric for future reference.  How cute is this?  They could each have a little t-shirt with a bicycle riding polar bear on it.