Country Living

Yesterday I went to London with my lovely girl. We had tickets for the Country Living Spring Fair. There were lots of gorgeous stands but it was absolutely packed. It was so crowded it made getting round really difficult. After about an hour my lovely girl had had enough and she disappeared off over the road to a couple of her favourite clothes shops. Although I enjoyed looking around I will never go on a Saturday again, although I am not sure a week day would be much better.

This is a lovely tile I bought from the Welbeck Tiles stand. I will use it as a pot stand. They had the most gorgeous range of tiles in rose designs and also their new patchwork collection shown below. The ones I really loved were old, coloured sea side postcards reproduced on to tiles. Have a look at their website to see their latest tiles although I don't think the brand new patchwork collection is shown yet.

I bought these vintage green glasses from the lovely Velvet Ribbon stall along with the pretty painted glass pot.

This is a new tea cup from Caroline Zoob. I bought one at the Christmas Fair in a different colour and love it. The blue buttons were from Marti.

A trip to London wouldn't be complete without a visit to Cath Kidston so we went to the Kings Road branch. This is a make up bag from her vintage range made from old fabric. I loved the colour and design and needed a new one so was very pleased to find this.

I bought a couple of packets of seeds for Mr C, some napkins for lovely girl's birthday cake in a few weeks time, a couple of hooks for the kitchen, and a key ring and a cherry beaker for my lovely girl. I didn't feel too guilty treating myself as my mum and mother in law had both given me money for my birthday a few weeks back knowing that I would see things I liked at the fair.

Finally we visited The Natural History Museum. It's quite a long time since I had visited and had forgotten how vast it was. It was raining heavily outside so we spent an hour or so wandering around looking at dinosaurs and having a snack before heading home.

Mid Week Treat

Yesterday after work and school I dashed for the railway station with my lovely girl. We were headed to london for the gala evening of the Country Living Christmas Fair. We had never been before so didn't know what to expect. When we arrived we certainly weren't disappointed. There was so much to see and so little time !

My first purchases were this gorgeous mug from Caroline Zoob and some lovely velvet violets.

I treated myself to a gorgeous Jan constantine cushion, something I have wanted for ages. My lovely girl picked a cute mug for herself.

She also chose a lovely hand blown glass decoration in the shape of Big Ben, this was from the wonderful Bombki stand. You can read all about the company in this month's Homes and Antiques magazine.

This pretty lavender heart was from 'Vintage Inspiration'.

The christmas pud was from 'The carved Angel'. The food area was fantastic with lots of lovely food and drink to taste.

And finally these lovely original French seed packet labels were from Burgundy Brocante , also featured in this month's Homes and Antiques magazine.

If you are thinking of visiting the fair I would highly recommend it but leave yourself plenty of time. We didn't get to see everything in the couple of hours we were there and could have done with another couple of hours. The next fair is the Spring one at the end of March.