Hidden Treasures

A week on and we have central heating and hot water.

The house is warm & cosy and showering is a lot more fun in hot water as opposed to cold.

Work has been super busy, I took Friday off to get ready for my craft fair on Saturday.

I made a few new bits to sell, including some fabric covered notebooks and another mini hot water bottle.

I really enjoyed having a stall at the Hidden Treasures Event.

It was busy and had a great atmosphere with like minded people selling their goodies along with the nearly new clothing sale.

Here is my stall.

And my new Mini Fabric covered notebooks.

& my rosie mini hot water bottle, the one made with the Russian Doll fabric sold which was fab.

Not sure why blogger keeps uploding photos in their side? Anyone have any tips on this glitch?

I also have a customer order from the fair, which is lovely and I will be adding some things to my
little blog shop which I started last year and have really made a poor effort to keep up with.

Today has been spent laying a cable from the airing cupboard to the kitchen for the plummer so he can come back and finish off some pipe work this week.

It was a bit of a mission, we have had floor boards up in the spare room, the bath pannle off and the storage cupbord under the eves compleatly turned out to try and feed the cable through to the kitchen where the boiler is.

Eventually it was done, so to celebrate our DIY mission compleation I made Chocolate Marshmallow Brownies.

They are particully gooie which is just how we like them, Mmmmmmmmmm.

So I'm off to make the packed lunches and get ready for the week ahead.

Have a good one.

Luv

Where did the weekend go?

Gosh, well that was a quick weekend!

Where do they go? Can you beleive we are in February on Tuesday.

I'm sure time gets faster the older you get!

Well anway lots to tell you, a Jam packed weekend in the Chez Sophie Household.

Saturday morning I was up with the lark to go and pick up this little baby from a lovely freecycler.

I have been after a little chesterfield style sofa for ages, I have been scouring ebay, the Friday ad & freecycle in the hope that someone had one at a reasonable price that they no longer wanted.

And then on Thursday a message popped into my inbox offering a small chesterfield sofa in need of some TLC for Free!

Well needles to say it is now mine, it does need some upholstery TLC but it is sound otherwise.

I have an upholstery lady coming round on Wednesday to see it and the wing backed chair we were given to give us a quote.

Hopefully it wont be too expensive!!!!

Then it will be beautiful.

I then went to work at the CS, where I got these beauties.

I have become quite taken with tea sets and these little odd cups and saucers are so pretty.

I made some Tea Cup candles for Christmas presents so I think I will be making more as they went down really well.

I also found this little perfume bottle which originally would have had a puff on it, but no matter it is cute without and will look lovely on the mantle in the spare room.

I also gathered together some pretty vintage linen which I will make into some little gifts for the birthday swap. Which may I say is going really well and is great fun, Thanks Laa Laa.

And lastly these little broaches had to come home with me as they sparkled soo nicely.

Last night we went out for Gav's work Christmas party bowling.

We attempted to go out for an early dinner at Pizza Express only to be turned away as they were full, as were Ask and all the other decent restaurants in town.

We ended up having a McDonalds!!!!

We were running out of time before the bowling started and needed food so needs must!

Not quite the romantic dinner a deux I had thought but better to have eaten than to have had a grumbling tummy all night.

So today has been a regular Sunday, Food Shop, House Work & Laundry.

I'm now sat in front of the fire relaxing, ready for the new week ahead.

Have a lovely week.

Luv



Eye Candy for your wall's........

Hello Lovely people.

I have been inspired again today by an email I received.

I love to know what is going on in the world  of retail, and I have to say when this popped into my inbox today it really did brighten my mood.

The email was from Notonthehighstreet.com, they have the best goodies on their site and it's great for personalised gifts. Many a wedding present has been bought by me from here.

& I know that there are some lovely bloggers who sell here too.

So what was on said email.....

Some beautiful eye candy for your bedroom walls.

You know from my previous post Beautiful Boidoir that I have a thing for pretty wall paper, so these were right up my street. 

