How to spend a happy day

I have been enjoying myself recently, as my visit to Semely Auctions and Shepton Mallet flea market has meant I've lots of  new stock. In my last post I showed my books at Dairy House Antiques, so today I thought I'd share my day at Vintage et al vintageetal.co.uk/‎ in Warminster.
It's always a pleasure to go there.
This time, there were home-made cakes to tempt me-

and yes, I succumbed!

I have quite a small space but I've recently added a new chest of drawers and bookcase which are now crammed with treasures

This is a lovely edition of the well-loved classic 'Lorna Doone' with beautiful coloured plates of the Devonshire countryside

It's fun to have somewhere to show my vintage finds-

This little evening bag has a matching silk covered mirror inside

I'm pleased with how I've managed to squeeze everything in!

The shop is divided between various dealers' stock and part of the charm is the very different things on sale there.
I fell in love with these beautiful lights-

and unusual wall sconces-

Everywhere you look there are things to tempt...

There are usually other stall holders happily at work

And we all have such fun together!

It's quite a new venture but the shop is gaining more and more happy customers every week and I'm really looking forward to the year ahead-
Let's raise our cups to that!

p.s. I'm off to the beautiful Italian city of Lucca for a week's holiday with my son Sam tomorrow. I hope to be able to post from his computer but we'll see...

A gentle day of filled with crafts, colour and quite a few mugs of tea!

I always enjoy having a stall, be it at a serious book fair, a flea market or village fete. It's blooming hard work, with all the loading and hefting of boxes but then I am rewarded with the joy of setting up my table. I tweak and fiddle and finally it pleases me.... and then I go and sell something and the balance is altered, so I happily start shifting everything again!

Two Andrew Lang's and a couple of my other favourite books

                                      
As you can see, I have have a motley collection...

The other stall holders were mainly crafts-people. Kate runs The Cygnet at Swan Yard and sat happily in the sunshine sewing on individual pearl beads onto her beautiful silk scarves-

The beads were tempting and I treated myself to a scoop of these sea green ones-

There were subtle patterns-

Kaye Mash

Pat Chandler

Some exuberant colours-

Debbie Hudson



And some very English sights-

 It was a good way to spend a summer's Saturday.

My particular favourites

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