Simply Thimbles

Hi all I came across Siv Hege's blog on the internet today while looking for blogs related to thimbles.  She visited Bjorneparken (The Bear Park) this week and picked up a couple of thimbles as souvenirs.  She is offering the thimbles in a mini-giveaway. Check out her blog for more details on how to take part in the giveaway and also to find out about The Bear Park.  Sounds like she had a great time! http://drommequilten.blogspot.com/2010/06/tiny-little-give-away-for-thimble.html Bye for now Olly

Staying with the nostalgic theme from the sewing machine thimble in the last post, here are two more which take me back to days gone by.  The first one is of the Bisto Kids.  Bisto is a brand of gravy powder which has been popular in the UK since it was first made back in 1908.  The thimble doesn't take me back that far - I'm not that old!  The name Bisto comes from what it does - it B rowns, S easons and T hickens in O ne.  The Bisto kids were created by a cartoonist called Wilf Owen in 1919.  The boy and girl are based on Oliver twist type characters with dirty faces and raggety clothes and although used a fair bit in the early days, they haven't been used in Bisto advertising for a number of years now.  I can't remember the last time I saw them on the packets. Having said that, the advertising was so successful and the brand is so well known, I wouldn't be surprised if most people will know them by sight.  Even if they don't, everyone knows the Bisto Kid