Beautiful Bird Houses, soo pretty I would love this paper,

Stunning Vintage China Plates all over the wall, how fab would this be in a dining room!

Now this Ribbon Wallpaper would be a great feature wall in any sewing or craft room.

And lastly this vintage lady wallpaper would be fab in a bathroom, I think a canyfloss colour bathroom suit would be a must with it.

So this is what has inspired me today.

What has inspired you today?

Thanks for the slipper love, I have them on my feet now and they are super cosy, the cold is still at bay for the time being so I will keep taking the medicine.

Luv

Beautiful Boudoir

Oh I just had to share this with you all.

(Image scanned from S Magazine)

My friend Barbie just sent me the most amazing clipping from yesterdays S Magazine, she said she thought of me when she saw it!

This is one of the images, I love the patchwork wall paper, such a cleaver idea for someone who just can't decide on one pattern, maybe I could re do my spare room??

I hope you enjoy the image as much as me.

Have a lovely week.

Luv  

PS. I have just found out that this beautiful image is from a wonderful stylist Selina Lake.

She has a beautiful Blog so if you want to see more loveliness pop over to her here. xxx

Chaity Shop Withdrawal...............

I have had serious CS withdrawal this week as I didn't do my CS shift last weekend as my cousin was staying. So today I was super excited to get to work.

Now you might think this a bit odd but my favourite task in the CS (apart from dressing the window) is sorting in the clothes room. It can be a bit hideous when you get a yucky bag!!! Why oh why do people think we want their worn knickers I do not know!!! but when you get a good bag that you know you can hang almost everything in it, it's a fab feeling. 

Today I got some wonderful goodies.

Freda showed me this fab Le Creuset Cook Book Stand, I have been after a cookbook stand for ages so I knew this was going home with me today.

Especially as I also found this lurking on the book shelves in the shop.

Some yummy recipes in here, can't wait to try some out.

This lovely blue floral vintage biscuit tin had been put in the bin! so you guessed it it cam home with me too.

Looks nice on my kitchen shelf, don't you think?

My shopping didn't finish their, I also go 2 pairs of shoes.

These red ones are Spanish leather and soo soft and a perfect fit, we probably couldn't have sold them as there is quite a lot of wear on the soles.

These tan leather pumps also probably wouldn't have been sold as they have a slight mark on one shoe, and also have wear on the sole.

I know some people are funny about wearing other peoples shoes but I'm not.

I always give them a good clean and anti bac the insides, a little polish and voila.

I also fell in love with this beautiful pashmina, it's a green & gold paisley pattern.

I don't normally post pictures of myself but I thought you might like to see my new hair cut!!!

My final purchase was a white candlewick bed spread for my spare room.

So that when those naughty cats of mine manage to get in there for a snooze they won't leave hairs on the duvet cover. It s currently in the washing machine.

I hope you have had some lovely CS finds lately.

Luv

PS. I didn't get the Kenwood mixer on Ebay as it was broken!!!

So I'm still on the look out xxx

A wish for a Mixer!!!

As you may have seen in my post below I have fallen in love with a Mixer!!!

Don't worry Gav you still come first, but I am becoming slightly obsessed with the thought of a lovely new food mixer.

Now my ideal would be this

But sadly unless I win the lottery tonight I think it is a little out of my price range.

I also like the Kenwood mixers so maybe this one will be a little more realistic.

Not as retro looking but still a lovely mixer.

At the recent Vintage Festival, Kenwood had a pop up shop.

Late in the day on Saturday I popped along and bought 2 teatowls with vintage poster prints of mixers on them. They were being sold out of the back of the vintage kenwood van, which made it all the more special.

The girls also gave me some kenwood post cards which will look fab framed and hung in the kitchen.

I am currently watching a 1940's Kenwood chef on Ebay which is nearby but needs a little TLC.

Hopefully it will be affordable and may just become mine. 

Wish me luck.

So tell me about your preference kitchenaid or kenwood???

Have a lovely weekend 

Luv