A part of history....& a giveaway!

Hi ladies, how's everyone going today? Geez we've been having some HOT weather lately here and summer doesn't even officially start until December 1st! Oh how I envy those of you who are lucky enough to have a white Christmas! But I must remember that I just have to bloom where planted, and try not to wither and wilt in this heat in the mean time!

Today I would like to share with you something that I'm quite excited about. When I was a little girl growing up we had this old sewing machine in our home that belonged to my Dad's mother. I have always loved old things, particularly if they are a part of our family history. Anyway once I grew up and left home, my mum sold our family home and moved house, putting a lot of things in storage at a friend's house. I have been asking my mum about this sewing machine for years now, but for one reason or another we weren't able to get to this storage facility....until yesterday.


I'm just so happy to have this wonderful piece of our family's history back in my home! I can remember lovingly oiling this piece when I was just a wee thing, helping my mum around the house.......


Unfortunately when we rediscovered the sewing table yesterday it was in a pretty sad state and not as well cared for as I remember as a child, but to me it's still beautiful......


LuLu seems to like it too and has given her paw of approval......lol


For the last 17 yrs this sewing machine has sat just barely protected from the elements, but there wasn't a thing I could do to rescue it until yesterday. This morning we've cleaned it up as much as we can for now, but I will get stuck into it as soon as I can to really clean her up and bring her back to life!


I had always remembered this sewing machine as being a Singer, but it turns out that it's a Beale and Company brand.


I'm not too sure what this means, but I am assuming that it is the stitch sizes or something like that. A sewer I am not, so I'm guessing here.


I love this medal on the machine that has the company logo and says Advance Australia. This may sound a little silly to some, but when I read the Advance Australia part it made my heart swell a little. I love Australia and am very proud to be an Aussie girl.


So for now this lovely family piece has taken up residence in the laundryroom, until I can find a better home to display it. I'm just so thrilled to have it, to have a piece of my Grandmother really. My Nana died on the day of my 4th birthday. We went up to the hospital that morning to see her and she gave me a birthday present, Bert and Ernie hand puppets which I loved, then that afternoon we got a call to say that Nana had died of a massive heart attack. Little did we know that only 7 months later, her son, my dad, would also pass away from heart failure. Nana was 64 when she died, and my dad was 38 yrs old. My age now....


So anyway, you can see why this piece might mean so much to me. I love it, and I'm just so thankful that we were able to recover her no matter what her condition...


and now, speaking of vintage things........I was wondering if anyone might like to win these vintage Christmas baubles?


I have 2 sets to giveaway, each set containing a set of red baubles.....


and a set of yellow.......



To enter just leave a comment on this post. I'll draw the winner in a few days. Until then I wish for you a wonderfully happy week!

Love Amanda xxx