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More finds.

Found some more treasures on my travels this week....love this old typewriter...saw on the gadget show that you can actually link them up to your computer and use them instead of a keyboard...how cool!!!!!!
This white flowery mirror....................

This Art Deco butlers mirror...they use to hang in the dining room and the butler would look in it to check if anyone needed anything instead of staring at everyone eating their dinner!!

Whats this?? Not another glass cake stand!!!!

I also found this lovely rose and poppy table cloth.......I think its a fifties design........

This little pepper pot is sooooo cute and even though its chipped and flaking wouldn't it look great in a little boys shabby chic bedroom......I tried so hard to find the salt pot to match but couldn't!!Grrrrrrr!!!!! It WAS going to be included in my November giveaway....BUT.....I am afraid its been nabbed by a friend who fell in love with it x

This beautiful woollen scarf goes great with my grey military jacket and is so soft and warm...

The next few things ARE going towards my November giveaway.............
This framed silk picture.............

This doggy head that hangs on the wall.....................

This wooden block...............

A beautiful little shabby tin.....small enough for sewing bits......

And last but not least... a small ring holder.

Look out in the beginning of November for everything I have selected for the giveaway...
Hope you all have a great weekend x

Seeing as I have an obsession with collecting tea cups i have been surfing the net looking for ways I can use them! I must admit that they are bursting off of the dresser and appearing in other rooms of the house....so far here are the things I have liked the most...

tea cups lamps...
Oh how i want these Christmas decorations...........
tea cup chandeliers ......tea cup topped cake stands......
tea cup jewellery holders.....


tea cup earrings...................
tea cup pudding dishes............
tea cup vases..........
tea cup bangles........
tea cup necklaces......
tea cup pin cushions........
tea cup bird feeders................
tea cup candles.................
tea cup planters.................
and of course my favourite...beverage holder...

Changing Tastes......

Isn't it funny how your taste changes. i have only been into all things "shabby" and vintage for two years and even in this short time my taste has changed!
I have gone from drooling over complete tea sets like these.....





To oohing and arrhing over mismatched sets........






But now days the thing that makes my heart beat a little faster are totally mismatched sets......




My "shabby" tastes have also changed, two years ago I would have stuffed my house to the gills with Cath Kidston stuff, and have everything matching .........





Now I prefer a style where everything looks as though it has evolved naturally, a mix of old and new and definitely not everything matching!!!
What do you like!!!!

The most beautiful piece of jewellery EVER!

If by some miracle I was granted genie's wish and I could own any object in the whole of the world.......this would be it without a shadow of a doubt. I love Lalique glass but it his jewellery that takes my breath away......
And I have been captivated by this jewel from the very first time I ever saw it as a young girl.

What it must be like to own something as beautiful as this.......I think I would turn into a bit of a Gollum!!!I hope you like it as much as I do.....just google Lalique jewellery and you will see more stunning examples of his work x

Sidmouth Poppy Treasures.

New Things..............

Beautiful flower corsage....

Made by my beautiful flower Poppy x x x x
She also made this birdie...............
She didn't make these though.........
Hope you all have a great weekend x x x x

Tea....cakes...and mags.....

My Halloween special magazine turned up today.....whoo hoo!!!

It was full of loads of fab ideas...this make up is amazing using corn-syrup and food colouring and paper towels dyed brown....

These fantastic biscuits............and many , many more.....


I got down all my Halloween magazines and had a long leisurely look through.....


Look at all these fabulous images...this pumpkin pic is so beautiful....

They are full of Halloween ideas and wonderful autumnal cooking......
Look at this amazing cake.................


love the paper bats...............
And the pumpkin ideas...............


I have actually done this one of the gravestone...

I won't be making any of these ideas this year , as I am going away for Halloween.... to a big party in Brighton which is a Halloween cum birthday cum anniversary party....
Of course I just had to have a cup of char and some cakes while I flicked through my Halloween inspiration.


What are you all doing for Halloween?????