Coffee and Cath

Yes new goodies from Cath Kidston..............i am loving my new hairslides and the card they come on is so vintage looking.......... i am also very much loving cath's new cherry print...very me !!

WW2 Brooches and Love is......

I love these messages............for a while i have been toying with using these in some sort of craft work....and brooches seemed just right...........

and with valentines day around the corner i thought these would make a sweet gift..........obviously very influenced by the 1970's love is........couple !! does anybody remember them, i collected the stickers and the cards !!love is....................... holding hands...............i have many more emroidered and waiting to be stiched up !!

all of these will be put in my folksy and etsy today and tomorrow......

Wall art..........

Black apple prints from the very talented Emily Martin............

Vintage mirrors............

Vintage plates and lonesome flying duck...............
And finally my patchwork wall......................

Kitsch poodle brooches

These 2 little performing pink poodles have trotted over to my folksy shop !!

you will find these little brooches here: www.folksy.com/shops/blossomdesign

i did do a little crafting over the holidays !!!!!

Well hello all.......and a happy new year to everyone.......i really do hope that 2010 is a good year for everyone !!!
You know time really does flies when you are having fun !!! well that is what as happened to me this christmas and new year....and as you can see the lounge is now finished, it was all done and dusted by the 13th december.......phew......but i haven't got around to posting the pics till now....well i had christmas to get organised and bought and wrapped up in the 2 weeks before !!!! i managed to get it all ready but it really took it out of me.... so resting ...eating and drinking (i am seriously getting worried about my wine intake !!!) and generally having a good old time was had.........

I am really pleased with my new cath kidston curtains..... i bought the fabric and made them myself..........it was so easy to do, although it was very nerve racking cutting into £90- worth of fabric...........

and having an open fire is so lovely and cosy.......although some evenings it is hard to get things done, has it is so hard to tear yourself away from it.................but in this very snowy weather who wants to eh !!! i'm as snug as a bug with my fire, mulled wine (yes more wine !!) and crochet....well i am determined to learn to crochet this year.......that and learning to jive are the top my to do lists this year !!!! so watch this space...............

whoops....not quite managed to post everyday......but then again i am so busy...saturday i was knee deep (not literally...but it makes it sound like i was very busy !!) in concrete having the fireplace put in, which looks fantastic, i cannot wait to share it on here...and i equally cannot wait to have our first real fire, which we have to wait a week to do so, which will be nice as that will coincide with the putting up off the christmas tree !!!!

oh.......... and sunday i was knee deep in paint...as i will be again today !!! but i shall leave you today with some of my new makes.......some are already on folksy...some have sold....and some shall be put on folksy sometime this week !!!!

i am so exited..........i shall tell you for why !!!!
last year this is what the lounge looked like..............please note: horrid gas fire ( sorry if i offend anyone who has one, and loves it ) and the horrid textured wallpaper....when we moved in almost 3 years ago we decided just to paint over it for now....well for now came to an end 4 weeks ago, i was eating my breakfast one morning and decided i can no longer live with this wallpaper or that gas fire.................so after hastily eating my porridge (still in my p.j.s) i decided to strip the walls........ i rang my other half at 3pm (still in my p.j.s) and told him of my adventures with a fish slice....(yes a fish slice makes a great wallpaper stripper) and i have arranged for someone to take out the gas fire......... after the shock...he was very happy with the hard work i had done (well so he says)........
so this is what it looks like for now............................................................................but come this weekend the fire place is going to be put in, we have a bought a lovely original cast iron fireplace and surround which matches the house perfectly our house was built in 1900, we know this has the house has a plaque on the front that says 'clarence villas 1900' this is very handy to know when you are putting original features back into a property, we are lucky as most of the house hasn't been changed over the last 100 years, we still have all the original doors and the fireplaces upstairs, and the original skirting boards.......the fireplaces upstairs are what did it for me with this house !
and walls are going to be painted.....more shelfs are going up....and ornaments and mirrors are being moved around........

and as you can see in the above pic..........fabrics and a box of tricks have arrived from cath k.......(please note matilda the whippet has to sniff and inspect anything and everything that comes into the house) yes i shall be making new curtains for the lounge...that will be sometime next week, when all the painting has finished........

we also had a very successful visit to ikea....we purchased a new rug, lots of cushion pads, new throws... well really too many things to name.......new pics of these when they are all in situ !!

p.s. did i mention i am very exited !!!!!!!!