Boutique and Unique - Vintage Living, Baslow, Derbyshire

Vintage Living in Baslow is a real find.  Owner Sarah Copley began a life long interest in antiques at a very early age, unsurprisingly since both her grandmother and mother were in the business. She deals in original distressed and decorative painted furniture, sourcing stock from England, France and Europe.

      

Sarah's trained with Ann Maurice the House Doctor so has a wealth of experience to help you with your interior design. Her amazing shop is full of lovely furniture and accessories dressed cleverly so you could simply transport the it straight into your house.

    

And if you want more than just a bit of inspiration, Sarah is going to start running courses that will help you to  style your home and work with colour.

All images (c) Vintage Living

Surf's Up - Country Life and Other Passions

If you're looking for inspiration for interiors, landscape gardens and mood boards, you could do a lot worse than check out the images on this Facebook page, Country Life and Other Passions. 

  

We love the photographs and advice on many small and great passions of life ... with a focus on simplicity and reflection .... With an emphasis on beauty in the broadest sense, extending to art and nature, music and style ... 

    

Their page welcomes all those who love good taste and love the little things!

    

Boutique and Unique - the Vintage Bazaar, Hartley Wintney

A date for your diaries.  Next Saturday, the 27th April at The Victoria Halls in Hartley Wintney, the Vintage Bazaar will be holding another of their amazing fairs with over 30 traders selling vintage clothing, textiles, collectables and homewares.

The Vintage Bazaar was set up three years ago by Lizzie and Clare who came up with the idea.  They felt that Frome was a perfect venue to sell all things vintage as well as Clare's fabulous cloche hats. The Bazaar has now spread to other towns. 

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Exhibitors include Rebecca's Aix  and Les Jolies Choses 

as well as Angela's Vintage with their lovely display of nostalgic items from the 1930's and  1940's which includes English Embroidery, Linens and Haberdashery.

     

Refreshments are available in vintage style thanks to Lavinia's Tea Party 

The Victoria Halls are in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. and doors open at 9.30, finishing at 3 pm.

Surf's Up - Lavender House Vintage

Just had to share this website when I stumbled across it.

    

Lavender House Vintage have a passion for all things antique and vintage, and stock an ever changing range of authentically chic and shabby pieces for you and your home. And although they are based in the historic city of Lancaster in the North West of England, they deliver nationwide.

    

As a little girl, Emma helped her mother on her Portobello Road antiques stall and developed a passion for all things vintage.  

    

From this passion a business has flourished and if you fancy a bit of browsing, there is a wealth of treasure on offer: worn painted French and English furniture, clothes and jewellery, faded textiles and well travelled period luggage.

   

We defy you not to find something you'll covet and probably end up buying.

    

Boutique and Unique - Hawthorn contemporary craft gallery, Blandford

Hawthorn contemporary craft gallery is yet another shop helping to make market town high streets a destination for shopping.  This fantastic shop is perfect for those looking for something quirky for their own home or in search of a truly original gift.

Everything is hand crafted  by design-makers and artists and over 70% of their stock is sourced within a fifty mile radius.  There are ceramics, jewellery, glass, wood, textiles, cards and prints.

An you will completely rethink about the art of felting when you see owner Stephanie Carswell's work.

At the back of the shop there is an Aladdin's cave of buttons, ribbons, vintage haberdashery and felt making kits for those who want to try a hand at their own creations.

Boutique and Unique - Sharland and Lewis, Wimborne.

I've just discovered Sharland and Lewis have opened a shop in Wimborne and wanted to share this hidden gem as it's perfect for getting inspiration to help with the finishing touches to your home or for seeking out original and stylish gifts.  

With shops already in Tetbury and Nailsworth, they  opened this lovely showroom last November in a converted old squash court in Deans Court.  They  stock decorative antiques and furniture,  contemporary ceramics and glass.  They have one-off retro ‘Fifties lights, antique mirrors, vintage quilts and they  sell beautifully packaged toiletries too.  There is a cute little enclosed courtyard at the front where they stock vintage garden furniture, galvanised garden tubs and old terracotta pots. 

And better still, if you're there at the weekend, on Friday and they  stock the yard with seasonal produce from a local estate literally a stone's throw from the shop - vegetables, fruit, herbs, and cut flowers from the kitchen garden, plus eggs, honey and preserves, tubs of spring bulbs and even logs.  And if you time it well you can have a look around the gardens at Deans Court where the produce comes from as they open their grounds several times a year as part of the NGS scheme.