Today's thingys say "picnic time!" to me. Both of them came from my aforementioned visit to Savers this morning, so they are fresh outta the thrift shop! The fabric is about 2 metres worth and I'm guessing it's from the 60's/70's with a selvedge marked "designs exclusive by Caesar Fabrics, Australia". A Googling showed me that Caesar Fabrics are now a fabric importer in Marrickville NSW, so I'm thinking this fabric was made for them back when things were still made in Australia. If anyone has a better idea of the fabric's era, I'd love to know.
The other item definitely is a picnic one : a set of anodised drinking cups in a leather holder. Another thing proudly marked Made in Australia ("Carribean beakers"). This is dear to my heart as my family had a similar set of cups during my childhood, and HP's parents still keep a set (except theirs are just plain silver aluminum) in the glovebox of their car. They're a bit well loved, but they'll proudly live in the glovebox of our station wagon (which used to belong to HP's parents and was the home of their set) ...so I think that'll make the car happy.
Oh I must speak frankly Mr Shankley!! I was just about to call a post 'If you've got 5 minutes to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life'!!
Posted by: Claire Falkingham | Thursday, 07 August 2008 at 07:21 PM
Love the op-shop finds...the beakers are fantastic!
Posted by: CurlyPops | Thursday, 07 August 2008 at 08:40 PM
Oh my gosh those anodised beakers - yes!!! Such strong associations with my childhood too - we had the coloured ones in a leather holder in the glovebox of our old Nimbus. I'm sure they're sitting in my folks car somewhere right now too :)
Ahh memories :)
Posted by: Lara | Thursday, 07 August 2008 at 10:03 PM
The fabric would make pretty aprons! :)
Posted by: The Apron Queen | Friday, 08 August 2008 at 08:06 AM