Part 2 of the birthday loot went on a little country detour before it made its way to my house.
You may remember
that I visited The Big House a couple of weeks ago in Ballarat, and I was drooling over the selection of vintage dresses.
There was a particular vintage housecoat that took my fancy.... you can see from the photo where I've taken it from the rack and looked at it, and it put it back rather messily!
Well, my
little sister very sneakily bought it for me after I left!
It's very large and very shapeless, but the fabric (and the buttons) are beautiful. In the interests of my sanity, I'm not going to try to convert into a shapely dress that I can wear. I think I shall make an a-line skirt or a wrap skirt instead.
She also included a beautiful vintage tablecloth and teatowel.
My mum went to Ballarat on Friday, so she took my pressie home to Beeac with her.
So, on Saturday, my older sister and I packed up all the kiddies (six of them in total) in her people mover, and headed off to visit Beeac for an early Mothers Day celebration.
There was lots of collecting firewood...
Feeding the ducks and chooks..
Feasting....
... and dancing while the band played 'Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car', 'Incy Wincy Spider', and 'If You're Happy and You Know It' a thousand times!
Little Zaney even skipped the visit to the lolly shop with everyone else because he wanted to stay behind and play his guitar. I think my sister may have a future rock star on her hands!