A summers day at the antiques market

The Vintique Tree stocks were getting low, so, a urgent sourcing mission was needed! Any excuse is good enough to head to an antiques fair so today we took a trip over to the decorative antiques and home show in Lincolnshire, check out our day in photo form! Sorry about the quality they were on my phone!

Some of the goodies I found today...

A Spanish Market

We have been going to Mallorca for years and similar to our mini moon last year ( http://vintique-tree.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/mediterranean-moments.html ) we wanted to do something that takes us away from the crazy tourist areas and into the local culture. So armed with our map we set out into Mallorca's most central town Sineu. A farmers market come brocante has been happening here every Wednesday for hundreds of years and although there are stalls for the tourists to enjoy it still has the essence of its orgins with a animal quarter and local home grown produce. Worth a trip this summer!

I wanted to bring one of these handmade sinks home! So nice!

Bees making honey while you wait!

Pennies spent well at the antiques fair

Well I got a good haul of lovely things to add to my Christmas stock from Stoneleigh Antiques fair.  I had never visited this fair before and is a good size if you just fancy a few hours browsing unlike the other larger fairs where you could stay all day!

I found a lovely vintage sewing basket, some 1970's fabric samplers, vintage tins, a fab royal winton tea set, a hand painted tea pot, a gorgeous Liberty of London purse and wallet set and my personal favourite, a retro cat egg cup!!!

The Sunshine is out and the Vintique Tree Shop is open!

So it has been incredibly 9 months today since I lost my voice way back in October, it feels like 9 years!! In a bid not to think about it, and focus on the positives, the sun has been shining and we moved into our new shop in Whitmoors Antiques and Craft Centre in Warwickshire today. 

It is exciting to have my stock on display in such a lovely place! More interesting news is that the BBC2 Antiques Roadtrip is visiting the centre tomorrow!

Thought I would share some pictures....

The first sale was this pretty green chair...

I love the penguins in the cabinet!