Shabby Chic Saturday!

I am rather in love with the shabby chic / cottage chic style so was thrilled when my little meakin tea cup trio was featured in this most beautiful treasury which shows you how to get the romantic shabby chic look for your home. The colours in this treasury are really beautiful blues, pinks and yellows and would be great for inspiration if you were redecorating your home.

Here are some of my favourite items which were included

A beautiful photograph of pink peonies (one of my favourite flowers...they smell amazing) by Judy Stalus

How luxurious is this bed by painted cottage ?! You would deffinatly feel like a princess sleeping in this bed!

 My 1950's shabby chic English rose tea set for sophisticated tea drinking!  The Dorothy Days

A handmade pillow by classic by nature

How could we have shabby chic without some handmade bunting?! I love the delicate floral fabric used in this bunting by Berry a la Mode

 

A huge thank you to The Fairy Tree for featuring me in this beautiful treasury :) Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

The Dorothy Days

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P.S If anyone is unhappy with me using the photographs on my blog please let me know and I shall remove them immediatly.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all of my followers :). Hope you all have had wonderful day.

Who else has been a big child and have gone on an easter egg hunt?!....please say I am not the only one!!?? I think it is something I shall never grow out of!

How have you all been spending the day? Please let me know in the comment section below. Would love to hear what you have all been up to :)

Best wishes and HAPPY EASTER

The Dorothy Days
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What a busy week!

Well this week has been another extremely busy one but it has also been a great week. My week started at 5am on Monday morning when I hit the road to travel to a vintage fair in which I have a stall. When I woke up it was very cold outside so despite saying last week "out with the winter wardrobe", I wrapped up in all my winter woolies complete with extra thick socks, bobble hat and a lovely thick knitted jumper. By 9am I realised this was an awful desicion as Monday was one of the hottest days we have had in the U.K for a little while! Luckily I had a spare change of clothes so on with the flipflops and summer dress!! Had a great day and met some wonderful people including a man who works as a film director who bought some of my pieces to use on the sets for his films!

This week I also took a trip down to the beach which was absolutely beautiful and walked along the cliff tops. Here are some photographs I took which I thought I would share

 

What a beautiful day and what a beautiful coastline!

Boo also found a little friend with the most amazing ears!!

On Sunday I attended another vintage fair, this time one especially for vintage fashion in Bath. It was another really great day and a great excuse to dress up in fabulous vintage clothing!!

The Dorothy Days

Beautiful blues!

I have just been included in this beautiful treasury. The colour is so striking especially when repeated so I thought I would share it with you all :).
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Oh how lovely living in the country....

I am lucky enough to live in a place surrounded by the beautiful English countryside and today was the perfect day for a walk! It is absolutely beautiful today with blue skies and sunshine. This is one of my favourite places to take Boo, my dog, and her tail wouldn't stop wagging!!!
Here are some photos I took from my walk to share with you all....Enjoy!

 

The rolling hills of the English countryside and heading towards a little farm.

Some cows got very curious and what was going on!

What a beautiful view!

Thanks for taking a look. Tomorrow is Feature Thursday so please be sure to take a look as I have a fantastic shop to feature this week.

The Dorothy Days X

(Please note all photographs are copyrighted to The Dorothy Days)

The first blush of Spring

The weather is getting warmer and it is feeling more and more like summer here in England. Skies are blue, daffodils have bloomed, the grass is lush and there is little sign of the weather that the English so love to moan about and that we are so famous for!!! Out with the winter wardrobe and in with summer dresses... (I shall pretend to ignore the fact I still have to wear a cardigan with every outfit as there still is a breeze!). Clocks are changing at the end of this week signalling that summer is nearly here and people, mainly me ,are pretending summer has already arrived and it is much warmer than it actually is!Here is a lovely treasury by Helen which features my spring flower earrings and reminds me of today

Feature Yourself Friday- Linky Party 2

Hi everyone,
Thank you everyone who linked up last week, was great fun seeing all the things you had made. Also thank you so much to everyone who has followed my blog this week, it makes me smile every time someone new follows me and I have extra big smiles this week as I reached over 100 followers :). Thanks so much...you all are awesome!!

Decided to give the linky party another go this week as it was a lot of fun last week. Still deciding if this should be a regular feature of my blog or just a one (or two now!) off. Would be great to get some feedback, I have a little vote going on my facebook page so please click here to vote to tell me if you would like to see it again or not.

Anyway.....FEATURE FRIDAY TIME!!!

Welcome to my 'Feature Yourself Friday' linky party in which you can feature what you have made this week right here on my blog :). Please post any crafting projects, home baking and recipies, photographs you have taken, art projects and decorating you have taken part in this week.

Please only one link up per person and please do not link up your shop. It is fine to link up an item you have created in your shop but please do not link up your shop in general :). Thanks!

Please spread the word and lets get as many people as possible to share what they have been doing this week :).

Looking forward to seeing all your creations, there were some lovely things liked up last week and I especially enjoyed the recipies which were posted.

The Dorothy Days
Vintage and Handmade

Feature Thursday- Anita from ecoPaperie

There is nothing quite like receiving a hand written letter through the post. It has become so rare these day when it's so easy just to send an email or facebook message. Whenever I receive a proper handwritten letter from my family, friends or my partner it always seems really special especially as there is that little bit more effort put into it. I think our generation miss out on what they had in Granny Dorothy's era, beautiful handwritten notes that they could keep and treasure forever.


This week's feature is Anita, a lady from Atlanta, Georgia who shares the same views about how special and lovely it is to receive a handwritten letter. She bought her first ever stationary set in 2nd grade still has it 27 years later!! She makes beautiful handmade stationary from recycled, repurposed and upcycled papers in all sorts of styles from vintage to funky. Here are a few of my favourite sets from her shop ecoPaperie

Here is a set of four handmade cards by Anita. They come wrapped like this so you can also give them as a gift.

This set is really sweet and great for sending to grown up friends who you haven't seen for a while

One of the more funky cards in here collection, such lovely colours.

Please take a look at Anita's store, she has such lovely stationary and surprise someone you love by sending them a little note!

Have a wonderful day

The Dorothy Days (Vintage and Handmade)

A sunny saturday

This week has been a really busy week in a good way but I am also really glad that it's the weekend and I can relax! The sun is shining over England today and it is set to stay this way for a good few days.

The link up party was really fun yesterday, thank you to all who joined in. There were some beautiful creations :). You have all been so busy this week!!! The link party is still open so feel free to still add your link if you haven't already done so :) . What do you all think of the link party ?! Great as a one off ? or would you like to see it as a more regular feature of my blog ?! Please let me know in the comment section.

Thanks to all my new followers :), really makes me smile when someone new follows the blog. As I write this 97 of you are following :). Hopefully will hit the 100 mark soon :).

This week I have also been updating my shop and adding some new items. I now stock Vintage Glassware as well as china :).

These are probably new favourite new listing. They are a set of 5 vintage cake plates, made in England. I love the English roses and flower design. It reminds me of English gardens in the summer time. They would be fabulous for a tea party! Please click here to take a look

I have also listed these lovely cordial/ wine glasses. They are both elegant and sturdy and the detailing on the top is rather lovely. Please click here to take a look


Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and thanks for reading

The Dorothy Days