Missing in instagram

Has it really been 4 months since my last post? Shame on me! The Summer weather was just too good to miss (no excuse) When we last spoke I was just about to go to my home village fair,  which lead me to meeting friends and villagers I haven't seen for twenty years or more. These chance meetings lead me to a builder (husband of friend) who then did work on our house, we also had new windows & doors as well as painting the outside (TOH) did that and a great job he did too. 

All of this is fairly unglamourous, but has been punctuated with nice things too

So in pictures a few of my adventures in my missing months. 

The Village fair, bet they regretted that idea!

Make London for a lovely hen do!

a bit of making!

re-hydration (hu-hum) options

Vintage buys

sunny days out

spruced up house...

Bath wedding, I made the Lucky couple a vintage tea towel bath peg bag - oh the glamour!

Birthday boys old and new

and now here we are moving into Autumn getting nearer my favourite month of all,

can you guess which one it is?

Some of you may have seen some of these photos as I have been on Instagram all summer, youcan find me @katysclutter come and say hello!

Holiday Days out : part three

With the weather still playing ball (!) Bob and I packed out beach bags and heading for Climping, a lovely beachy area nestled between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex. Giving credence to the rumour that we're old before our time, we took a packed lunch, beach chairs, books, change of cloths and of course our windbreak!

We parked our car, made camp and went and got a fresh tea (natch) then spent 4 hours vegged out with our books and nibbles - perfecto!

Our boot fair fabric windbreak, purchased three years ago for the bargalicous sum of £2.50!

A constant beach necessity...

Every now and then a girl needs time just relaxing!

after an afternoon of total relaxation and slight wind burn, feet and knees (?)

we headed for a bite to eat and a meander along the Pier at worthing, then back in the car and home. 

Boo...

Holiday Days out : part one

Finally I'm back in the swing of things, early mornings, walking to work, all day in an office, the usual… But for two glorious weeks we had the freedom to what we wanted

My first outing was to Kempton Antique and Collectors market with my Mum, she loves a bargain too. It's a great place to spend every other Tuesday morning, it opens early! the day we went was a chilly start!

so much I wanted to buy, check out those pans* swoon*

Vintage sewing 

shake the bottle…wake the drink!

My purchases enclosed five of these young ladies…Sindy is my favourite vintage toy

she came dressed in this lovely handmade dress

a headscarf, vintage Blyton to go with my collection and a whimsie!

For the rest of the week I also managed to squeeze in coffee with an old friend, did some house work (boo) and caught up on some good old films.

Kempton Market is free to get in and can be found at Kempton Race course.

Beachy Peachy

This week Bob and I have had a whirlwind of days out, for once the weather's been good to us.

Walmer Beach fishing boats

Samphire Hoe tunnel

Tea at Samphire Hoe

Climping Beach- beautiful

Sindy enjoying the sun!

our wind break - a trusty piece of kit!

A proper holiday snap shot to follow but now I'm off to bed!

Tomorrow we're off to Ardingly collectors fair…hope it's still sunny!

Bank Holiday

To start our bank holiday weekend we had a birthday at thrifty towers, Bob's another year old and none the wiser, but I love him so...

Unfortunately he had to drive to Bristol on Saturday for work, by the time he returned the rain had stopped play so we didn't bother to do much during the day, we did however do the pub thing with friends in the evening, a late night was had by all. I fear i'm getting too old for that malarky, it took us ages to recover, soooo out of practice!

A cuppa and a toasted tea cake and a little light bargain hunting helped with the recovery process...

This little lady was on the 50p stall? I couldn't leave her behind could I?

Bob chose this, Donald's a chalkware lamp, his rifle is broken but I can live with that...

By the Monday evening and we we're chilled out and ready for the week ahead, 

for me, that's two weeks off work,  I'm d-mob happy! Bob's off next week so we're doing a few days out, Ardingly being the top of our list!

Tea for Three

I spent last Saturday in the lovely company of two good friends, we don't see each other enough, stuff just gets in the way and before you know it months have passed. We normally do coffee and browse the shops, the sort boys don't like! This time we decided to something a bit different, we had a Jubilee cream tea at a nice hotel. The thing about a cream tea is you never think you've had enough until you realise you stuffed full! It lovely way to start the weekend, there was even belated birthday gift, so thoughtful.

The weather has been atrocious this pass week, I really hope it's not been too wet wherever you are and your homes are safe and dry.

My Cream tea ladies