DIY Plate Stands

Look at this find from my charity shopping this week!  Beautiful glass candle sticks.

Which, with a little Pinterest inspired creativity can also be turned in to vintage looking plate stands!

Now I'm on the look out for larger plates to fit in with my 'harlequin' tea set, once I do, I'm just a sandwich plate and a tea pot away from a complete collection- any one for tea?

Freya May

Found on Pinterest #9

Plates!  And plate walls! Check out these prettys...

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I LOVE the plate wall idea- and I'm totally planning on stealing it for my own home.  But, first I need a good collection of beautiful plates!  12-15 seem to be a good number.  Now, I don't want any old plates on my wall, I could easily walk in to any charity shop and buy plates galore! No, I want to put time and thought in to this collection and just buy ones I really love and mean something to me.

Lucky for me, I actually found the first plate for the collection at the vintage fair last week!  I really love the colours used in this, and now I've got the first one, it doesn't feel so weird buying them- again, only going to buy special ones!

cost just a single pound! get in!

Do you like it?

Freya May

All the Fun of the (Vintage) Fair

The Vintage Fair was back in town today! Yay!

David and I took a wander round and enjoyed our selves some tea at cupcakes in the little vintage cafe. 

There wasn't anything that really grabbed my attention, clothes wise, this time, which I was disappointed about. Then I remembered I haven't much money at the moment, so it was probably a good thing!!!

Still, it was such a fun atmosphere and filled with beautiful home wares and handbags and jewellery and funky jumpers and many other lovely things.

Do you go to the vintage fir when it hits your town?  I would recommend it for the simple fun if it all  (and the cake was pretty good too!).

Freya May

Dumpster Diving...

Kind off.

Look what I found in a tip on the way home from work.

I can't believe these were just being thrown out.  There was a few other plates and saucers but most were broken :(

I have a small collection of miss-matched cups and saucers, so I'm always looking out for new (and CHEAP) pieces to add to it!

Happy freebies :)

Freya May

Loughborough Vintage Fair

Naomi, Susie and I wandered down to Loughborough town hall for Loughborough Vintage Fair :-) 

 

Look at the beautiful town hall where it was held- super stunning inside too!  The ball room was jam packed with a ton of different stalls selling everything you could imagine.  There were genuine vintage clothes, remodeled second hand clothes and home made dresses, then shoes, bags, belts, scarfs, jewellery, kitchenware, bunting...

Here is Susie and I with our shopping, she was lucky and found the perfect boots, and I found a great new (old) cardigan:-)

It was sooo much fun, so will totally be visiting the Leicester Vintage Fair when it comes to town at the end of the month.

Freya May

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