Vintage Tea Cup Candles and Cakes,

Vintage Tea Cup Candles and Cakes,


I just love the smell of candles, especially vanilla and cinnamon. It is so getting us all in the mood for Christmas.
All we need now is to complete the aroma with the smell of a fresh cut pine christmas tree.
Then maybe some mistletoe and wine, logs on the fire and gifts on the tree.....




Anyone recognise the Christmas song yet?
:)


Good old Cliff Richard!

Well my elfs have been busy the last few weeks at craft fairs and creating works of art - candles in pretty dainty vintage teacups.

Lovely gluten free cupcakes by Munchcake.

Lovely pastel shades of cupcakes.

Really love this pretty snowflake cupcake.

My Mom so collects this pink rosebud Duchess china.

(good job that all these candles can be used again as teacups after the candle is finished, or she would be like aaaaaaaaaah!)

We have been getting requests for candle refills now from last year.

Adderley fine bone china teacup.

A few teacups trying to sneak a feel of the christmas present nearby whilst eating yummy cupcakes.

Cupcake on Union Jack cushion.

Cheeky hand stealing the last cake.

Have a good day.

x


Thanks again to B and P for all your brilliance over the last few weeks, ok I mean like forever!

Vintage Dishes

Who would have thought it would be nice to say they enjoyed washing up! I really enjoyed a few hours of playing with my vintage china last night. I had to make sure that all the pretty 200 cups and saucers, and sideplates were clean and packed ready for the Ball tomorrow night, or I wouldn't be going!

My good friend the dishwasher and I got on very well.

                  Collection of coffee pots.

                            Drying rack.

                   Ok, so the cups were everywhere!

            Really love the yellow crinoline ladies.

                        Lots of coffee pots.

Actually there are so many different gold designs for vintage china.

Love the pink roses on this cup.

And a warm welcome to the new Mr. Coffee pot to the collection.

                    Come and meet your new friends.

                       Lots of drying teacups.

                  Watch out for the edge of the table!

Three of the million boxes, ready to go.

Sorry so many photos, as per usual, I got carried away with the pretties.

Let's hope I leave my camera behind for the ball!

If I find my dress.

And carriage.

xxx

New Pretty Vintage China Finds,

Morning, I have an exciting busy day ahead, but thought I'd share with you my new Vintage china finds. I usually buy English fine bone china so it was rare for me to purchase this romantic gentleman and pink dressed lady cup and saucer. But I fell in love with the elaborate shape of the curves and attention to the gold detail.

And as regard to the pink and yellow rose flower cup I love a cup that has 'a story'! My sister in law mentioned it once, she said how exciting it was to drink a cup of tea and to have a little surprise decoration inside the cup. So it is now called 'the story' in the cup in our house. I kind of like the sound of that. 

Going to be using the new cups and saucers today along side my other collections of china in a beautiful hotel, how exciting.

Hope you all have a good day.

xxxxx

Green and Yellow Vintage China

Still inspired by St.David's Day, we went for a green and yellow vintage china theme.

We started the day to a lovely cup of tea with one of my favourite green vintage cups joined by my friend Beth who chose the yellow teacup. There was ever so slightly an overload of different greens and yellows for breakfast! 

 Beth was quick to spot the technical problem with the size of the handle on the mini yellow teacup. 

It was a bit ridiculously small really, but funny watching her trying to drink her tea!!

So loving the new dinky milk jug and sugar bowl!

We will save the red Welsh jerseys for tomorrow. 

xxx

Fancy Vintage's First Blogger Award!

Thank-you so so so much....Fancy Vintage's First Award!

Feeling so Honoured to get the Stylish Blogger award!.

Thank you to Chrissie and Heidi from Wit en Bont 

(White and Spotted)for choosing Fancy Vintage.

http://witenbont.blogspot.com/

Check out their site, they have such lovely ideas and photographs.

The "rules" of accepting the Stylish Blogger Award is to say 8 interesting things about myself! Yikes!

Here goes..

I have also put in an extra un-true fact about me, see if you can spot it!

1. Besides the fact that I have a passion for vintage china.I also love collecting vintage fabrics, buttons, vintage toys, old wooden picture frames, old cricket sets, tennis rackets, vintage suitcases, knitted blankets, pretty eiderdowns, and 1940-50's magazines. I'm sure there are a lot more if I think about it!

