{"id":362,"date":"2009-11-05T23:15:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-11-08T22:44:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T11:44:20","slug":"thrifty-thursday-kickstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Thursday Kickstart"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be honest and admit I didn’t get around to photographing the goodies I was intending to blog about today…I was having too much fun out the back enjoying the sunshine with my girls! I did manage to take a quick snap of this beauty though….<\/p>\n

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I picked up this wooden dolls cot last week, complete with drop down side. It really is quite lovely and has a lot of potential. It’s a decent size, about 60cm long and 36cm wide and nice and high. Sometime between now and January 25th I plan to sand it back, paint it and make coordinated bedlinen as a special present for Caitlin’s 2nd birthday. She is hitting that ‘play house all day’ <\/em>stage and loves rocking her babies to sleep and covering them with layers of blankets and giving them little friends to cuddle. It’s perfect!<\/p>\n

I’m always rifling through the bookshelves. I always make a beeline for the books. I love discovering new (to me) illustrators, authors and wonderful stories to fire up the imagination and share with my girls. I always wonder which will become firm favourites. Lately I have gathered these wonderful 1960’s illustrated books. They’re all ex library books…and as long as they’re all intact I don’t mind. As you can see I do gravitate towards that aesthetic, so these will have many uses on my bookshelf (and the girls might enjoy them too!).<\/p>\n

\"Sixties<\/p>\n

Be Nice to Spiders<\/em> – Margaret Bloy Graham<\/a> (1967, World’s Work), When Will My Birthday Be?<\/em> – by Letta Shatz, pictures by Richard Bergere (1962 World’s Work), Amelia Bedelia<\/a> <\/em>– by Peggy Parish, Pictures by Fritz Siebel (1970,6th Printing Scholastic)<\/p>\n

I’ve also been finding a lot of ‘garden\/nature’ inspired books lately. Very appropriate given the gorgeous warmer weather we’ve been having, Spring is definitely in the air! These are three of my favourites.<\/p>\n

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Mary Margaret’s Tree<\/em> – Blair Drawson (Orchard Books 1996), The Enchanted Garden<\/em> – Susie Jenkin Pearce (Oxford University Press 1988), One Hungry Spider<\/em> – Jeannie Baker (Andre Deutsch 1982)<\/p>\n

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I have always adored Jeannie Baker’s<\/a> work. Her three dimensional worlds are so magical to look at and even more incredible to see up close and in person. After seeing an exhibition of her work, she became a big inspiration to me throughout my school years. This was when I first started to explore various forms of collage. This is one book I didn’t already have, so I was pretty excited to find it! Eloise is particularly taken by it. She’s entering the ‘lets use the bug catcher and catch everything that moves and keep it as a pet’<\/em> phase of life and spiders, butterflies and bugs of all descriptions are of particular interest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll be honest and admit I didn’t get around to photographing the goodies I was intending to blog about today…I was having too much fun out the back enjoying the sunshine with my girls! I did manage to take a quick snap of this beauty though…. I picked up this wooden dolls cot last week, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourite-books","category-thrifting-opshopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butterflyrocket.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}