OOh pictures!

I finally took some pictures to show you of one of Claire's presents to me and of a present I bought for myself.

First of all, you might remember I posted about a wonderful TV series called "Turn Back Time: The High Street". I was so surprised to open a gift from my wonderful daughter on Christmas day to find a book about the series. She knows me so well!

 

My favourite chapters are the war years - I've no idea why I have a thing for the forties, but I loved it when Claire did "The Home Front" in history in primary school. These pages remind of that.

 

"Make do and mend" is all the rage now, with the hard economic times we have today....

 

And here's the present I bought myself when I was in Covent Garden. I love love love Penhaligons. The shops are so luxurious and smell so delicious. I preferred it when I could buy this fragrance in an oil for my ring burner, but the guy in the shop (lovely, VERY camp salesman) said it's not the fashion now. Instead the demand is for candles so I have to make do with this. 

 

My little touch of luxury - contrasting quite starkly with the "make do and mend" of the forties, eh?!  They pop it in a luxurious, shiny, paper carrier bag stuffed with fragranced tissue paper, and it makes quite something of a smallish buy.  I was admiring their silver compact-like solid fragrance line, and thought that Artemisia smelled quite delicious, so the salesman put a little sample in the bag for me. It's divine!  I wish Typepad had a "smellovision" button so I could share both fragrances with you, but you'll just have to take it from me. 

So there you have it, a little bit of what's making me happy these days.

Comments

[jml]

I really ejoyed the street series too. The war years were interesting & well presented.I've got MY OWN ration book as they were still in use when I was born!!!!
mummy gave it to me some time ago.I wish I could smell those candles & scents but the only thing I do distinguish is the alcohol base which is quite unpleasant so I no longer wear perfume!!

[Caroline]

Oooh, that candle looks lovely! And the book sounds great, too - I love anything to do with the war years, am fascinated by the 40s.