More vintage finds

Here are my new vintage finds from yesterday. The red blouse is pure silk with concealed buttons up the back, cute ruffles on the front and lovely gold buttons on the cuffs and top button at the back. I think it will look great tucked into some slim black cropped trousers (not that I have any, maybe an Autumn purchase?) The dress has a lovely matching belt but will look great with one of my many other belts. I love the frilly cuffs too, might be a bit warm for it now but will be great for the Autumn. The bottom one is by far my favourite, it was from an amazing shop called Vintage Obsession in Hockley. They don't have a website yet but are on Facebook. The owner had a beautiful shop, lovely wallpaper, huge changing rooms and all the clothes displayed well. She had some great designer finds as well as some more affordable things, such as the skirt. I love how the colours go from dark to light, so pretty. A great find, in fact, it was my sister who found it so thanks to her! Off to Fosse Park in Leicester today with my Mum so the quest for the gold cuff continues...

A day of vintage

My sister, Catherine, and I decided to head off to Nottingham today and do some shopping. Nothing new there except we scoured the vintage shops for some goodies and were not disappointed. I will post some pictures tomorrow as it is too dark now to get some good photos but I have attached some pictures of todays outfit. Very cute I think! I've teemed the vintage find dress with an old Topshop bag, Tesco sandals and a Primark ring that the hubby hates so I wear just to annoy him!

Here is my lovely sister in her shopping outfit. I think she is wearing a White Stuff dress, John Lewis sandals and a Gap cardigan? And, of course, the Mulberry. Beautiful. 

Despite making a list of things I wanted, a gold cuff, pink blazer and wicker clutch I didn't manage to find any of them today. Here are some of the cuffs I've seen, the bottom two are Topshop, I love the giraffe one as I love them but at £18.50 I wont be getting it anytime soon!! The middle one was £20, totally overpriced. The top one I was going to get, £2.50 from Primark, bargain, but Catherine persuaded me it looked like it was from a children's fancy dress costume and it put me off.

Lovely in Liberty

Tonight my husband and I used a voucher from Groupon to go for a cheapy meal in town. The meal sucked to be honest but it was still nice to get a bit dressed up and go out for the evening. I decided it was the perfect opportunity to wear one of my fabulous vintage finds. I had worn the candy striped dress all day, styled with a gold and purple skinny waist belt so changed into the Liberty print skirt and a simple white t-shirt. As I knew we'd have to walk more that 5 metres I left the tan heels at home and went for the more comfy yellow wedges. The wedges are Jones, the necklace (that I always wear!) is Primark, the belt is old old old Dorothy Perkins and the t-shirt Limited Collection at Marks and Spencer. I carried my much loved wicker Gap clutch too and am very sad to say I have finally thrown it away tonight, it has so many holes and broken bits in it that it looks awful. I really must look for a replacement as it will be sadly missed.

That brings me to tomorrows excitement, following my good fortune this week with my first experience with vintage shopping I am going to try again. I have found a vintage warehouse in Nottingham so my sister and I are going to have a look. On my list are...a bright pink blazer, a wicker clutch and some bangles I can stack and/or a gold cuff. I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow!

Fabulous Vintage Finds!

My husband and I have spent the day enjoying actually being off work at the same time, a very rare thing recently! We went to Denby pottery as we had a voucher for a free tour and meal in their cafe, the tour included moulding a frog which we currently have drying on the kitchen window sill...maybe I'll post a picture when they are done? Anyway, the day got better when we went shopping (of course!) we were on the look out for 'bad taste' shirts for his brothers stag in a couple of weeks. There is a great retro shop near us that sells vintage clothing and is for the Sue Ryder charity. The shop is painted bright purple and pink and is a treasure throve of fabulous finds! The lady working there was such a help too. Whilst he looked at the horrid 70's shirts I found the following two beauties. I have never really shopped anywhere like that before but it was such fun, the things are individual, great prices and all the money goes to charity. Win win I say!

How cute will this look with a thin tan belt and some sandals? It was a bargain at £10.95 and fits like a dream. I love the cute collar too.

These two photos have not come out too well but the skirt is beautiful. It is a Liberty skirt and was £6.95, Unbelievable! It is a high waisted style and I am going to wear it with a white shirt tucked in, a wide belt and some tan chunky heels that kill me to walk in but will look fabulous. I will definitely be trying this vintage shopping again. 

The hubby wanted me to show his new shirts on here but I think I'll save them in case the his brother sees before his stag, sorry Jonny! Maybe you'll get to star on here one day...

Lemon drizzle cake

After much peer pressure from work I have made a lemon drizzle cake. This was more of a tester one and I promise I will do another for you all this week. It did turn out well and was very quick. I love my new scales which make baking so much easier as you can add everything in one bowl at the same time. As you can see on the second to last picture I had a little helper! He loves to be sat right next to me although usually sits on top of the microwave! I know it's not hygienic but hey, he's adorable. For those of you who don't know his name is Dexter.

The end result...