Chelsea flower show2011

The Chelsea Flower show... for the first time I visited this wonderful event ..

it was a very special birthday for my mum this year so my sister had a fab idea to take her to the Chelsea flower show .

I left home at 6.45am Saturday morning . we arrived there at about 10.20am ...lots of walking ....lots of ooh And aahhh -ing , we headed for the pavilion, the flower stands where amazing the blocks of single species with all colour combinations , the various scents as you walked through, was a wonderful experience.. some of my favourite cottage garden flowers where there in abundance , including Foxgloves, Aquilegia, lupins, and of course roses ..... I loved this 1940`s inspired

vegetable plot. i must say it was the only garden i would love to have taken home and just plonked in my garden.....if only!

My lovely Mum colour co-ordinating with the tulips

the scent on these was wonderful " my favourite spring flower"

I LOVE FOXGLOVES , SO DO THE BEES.....

THESE WHERE NOT SO INSECT FRIENDLY!

SOME OF THESE LOOKED LIKE FIREWORKS.

A NATURAL LOOKING WATER FEATURE

BIT OF A SHOCK IF YOU FOUND THIS CHOMPING YOUR LETTUCES!!!!!

THIS LITTLE CHARACTER IS THE CULPRIT THE SNAIL MAKER .. I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BUY SOME OF THE BRONZE SCULPTURES BUT MY BUDGET WOULD NOT ALLOW IT .....

TREE FOUNTAINS

MY ALL TIME FAVOURITES " BOXING HARES"

more photos to follow over the next few days.............have a good half term ................Hx

------ BEFORE---

Here is the first finished deckchair of my most recent re-vamp sessions already sold I am afraid

but this one in particular was hard to part with I love the sun canopy with bobble trim .. I will just have to look out for another . I have placed a sign in my shop ...WANTED... old deckchairs for re-vamping . so fingers crossed....Hx
----AFTER-----

handy work?

There is something about these hand embroidered pictures that i just love,
I have a small collection on a wall at home , these are on sale in my shop at the moment , the hours they must have taken to sew, the detail on some are amazing , when you think they sell from £8.00 upwards . I was about to take a photo of the ones I have on the wall at home but my fairly new camera decided to jam, now I have to look for the original receipt ,I have only had it since September last year, I really do not fancy spending an afternoon taking back to the shop I bought it from ! isn't technology great (when it works!) any way had a very busy day in the shop today and met some lovely new customers this past week has been a vintage clothing week , it is funny how things that are of the similar type suddenly you sell a lot of , have a good weekend whats left of it ...Hx

I thought the last couple of posts where a bit dull so here is some colour !!!! just a few pics from around the shop including my large stock of bling! brooches. some pretty vintage linen tablecloths................. one of the fab sun shelters based on a edwardian design with one of my revamped lloyd loome chairs with some great summer stripe cushions...

of course there is always a good supply of pretty JUGS ooh err!

I hope your day was good more posts to follow.....Hx

the before!

Just thought I would show you some before photos of some old deckchairs that a ripe for a re-vamp . Although I love the stripe on the one on the left I cannot guarantee how safe the old canvas is ?(probably perished as they usually are) so a coat of paint and some new fab fabric and they will look better than new, I will photo the finished chairs soon. While on the subject of photos I did say I would post some pictures from Saturday but the chaos of the garage sale sort of took over the day, there was a constant flow of like minded people in my little shop so it was very hard to (remember) to photograph, over the course of the day I met lots of new customers and some of my lovely loyal regulars, lots of bargains to be had (lots of sore feet too!)

A great day but I was very glad to get home and soak in the bath with a glass of wine. anyway I will photo the new window tomorrow ...... have a good week ..............Hx

latest!

well its that time of the year again the GREAT BARDFIELD GARAGE SALE . chaos will be the order of the day .. especially if the weather stays bright and sunny . we have 64 garages opening up and selling their trash or treasure whichever way you look at it ... a good opportunity to clear some old stock and meet some new people visiting the village.

But chaos seems to be the order of this week as last Friday I made the decision to take out the staging shelf below the window to allow me to arrange larger pieces of furniture etc in the main window , but what a mess that made..... after closing at 5 on Saturday I then cleared the window and moved all the furniture to the back of the shop , I put a little note in the window to explain what was about to happen just in case anyone thought I might be doing a moonlight flit, my hubby went in on Monday ripped out the window and as with all these projects for improvements plaster fell from the wall so 1st thing Tuesday we went in so he could re-plaster the wall , then we cleared and cleaned as much as possible.

I re-dressed the window to include my fab new canopy from deckchair stripes . we will paint the wall and the new windowsill when the plaster settles and dries.

Today amongst the mayhem I will photograph the new window and all the fun and post later (if I manage to stay awake this evening long enough?)....have a good weekend ....Hx

Wow , just have to mention what a fab afternoon we had on Friday at the village afternoon tea.
we had more than 100 people turn up for a cup of tea and a piece of cake (or maybe a couple of cups) , the sun was shinning, the children played on the playing field just in front of the pavilion and where all very well behaved . the kind ladies that helped ,did not know what they where letting themselves in for as when we opened at 4pm they did not stop for 2hours.... a big thank you to everyone that came near and far, making it a lovely afternoon..... and we raised £250 to pay for the new crockery for the pavilion. thank you again for your support...Hx