You never know whats around the corner

Hello again

Well only a week and a bit until the school holidays.
I have been quite busy this week doing housework and tidying up - shock horror !

We go on holiday soon so I have been winding down the Ebay and doing other things instead...

Carpet shampooing this morning- very satisfying job once I get around to it. In our house we dont have a hallway that goes through to the kitchen and the back of the house which means all the traffic goes through the lounge - not good with a cream carpet, two cats and lots of kids in and out (J's friends - I only have one )
Anyway it looks better now

Also the big news is .... apart from my meal time assistant job at Miss V's school, as from September I will be a teaching assistant every morning !!

I was very pleased to be offered the job as I have only worked there properly since January.

Its going to be a big change as since I was made redundant (well I volunteered to go but only got basic minimum redundancy pay after 20 years loyal service) I have been working hard selling on Ebay and building up Vintage from the Village

I am going to have a lot less time so I dont know what to do with all my stock which is sat in huge piles around my ears as I write this

Options

A- Spend what free time I get in the school summer holidays clearing it on Ebay
B- Carry on setting up my own Website (but I dont know if I will have enough time to market it to drive enough customers to it

As much as I am looking foward to the school challenge I love my selling so desperate to keep something going

Any suggestions please or your thoughts

I may do a few little give aways as well

With love
Sue x

Thank you Teacher !

Hi everyone

I hope the day is brighter with you, it's pouring down here in Devon
Thank you for all you anniversary wishes
all back to normality now and the countdown the school holidays

Talking of which I had a little session on the sewing machine last weekend and have been making Thank you Teacher little fabric gift bags and lavender bags

If you are interested they can be found here on my Ebay or email me privately if you would prefer
I have just had an order for ten mini lavender bags so I am off now to search out some of my prettiest fabrics for another lovely sewing session when I get home form work
If you would like anything specially made , please do send me a message, I would love to hear from you but dont forget ..

Holidays are coming - Holidays are coming - Holidays are coming ...............................

Love  Sue x

Ten - how many ?

Hello again,  well Mr V and I have reached our ten year wedding anniversary today !
You may wonder havn't I got better things to be doing than blogging but Mr V has gone to a school governors meeting and Miss V is out playing with a friend so here I am.

We celebrated last weekend with two nights away. The first in Porthleven, a traditional Cornish fishing village. The rain was pouring down ! we stayed at a B&B right by the harbour and chose this lovely little restaurant for our evening meal (see above)

There were some lovely little shops to browse around in the morning. Then we travelled a few miles to Falmouth for the second night

Some beach hut shops

This is where we stayed The Royal Duchy Hotel  our room was the two windows with blue canopies on the left - very posh it was too  we even had the swimming pool to ourselves !

Anyway , back to reality now !

Off to cook tea and get Miss V off to bed before sitting down to The Apprentice with a bottle of Champagne we were given as a present and have been saving

Enjoy your evening

Sue x

Could anyone help with a translation please ?

Hi
Just a quick one, I bought two pillowcases recently with what I presume is Chinese or possibly Arabic embroidered writing on them

Could anyone help with translation please? presumably something like Goodnight?
They are very pretty and brand new

If anyone could help that would be great

Off now to watch Restaurant Inspector with a glass of wine and a slice of orange cake I made earlier (more about that another time)

Sue x

continuation from my rose ramblings ..........

Hi again

Sorry my link to my ebay where the crochet magazines didnt seem to have worked on my earlier post  so I will try again my ebay link here
If still having problems - advanced search - seller - Stirfry148

I have lots more still to list so if you dont do Ebay just let me know

Thanks
Sue x

Covered in roses - Cath Kidson ones !

 Hello again

Hope you have all had a good week. It has flown by here, probably because it was no school on Monday.

Anyway last weekend Mr V and I had a child free weekend so off we went to Bristol
First we went to a antiques and vintage fair at the West of England University just outside Bristol at their Frenchay campus
I bought an apron to sell on and Mr V bought a coin for his collection. It was quite good and reasonable prices, a lovely location in a new spacious conference centre, a huge cafe area and no crowds. Would go again even though quite a long way from here.

The main reason for heading 'up north' was to spend my Cath Kidston voucher I had for my birthday back in March

We found a nearby car park  (thank goodness for sat nav!) and the shop stood there in all its glory and I could have almost anything I wanted  yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 Look at my rosy stash ! a rucksack, purse,ironing board cover, face flannel, tape measure, shoe bag, beaded food covers and some tissues
What a lot I got !

 My ironing board must be small because the cover is huge and covers the grey flat bit at the end as well ?
A lovely day out we had.
On the Sunday I went to a local car boot sale and then to Tesco for breakfast (we know how to live!)  then across the moors to Yelverton to Buckland Abbey
we stumbled on another car boot sale on the way - perfect !
Yelverton is a fairly posh plcae and it was one of those lovely boot sales with people who dont do them very often selling nice things instead of plastic toys (car boot snob I am)
I bought loads of table cloths and things and have been very busy washing and ironing it all....

 We finally arrived at Buckland Abbey (a National Trust house where Sir Francis Drake lived)
It was a Jaguar and Aston Martin owners club day and there were some lovely cars there -
one day ey !!??

 We had a look around and drooled over the cars and the gardens. Lots more roses to look at and one of my favourites - Love -in-a-mist. I had this in my wedding bouquet and saved the seed and have it in my garden every year from those original wedding flowers

 Also I managed to squeeze in a bit of sewing, making some   Thank You Teacher gifts to sell and for Miss V's teachers

Last but not least I have huge pile of Crochet Monthly magazines which I am selling for just 90p start price on