Paper lace website

Look at http://paperlaces.com for more lace product ideas...

Digital ideas for lace... http://paperlaces.com/digital-paper-lace/

http://www.computerscrapbook.com for digital images and ideas for paper lace

Victorian paper lace scraps

5 Mini Hearts & Flowers Victorian Scrap Papers.
Search for Dresden Trim and Victorian Scraps on ebay...

Lots of little flowers and hearts. Order now to make your own old fashion Valentines. Perfect for decoupage and all your other craft needs. Printed in West Germany by the same company that has been making them for nearly 50 years. Wonderful vintage images, instead of using your valuable antique scrap paper collection.

Each sheet of scraps measures 6.5"W X 9" L

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Victorian Scraps and Dresden Trims

Lace Doilies Paper Hearts

There’s a good assortment of different colored doilies here in this package, including pink ones plus red, white, and a couple of foil metallic colors.

Vintage Valentine's Day cards

These card designs are taken from ebay where there are lots of designs and cards for sale.

Old fashioned romantic cards

Victorian Valentine... see this website http://www.candicehern.com/collections/03/valentine.htm

Unsolved Mysteries

Detectives, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, etc.

Travellers and Explorers

Amy Johnson - 1930-1939
Amy Johnson took off from Croydon airport for her epic journey to Australia on 5 May 1930. The eyes of the world were on her as she made an emergency landing in the desert in a sand storm, crashed the plane in India and got lost amongst tribes people on a Pacific island. On arrival in Australia on 24 May, she was an international celebrity.
Amy took up flying to alleviate the boredom of her office job and became the first woman in Britain to get her ground engineer's licence. It was her confident ability to maintain her own plane that saved her life several times. During WWII, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and it was during a routine flight that her plane was lost. The mystery of her death has never been solved.

The Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon also has a collection of documents and artefacts relating to Amy Johnson’s life from her birth certificate to documents describing the winding up of her estate. It includes flying licences, log books, publications, memorials, honours and awards. Complementing these are personal papers, photographs and contemporary publications.


* Feature of the month
* Artefacts relating to the personality
* Maps of her journey
* Include copies of letters and personal papers
* Include personal photographs in the covergift pack
* Invite comments on the V-Mag website
* Create a project - mini book using copies of the map, photographs, words with inks, distressed techniques and using copies of memorabilia to create a historic record of her life and journey.

Look at Wikipedia for links and more information:
External links
Science Museum exhibit on Amy Johnson
BBC Humber site for Johnson centenary
BBC education page on Amy Johnson
Sewerby Hall, Bridlington, includes a display of Johnson memorabilia
The RAF Museum, Hendon, includes another Johnson display
RAF History page on Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson on Find-A-Grave
CWGC record
Amy Johnson: Pioneer Aviator Article by LaRue Scott
Categories: 1903 births | 1941 deaths | Female aviators | English aviators | Aviation pioneers | Harmon Trophy winners | Aviators killed in aircraft crashes | People from Hull | Commanders of the Order of the British Empire | Alumni of the University of Sheffield | Segrave Trophy recipients | Women in World War II | People lost at sea

PROJECT - Create an Explorer Concertina Book

Using old photographs, we'd have to see how to get hold of these, we'd create a project to give away, or sell as downloadable images from our website. We could look at the possibility of charging for these.
Include copies of any memorabilia that exists:
* First Day Covers
* Cigarette cards
* Her signature
* Photographs
* Tiny metal plane charm
* Stamps
* Book covers
Images taken from: www.bbhmg.com/amyjo.htm

Featured Family Tree - Gertrude Jekyll

Feature those famous names family tree with nuggets of detail pulling out special notable dates and events.
* Make this a coffee table read
* Add a timeline
* Include pics of the family in the covergift pack
* Link to events, places of interest, museums, books, websites to give readers more
* Giveaway tickets to gardens, stately homes, birthplaces

Family Background
The Jekyll family line from which Gertrude Jekyll was descended can be traced back 13 generations; the name is probably of Danish origin. William Jekyll (1470-1539) came to London from Lincolnshire; he became Purveyor of Forage for the King's Horse. Down the years, the family were lawyers, clergymen, bankers, merchants, soldiers, sailors and servants of the British crown.

