Sunday, 18 December 2016

ADVENT CALENDAR 17th & 18th.

Linking up with Hawthorn and Julie for the Advent Calendar.

 DAY 18.
This photo was taken at Fountains Abbey, the same place Hawthorn showed in her No. 17 post yesterday.
DAY 17.
Taken on our way home from Canberra last month.  We stayed in Eden on the far south coast of New South Wales, an area we know well.  I'll post about some of our trip at a later date, but this at least gave me a 17.
The crafting has really come to a standstill.  Yesterday, & why I didn't post, was because we decided to take a day out, but got caught in traffic, both going & then coming home.  Two  of my stops didn't happen, though I've found that they are actually next door to each other now, which is 'maybe', not a good thing. 
1. A quilt shop.  2. Kaisercraft - a craft shop.
I knew we were too late for either, arriving in Geelong just after lunchtime, so we visited one of our favourite reclamation stores and spotted both of these below.  Talk about a trip down nostalgia lane.
A small switchboard.

Old school desks.
As for the switchboard, my first experience was a slightly smaller one than this, with what I always called drop down eyelids, then the next one was a bit like this (just an hour during lunch break), and I hated using the PA system.  My last one, again just in the lunch hour was a huge double board with an enormous amount of lines both in, out and extensions.  I actually enjoyed it.

 I remember school desks like this in primary school, with their lift up lids and inkwells in the centre.
Oh, those were the days!  How things have changed.

 Lastly, today I decided I just couldn't sew or craft in that dark space I showed the other day and have bitten the bullet and started changing it all around.  I'll now sew in one of the back bedrooms, which didn't have a bed anyway, just bits & bobs of my craft, fabric & some plastic tubs.  I think I'll be much happier with more light. That'll be an after Xmas post.

 Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  
Take care all.
Susan.
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12 comments:

  1. KC'sCourt!18 December 2016 at 18:58

    I sat at a desk like that!

    Julie xxxxxxxxxx

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    1. Susan Smith19 December 2016 at 07:10

      And here I am thinking I'm the ancient one out of my blogpals & everyone would have a laugh at the old odd photos.

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  2. Bag End Gardener18 December 2016 at 19:09

    What lovely pictures . . . "Cellarium", such a nice word, rolls around the tongue, makes me think of David Tennant as Dr Who (look, it's early, I'm still on my first cuppa!)

    I also sat at that school desk (shudder) and worked that sort of switchboard too (also to cover for lunch break). Both single and double boards and I quite liked it too :) Wouldn't have wanted to do that all the time, and definitely not these days.

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    1. Susan Smith19 December 2016 at 07:15

      What!!!!!!!!!.... to first statement. Have you been in the cellarium & if not, we'll have to rectify that.
      Now by the time I was getting married you were still in primary school, so once you were at work, I thought it'd have been a lot of the new telephone technology.

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  3. Onceuponathimble18 December 2016 at 20:35

    I turned a bedroom into a sewing room and it has transformed my crafting life!!

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    1. Susan Smith19 December 2016 at 07:20

      My trouble is that I struggle with actually not having a studio I can close off it's messy or work in without being watched by 'someone'.(giggle) It is much lighter too, than the internal space I've been using since we moved here.

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  4. Jo18 December 2016 at 22:45

    I didn't use a desk like that at school but I had one at home.

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    1. Susan Smith19 December 2016 at 07:22

      I've heard of others using them at home & think I'd have liked that as a child. My Dad did make me a desk, though it wasn't very steady, but it was 'made' by him, so I loved it.

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  5. kjsutcliffe19 December 2016 at 05:29

    Yay to moving to the room with the light - it helps with the crafting! I remember that number 18 (think I might even have it too!)

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    1. Susan Smith19 December 2016 at 07:26

      It certainly will, as I've always had pretty good light where I've sewed in previous homes, but do miss that big space called a studio since moving here. Ah, the cellarium is my most favourite spot at Fountains, although I love the whole place really. Did you read Jayne's comment? It sure made me laugh & I just couldn't picture Dr. Who at the abbey at all.

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    2. Sue Williams19 December 2016 at 09:48

      The old school desk!!!!!We were given a paintbrush and a can of varnish to share between us all and then on the last day of school we had to paint the desk with said varnish....talk about child labour..ha ha ha

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    3. Susan Smith19 December 2016 at 19:12

      Not sure I remember that bit or did we use a wax stuff, but I do know that they were varnished. I can remember having to help clean those Kosi stoves too. Ugh!

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