Chintz, Chintz and More Chintz

Ditsy Chintz

I'm sure you all know what Chintz means, 

(designs featuring flowers and other patterns in different colours), 

it originated from glazed floral textiles from India but it also has now been widely used for this style of china. Anyway, enough of the history lesson.

 I have a secret love for anything chintzy, 

(actually it's not so secret if it's on here, is it!) 

But here is today's post, featuring some of our Chintz china collection. 

Starting with one of my favourites above, Mrs Stocks floral vintage cup and saucer. 

Such a treat to have a cup of tea out of this beauty!

Pretty chintz fabric and cake stand with sponge cake. Notice the Pac Man shaped cake!

I think this is pure beauty, but that may be just me.

Chintz tray and pink trio,

Baby Christening chintz spread, notice the massive cake that I think I mostly ate! 

Chintz collection

Rose cupcake from Scrum Diddly.

OOOh Easter cakes on chintz

A random lidded pot, which I'm not sure what I should use it for? Any suggestions? 

A rare find - A Chintz tray, a really lovely clashing combo here!

Waaaaay too much chintz floral action here.

Cupcakes by the lovely Scrum Diddly on chintz cake stand.

Pastel coloured eggs and floral combo.

More cakes on chintz cake stand.

A recent purchase:)pretty yellow floral one tiered cake stand. 

Oooohh look at them all! Quick, shut the door, don't let the baby in! eeekkk

The collection is growing.

Pretty, pretty, pretty, two halfs of cake stands, It would be quite cool to stick them together for a hop-Potch type chintz split cake-stand look?

One of our first cake stands.

Fouuurrrrr cake stands.

Sorry about the overload of photos, and sorry about the lack of blog posts. Life has certainly been busy here with 4 boys. They are keeping us busy!

I hope you are all well, Do leave a comment and say hello!

Take care for now

Becca 

xxx

Spring Fayre Cakes.

A few of us had the pleasure of attending a lovely Spring Fayre today in a lovely local school. I was particularly excited by this pretty cake stand, I am quite easily pleased!

We were all equally as excited by these beautiful chocolate cupcakes.

 I didn't try these dinky cakes. 

If you didn't know by now, I'm a little bit of a chocolate fan.

 I've just eaten one of these lovely cakes now, whilst writing this.

And this was the photograph after I had brought all the cakes 

of the stand! hahaha.

I had no option but to buy all of them so I could take a photograph of this cake-stand in it's full glory.

Take care for now.

Becca x

Macmillan's "World's Biggest Coffee Vintage Morning"

Macmillan's 
"World's Biggest Coffee Vintage Morning"
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Oh My word, is all I can say at the amount of support to our Macmillan's Vintage Inspired "World's Biggest Coffee Morning".
Thank you so much to all that came and helped, ate cakes, danced, dressed up and cleaned up.


You are all such stars.
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Busy Rush of people! What we like to see!

Even the lovely ladies in the kitchen dressed up in vintage style! Thanks also to some of those lovely Ostreme Theatre players that got involved too!

Awesome coffee cake made by Mrs B. in the background there. 
And Big Wow to Jan from the W.I. for her professional scones that she made and her amazing help too!

The fabulous Kirsty known as the costume lady from Krazy Kapers.

She is so much fun and you so need her enthusiasm at what ever event you have! Love all her stuff, such fun!

Lots of photographs of the day. I didn't take as many as I usually do,

 which is unlike me, but there was so much to do, 

like eat cake! hahaha

Love this one of my favourite vintage china buddy!

Such a soft spot for any kind of suitcase or basket or old umbrellas! 
Ok, ok, I love everything!

Close up of the old umbrella.

And so love mannequins!

And a lovely bear turned up for the vintage picnic!

Cakes.

Pink cake stand.

And more cake stands.

So love this floral fabric, can't decide what to do with it, except stare at it!

One of Kirtsy's collection of heads!

Another dinky basket.