A distinguished lawyer, Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), Master of the Rolls, actually left money in his will to reduce the national debt; his portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller is shown above. Sir Joseph's nephew, John Jekyll, Gertrude's great great grandfather, lived in America and was Collector of Customs in Boston, Massachussets from 1707 to 1732; he discharged his job with such competence and fairness that he was described as the 'Darling of all Fair Traders' in New England.

The family tree below of the Jekyll family over 13 generations is based on the work of the family historian, Sir Herbert Jeyll (1846-1932) and taken from the book Gertrude Jekyll - Essays on the Life of a Working Amateur



Taken from the Woman's Hour website.

1940 - Nylon Stockings go on sale for the first time

Taken from the Woman's Hour website..

How technology has changed fashion
70 years ago in a research laboratory in Delaware, USA, a young scientist made a discovery that was to change the face of fashion forever.
Nylon was the world’s first totally synthetic fibre and it was originally heralded as a 'miracle'. Within a few years nylon was being used in a whole range of products from brush bristles to racquet strings, but it was the launch of nylon stockings that really created a storm.
Woman’s Hour explores the History of Nylon, and Jenni is joined in the studio by Sue Mossman from the Science Museum and Sandy Black from The London School of Fashion to discuss how technology has changed fashion and what we can expect in the future.

Science Museum
London College of Fashion
Wikipedia - Nylon

* From the messageboard

* Pat McLean
I was in my first job (short-hand typist £2.10s.0d. per week, very good pay) in the City of London in 1945. Nylons were not freely available. I recall buying my first pair, carrotty orange in colour, several years later. There were little shops, in the windows of which women sat repairing nylons and silk stockings. That illustrates just how available they were, and how precious to the general population of women. I repaired my own for years, usually with a hair from my own head! Your contributor was probably quoting fashionists of the day with money - most of us found coping with shortages, rationing et al, and trying to enjoy ourselves quite enough without searching for nylons.

* Chakoteya
Repairing nylons! My goodness. I remember repairing my horrible stockings as a schoolgirl, because we couldn't afford to keep buying new like most of the other girls there, and I kept the thrifty attitude up for quite a while afterwards. Somehow I don't think many people bother to repair runs these days though.

* AA
My granny had a strange mushroom-shaped thing that she used when darning socks. She taught me how to do very neat darning and for years I darned my own socks and my husband's socks. Now, my son and daughter throw the socks away....and I must add, so do I! I recall stopping ladders in nylons with little bits of nail polish! Tights and other items of leg-wear now get thrown when there is any kind of wear or tear. My darning skills still come in handy at times! I have made some brilliant, invisible mends in designer knitwear...my friends bring their precious woollies to my house!

* Taffy8
Nylon is the worst product ever invented. Who can forget bri-nylon sheets where every time you turned over in bed the sparks would fly and for all the wrong reasons!! Even my school uniform had a bri-nylon shirt. Teenagers smell pretty bad at the best of times but bri-nylon did little to ease the distress caused back in the 70s.

* Red Squirrel
Nylon nighties, nylon pants and bras, even brushed nylon jumpers. At School, there was a craze for wearing brushed nylon coloured frilly knee-length drawers. Ugh! As a 12 year old, I longed to wear nylons like my older sister. The best Christmas pressie that year was a pack of nylons and a suspender belt! I waved them around in greats glee, much to the amusement of my father and brother.

* Pippi
Ahh good old BRI Nylon - the breakthrough fabric of the 60s/70's. Funny though how crimplene trousers with elasticated waist (especially if they were brown) were always an object of ridicule, yet today almost every garment we buy has some sort of stretch elastic woven into the fabric!!??

Women's History Timeline...

Browse through the decades of famous women, from Gertrude Jekyll to Beatrix Potter, Elizabeth David to Josephine Baker.
* Showcase the people, the events, the fashion, jewellery, hats, furs and famous divas
* Review the cars, sepia photography, the camera, inventions and achievements
* Tell stories of romance and royalty, love affairs and love letters
It's all documented on the woman's hour timeline.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1900.shtml

Golden oldies... Vintage 1950's

* Take the cover of an old cookery book and use it to make a memorable card for someone old enough to remember!
* Include a feature on old recipes, cooks, tv cookery programes and cookery books to evoke a whole host of tasty memories.
* Readers can sell their old vintage books online, post up their recipes and tell their own stories.
* Charity shop finds - feature.
* Old family recipes