Kitsch in the kitchen

Meet Pinkie, the latest addition to my teapot family - isn't she lovely?  She was spotted hiding on a bric-a-brac stall in Hereford by a friend of mine, and purchased for the vast sum of £4. Lucky me!
I now have the huge dilemma of which one comes with me to the exhibition...

Beautiful cream and gold teapots, I love them all!

 The shelving for Earl's Court is looking very at home in my kitchen, the grapes are long gone though.  The artificial flowers I've been collecting recently look very pretty alongside it, I've moved some of them into the jug from the bottom shelf: see below! (with the bunting that I finally managed to finish on Friday morning) 
 In other news, I've made some headway in my attempt to tidy up my china room and the plate-rack is now on the wall rather than the floor :)

 


Right, time for bed, after the recycling has been taken out, the washing machine has been emptied and put in the tumble drier, and the dishwasher has been loaded and put on. Oh the glamour. Thank goodness for appliances.

Friends, flowers and florists

Oh my, it's been a long time since I put anything on here... So what's been happening in The Pink House?  Well, we had a lovely Easter in Dorset: the weather was kind to us, I caught up with an old school friend for a day out at Abbotsbury Farm and found time for a very fruitful 'grown-ups only' mooch about the vintage market in Bridport - I could have stayed there all day!  Unfortunately the weather has been so pants since then that I haven't managed to take any decent photographs of the two beautiful 1930s tea sets I bought :( 
Happily, when we came back the wisteria was out - how lovely is that?

My first attempt at using the new camera! Ooh... I like it :)

Lovely wired paper roses

 

My website is looking SO gorgeous, thanks to the fabulous Vicky, I just need to find the time to edit my huge album of pictures down to a select few for the galleries and we're about done - will get it live soon, fingers crossed.  And my ideas for STP Photography's stand at the Earls Court Spirit of Summer exhibition are hatched - waiting for a totally gorgeous bookcase to arrive and some sunshine so we can paint the garden furniture cream!  Ah well, if it carries on raining it'll be Plan B and green.

Looking forward to decorating the house for my daughter's 13th Birthday Vintage Tea Party - must get that bunting finished! I went to a totally fantastic florists' wholesaler today to look for accessories and came back with an oh-so-pretty mannequin for table decorating - I had to resist the urge to buy half a dozen birdcages and most of the artificial flowers, they're just so wonderful nowadays, not like the dusty, plastic, apricot-coloured things of my grandmother's generation.

So that's about it for this post - I could ramble on for ever but the children want feeding... a bientôt mes amis :)