Giveaway Winner Announced!

Hi everyone :),

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend and happy September to you all! I can't believe autumn is already here :) and I can't wait for all the leaves to start changing colour, it makes everything look so beautiful. What do you all like best about Autumn? Thanks to everyone who entered my giveaway. It was such fun to run it. I was really thrilled and rather blown away at how many entries I had (354!!). I am pleased to say ......WE HAVE A WINNER !!! 


a Rafflecopter giveaway

A massive congratulations to Lisa for winning the giveaway :). She wins all of the prizes listed below....

Set of three handmade retro style hair clips

1 handbag brooch

Handmade English Rose earrings

10 mother of pearl buttons

and finally ......

a pair of retro blue earrings

Thanks again to everyone who entered

The Dorothy Days

Feature Friday- Dorothy Days features Vintage Divine

Hello everyone :)

Today I am featuring another amazing shop for my 'Feature Friday'. The shop I am featuring this week is called

which is run by sisters Rachel and Alli :). They have lived in Phoenix, Arizona for 9 years but were originally from Portland, Oregon. They say that, while they miss the quirky town of Portland, they love the heat of Arizona! They sell mostly dresses but have also been dabbling in accessories and their store is so beautiful!

They say that they have both loved vintage from a young age (when it wasn't yet super cool!) and that by having the Etsy shop to sell vintage has kept them really close as sisters. As they put it .... " We are having WAY too much fun with our shop!". It is lovely to find a shop that not only has such beautiful items but also is run by people who really love what they are doing and are having a ball doing it! They say that as sisters they are very different and have very different styles which combined creats a great ensemble and keeps things interesting. Their dream is to someday take their online business and develop it so one day they can have a physical locations for their shop.


Here are some of my favourite items from their shop :) Please be sure to stop by and have a browse through some of their amazing vintage clothing collection :)

An amazing 60s green scalloped collar vintage dress

Everyone needs a LBD (Little Black Dress) in their wardrobe and isn't this one just fabulous !? Click here to view

Lovely button pattern dress

Hope you enjoyed todays feature and thank you for all my birthday wishes on Wednesday :) 

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Dorothy Days features....a double whammy feature!

Hello everyone :),

Thanks to everyone who left me a comment on my vintage nails feature :) and to everyone who stopped by my blog, facebook page, shop and twitter this week. This week I am very excited as a close family friend of mine shall be getting married this weekend! The last few days has been a whirlwind of flower arranging, dashes to the dry cleaners and sorting out all the last minute things that seem to crop up!! I shall be taking lots of photographs and shall share some of them on my blog later in the week. My more observant readers will notice that I have updated my social media links on the right hand side so you can now visit my shop, twitter page and facebook page in just one click. Really pleased with how they look :) and proud of myself that I managed to code them!

Today is Friday so that means it is Feature Friday. This week I am featuring two very different shops. First up is ....

which is run by Laura from Ohio. Laura sells lots of vintage pretties but my favourite has to be her beautiful vintage shoes which she sells. I thought this week that we would go shoe crazy and feature some lovely vintage shoes as if you are anything like me you will have a bit of a shoe addiction!!!

To kick things off we have these beautiful rock star red shoes! They are great and could either be dressed up or down.

These shoes are totally different from the ones above. These are low healed and much smarter with a little burst of colour. Check them out here

I also love these little shoes which would be perfect for lazing around on the beach or in the garden this summer Take a look here

The second shop I am featuring is 

which is run by Jena Miller Divine. Jena is based in California (oh how that makes me jealous!!) and bakes the most delicious looking biscuits, brownies and other sweet things. As she says " You want yummy goodness? I'm your girl!"

 

 Mmmmmm!!! How delicious do these mint chocolate truffles look?!

These Organic Lavender shortbread biscuits also look amazing

Or how about this amazing Raspberry and chocolate chip loaf. Looks delicious and you could even pretend that it was one you had made earlier!

Thank you for reading about my features this week and I hope that you shall take a little look around their shops, they both have some lovely items and what more could a girl want !? Shoes AND delicious biscuits in one feature!!!

Rachel from The Dorothy Days

Dorothy Days Item of the Week

Hi everyone :),

Thought I would share with you all my item of the week for this week. This week my favourite item in my shop is this beautiful violet tea set / teacup trio

It comes with a beautiful tea cup, saucer and cake plate which would be perfect for afternoon tea especially in this beautiful weather we have been having recently! The set is made from English bone china and has gilt edges which make it really delicate and elegant.

The Techniques:
1) Gilding is the method of applying gold to an object, in this case the rim of the tea cup, saucer and cake plate. This has the effect of sparkling slightly in the light and really makes this an elegant piece.

2) The set is made from bone china Bone china is a difficult type of china to work in and is labour intensive but the results mean that the china has a beautiful translucence and whiteness and is also stronger and more chip resistant than other forms of porcelain china. The technique was developed in England first by Thomas Frye in 1748 and then perfected by Josiah Spode between 1789- 93. Up until the end of the 20th century was almost exclusively an English technique. It is a lovely material to drink out of and the tea cups made in this china also look wonderful as display pieces.

The motif is violets/ viola and the purple flowers are really striking and dainty at the same time which matches the dainty material. I love this color purple, I think it is one of my favourite colours.

Hope that you have enjoyed this blog post and learnt a little bit about this little tea cup. You can find it here in my shop.

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Mother's day (USA) cottage chic treasury

Today I woke up to find that I had been included in this beautiful treasury on Etsy by Bozena. The treasury is a mother's day treasury as ,although we  have already had mother's day here in the U.K, for our American friends mother's day is in May.

Here are some of my favourite items included in the treasury....

How cute is this child's ruffle dress by BerrypatchUSA

What a great idea this is! This is bmariacci's upcycled vintage dictionary pages

I love this rustic barn photography by Jessica Torres

and here is the treasury itself which features my 1950's Meakin tea set

Thanks so much to Bozena for including me in this beautiful cottage chic treasury and I hope all my readers have enjoyed having a look :)

Best wishes,
The Dorothy Days

Quote of the day

I thought I would share a little quote I found today which I rather liked....

'No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.'  ~ Proverb

The Dorothy Days

English Roses

One of my favourite things about the summer time are the beautiful roses. I live in the countryside so I am fortunate to have a garden which has lots of different roses. When they come into bloom the garden smells beautiful and also looks so lovely. There is also a rose garden in a near by manor house which is open to the public in the summer months. It is absolutely beautiful and I could spend all day there reading and relaxing among the roses. Summer is a little while off so here are a selection of English roses from my shop.

 

Newly listed tea cup and saucer set

Vintage 1950's tea cup and saucer set

Soft Pink English Rose Earrings

Very elegant white rose tea cup trio with cake plate and saucer.

 Red and Yellow English Rose Tea Set

 The Dorothy Days (Vintage and Handmade)