tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66454889859828773842024-03-14T05:21:19.855-07:00my rainbow vintage homeRainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-40458500264748033762014-06-08T02:25:00.000-07:002014-06-08T02:25:25.878-07:00Tra la la...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh hi there! Who me? I've been here all along, didn't you notice? I'm not one of those crap bloggers, who pops in every 6 months and promises to blog more often, oh no, not me!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ok that's enough...I'm giving up mentioning how long it's been since I was here last, apparently the more I talk about it the less I blog...it's been a whirlwind few months, so much has happened that I should have shared here but somehow I just wasn't in a blogging place. Never mind, here's a quick catch up...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We got married (I drank a LOT of prosecco!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There, that's all the important stuff...to be honest although I haven't been here I feel like I keep in touch with a lot of you via <a href="http://instagram.com/rainbowvintagehome" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rainbow-Vintage-Home/319039901471210" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>, but I do miss being here too. At the risk of jinxing myself, I'm going to say I'll be back soon...I'm planning some big changes and an exciting announcement, so I really will see you again soon, I promise! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rachel xx </span>Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-3366669496550025212014-01-02T13:11:00.000-08:002014-01-02T13:11:20.728-08:00a blank piece of paper...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Woohoo it's 2014! Um, excuse me while I hide under the duvet for a few days, before I emerge full of mild trepidation and good intentions...like my lovely friend <a href="http://modflowers.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/worry-is-not-preparation/" target="_blank">Modflowers</a>, I find the turning of the year to be a double edged sword...exciting but scary, like staring at a blank piece of paper waiting for inspiration to strike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is easy to start the new year feeling under pressure, to be better, thinner, tidier, more organised, harder working...these are all things that I could do with working on, but I'm a natural rebel...as soon as I see a 'should', I start running the other way! So for now I'm going to potter on as usual, and avoid any attempts at big changes...I don't want to sabotage those good intentions by piling on the pressure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I'm just going to look the other way while I say this...(whisper) I do want to blog more, so I'll be back soon! If anyone's still reading after my long absence, thank you, you're lovely...and if nobody is, ah well, that's my fault...I'll be back soon anyway, cause I've missed blogland. I hope you've all had lots of fun over the festive season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The last few months have been busy, lazy, happy, sad, calm, crazy, all change, same old same old. I just needed some time away, and now I'm back. And rather than look back, I'm looking forward. I am planning something exciting....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is my partner Frank. I don't talk much about him here, partly cause he's a very private person, and partly cause he's not covered in vintage fabric (he's not orange either, but I love this photo of him glowing in the light from our campfire in Cornwall this summer). He is great, and after 14 years together, and 2 kids, we have decided to get married! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This doesn't mean what it means to a lot of people...I didn't grow up imagining fairytale weddings and frilly white princess dresses. I was brought up by a strong feminist single Mum who taught me that a woman doesn't need a man, but that they can be nice to have around. I never thought I'd get married, and I was fine with that. So I'm not obsessed with sugared almonds and seating plans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello lovelies! First I have to say a huge thank you to everyone who commented on my last post...every one of your comments was appreciated...lots of them made me laugh, some of them made me get a bit teary, and all of them made me very glad that I blog, and that you take the time to read what I have to say. You are delightful and delicious and I would love to give you all a hug, or make you a nice cup of tea if you're not that keen on hugs from random people that you've never actually met!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're on holiday in Cornwall at the mo, and my menfolk have gone off to watch a medieval joust at a nearby castle...of course I could have gone too, but I have been to a fair few castles in my time, and the lure of a pile of magazines, books, and DVDs was strong! So I am 'home' alone today, and while I lounge about waiting for my freshly painted toenails to dry, I am planning a new crafty project. I used to do embroidery and applique quite a bit when I was younger, but in recent years my </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">obsession with vintage patterned fabric has overtaken me, and it's been a long time since I did anything fancy with a needle and thread. Then recently I saw this gorgeous piece of vintage embroidery over on <a href="http://lazydaisyjones.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lazy Daisy Jones's lovely blog</a>, and realised it's time to get stitching again.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been lurking, catching up with some of your blogs, but mainly just getting on with life, which has been the usual mix of delightful and dull, fun and frustrating, creative and crap...though always, on balance, far more of the good than the bad, thankfully. There has been plenty going on that has been worth sharing, but I just haven't felt like sharing it...here are a few of the reasons why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. I am really not that interesting. I know, I'm still the same person I was last year, when I was blogging away like a very bloggy thing. But I am somehow finding myself far less fascinating than I used to (this is probably a good thing). I think it partially stems from coming across a few amazing and inspiring blogs, which are being written by people going through immensely challenging times. Blogs like <a href="http://manic-mums.