Sorry that we've been away from the blog recently. Lots of treasure hunting going on at the moment, dusting of shelves and sipping of tea. We have scaled the heights of our rickety stepladder (an old wooden one of course, whose steps make very good homes for our cups and saucers, biscuit crumb tea plates and balls of string), and reached the tallest shelves in the Emporium and we are full to bursting with new goodies.
In fact the stockroom is so full that we've taken to sipping our tea most days in our little caravan - A few pots of paint, the odd crocheted blanket or two and it's scrubbed up a treat - so handy when we just need a moment or two...
So there we sit in our colourful hideaway whilst around us vintage chaos reigns....
Horse shoes to bring us good luck
A girl can never have too many earthenware jars
We don't know how many times we've lost our glasses so building a case for them seemed the sensible thing to do...
Scissors, tongs and other utensils for days when you need scissors, tongs and other utensils
Perched on the top of our shelves are milk jugs for our tea
Enamelware for days when we can leave the stockroom and go pick flowers...
Bits and bobs waiting to enter the sewing room
Our "packing area" - to be quite honest, we're not sure what most of these things do, but we recognise a ball of string when we see one!
Every Emporium needs a fire bucket...
And toys for rainy days -
And at the end of the day when things look like this ...
We beat a hasty retreat on one of our bicycles, panniers full of parcels and string, to the Post Office. We have to admit though, we do pend most of the day dreading clambering up the ladder to the eaves to choose our bicycle.
Hope you've enjoyed the little tour, it's courtesy of a local rural museum of course, but we do like a daydream when we're huddled up by the woodburning stove...
Back in the real world, we really do have lots of vintage bits and bobs recently added to our shelves. If you fancy a ride on your bicycle, we'll light the stove, polish the steps to our caravan and tidy the stockroom...
