Guest blog number two from Emma’s other half. This one is about a rather unusual little candle holder which I treated myself to from a certain online website (Ebay) a few months ago. Predictably its West German and this one is made by Carstens, identification made easy by a little cloth label on its chest…
Finding A Vintage Dress for Owl Ski…
A week tomorrow I am off to a swanky party with work. We won a Vodafone competition and our prize is an all expenses paid party and casino at a boutique hotel in Manchester. I’ve been extremely good with my diet (and have lost another stone in weight) but I’m struggling to find a dress…
Arthur Wood Moneyboxes
There have been some new additions to the Arthur Wood family. First, I found the squirrel in a Glossopian charity shop. Next came the owl, found on a stall at the Newark International Antique Fair. Now, I have a tortoise courtesy of one boyfriend for a birthday present. Funny story with this one though. We’d…
To Buy or Not to Buy: Avalon Sideboard
Just seen this in a charity shop in Glossop. It’s £45. Do I buy it or not?
Birthday and Booting…
Well, last week it was my birthday and now I’m another year closer to thirty… I don’t mind so much, but it is a slightly strange feeling. I keep expecting somebody to stop me and say, “Right, the game is up. You’re not really [insert age here]; you’re really sixteen. Stop pretending to be an…
Look What I Got for my Birthday!
Imagine how excited I was to open this: My parents gave me this for my birthday last week. I was extremely pleased with it, to say the least! It’s in perfect condition with its original stopper and the Carlton Ware stamp on the bottom. I love it!
Newark International Antiques & Collector’s Fair
Bit of a bumper Friday Find for this entry! On Friday 9th April, Aidan and I trundled on over to Newark in Tina (the Ford KA). This was before the excitement of Little Owl Ski at the Car Boot Sale took over – and subsequently the blogging has been put back by the usual back-to-school-therefore-I-have-no-life…
Little Owl Vintage Boot Sale
Well, Sunday’s car boot sale went pretty well. I made about £35 just from the retro vintage side of the stall and we made £70 in total. A few of our friends popped down to see us and one of them, Claire, took some lovely pictures and wrote about it on her own blog and…
Little Owl Vintage is Setting up Shop! (Almost…)
I’ve been thinking about setting up a vintage and retro stall at my local market in Glossop for a while now, but still haven’t got the guts to really go for it! It’s ridiculous: I’ve even found out how much it is but I’ve been stumped by being told I need public indemnity insurance (or…
Auction Viewing With Parents…
On Thursday, my lovely parents came up to visit. They were bringing me my birthday presents (quite early but I won’t see them around then). I’ll post up the best present after this post. We had a little trip to Holmfirth: After that, we headed up to the auction in New Mill. Few interesting bits…
Aidan’s Birthday Presents
Confession time: Aidan’s birthday was in February… Admittedly, he was given these a couple of weeks after the event, but still that is fairly slack of me to only just be posting them up now. As they were his presents, Aidan has taken the pictures himself: The Scheurich one is my favourite of the two….
Penny’s Pretty, Potty Pots…
These are some new purchases by my parents: Watch out for the cat appearing… Tyler, the cat, was obviously getting a little bit jealous of the attention the pots were getting! I know that these are Scheurich and the form numbers; however, I know nothing about the glaze as I’ve never seen ones like…
Little Owl Ski 