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">this one</a>. Somehow, wittering on about vintage fabric just doesn't seem that important after reading about stuff like that. That's not to say I don't still enjoy reading <b>your</b> blogs about all those lovely vintagey, interiory, lifestyley, scandi-y things, I do. This sense of mild pointlessness is directed squarely at myself, possibly because...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. I feel like a fraud. I am starting to wish I had called my blog something different. Like, um, my tiny messy home. Or my teetering pile of crap. Or my disorganised life. Don't get me wrong, my house<b> is</b> full of lovely, colourful vintage things. That bit is true. But it is even more full of the daily detritus of 4 messy people living in a tiny house. I am not a tidy person; I do not like housework. Although I love looking at gorgeously spare, airy interiors, I know that after a couple of weeks of me living in them, they would look a lot like my home does now. MESSY. I can aspire to minimalism, but I know I am incapable of achieving it. This results in my life feeling quite un-blogworthy sometimes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. I am a rubbish blogger. Not just in terms of posting regularly, and writing interesting posts, but in terms of joining in all the lovely bloggy things that make blogland such a great place. You know, linkys, awards, sharing the blog love, all of that. It's not that I don't want to join in, it's that I </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">am </span>either too lazy, or too disorganised, or too shy to join in, so I don't. And then I feel a bit crap about that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Most importantly, I was getting the balance wrong. Too much time at the PC, not enough time living in the moment with my gorgeous kids. My youngest will be going to pre-school in September, and I did not want to waste my last few months at home with him sticking CBeebies on and farting about on Pinterest, or Blogger, or bloody Facebook. I love all those sites dearly, and my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rainbow-Vintage-Home/319039901471210" target="_blank">Rainbow Vintage Home facebook page</a> has been keeping me busy with fabric sales and likers and making lovely new online friends. But I needed to take a step back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So we have been playing, and singing, and camping, and cooking, and making, and I've been buying fabric, and selling fabric, and making stuff with fabric (like the quilt at the top of this post). But I have been very crap about keeping in touch with you lovely readers, and that has made me feel sad. Because I genuinely like you, and have really enjoyed meeting you, and sharing with you, and I'd like to carry on doing that. I'm hoping that now I've got all this mildly discombobulating stuff off my chest, I will find it easier to just pop in here a bit more regularly, and share stuff with you without it feeling like a big deal, you know...'Oh now I need to write a blog post about that, what shall I say, oh it's too late now'...</span><br />
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I really hope you're having a lovely summer, and enjoying this amazing weather that we've been having. I am going to go now. But I'll be back soon. </span><br />
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<br />Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-10265763120480459342013-06-30T14:12:00.003-07:002013-06-30T14:12:16.949-07:00Bye bye Google Reader...<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/3474477/?claim=8tp8yfyhmtj">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-62836473459287635272013-06-15T05:04:00.000-07:002013-06-15T05:07:02.221-07:00Happy Weekend! <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello lovelies! Just popping in briefly to share some happy pictures with you, I hope they'll brighten your day a bit as they have mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just want to say welcome to new followers, thanks for reading and joining me here. And to everyone who comments, thanks so much...I am struggling to reply to all every message but I love reading your comments and will try to get over to your blogs to leave a message for you there! </span></div>
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Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-55391957601196573442013-06-10T13:54:00.000-07:002013-06-10T13:54:37.540-07:00life moves pretty fast...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...you don't stop and look around for a while, you could miss it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well apparently my blogging mojo is on some kind of extended holiday...hope it's not a gap year! To remind myself, and you, that I am a blogger (of sorts), here's a few pics of recent shenanigans round my way...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In among all this I have been buying fabric, selling fabric, and trying (and failing miserably) to not let my house get taken over by piles of fabric! I desperately need a studio or sewing room, but our house is tiny and we're not moving any time soon so for now I just have to muddle through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope you're well and happy, and enjoying the sunny weather we've been having...long may it last! Thanks so much for reading, sorry it's been so long since my last post, hopefully it won't be as long till my next one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, I've finally finished, though I wish I'd cut a few extra - I think I could have sold them twice over! I'm sure I'll do it again soon, but my cutting arm is tired out so not for a while. And some of the fabrics that I've included are now running out, so will be going into my personal stash, which means I'll have to buy more fabric for next time - what a hardship!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rachel xx</span>Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-31477725341650332392013-04-24T04:00:00.000-07:002013-04-24T04:00:29.455-07:00making progress...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello lovelies, how are you today? I am getting better, hurrah! Still getting tired after not doing much at all really, so lots of sitting down after tiny jobs like loading the dishwasher, but yesterday I actually left the house for the first time in 4 days, and didn't fall over, which felt like a major achievement! Thank you all so much for the lovely comments, it's so comforting to get such lovely messages from you all. I'm glad you all love my cat cushion as much as me, I will be coming back to him another day, as he has a twin who I'd like you to meet...