Friday Flea

 

It's a long time since I last visited our local Friday Flea Market, but this morning I decided to pop along and see what goodies they had.


 

After a quick browse I headed for my favourite stall holder Heather. She sells old linens, buttons, lace, cashmere jumpers etc, and you never know what you will find.

 

Today I bought a huge vintage pure linen sheet, wonderfully fine and crisp, with the laundry marks and a name label still attached. To me this is one of the fascinations of vintage linens and textiles - the wondering where they have come from and who they belonged to, where they lived and what life they had.

 

I also found these pretty vintage buttons to use on some projects. Heather says she loves carding these up, selecting either a group of matching buttons that have been removed from a damaged item of clothing, or from somebody's button tin, and sometimes waiting for more old buttons to come her way before finding the right ones to go together on the card.
This is obviously a woman who loves old buttons!

I can relate to that as I remember that one of the many joy's of visiting my grandparents when I was little would be when my Granny let me look through her sewing chest, one of those large brass chests with a galleon on the front, and my favourite bit would be tipping out the pretty button tin, which was always an old toffee tin with either a cute puppy or pretty flowers on.

 

a pretty matching set of  navy blue buttons with a swirl pattern


 

and a selection of white buttons with different patterns and textures


I have lots of garden photos which I took on Monday and Tuesday afternoon when the cloudy skies cleared and we were left with stunning deep blue skies and sun.


 

Rather than bore you all with one huge post full of flower photos, as is my wont, I will post a few each time as who knows when we will get the next sunny day!

There is a lot of colour in our garden at the moment, thanks to the previous owners as we have done little yet, and the tulips and azaleas are wonderful. These orange, yellow and soft peach coloured variegated tulips are my very favourite, and we are lucky to have some clumps in both front and back gardens.

I will show you the azaleas in another post, but now my sewing room beckons as I have had little time to sew this week.

An unexpected drama on Wednesday afternoon when water spewed forth from my kitchen cupboards and drawers like waterfalls due to a burst kitchen tap hose, and within minutes flooded the floor in inches of water, put paid to the day I had set aside yesterday for sewing. Instead I spent a lot of time clearing and cleaning and dealing with plumbers and I am glad to get back to normal now its all fixed!


 

Edited to add:
I have just had a warning that due to the background I use from shabbyblogs.com there may be malware so I am having to remove my pretty patchwork background. I hope they get the problem sorted soon as they have some lovely backgrounds! So sorry to all my regular readers who may have been scared away by this, it should be sorted now by my removing it - I didn't get the warning when I accessed my page after removing it..