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    How Good is Art Seiden?

    He illustrated some of our favourite Little Golden Books – The Train to Timbuctoo, Never Pat a Bear and Captain Kangaroo – as well as a lovely Wonder Books – notably My ABC Book…

    December 21, 2006
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    Babar and Father Christmas and Princesses!

    Princess Magazine March 19th 1960 We found treasure! We tripped off to Ballarat today to see the lovely Marion at Country Mouse! Ohhh she has the most delicious cup-cakes ever and such a lovely…

    December 19, 2006
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    Gingerbread, Handkerchieves and Pear-trees!

    Hooray hooray.. today was a day of packing lots of lovely things into cello-bags lined with confetti, birthday candles and cocktail umbrellas. Favourites of the day were 1970s Enid Blyton books, 1960s Little Golden…

    December 18, 2006
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    Oooh Christmassy-Ness! Pop a Cracker!

    Oh joy of joys! Today we came over all lovely and Christmassy! We found some big bags of old Christmas Bon-bons from the early 70s (maybe) at the op-shop. They were pretty foil wrapped…

    December 16, 2006
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    Ode to Bill Murray – the vintage version.

    Mikes loves Bill Murray… Bill Murray in ‘Stripes’, ‘Groundhog Day’, ‘Meatballs’, ‘Ghostbusters’ & ‘What About Bob’. We love Bill before he was Cool Bill. We love vintage Bill. In fact today we are spending…

    December 16, 2006
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    Bunting, Buggies, Bears and Black Magic!

    oh my goodness.. it is nearly christmas! in all the stocking up and confetti-ing and collaging and sparkling… i forgot about christmassing my own house! paper chains would be good i think. and some…

    December 13, 2006
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    Hundreds and Thousands and Tiny Nonsense

    Yesterday at Mikes we threw handfuls of 100s and 1000s on the footpath in front of the shop. When people walked past, they heard the teeny tiny crunch.. and they looked down and smiled.…

    December 11, 2006
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    Fisher Price. Turntables. Tape-Decks. Cassettes.

    Awww.. i have a lovely Fisher-Price turntable. It is beige and blue and plugs into the power-point via a special adaptor which cost $120 at Dick Smith Electronics… it likes to play lovely old…

    December 9, 2006
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    Hippity Hoppity Hurrah! How can it Be?

    Today we hipped and hopped out to the country to see our favourite book man.. he had lots of lovely books for us… and vinyl too! Then we went to our lovely antiques lady..…

    December 5, 2006
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    We heart Marcel Marlier! Our collection so far!

    Marcel Marlier is an amazing Belgian illustrator who illustrated a large number of French childrens books – which were translated into many languages… In France they had ‘Martine Learns to Dance’ etc.. but here……

    December 3, 2006