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.

Present From America

My friend Debbie returned from the States this week and bought me this lovely little 1930's booklet.

 I have also had some other goodies arrive in the post from the US, a lovely flapper style brush and pretty chocolate box.

Now Deb is back we have started to finalise plans for a vintage style fair  in Northampton. Having been to the wonderful Vintage and Handmade Fair in Chipping Sodbury we were inspired to try and do something locally in Northampton. We sometimes have a stall at the local collectables fair or a bike at the Bicycle Basket Bazaar in Northampton Fish Market. However we have often said how great it would be to do something with more of a focus on the sort of vintage items we both love ourselves and there is nothing locally. Today we confirmed a booking at my local church hall a few yards from my house. The fair will be the first Saturday in November. I guess this is where the hard work starts, advertising and finding the right sellers to be involved. 

The following Saturday we will be up at the crack of dawn on our trip to Chipping Sodbury to the V&H fair hopefully with lots of pennies from our fair to spend on ourselves.

I will post updates about the plans for our fair as things develop.