a house in the hills: May 2013

Sunday, May 26, 2013

I Should Not Have .......But I Fell in Love!

I know , I know I am packing up to move BUT all those country drives means lots of op-shops, garage sales , antique markets and 2 things I really, really love collecting are old luggage and vintage quilts, and old red and gold books!!!

I just had to have this gorgeous navy and tan leather suitcase, even the silk lining is beautiful

and it has gold initials on the front

And to make my week complete a huge vintage quilt for $15...I have another almost identical

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A Treasured Past
Apron Thrift Girl
The Dedicated House

A Living Space
Knick of Time
French Country Cottage
Ivy and Elephants
Common Ground
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The Thrifty Groove
Chic on a Shoestring
Old Time Farmhouse
Country Farm Home
My Romantic Home
Sir thrift-a-lot
Rose Vignettes

Rooted in Thyme
My Charmed Home
Blackbird Has Spoken
Elizabeth & Co

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Picking and Packing

A walk down to the Salvo's in the pouring rain was a much needed break from house hunting and packing

An ironstone dish $2.50 for my white collection and I LOVE LOVE the 2 tiny sea urchins for 50c

A Fitz and Floyd shell dish 4.99

My annual Cyclamen that Mr VL brings home from the Nursery

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Rooted in Thyme
My Charmed Home
Blackbird Has Spoken
Elizabeth & Co

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day

I 'm enjoying 2 lovely bunches of flowers this autumn morning in bed with a Nespresso

Sadly my Mother is a long way in Melbourne and I hope she is enjoying the parcel of pretty things I sent her

Our house sold straight away so I have started packing away unused things.....although we have not found another house yet!!

My most precious items which have moved to so many places now are my much loved books from my mother. My love of books started from her collection of books she won as prizes for always being top of her class at school and attendance at Sunday School. They were read hundreds of times by me and then my children

One precious book from belonging to my Grandmother who I never got to meet

Charcoal Biscuits ?????????

2 books from my Mother's Grandmother to her

And my most precious of all ....the Anne of Green Gables set my mother received from her mother every Christmas and birthday,which I read every year of my childhood

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A Treasured Past
Cap Creations
The Dedicated House

A Living Space
Knick of Time
French Country Cottage
Ivy and Elephants
Common Ground
The ColoradoLady
Shabby Art Boutique
The Thrifty Groove
Chic on a Shoestring
Old Time Farmhouse
Country Farm Home
My Romantic Home
Sir thrift-a-lot
Rose Vignettes

Rooted in Thyme
My Charmed Home

Monday, May 6, 2013

Taking a Break

We both needed a break from selling the house especially with the first house open on Saturday so we took Thursday off for Mr VL's birthday. We spent a gorgeous day in the Adelaide hills and stopped for lunch at a wonderful Italian resturant( YUM raspberry brulee)

I found this delicious little white scalloped afternoon tea tablecloth in a little opshop

On the way home from the trip we bought 4 bunches of glorious flowers to put around the house for the open house...I LOVE autumn

And the little white table in the guest bedroom needed just a little extra touch..Ispied this at the local gift shop on the sale table

Another 2 little French leather bound books arrived in my letterbox for my collection from my favourite French Ebay seller. I have 6 now ..It gives me goosebumps to handle a book 300 years old and only around $10

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