It's my birthday!

I thought I'd share a few birthday pictures with you...

A beautifully wrapped gift from my friend Michelle (remembering the old ways). A lovely vintage card too.

Inside was these gorgeous linens. An embroidered tablecloth and tray cloth.

I baked myself a birthday cake...

Daisy iced and decorated it :)

Lovely flowers from my husband and fish and chips for tea! 

Mandy x

Vintage goodies!

I love vintage homewares and I'm gradually replacing things in our home. My interest is in things I remember from my seventies childhood and items from the fifties and sixties. I also have a huge interest in the Homefront during wartime but the further back you go the more difficult it is to find things and they're more expensive. I use a lovely online shop to buy homeware from the sixties and seventies. There's something for everyone's price range and I use everything I buy. This is helping me to keep things simple and clear the clutter...getting rid of the things we really don't need! I am going to show you my vintage goodies in use around our house but today I will show you my latest finds...

We collect ladybird books and I pick these up quite cheaply at our local antiques centre or from the online Oxfam shop.

I'm getting together a lovely collection of vintage knitting patterns.

I've been replacing the bedding in our bedroom and the spare bedroom. We use sheets and blankets now! I've just picked up these lovely pillowcases :)

Henry has lots of vintage blankets, beautifully crocheted. This is his latest. I love the colours.

Finally the Tupperware...I love it. I love the seventies colours, the brown and orange. These will be put to good use in my kitchen.

I'm on the look out for cake tins next :)

Mandy x

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Back on track!

Today I've been busy in the kitchen. I seem to spend the majority of my day in the kitchen really! I made a beef stew and dumplings for lunch followed by treacle sponge and cream. No custard today because I needed to use up some single cream. I had my shopping delivered yesterday and the pot had split so I had to use it up quickly. I always put cream in my porridge too. I make it with water and add a little cream when it's cooked. 

Tea was a bit of a use up. I really didn't buy much food at Christmas. We were all poorly before and didn't have much of an appetite. So there's been bits and bobs left over like crackers and twiglets. I added some cheese and apple and pork pie too. Earlier I baked a plain sponge so I filled it with lemon curd and butter icing. 

We love having our cooked meal at lunchtime and a proper tea now. It suits us much better with the children.

I did take photos but my memory is full so I can't show you here now. I must do some deleting! I can post them on Instagram though. I regularly post photos on there. 

That's all for now xx

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Hello and welcome to my blog!

I've started to make some changes here and this is where I will do most of my writing now. 

I hope you enjoy reading x 

Happy Easter!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

We had an Easter tea party yesterday and we will have our roast today. Not traditional but this way suited us better. All week Daisy and I have been making decorations for the table and on Saturday afternoon we did the baking.

All of the cakes and sweet treats were homemade...Victoria sandwich, Easter cupcakes, Easter rocky road and Easter nests (made with dairy free chocolate by Daisy).

The savouries were kept quite simple...crackers, breadsticks and cheese dip, whole meal loaf, cheeses, pickles, tomato and cucumber.

There was scones with jam and cream and gingerbread bunnies. 

I love laying a buffet table, making it pretty. 

Mandy x