Gusts and showers

As I write this we are experiencing a rather damp day with occasional windy gusts so not very good for taking outdoor photos at the moment! We will have to see where the day takes us. For myEbay shop green-vintage8855 I have, just in, some men's jackets which have to photographed from the outside of my office as it is so full at present there is hardly room to turn around! I am out most mornings searching for great thrifting finds to pass on to my lovely customers and have been fortunate with the weather so far. I have also been fortunate enough to find a few items for my Etsy Store MillCottageRetro, which you can see below. 

Delicious Wedgwood decanter and two matching glasses, a pair of charming glass fish and a Canadian resin duck by Boma [All added to inventory]

Set of six Sedish smoky blue grey hiball glasses and three cobalt blue spice jars, all of these are on my Etsy Store MillCottageRetro now

Super cool retro tea set and sandwich plate (to be sold separately) from Thomas (Rosenthal) in Germany [All now sold]

The treasures pictured below are already on my Ebay Store, green-vintage8855:

Large Elizabethan Rosamund plate with pretty pink flower pattern, Flower Fairies plate from the illustrations of C M Barker (this one is the Hawthorn Fairy) which joins the others already in the Shop and a pretty Royal Doulton flower basket (I always think that the people who made these, most probably ladies, were so clever as the work making and painting these tiny petals must have been so painstaking)

Beautiful Celine silk scarf with impressionistic depictions of the Paris skyline, including the Eiffel Tower, and a Nike wool golf pullover with an AVFC logo, (Aston Villa Football Club, for those not in the know!) just the job for those chilly mornings on the golf course! [both sold]

Beautiful pair of Nine West shoes (the LK Bennett pair I had on sale sold this week), a vintage apron in green and blue and a Jacqmar ladies head scarf which is what all the ladies need to keep their vintage 'do' in place

Lastly, but not leastly, three brilliant paperweights, all with tiny creatures suspended in the glass. I think it is so clever how they manage to do this, but then anything to do with hand blown glassmaking is super clever. [the one back left is sold]

And a final word just to update you on last week's blog: all the Ebay items (except the green glass dish which will be available today) are now in my shop green-vintage8855 for purchase. On the Etsy front I have made available, on MillCottageRetro, the Dartington Fleur bowls and the two Tremar Pottery pieces (the Real Ale tankard and the Brandy flagon) and will be working on the remainder during the next few days.

Best wishes to all thrifting friends!

Autumn

I have just realised that I haven't produced a blog entry for some time, so I don't know where the summer went! Our son was home from University for the summer so it was really nice to spend some time with him, then we had a holiday in Hastings on the sunny south coast. An old friend of mine lives in nearby St Leonard's so we met up and she came back to stay with us for a while - a good excuse to visit all the local tea shops!

Then we had a weekend in Bedfordshire for the Twinwood Festival which was great as usual! The Bootleg Beatles helped to create a wonderful '60s night' atmosphere but there were also excellent performances from Down for the Count Swing Orchestra with guest vocalists, and rock and roll group Jackson Sloan and the Rhythmntones. Saturday evening was finished off in style by the Electric Swing Circus and their version of 1920s swing in the magical Woodland Glade.

Of course mustn't forget the fabulous Bryan Ferry at the Cornbury music festival in July - so good to hear some of those 1970s Roxy Music classics!

However, September is with us again and, as usual, sees people returning to work and learning after the summer break and back to work for me in my garden office which is not too much of a hardship!

It may be worth mentioning that I also have a presence on Ebay at  http://stores.ebay.co.uk/green-vintage8855 which has a slightly different vintage feel to it from MillCottageRetro on Etsy.

Below are some photos of items that have recently been added or that are in the process of being added to green-vintage8855: 

Collection of vintage green glassware bought at auction

Some pretty china pieces of which some were found at a car boot sale, one was an inherited piece and another from an auction sale

Mixture of auction, car boot and charity shop purchaes

I suppose that you could say that these pieces constitute the more traditional end of vintage thrifting, whereas on Etsy I place mid century and retro pieces. My Ebay store will also have clothing and more modern items that do not fit in with Etsy's guidelines.

However, here are some pieces that will be going into my Etsy Store soon:

 

Some traditional Dartington glass bowls and a retro brandy glass, don't you just love that ruby red colour. Some people just collect that colour of glass

Super retro tableware: the fabulous Midwinter Pottery, super on trend Hornsea cruet and the deep, deep Mediteranean blue of Rimini Blu.

Here is a rather cute collection of Cornish studio pottery wares. I have kept back one piece: a coffee mug which has my name on it here in my office (not literally, of course - it says 'cafe'!)