More floral bunting. Have quite a few strings of it now.

Have quite a collection of old silverware now.

You can't really have enough, can you?

Really, really do have a soft spot for vintage glass cake stands. 

Cakes just look so pretty on them.

A few photos from the night before the event.

Sorry this has taken so long to put together, so much has happened in the last 2 weeks, busy times!

I have to mention so many people now that I am so grateful for knowing.

Don't worry if you are in a rush and need to finish reading!

x 

So here I am writing about Macmillan and all the amazing support they give to cancer sufferers and family members.  So many people are affected by this awful thing, way too many. 

I have to mention the lovely Macmillan Representive for South West Wales Kathryn Morgan who came and got involved, what a beautiful and most gracious lady you are.

Thanks for all your help you gave me in getting organised for this large event in just a couple of weeks!

The Macmillan event, (World's Biggest Coffee Morning) started in 1990, when a local fundraising committee decided to hold a coffee morning where people came along to meet and mingle - as they might ordinary do - but donate the cost of their coffee to Macmillan in the process.

The idea seemed so simple, yet effective, so it was suggested to be taken up nationally. So in 1991, 2,600 people registered to hold coffee mornings across the country! Since then it has raised over £60 million in total for Macmillan cancer Support.

So this Macmillan event was really easy to adapt to a vintage style coffee fundraising morning.

But it was only possible with the help of so many people!

Thanks most of all to my lovely brother, He has gone through so much recently and I can’t begin to understand his great loss of his lovely wife this summer. She is so so so so missed by everyone that knew her! Big time.

My brother was in awe of The Royal Marsden Hospital in London, which tried so hard to treat beautiful Katy, right up until the last few weeks.

I know they thought a lot of the Marsden and they really wanted to raise awareness of the research too that went on there with cancer.

I must thank my lovely other half for just being there and for being so lovely and for helping with the wee ones so we could raise this money! Thanks wee ones also for coming along and for eating cakes! Such stars and also in awe of your love for china at such a young age! And love for cakes! Hehehe

Thanks also to my mom and her awesome secret American recipe for her chocolate brownies that I sneaked throughout the day! And also for all your help that you always give all hours of the day. I hope that I will be as amazing as you one day!

I also must say a big thank you to all the kind and generous people that brought so many lovely raffle prizes too. Thank you.

Thank you to the lovely, thoughtful and most generous Sarah from Cover to Cover,

and also to the beautiful and talented Pippa Eastman and her lovely fascinators and hats. You are such a star!

Thanks go to Cerys and Lloyd and their fab Dance Company, Party People Wales who really got people dancing all day, even me!

(Brilliant vintage style dance lessons.)

Thanks to the really cute florist Meagan from Made in Mumbles.
Loved all the wild flowers and roses! So So So beautiful!
You really knew what we wanted to get that vintage look!

To all the members from the lovely local Methodist Church, what stars you all are!

And really thank you to the large number of Sixth formers, who helped serve tea and really got into the swing of the vintage tea party!

Thanks to Ben and the local Co-op too. They were so generous to get involved and donate.

Thanks to Rach too for absolutely everything and for organising me! 

Rachel and Rick the night before were so awesome. Especially Rick up the ladder with the bunting! And Huw, Kirsty and Pete with hanging out banners, posters, etc!

Thanks again to Kirsty, you make me laugh so much. So love all your vintage props and costumes. You were so good at organising the team and showing humour all day! You are a super star!

Kirsty's Blog coming soon!

And Sue, I love working with you, You are so talented and have your head so screwed on! Thank you. Also looking forward to the next event soon! Can’t wait!

Thanks to my oldest friend Beth, now come on Beth, what can I say! Besides you are like totally awesome and so there for everything! And to your lovely Mom too! Looking forward to our next exciting event soon! Yippie!

 I hope I have thanked everyone; Big hugs to all of you that came, helped and ate cake!

I am so in awe of the big lovely hearts out there!

Thank you so so so much.

Becca

xx