Special Day

Today was my birthday and I treated myself to a day off work and slow start to the day. I caught up on some lovely blogs over a nice cup of tea and opened some lovely pressies.

I had some beautiful flowers including this gorgeous hyacinth and rose posy from Crocus. This was a lovely surprise from my sister up in Scotland.

The pretty green enamel 'pot' planted with Spring flowers was from my friend Deb.

My lovely girl knows me well and bought me some pretty earrings, a new mug for my morning cuppa and a lovely spotty glass I had commented on when we were in CK in london a few weeks ago.

My biggest surprise was this fabulous tomato red coat that I had spotted weeks ago but couldn't justify buying it for myself. This will be something I wear and wear, it has a fabulous lining and a 50s/60s style swing shape.

Mr Corner House and I then set off for a trip to Stamford which is a beautiful market town with some fantastic architecture spanning centuries. It is also full of lots of lovely shops and places to eat.

There seemed to be lots of doors painted in varying shades of green.

I love this shop, full of lots of lovely things including a great range of Cath Kidston and Emma Bridgewater. I treated myself to a couple of bits of Cath.

This week I have found a few charity shop bargains including this original Lloyd Loom Lusty table.

I found three of these printed 1950s tablecloths for pennies. I particularly like this one with the roses and cottage design, I think it looks very Cath Kidston but the real thing.

I hope you all have a lovely Mothers Day weekend.

Happy Birthday

Today was the Birthday of my good friend Deb of 'Home Thoughts From Vintage Wants' and also of Annie from 'Birdcages and Butterflies' , so many happy returns to both of you. I hope you have both had a lovely day, I know Deb has been at work all day but is off out this evening for a very nice meal. I also thought I would share some pictures of a few of my recent finds. I had every intention of putting them by for the vintage fair but the little tin is definitely staying and has already found a home on my kitchen dresser as has the flapper perfume bottle. The barbola mirror is very pretty with no damage apart from a split in the plasterwork and the boudoir doll with a felt face reminds me a little of the one in the window of Liberty which I showed in my last post. I often buy things for my Etsy shop or website and then live with them for a little while and find I don't want to part with them ! I guess that's the problem with always buying things that I like myself.