New vintage finds for my etsy shop

So I made my first sale which was super exciting.  Although not without its difficulties due to a part of the dining room ceiling falling in and crushing some of the beautiful china.  Sob.  And I have some new finds to share with you today and hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to show you the other ballot box in all its finished glory!

I'm very happy with them.  The gold plates are especially beautiful as they are covered in the gold ivy pattern.  And they are all for sale (with more pictures) in my etsy shop.  Click the images for the link.

More hidden treasures

Would you ever have guessed that this lovely bunch

Was hiding under this pile of crap

That is just the way of things in this house.  All the pretty things get tidied away and forgotten  about in the pursuit of practicality.  But I'm on a mission to unearth all the beauties and clean them up real nice.

And that's exactly what I did this bank holiday weekend

Didn't they come up lovely?  And they're all gonna be gracing my new Etsy shop as soon as I get the boxes to package them in later in the week.  I'll be doing an announcement once everything's ready to go.  For now though I still have half the pile to wash!

Hello! And welcome to my blog Raining cats and frogs!  This is my first ever blog post on my first ever blog, are you excited?  Cause I know I am, really really gonna burst excited.  I’ll start from the beginning (this will be a quick one promise).  I’ve created a blog with the intention of feeling like I’m doing something productive with my life.  As I’ve just finished uni (like literally JUST handed my final work in this very morn) it’s about time I got my life in order aka get a job you lazy student bum.  And that just fills me with dread because I’m the kind of person that never feels like they’ll be good enough.  I’ll be all ‘hey I’d really like to work here’ and they’d be all ‘no.  No experience. No skills. No’ and the job market is looking ever so BLEAK to me right now.  So I thought hey I like making things and sometimes people even say they like the things I make and there’s this wonderful place called etsy and well. . .you getting it?  So as it happens in this household theres a ton of vintage china, like loads and loads and loads and it’s all real pretty and I’m thinking ‘I’d buy the hell out of that tea set’ cause I like to feel fancy when I’m drinking ma green tea.  So here’s my plan

• Always loved blogs – set up my very own
• Always loved vintage homeware – sell some of my very own
• Always loved making things – make loads of things and mayhaps sell some of those too

So this is the first step on my very simple to do list.  Start a blog.  I love blogs.  They’re so helpful and funny and interesting.  I make no promises that mine will be any of these things but I’ll certainly give it a try.  So yeah.  I conquered the dreaded deadline.  Finished university and came straight home to wash up that china.  I’ve spent all day washing and photographing and I’m only half way through!  This is serious.  So when I finally make it to the end and edit the photos I will in fact be opening an etsy store called, can you guess?  Raining cats and frogs.  ATM I’m stocking up on boxes and bubble wrap and pretty paper and ribbons and all that jazz and I’ll be documenting my business life (and probably the other life stuff) on this very blog. 

SO now I have the super scary first post out of the way here’s a little sneak peak of ze china, photographed by my good friend Pepper Ross (check out her website www.pepperross.com)