Well, here we are in September - where did the Summer go to?! Hopefully we still have some sunshine and warm days ahead of us. I have been busy sorting through some lovely old fabrics - here they are blowing in the breeze after a freshen up!
As you may expect, they have a rosey theme to them!
A very kind friend was having a clear out recently and gave me these gorgeous fabrics, again covered in roses! There is a huge amount here so I will have a good think and see if I can come up with a special project for them.
There are big, soft pink roses...
...and small deep pink roses!
I've also given some shelves in my kitchen a fresh new look - I have mixed a pretty 1930s tea service with soft blue Dartmouth pottery - I love that blue! The tea service is decorated with lupins...
...isn't that just the prettiest design you've seen?!
As well as attending to things in the cottage, I have been out buying treasures for Vintage Home and have many lovely things ready to fill the shop. Here is a small taster of some of those pretty items...
...a pair of blue French garters - ooh-la-la!
A delightful Victorian chromo book of poems and texts...
...and a 1930s hat stand with handpainted roses.
I am planning to update the shop in the next few days - and then I think it will be time to give you another clue regarding the exciting news...
Hi Clare,
ReplyDeleteI love your colour coordinated washing blowing in the breeze - what a picture!
(I think Louise may recongnise the other pretty rose fabrics pictured in your cottage!)
Your china display looks wonderful too - I am sure you look at at more now that it has been changed.
Good luck with your next update.
(And I hope things are still on for Sunday! ;-))
Have a great weekend,
Niki x
What gorgeous fabrics Clare! Will you be listing any of these in your shop? Your shelves look lovely - my friend had some of that lupin tea set and I've always looked at it very longingly!
ReplyDeleteKim x
Oh my! I'd be careful leaving those pretties on the line like that! Some other rose-loving bandit might just come along and find them! ;) Such a lovely blog...so happy to have found you!
ReplyDeletexoxo,
cheryl
Hi Clare,
ReplyDeleteYour dresser looks lovely and that lupin china is just gorgeous.
Fantastic fabrics...I look forward to seeing all the new things in your shop.
Take care,
Alison x
Your washing line is just the prettiest sight !
ReplyDeleteAll of your fabrics are beautiful. I don't think I could pick a favorite. Thank you for sharing with us!
ReplyDeleteHi Clare
ReplyDeleteI've been a fan of your blog for a while. Just a heads up, I listed you as my Blog Du Jour today, so if you get messages from a bunch of Americans over the next few days, that's why!
Barbara
Hi Clare - you are the one that got me blogging!! it was going on your shop from Period Living advert that led me to this! I saw 4 little plates in the Oxfam yesterday with the seagulls on and didnt buy - that was the first charity I went in to and thought I would go back!!- luckily I am off tomorrow so I shall rush back and purchase in the morning -
ReplyDeleteLove the combination of the blue pottery with the roses- very striking and different!
ReplyDeleteThe rose linens hanging on the line sure make a pretty garden!
Clare,
ReplyDeletesigh...you always have the most wonderful things, the wash blowing in the breeze, what a gorgeous photo!
Hope you are still enjoying a tiny bit of sun, dear Clare.
hugs,Lidy
Clare your just a big tease at the moment, but you don't half show us some pretty stuff.
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ReplyDeleteI probably would have knicked those gorgeous fabrics off your line, if I had been there... well not really but I would have wanted to
carol
oh I love those fabrics! They remind me of my grandmother's tablecloths and sheets *happy sigh*
ReplyDeleteHi Clare! Sure, we'll still get some nice warm days. In fact, summer doesn't really end until September 21s, so we have two more official weeks left.
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by yesterday! Long time, no see. Lulu says hi to LouLou! :)
Your rosy fabrics are gorgeous...how wonderful to be able to plan thier use. And your china is so pretty...the blue pottery really sets it off. We love vintage china. I have some that was given to my mum by her sister ... it's pink apple blossom and we've used it on the header photo on the blog.
ReplyDeleteMargaret and Noreen at THY
I love roses on fabric - and on nearly everything else like china.
ReplyDeleteHere also the summer (which we hadn't) is gone now, I hope that autumn will bring us a few warm and sunny days.
I love that hat stand, what a great find!
ReplyDeleteOh how I love laundry lines especially with such beautiful fabric on...
ReplyDeleteSuzie Sews
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThe rose fabrics are very pretty! I do like the colours within the photos, the little chair is a lovely shade of green.They all work so well together such a 'pretty picture'!
I also wanted to let you know I tagged you for the 'name game' come by and see what its all about
priscilla x
http://priscillascottage.blogspot.com/
I'd die for your tea service! It's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you to everyone for your lovely comments! I may well be adding the vintage fabrics to the shop. The beautiful pale rose fabrics on the chair are from The India Shop. I'd never seen the lupin china before a few months ago - hope I find lots more of it! Clare x
ReplyDeleteThose fabrics are simply glorious!
ReplyDeleteClare, your beautiful fabrics on the line make me want to throw out my dryer and string up a clothes line - I do have a bag of pegs waiting to be used!
ReplyDeletePlease do visit my blog - I've tagged you!
I love the blue floral hanging on your clothes line. Pity I live 3000km away in South Africa. I am re-decorating my bedroom and it would be perfect. But I'll find the right roses yet! Please visit me at thatchwick.blotspot.com. Eleanor
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