Hope you've enjoyed the weekend folks despite the rain .I spent some time researching some china I found on Thursday. I feel a bit like Gibbs off NCIS and his gut (American TV Navy investigation drama, if you've not heard of it) and had a gut feeling to buy them. I'm pleased I did as it turns out they were made in 1844! I'm pretty sure that makes them antique not vintage. They were made by Thomas Dimmock, of Kaolin ware in the Mulberry Bohemia pattern which was more common in blue. I was so happy to find these, I'll not be creating anything with these, there's too much history behind them. Only one is chipped out of six which isn't bad for over 170 years of age.. It amazes me that they have lasted this long and I wonder what they've seen and heard over the years. Were they part of a large set in a rich Victorian house or were they some prized possessions of someone of lesser means? We'll never know but I can't help wondering, it's part of what draws me to vintage china.
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I've recently finished a custom order teacup table lamp. All the vintage china were supplied by the customer.and they chose the order of the teacups. Here is the lamp in stages. The customer has also opted to buy her own shade which is a brilliant idea as it enables you to get that one off piece of home decor. The shop I sell in has a lamp shade designer and they are stunning .The gallery, something old something new. Here's the lamp in it's new home with a shade, which is great news for me. I can relax knowing it arrived safely, the very first time I posted one I didn't sleep due to worrying about it. I've got better and I only use Royal Mail special delivery services who are more expensive than other couriers but it's worth it.
How's everyone feeling now we're back at work after the bank holiday?The weather's not helping so miserable here. If your lucky enough to see the sun I'm not jealous much! Especially with the children off school for half term. It means more money spent to keep them amused when its wet. Walks, picnics, the beach and bike riding just don't have the same appeal for me in the cold. On the plus side I did get my garden sorted over the weekend. I spent the last few sunny days painting my garden, if it didn't move it got it including the dog! But for now I'll just admire my hard work from the window and at least I don't have to water the pots!
As you may already know, I make many teacup bird feeders. This one in my garden is loved by Mr Robin redbreast, I've been filling it up daily and thought to myself "he's eating a lot must have babies near by" As every time I see him there it's empty! Well look there's a thief about! It's not a great quality pic, I took it in a hurry on my phone. But he really should know the rules of my garden and that feeder is reserved just like this one is reserved for the blue tit family. I better design something for the bigger, hungrier birds now.
There's now a national day for everything, sometimes four or five national days on one day. Today's it's National No Dirty Dishes day! I think you should use this to your advantage, eat out, get a takeaway, visit parent's anything as long as you don't have to wash up! I luckily have a evening out planned, a sort of works night. All the female designers from the shop I sell in are off for a meal and I hope wine will be involved. Here's the shops fb page, The gallery something_ old something new. Lots of wonderful things under one roof for gifts and the home. This picture is from when my items were on display in the window. Enjoy your evening, what ever you do. I best put any drilling of china on hold in case I have a sore head in the morning.
We've been busy here at Pretty vintage house making bird houses, I've done some on a cream background, what do you think?I like it and I'm going to experiment with more colour in future. It's just a quick blog tonight but hopefully I'll be back soon. If anyone saw my last post and was wondering about the poorly chicken Sour, I'm afraid she died. The kids buried her in a sunny spot and hopefully the last remaining chicken Gravy will be going to a new home at the weekend. As it's not fair for her to be on her own with no chucks to keep her company.
Did you know today is National Chicken Dance day? there's some weird and wonderful national days out there, who came up with this one I don't know. So if your out for a tipple tonight make sure you do your chicken dance! I'm sure someone will post it to utube for you, hehehe. I'm not dancing tonight, I have children so I don't get out much but when I do I don't care who's watching or what I dance like. Here's a pic of the last two of our family pet chickens. They're my daughters chickens we did have 5 originally but over the years we have lost them to old age e.t.c She always thought of fantastic names we had sweet, sour, nugget, pepper and gravy. She always wanted 3 more at the time so she could have a K, F and C. Unfortunately Sour the little tan one is ill and I'm not sure she'll last the day. So we could be looking for a new home for Gravy as they are social birds and need to be with others. Here's the RSPCA link for caring for chickens if you fancy having fresh eggs on tap for brekki._
What a glorious weekend it's been, lots of lovely sunshine, perfect for treasure hunting. I hope you all got to enjoy some sunshine and lets keep everything crossed for it to continue. Here's some pics of my finds this week. As you can see I found some teapots for birdhouses and here's one that I found and completed over the weekend. It's so cute I just had to create straight away!
Well it's been a busy week here at Pretty Vintage House, lots of creating, listing in my etsy store, treasure hunting and sales. Tonight's the night for a celebration gala in Miami of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. Where my vinyl stands of various designs will feature in the decor for over a 1000 guests. my largest overseas order so far. Oh how I wish I could of gone too. Here's some pics of sales from this week. Now it's time to relax with a vino and pray for sunshine! Enjoy the weekend x
I love creating new designs and this one just evolved from a old design. A few weeks ago I'd improved the original design by using metal fittings instead of adhesive which should mean a lifetime of the cup and saucer fixed together. So all my teacup bird feeders are created this way, when making this one it dawned on us that we could add a hook and now we have a fat ball hanger too. The birds aren't going to know what to eat first!
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