Birthday giveaway
Claire March 27th, 2008
Apologies for the distinct lack of blogging this week (and I was doing so well recently!) but life has been somewhat hectic recently. I have managed to fit in quite a bit of crafting though, but no time to take pics (apart from this one 
of some knitted cakes I have been making for the craft fairs I am going to have a stand at), so this is really jut to let you all know out there that I am having a birthday givaway. I need to spice my birthday up a bit this year as I have to go to a 6 hour regional management meeting (6 hours of discussing service development plans – I must have been really bad in a past life, or is that a slight exaggeration?!?) so it’s my way of making things better.
So, lovely bloggers out there, I will enter everyone’s name who leaves a comment on this post (or any subsequent posts I may manage between now and next week) into a hat and draw someone out at random.
But instead of leaving a random comment, highly appreciated as they are, I would like your comment to be about your favourite (or if you have many, one of your favourite) childhood memories – I have blogged a fair bit about what I remember from being a child, so this is your turn now. Don’t be shy – share the love! In return, the winning person will get a parcel of Pinky and Boo goodies sent to them. Haven’t decided what will go in yet but I am thinking a vintage apron, a pin cushion, maybe some other bits and bobs that I will gather up.
So come on, leave a comment if you want to be in the running for some freebies! I will draw names out on Tuesday evening (after I have got in from the meeting) xoxo
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Love the knitted cakes, you have been so busy that you put me to shame!
Favourite childhood memories? Crumbs, it changes all the time. At the moment, I’ve been happily reminiscing about times spent camping in Eastgate (in the Wear Valley). It is an incredibly beautiful part of the country. The caravans were set among pine trees close to the river, so we got to swim and scramble about all day. My favourite thing to do there was smash stones against the boulders – so many of them turned out to be quartz or else had veins of gold coloured minerals running through them. Endlessly fascinating; I never knew what the next stone would contain.
My 4 year old son just squealed in delight at your knitted cakes!! I’m not sure if I have just one favourite childhood memory but I’ve chosen one to share. I have a twin sister and together we would go and stay at my grandparents house. When my grandad was out she used to put newspaper all over the floor of the living room. She would then bring in extra newspapers and old magazines. She’d make a paste from flour and water and we’d spend hours gluing and sticking the newspaper. It was quickly put away before my grandad came home so he couldn’t see the potential mess and destruction in the room! My grandma would then feed us peanut butter sandwiches sprinkled with extra salt!! Fun memories!
oops just read my post again – it was my grandma who used to get the newspapers and glue for us. how I wrote it, it sounded like it was my sister!
For me it has to be: The Wendy House at school;Janet and John books; Enid Blyton ; my ‘Jacko’ roller skates; the sweet shops you got at Christmas with the little scoops and the jars; visiting Father Christmas in his grotto,in the big stores and receiving lovely goodies; the old fashioned sweet shops; the baker’s van that smelt so scrummy when it called in your road; watching the ‘sooty faced’ coalman deliver the coal; ‘Watch with Mother’ and ‘Listen with Mother’; your delight at a new pair of Clarks shoes; school satchels ; Mum’s cooking;…the list is endless! I loved my childhood and I love remembering it too! Sal;-)
Lovely knitted cakes, Claire. One of my favourite childhood memories has to be of going up to the local station one Christmas looking for a parcel that our next-door neighbour was expecting. Mum was pushing my little sister in the big old pram, and I was walking along beside her. The way to the station was up a country lane and when we got there the station office was piled high with packages and parcels (sadly, none of them the one we were there to collect), there was a roaring fire in the grate and everything felt so cosy and Christmassy. There were still steam trains running on that line then (the whole line was subsequently shut down by Beeching’s axing of the railways) and another great memory is of travelling by steam train for a day out in Bath. I was always a bit afraid of those trains, as well as fascinated by them. I was a very poor sleeper as a child and used to hear the trains puff, puff, puffing away in the distance all through the night – I loved the sound of them then as it meant I wasn’t the only one awake in the night.
OOooooo, so many to choose from. Some of my best memories are from my birthday parties. We NEVER let a birthday go uncelebrated in our family and the celebration tends to last all month! We always had the matching cups/plates/napkins/centerpiece and my mom always baked a cake and got me a porcelain figurine of whatever I was into that year, to go in the middle of the cake–and we never stopped, I now have 30 of them! I invited friends over, we played games, opened gifts–what lovely memories!!
Wow! One favourite memory? Umm.. I have very fond memories of sleeping on the covered verandah with up to 15 of us cousins listening to all the night animals in the bush.zkwdlgvj
A favorite memory of mine would be when my dad mowed the lawn. He would mow mazes into the front yard and we could play in it while he mowed the backyard.
I am excited about having you as my vintage swap partner, I’ve been busy planning what to make you! Fun! Have a great Day!
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A funny memory of mine is when I was little about six years old!. I cut slits in my new cardigan on the sleeves because i didnt like it!. I thought i wouldnt have to wear it again and my dad stitched the slits up and made me wear it again!!. Not what i wanted . I was a naughty child!
One hot and humid summer day, all of the kids on my street were outside playing when it began to rain. We had this huge grassy area in the middle of our street that we called the Big Greenbelt. For an hour or so, some of us girls marched around the greenbelt, singing songs and getting soaking wet from the rain. I don’t remember any boys joining in. I think we sang Partridge Family tunes or something. It was so much fun. And, I remember not one mom got mad at us for getting our hair and clothes totally soaked through. Thank you for making me remember that perfect day.
My favorite childhood memory. So many to choose from, but my all time favorite one is before seatbelts laws and my brother and I would wrestle in the back of the car and he would tickle me until I got the hiccups and then we would sit back and laugh and laugh and then I would laugh hiccup laugh hiccup. So much fun. My brother and I always had fun.
Sometime I wish we could go back for one more day and just be kids for one day.
One of my favourite childhood memories is that me & my sister used to tell knock knock jokes to each other when we were suppose to be asleep. The funniest thing was that we used to have seperate bedrooms that were at either end of the landing, so my Mum & Dad must have been able to hear us! Please put my name in that hat!
Oh blimey – I could ramble on forever about childhood memories. I had such a lovely childhood!!! Most of my best ones involve being at my grandparents’ house, just playing in the rhubarb, making dens down the bottom of the garden and promising Nan we wouldn’t try and jump in the river (we never did – not once, we believed her when she told us it was too strong a current and unsafe). I’d always come back into the house with a frog, or some bugs and spiders, we’d then put then in a bucket and I’d feed them. I wish I was 7 again…just for a day.
Favourite childhood memories playing in the wood at the top of our garden and making paper boats and racing them down the natural stream that ran down our garden with my best friend Julia also making mud pies and dens!
Sarahx