Showing posts with label Hertfordshire Vintage Fairs; Watford Vintage Fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hertfordshire Vintage Fairs; Watford Vintage Fair. Show all posts

Friday, 1 July 2011

My name is Vicki..and I have a jug habit!!

I think I have a jug habit!  These are some (but not all) of my latest purchases:





Not only all jugs, but all a very similar shade of yellow; although all different makers and designs.  My utility china habit continues.  As does my fondness for old tins:

Whoops, don't know why that came out sideways! 
Mini Quality Street tins.

It is a busy few weeks here fair-wise.  I was at the Hertfordshire Vintage Fair at Watford last week.  As usual, I took terrible pictures of my stall:



This Sunday, I will be in Hatton Park, near Warwick for the Blighty Boutique Vintage and Handmade Fair (see flyer on my sidebar); and then the following week at the Olney Vintage Fair (flyer also on sidebar).  I am really looking forward to attending them; so must go now and get on with sorting out stock.

Friday, 4 February 2011

A Fantastic Vintage Fair


This is a very blurry picture of my stall at the Vintage Fashion and Accessories Fair I attended on Sunday.  I am intending to do more fairs this year; and was very pleased with my sales at the very busy fair.  Next time I must work on my photography!

Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to upload any more pictures at the moment; which is a shame as some are actually in focus!

I shall try again later..


Sometime later...


Well I managed one more picture.  This is a china dressing table set I bought recently.  The round dish in the centre with the hole in the lid puzzled me.  I couldn't think what it could be for.  Internet searches have suggested it is a hair receiver or hair tidy.  Supposidly Victorian and Edwardian ladies with long hair would collect it from their hairbrushes and combs; and save it in a hair receiver.  When they had enough, they would use it to stuff pin cushions or even small pillows!  Apparently the oil in their hair lubricated pins in the pin cushions.  What a wasteful person I am that my hair just goes down the plughole or in the bin.  Although, we do brush the dog outside in the spring, so that birds can use her fur in their nests!  I wonder if labrador hair pin cushions would be a big seller??