Showing posts with label Handpainted house sign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handpainted house sign. Show all posts

Friday, 15 June 2012

Vintage Finds

 
I hit the Flea market early this morning and came away with a couple of pretty pieces of china, a load of mixed linen and crochet, some vintage cotton reels and some gorgeous mother of pearl buckles.

 
a beautiful hand painted plate (Tuscan English Bone China)

 
a lovely 50s Burleigh Ware vase with simple yellow and black sunflower and black leaf design

 

 
love the yellow inside

 
and lots of lovely white work, lace trimmed cotton, linen and lawn,

 

 

 
lots of pretty embroidered pieces, mostly hand embroidered

 
some quirky kitchen linens

 

 
a beautiful crochet table cloth

 
a pair of hand embroidered tray clothes with London monuments - Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament on this one

 

 
several pretty cross stitched traycloths

 

 
gorgeous white work - the above is beautifully done on delicate lawn

 

 
Westminster Abbey I think

 
All the linens and crochet pieces I got for £10 the lot, which I thought was pretty good - there are well over 50 pieces.

I also picked up a generous length of rose pink/peach braid


 some sweet little vintage mother of pearl buckles

and some vintage threads on wooden reels


Still on a thrifty theme, earlier in the week I had a trawl round the numerous charity shops in our closest town with a friend, and found three pretty blouses for the grand sum of £8.50



a pretty white cotton Boden blouse with drawn thread work detail

a sweet little white blouse printed with strawberries  ( brings back memories of when I was very little girl, and my favourite "strawberry" dress, very similar to this fabric)

and a pale khaki 3/4 length sleeved linen blouse

And finally, thought I'd just show you the new house sign I painted yesterday onto a piece of wood we found left here when we moved in - perfect for a house sign.


I sanded it first then painted it in Annie Sloan's Chalk paint "Versailles "(sadly it was too badly water stained to leave natural). I then made a simple template using Wordart in Word, (using Harrington as the font), made a mirror image of it, then transferred it to the wood and painted over it.

Just needs a few coats of varnish then hopefully a handy husband to fix some stakes to the back so it can be put in the front garden at the end of the drive.

Just another job for the weekend!

Wishing you all a very Happy Weekend!


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