For the love of... VINTAGE clothing

A look around etsy today and I found a shop with gorgeous clothing...

Here is a peek.. but go and visit DOTTO's shop on etsy... with a 10% discount currently on lots of lovely goodies!

 Playful Peter Pan collar dress...

 Beautiful pink sequence dress .. I love this dress for a summer wedding..

 Won't you just feel like an everyday Princess with this gorgeous night gown?

 The cutest cute pilbox hat... I LOVE IT!

 Beautifully stylish brown secretaries dress!

 How fun is this cocktail dress?

 Pink bridesmaid dress... classical

 Very innovative reversible handbag.. AWESOME!

 I love this colour ... Teal bridesmaid dress

and how can you not love this Lace Peter Pan collar VELVET dress....

AAAAAAH... those were the days!

Friday Finds....

First of all a blog I love, love, love..... Dress, Design and Decor... please click and enjoy..

...and then some really gorgeous bits I found on etsy today... have a look:

I adore this rustic red shelf... with a jar! how brilliant..

Then there was this... Words to live by...

 and more red... this time enamelware...

a little bowl and mug..

and then the best advice....ALWAYS kiss me Goodnight....

Vintage Goodies...

To end the week off I will leave you with these gorgeous vintage clothes from jessjamesjakes on etsy:

Aren't those dresses to die for?? And the red boots are such a show stopper!

I love it!

Please go and browse her shop for more Vintage Goodness!

Have a lovely weekend!

   

The round table

(A beautifully restored family chair - from 33 Shades of Green)

I am living in a small-ish Townhouse that fits me perfectly but there is something missing...

I need a table to do the things I do.. you know.. the creative things that I'm slowly wanting to do again.

Due to space constraints I will have to come up with a really clever plan to make it work though..

What I really would like to do is to get a medium sized round table with a few different vintage chairs that can serve as dining table as well as general craft table. They are scarce as chickens teeth.. let me tell you.

I have been trawling 2nd hand shops and websites.. to no avail. Square tables are a dime a dozen, but rounds ones... nooo...

I have seen one or two around, but then mostly the big dining type tables that takes about 6 chairs. I want... no.. need something much smaller... 2 to 4 chairs max.

There is the perfect little table at a Vintage Coffee Shop in our local Mall.. do you think anyone would notice if I dragged a small round table out the door?

The week (or two) that was...

Some random goodness from the last few weeks:

More Vintage goodness, My mother-in-law bought me this beautiful Trio on a recent visit to New Zealand and gave it to me for my birthday. I love the shades of Pink in it.

We enjoyed a friend's birthday party.

Relaxed in the baby pool, before the rain settled in. What we didn't realise at the time, was that this was our last bit of summer....

And we baked a cake, and licked out the bowl (yummy)!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

A Vintage Sunday....

I have been struggling for 2 days to upload this post, and for some reason Blogger does not want to upload any images.

Frustrating? YES!

Will it stop me from trying again? NO! So here goes:

Yippeee, now I can tell my story:

We had a Sunday Market at our town's Windmill Organice Produce Store recently. There were a variety of beautiful treasures for sale.

I bought the two books above for Jessica. The first one was in honour of our trip to Zanzibar, where she was infatuated with the Hermit Crabs and thus the book "A Home for Hermit the Crab" was perfect.

The beautifully illustrated pop-up book "Uncle Peasly and the Pea Pod Kids" (circa 1986), was just too good to be true and had to come home with us!

Can you tell how much she loves this book?

I bought this "Midwinter" set of vintage China at a steal! A beautiful Trio to add to my collection of Antique Cups and Saucers.

A Wonderful day spent at the Market!

A new (old) addition..

So this arrived on Saturday... and I am totally in love with it..

I have waited 3 weeks for this old cane back rocking chair that I bought online. Although the experience was not a pleasant one, I have at long last got my chair and it fits perfectly in this corner of the house. It rocks!!!

And... I am not the only one that loves to sit in it. I had to fight to get to sit in it any length of time as the smallest member of the family loves the swaying motion .. naturally.