Mirror update No4

Remember this?

Along it came to the Cornhall with me on Wednesday and it sold!  I was so excited, I can't tell you the feeling of someone loving something that I had made so much that they want to buy it and take it home with them.
It was amazing, and to top that, right at the end of the day I took a commission to decorate a mirror for another customer.  Busy busy busy but feeling chuffed to bits!

Rumble in the Jumble!

I don't know about you but I love a village jumble sale, and this Saturday there was one in a nearby village.  So along I went with my bag, purse and elbows sharpened.  It was FAB!
Want to see what I found?

A really pretty pair of curtains that I know will have come from a cottage window.  They are called rose stencil by Sanderson.  I have nowhere to put them but they were cute and only £1 so I couldn't resist.

My Nan had these serving dishes and served every meal in them for as long as I can remember.  I had to have this dish, very 1930's in design and colour and so reminds me of amazing food eaten with my Nan.

I also bought these box frames that I have covered.  They are great for keeping baby keepsakes, first shoes etc or for making a collage picture in - perhaps memories of a favourite holiday or just for a picture.  You guessed it they will be on my stall on Wednesday.
My weekend also involved the carboot, a chinese meal with friends, several bottles of wine and a little girl sleepover - perfect!
What did you do?

Blog stalker!

A really disturbing thing has happened to me recently,  Another seller has decided to steal my business ideas and contacts.  I am very friendly to people who come to see me on my stall and I love to chat to them about vintage glass, however I never expected that someone would then try to copy my ideas.  Someone has set up a blog - looking exactly the same as mine - and then contacted all the places that I sell to and events that I have signed up to and asked to also have a stall selling the same as me, vintage glass!  I have worked hard to set up and establish my little business, I know my idea is not original and I know there will be others out there selling the same as me yet to deliberately steal my ideas and my contacts is not on.  I have had to block them from reading this blog and now I have gone into fight mode.  I have taken this very personally and feel that people need to know about my experience to stop things like this from happening.  Be warned.

Mirror No3

Finally - it's finished!!!!    Hurrah and I'm really pleased with the result, what do you think?

This has been a real labour of love - get it?  My lack of patience has taught me a massive lesson and one which hopefully I won't need to repeat.
I already have a commission to make another! Oh no!
This will be on my stall - at the Cornhall - tomorrow, hope to see you there.

Now I just need to find my glasses!

Wow!

2 carboots in one weekend, a trawl round the charity shops and a stall at Stroud market mean I am now stocked up and raring to go!  If you're anything like me you'll want a little peak at the gorgeous goodies I have acquired so here are just a few.....

2 vintage, pressed glass cake stands - getting harder and harder to find but really popular.  Unfortunately one of these has a small chip to it's base but i still thought it was too beautiful to leave behind.

This little beauty is in perfect, if incomplete condition.  It is a lovely pink and I think dates to the 1930's, these too are very popular and I have sold a few, however they do attract alot of 'my granny had one of those' or  'I've got one of those in the attic' type of comments.

Salts - I have a customer who buys lots of these from me.  I didn't really realise what a salt was and I have to say I think they are really pretty as well as being functional.  I currently have a pair of salts that have a registration mark that dates them to 1897!

I found these beauties at the carboot  - printers trays
All of these and more will be on my stall at the Cornhall this week, and finally

Soaps - I often find little dishes that I think would make great soap dishes.  Customers often buy them as gifts and like to have a nice soap too.  So I decided to buy a few nice Waitrose olive and jojoba soap and wrap them in pretty paper so cutting down on costs but still giving a pretty soap with each dish.  What do you think?

Mirror update No1

Disaster!  My lack of patience has meant that I have messed about with the mirror for hours - days even, finally stripping off the paper on Saturday night.  I need to replenish paper stock and start again!!!!!  This time though I have a plan!

Good pickings at 2 carboots today, but on closer inspection 1 chipped, 1 cracked and 1 with lid and base not matching!  Am I down hearted?  No!  Perhaps I need to wear my glasses next time!

I have also wrapped some soaps in pretty paper to add to soap dishes - so if the lady who thought she was getting the soap with her dish she bought recently reads this please come and see me again and I will give you a pretty soap.

Piccies to follow of gorgeous carboot buys and hopefully completed mirror!

Look what I found

This large mirror bought from a charity shop yesterday will be my new project, I'm going to cover it in this....

Fabulous Jan Constantine paper.
My biggest problem when starting a new project is that I want to start straight away, I have no patience, sometimes I need to step back and plan and take my time, but the excitement of wanting to see it finished just takes over!
I have spent 4 days this week at the Cornhall - I feel like it has become my second home - so with a few days off I need to re-stock, make some new products and probably most importantly clean my house!

Quick hello

I have been at the Cornhall this weekend and will be there again today - I'm running out of stock!  I did a quick run around the Carboot yesterday and have sold some of the items already!  Lots more needed - panic!