Swapping Scraps, playtime fun Options

[Java]

Whit aboot the babies? Wis there sets o' the babies or jist one size?

[penny dainty]

wee ones , hmm well java Ill look but I'm not sure. I do have the big ones though , yes Ianmy I can wait , I've waited a long time for a wee swappie so a bit longer wont matter.Think the babies only came in one size Java.

[Java]

Ah've jist sorted mine oot and ah've a lot of doublers...if anybody wants them, gie me a shout and ah'll send a list of whit ah have.....

[Chookie]

Haven’t seen this thread before and enjoying a wee read. Had the strangest sensation looking at the sheets of scraps posted….Ah wis a wee lassie hame fae jist hivin’ bought a new sheet at Greta Brown's Newsagent shoap in Kent Road….a rare and big deal tae me (an’ ma Mammy!)…an’ Ah felt the same feelin’ Ah hid back then….no’ quite awe but sumfim close tae it....wonder, mebbe. Felt gey weird so it did. Must go and look oot my scrap book. It came to Canada wi’ me. Ah know where it is…in a box in my storage area, aka Glory Hole aka Midden aka Fibber McGee’s closet….but findin’ it’ll be something else. Might be a while afore Ah get back in here!

Ah hiv some treasures....old-fashioned pre-war lovelies gied tae me by ma mammy's pal lo these many moons ago!

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[Isobel]

Sorry to say I dont have any scraps. They used to be such a big part on my childhood. Dont know what ever happened to my collection.Many a happy hour was spent on the stair head swapping scraps. Two or three of us would gather in the close and how happy we were then, such simple pleasures.

[penny dainty]

I posted some photos of some of my old scraps in the gallery , I dont know how to put a photo in to a particular topic.

[mrssnuffy]

Can you believe I just gave my 25 year old niece my old sweetie box full of scraps, some which belonged to my Mum from the 1900s? She was fascinated with them.

[glasgow lass]

Can you believe I just gave my 25 year old niece my old sweetie box full of scraps, some which belonged to my Mum from the 1900s? She was fascinated with them.

FANTASTIC ! that you have passed the scraps on for another to enjoy.

[eyebright]

There was wee ones to them Java and middle size ones if I remember rightly. So a set would be all three.

[mairead]

Well that brought back some happy memories, even sitting on the cauld stairs swapping.
Simple pleasures right enough. Some of the newer ones I don't remember but the cherubs on the clouds were some of my favourites. They go back nearly 70years I would think 'cos it's that long since I was a wee lassie.

[CAT]

See Mairead there's so much more to the GG boards than the political debate. Have fun exploring all the topics and memories. I love it

[ktv]

my 3 big sisters had literally millions of these and till this day I still find them in the pages of books in my mums house lol

seen the wee baby on the cloud thing only the other week there.

[mairead]

Oh I'll get around Cat. Just takes me a wee bitae time to master a new board. I live in an isolated area so love to chat on forums.

[*Billy Boil*]

Sorry to say I dont have any scraps. They used to be such a big part on my childhood. Dont know what ever happened to my collection.Many a happy hour was spent on the stair head swapping scraps. Two or three of us would gather in the close and how happy we were then, such simple pleasures.

There has been a large revival of "Scrapbooking" here in Australia. I am aware of this because my wife is into all sorts of traditional arts and crafts, decorative sewing, jewellery making and teaching these skills to others. There are many and varied "traditional crafts" available in our not so small country town.

Incidentally my wife is from a much smaller Canadian country town where in the time of her child hood traditional crafts were what they lived by. We lived and worked most of our lives in Melbourne and although it is a wonderful city there was not the diversity of interests that occur in the country. Then again in the city the distractions are many.