Beaconsfield Fair May...

Well hello!

The first time that we have had a dry day for the Beaconsfield Village Market...I even spotted a few rays of sunshine.

This lovely little mirror found a new home today

So, so pretty!

And a few snaps of the day...

These lovely little trios were 'Stars and Stripes', gorgeous fine bone china and they were bought as a wedding gift and will be heading to the United States for a July wedding!  Perfect.

This trio of trios and cake/sandwich plate have a very sweet and dainty  English Rose pattern...

Super shaped wicker basket, possibly French?

And you really cannot have a Vintage Fair without a selection of old jelly moulds...

Still LOTS to pack up for next week though...and Im wondering if I can find time to give the shelves a fresh Spring paintover?

The best of...

MK Handmade and Vintage

Priddy Priddy 

Vintage & Inspired

We had the absolutely BEST of times over the weekend!!

Where to start?

Photos?

Come on then...

There was a last minute cancellation of the stall behind us and the event organiser {very kindly} let us have use of it, so this time around we had a double fronted stall!

The back of the stall

The front of the stall

And a few of my own favourite pieces...

Who hasn't got a soft spot for a few Vintage Linens? 

This surprisingly came home with me, it is uber comfy.  

I had one very similar when I was a kiddo, same colour but mine didn't have the gap in the sides.

Large hamper also came home with us, but is heading out to the Beaconsfield Vintage Fair with me on the 23rd March!

These 2 lovely bedside cabinets went a lovely lady with the most well behaved little lad!  He was too cute with a gap tooth cheeky smile.

They are 'This is Lebus Furniture' and were quite a find to get a pair together with very little needing doing to them apart from a lick of paint.  Original handles....teeny tiny cute-ness.

Both the bureau and mirror came home and are being re-homed here!

Jelly moulds and cake domes....always a firm favourite with our elderly customers who we are lucky to have a chat with about days gone by.

Vintage Mirrors...

A couple of the ones we took with us; set on solid teak back boards they were certainly made to last and I swear the glass gives a nicer reflection?  Maybe it's the process used back then to make them or just the ageing process on them?!

I absolutely love these little ceramic spoons!

They really finish of a gift of home-made jam and our kiddos use them to hoick the marshmallows out of their hot-chocolates!

We were so busy I didn't get a chance to take photo's after our initial set up.  

After almost 100 customers on the Saturday, we were a bit worried we wouldn't have enough left for the Sunday; but a bit of re-jigging and hey presto we were ready to go!

We came home seriously empty, which is the perfect excuse for a spot of bargain hunting, which then gives me the reason to get the paints out!  

Seriously I ABSOLUTELY LOVE what I do

I managed a quick scoot around the stalls and picked myself up a lovely large enamel tea pot, even bigger than the last one! {HUGE}

A couple of little tins came home ready to get a good clean and go onto Etsy.  

Already photographed, they are extremely sweet...

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and finally just for my lovely sister...

'It's science luv, not wishy washy woo, there's only so much we can do'

xxx

Vintage Fair Fun...

Priddy Priddy Vintage really did have all the fun at the Vintage Fair

{again}

3 days this time....I was a tad apprehensive before we left, but I needn't have worried as we had an absolute ball of a time!

So once again time to share a  few of my favourite photos...

Our stall was if I say so myself packed to the brim with lots of goodies and looking non too shabby

We stood out with a lovely selection of painted furniture

view from John Lewis cafe

It's always hard to pick my favourite on the day as I genuinely love everything I sell

but these little beauties have been to almost every show and finally sold this time around

The Vintage sugar shaker I wanted to keep also sold...yes I know that's the idea but darn it I had my eye on it!

I also put a couple of my favourite tins out, which not surprisingly didn't stay on the shelf for long

this beautiful bedspread is huge and all handmade...stunning

This lovely little bureau came home with us...if I had charged a £1 for every time someone said how lovely it was and opened/closed it I could have double the weekends takings...

it's all good though as one of my daughters, Lolly, has earmarked it for her study desk...

and I have a lovely Ercol chair to go with it 

{but shh I haven't told her that bit yet!}

that bread bin got about a bit!

*sigh*

I do love a Vintage Linen {or two}

perfect Christmas hampers

{I don't think we bought any baskets home again}

Vintage pressed glass; sturdy, functional and yet still so very pretty...

It was a fantastic Fair....3 days all heaving with people and every day different in terms of what was popular

Thank you to all, just over 100 of you, who stopped to buy a little something from us

to those who stopped by for a natter, too many to count

to my lovely neighbourly stallholders

and to MKHandmade & Vintage for once again putting on an amazing show!

2012 has been quite amazing for us

Lots of love from the girls