Happy New Year

Back to blogging after the holidays to wish our friends, family and readers a happy and prosperous New Year.

Watch this Holiday Singing Pets Video and IAMS will donate a meal to an animal sanctuary

Good tidings we bring...view and share to help feed homeless pets through January 2, 2013!

Judy Garland sings Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas from the 1944 film Meet Me in St Louis

Have yourself a merry little christmas
Let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be
Out of sight
Have yourself a merry little christmas
Make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be
Miles away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Will be near to us once more
Someday soon, we all will be together
If the fates allow
Until then, well have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little christmas now

Merry Christmas

Extreme Shepherding - While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks

This YouTube video is of " Crazy shepherds fit their sheep with LED vests to create awesome designs on a hill. They recreate a game of Pong, fireworks, and the Mona Lisa." Certainly puts a different slant to

While shepherds watched
Their flocks by night
All seated on the ground
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around
And glory shone around

Friday Vintage - Vintage Fairies

 A selection of vintage and vintage inspired fairies anyone of which I'd be happy to see on my Christmas Tree.

Starting with Betty and Violet 's exquisitely handmade clay fairy doll dressed in antique and vintage textiles, trims and beads with a beaded tiara for her hair and glass beaded wings. From £60 Betty and Violet

 Vintage 1950's fairy from Lucy Bloom

 Sam McKechnie fairy made from papier maché and antique French linen filled with lavender. Each fairy is hand-painted and dressed in vintage fabric ballgowns and adorned with antique and vintage flowers.£128 from The Magpie and the Wardrobe

Angel Hughes fairy, each year the Tobias and the Angel team make between 18 and 20 fairies using antique lace, silks, ribbons, beads, sequins and bows. You can move their arms and legs and they have a wand, a necklace and very good knickers! approx. 8 inches / 20,3 cm from £ 245 each Tobias and the Angel

Which would you choose?

British Birds and Their Nests -Ladybird Book Series 536

 Ladybird Books British Birds and Their Nests Ladybird Series 536 - First Edition

 WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT?

British Birds - nests - bird eggs - trees - hedges - Yellowhammer - Skylark - Wren - Robin - Blue Tit - Long-tailed Tit - Bullfinch - Linnet - Jay - Starling - Magpie - Blackbird - Song Thrush - Goldfinch - Willow Warbler - House Martin - Turtle Dove - Green Woodpecker - Pied Wagtail - Kingfisher - Brown Owl - Partridge - Moorhen - Black-headed Gull

"This, children, is a new book about British birds and their nests. All the birds are common ones, and Allen Seaby has given you lovely coloured pictures, to enable you to recognise each of the birds when you see them.

I have tried to tell you a little about each bird, so that you will know where and how they live; what the bird is when you see it, and you can only do that by watching and keeping your eyes open. So you want to look at these lovely pictures very closely, and then go out and see how many of the birds in this book you can find. You can try their nests as well, but if you do, do not take the eggs - just look at them.

Good Hunting"

 This copy complies with the following First Edition issue points for collectors : "Hardback book issued with dust-wrapper. Original price 2'6 Net. The title text on the dust-wrapper is white (later edition were in blue or black ink). Catalogue page at the rear of the book."

About Ladybird Series 536

Ladybird published 27 titles in series 536 between 1940 and 1980 inclusive. The first 14 titles were originally published with dust-wrapper and had the original price of 2'6 Net.

This was a hugely popular series as it explored the wonders of nature - each title has been reprinted numerous times throughout the years retaining the wonderful illustrations that accompanied the easy-to-read text

 Ladybird Books British Birds and Their Nests Ladybird Series 536 - First Edition

Author: Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
Illustrator: Allen W Seaby
Publisher: Wills & Hepworth
First Published: 1953

 This is a Ladybird Tuesday Post hosted by Being Mrs C