Advice Needed And Latest Vintage Finds

A few weeks ago I went to a local table top sale and spotted this old standard lamp. My mother in law has been on about wanting a traditional style standard lamp for ages and as this was in full working order and literally only a couple of pounds I bought it for her. I bet you can guess what happened next. I got it home and decided I actually quite liked it. I started imagining it with the shade re-covered in a nice Cath Kidston fabric and the wooden stand painted in a pretty Farrow and Ball shade. Do you think I am completely losing the plot ? Is it as hideous as my daughter would have me believe ? How easy is it to re-cover a shade or to get it re-covered by someone skilled at that sort of thing ? Advice needed please.

These cups and saucers were a charity shop find last week. I bought them to use in the tea room at the vintage fair but have actually started using them and rather like the pink and green design. I seem to be drawn towards combinations of pink and green.

This is a lovely old silk laundry bag in the palest pink, decorated with pink rosebuds. When I bought it I thought I would re-use the fabric but I can't bear to cut it up.

I spotted these pretty cardboard drawers at the weekend, they once held Terry's chocolates. The tin was a charity shop find at the weekend. All of these treasures will be coming with me to the vintage fair.

These 1930s and 40s handkerchiefs have wonderful, colourful designs on them.

I love the colourful handpainted dots on these buttons, not sure how I am going to use them yet.