2. We used to move around a lot; which was fun. Besides England and Wales we used to live in America for 11 years; in Pennsylvania, California and Maryland. So so so loved it. Even went back for part of my degree to a University in South Carolina 

3. I did a B.A and M.A in Fine Art in the UK and the States.For my Masters course I latexed different parts of a church to make a large virtual church which was then suspended in a gallery. The latex church was huge (9 foot high and 23 ft long). Loved it, such fun. There was even a latex cross that was suspended inside. The local Church is so amazing and so involved in the community. How awesome of them to let me latex their 100 year old stained glass windows! In Awe of them, so many of the congregation travelled quite far to see the final showing of the latex church. How cool is that, have started going there now!

4. I love photographing everything; I am so in love with Martin Parr’s photographs  and his not very interesting photographs! I have quite a few of his books and find them so inspiring. Checkout  his website. http://www.martinparr.com

5. I love swimming in the sea as far into the winter as possible. A few of us have a bit of a competition going, who can swim first and last of the year!  I love the challenge, even though last time I went for a swim; the tide was turning and the stormy waves were a little threatening.  Or Maybe it was the slimy smelly seaweed and the festering flies that also were the turning point in not returning! Has anyone tried coasteering? Oh my word, what an adrenaline rush, so much better then a  roller-coster ride! For those that may not know, it is basically scrambling, climbing, swimming and cliff jumping of the Coastline. Last time I went it was nearly dark, streaming rain, waves that were pounding the rocks; What excitement! 

6. I am a really keen Mountain biker, I love nothing better then a sharp descent on my bike down a single track trail in the Afan Forest (in Wales). It is such a buzz, and so hard to beat. You must try it, honestly! Check out http://www.afanforestpark.co.uk/ for inspiration. There must be an area near you with some amazing trails.

7. I never visit any car boots, charity/thrift shops, antique shops, auctions, ever. I never secretly hide things around the house or garage and never say I've had this for ages.

8. So love visiting all coffee and teashops, I have tried to get the little ones to enjoy teashops and appreciate Fine bone china!  So far so good, they love eating their cereal out of blue and white stripy china bowls! And one of their first words was china!

Love it, points all the time saying china, china, china and taps it ever so gently! 

Gower Beach 

9. Lastly loving spending time with my little ones and beautiful other half hiking the outdoors, especially the Gower, the Lake District and Cornwall. 

Sorry to have gone on for so long, got carried away. Did you spot the untrue interesting fact in the list! Thanks again for the award.  Also we have to nominate 8 Sites, This is so hard as there are so many beautiful blogs out there. Also as quite new to this, some of your blogs may have already got an award, so sorry if you get another one! I have found it encouraging, so hope you all do too. You all have such lovely and inspiring sites!

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http://cushionandcake.blogspot.com

http://beachhut-jus.blogspot.com

http://honeyhivintage.blogspot.com

http://teapeavintage.blogspot.com

http://livingvintage.blogspot.com

http://gillyflower5.blogspot.com/

http://inspringbecomestherose.blogspot.com

http://colorfullhome.blogspot.com/

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I thought also if I was being cheeky by adding an untrue silly fact about me, I thought I'd mention I stumbled across a humorous and cheeky link to a new blog all about a cheeky puppy. There seems to be a lot of blogs that mention their loved pets; I don't have a dog, but one visited me this week and I'm sure he asked me for a cup of tea!

http://biffinsbridge.blogspot.com/

Take care for now and loving so many beautiful sites out there.

xxx

Happy Valentine's Day,

Happy Valentine's Day everyone, hope that you have a lovely day from 

Fancy Vintage China.  

Hope you also find time to have some chocolate goodies today. 

Here are some cheeky cakes to feast your eyes on from our lovely Valentine's vintage tea party at the weekend, Hope you enjoy!

Gorgeous chocolate cakes from Scrum Diddly,

check out their beautiful website.

http://www.scrumdiddlycakes.co.uk

More chocolate cakes from Scrum Diddly, oh my word they were amazing! I obviously had to try one!!!!!

Cute little cherry cake on vintage china.

A lovely cheesecake, well it looked beautiful and went within seconds,I'm more a lover of those chocolate cakes!

Really cute cupcakes,

 from http://www.lindaspipedreamcakes.co.uk

More of Linda's really pretty cakes that didn't last long at all.

Lots of lovely homemade jams and vintage cups,

The last piece of that cheeky cheesecake,

loving the beautiful embroidered tablecloths!

Pretty pink glass bowls,

View of one of the tables, love the little light blue side-plate.

And one more heart cupcake to send you on your way,

Hope you enjoyed looking at the cakes,

have a lovely day,

xxxx