The Weekend? It's A Wrap!

Where has the weekend gone?

Here.....

Saturday's fair at Newport was fab (read all about it on the Vintage Girlie's website HERE) and, yet again, the good people of Stockport did us proud yesterday and we had an absolute ball. I never fail to be overwhelmed by the number of lovely people who read my blog and treat me like an old friend when they meet me, I just hope I'm not too much of a let down in real life.

No rest for the wicked. Despite yesterday's 5am start we had to be up bright and early to get the house looking halfway decent for some test shots by a photographer interested in submitting them to an interiors magazine.

These are a few of my photos after he'd finished his. 

 Isn't it funny that being with strangers enables you to see everything from a different perspective? 

When he showed me his photographs I loved the look of the house so much so that if I'd seen them in the edgy interiors magazine I used to subscribe to, I'd have ripped the pages out and kept them in my inspiration folder.

Normally I just moan about all the clutter and what needs painting.

Even the Wall of Misery looks quite cheery from a different angle. 

It would have been rude not to make a few purchases over the weekend, including this block printed wraparound maxi skirt from the lovely Sarah who organises Stockport Vintage Village. I've written previously about unscrupulous sellers flogging these as vintage when in fact they are still produced in their thousands and sold on every street corner in Indian tourist resorts, but this one is 100% original complete with a 1970s Chelsea Girl label.

The 1960s orange plastic beads were a bargain at £1- who says vintage fairs are full of overpriced stuff? Not me! Wait till you see my other finds.

1970s block print maxi (Sarah at Stockport's Room At The Top Vintage) Fringed body (£2.25, Age UK), denim waistcoat (the lovely Lucy)

There's a fair in Stourbridge to prepare for, the monthly jumble sale to sort and help out at, a chazzing and (weather permitting) car booting mission and a visit to my good friend, the orthopaedic surgeon, scheduled for this week. Its all go, innit?

See you soon!