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am just popping in today with a tiny detail of our new kitchen, which although not finished is actually working beautifully! We only have the tiling to do, but I don't want to show you the whole room until that's done as it still looks very unfinished without it. But the other day Frank reinstalled one of my favourite things, a long shelf which runs right across the wall above the doorway...it's a tiny room so we have to make the most of any little corner that we can utilise for storage! After my lovely man had put the shelf back up, I had fun doing this...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rachel xx</span>Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-23451451297638477162013-04-21T07:18:00.000-07:002013-04-21T07:18:21.321-07:00my week has been...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...up and down! Started with me feeling tired after my night out dancing, and ended with me feeling very ill with a horrible virus. Here are a few pics from it...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So there you have it, another week has passed, I don't seem to be getting any better at this blogging lark, but I think I've accepted that I will just say something here when I feel like I have something to say, I can't force it. I am cross with myself for not being better about replying to comments, but I have been trying to pop over and say hello on your blogs...if I haven't made it to yours this week, please blame the evil germs! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am going to have a stall at the Bristol Vintage & Flea Market on next Sunday, 28th April - I'll be selling some fabric, but also the results of an attempt at general decluttering. I'm sharing the stall with the lovely Naomi who sold buttons with me at my last fabric market, so it should be fun. I'll take some photos of our stall (before it all hopefully gets bought!) and I'll let you know how it goes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rachel xx </span>Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-61729241410191802642013-04-14T13:49:00.004-07:002013-04-14T13:49:42.580-07:00my weekend...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...has been a lot of fun! One of my favourite things to do when at home, whether sewing, cleaning or hanging out with my kids, is to listen to music. And I love the radio as it means I don't have to constantly make decisions about what to listen to next, and I get to hear new music or old classics I'd forgotten about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think the radio programme I listen to most of all is the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072ky7" target="_blank">Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show</a> on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music" target="_blank">BBC Radio 6 Music </a>- I love upbeat music that gives me energy and makes me want to dance. But although I dance around the house while I do the housework, and have regular dining room discos with my kids, it has been years since I went out and really <u><b>danced.</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well last night that changed....the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Club, an occasional live DJ set by the man himself along with lots of other excellent DJs, came to Bristol. And I went out, with my dancing shoes on (flats, of course!) and my nails painted, and I danced my ass off. It was brilliant to realise that after 2 kids, and years of domestication, my wild child is still alive and kicking inside me. And when he played my all time favourite funk tune, I nearly exploded...</span><br />
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<br />Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-56606608309300125342013-04-07T05:22:00.000-07:002013-04-07T05:29:09.214-07:00holiday fun...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello lovelies, here I am again, late to the party as always, but I hope better late than never! How has your Easter break been? Here are some pics of mine...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today I have gained my 195th follower - welcome Debs and thanks for finding me! I think I'll have to have a little giveaway when I hit 200, to say thanks to all of you lovely people who take the time to read and comment - it makes my day that so many of you enjoy what I do here, when I find the time to do it! </span><br />
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Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-31773588679551783302013-03-26T08:33:00.000-07:002013-03-26T08:33:22.802-07:00sew much fun...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello, how are you today? I hope you had a nice weekend, whatever the weather was like where you are! It's just been cold and grey here, but on Sunday I had a day out and saw first hand just how much snow had been dumped on some other areas of the UK - for this time of year it really is insane. It looked very pretty from the train, but there were moments when I wondered if I was going to get to my destination at all...but where was I going? And who with? Well, that's the exciting bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A few weeks ago, back when my blogging mojo was still hiding under the sofa, I won another giveaway. Since starting my blog I've won lots of lovely things from lots of lovely people, but this one was a bit different - rather than a pretty something or other, the prize was free tickets for 2 people to the Sewing for Pleasure Show at Birmingham NEC. I won this rather fantastic prize over at <a href="http://sewscrumptious.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sew Scrumptious</a>, so thank you very much to the lovely Louise for that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course I was delighted, but I was left with the dilemma of who that 2nd person should be...of my good friends who like sewing, one is heavily pregnant and not really up for traipsing round a sewing show on her swollen ankles, and one is currently breastfeeding. Much as I love my friend's gorgeous baby Florence, I didn't think the addition of a 6 month old who has just started crawling would make for a relaxing day out! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And then it hit me...the person that I probably chat to most about sewing, crafting, fabric etc is actually someone I've never met. Sharon, AKA <a href="http://modflowers.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Modflowers</a>, was my first ever online friend, on flickr before either of us had even thought of starting a blog. And bless her, despite having a busy weekend planned with a trip to the Selvedge Spring Fair in London on the Saturday, she was keen to help me make the most of those free tickets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The best thing about the day was spending a few hours with Sharon, who was as lovely in person as she comes across on her blog. We laughed at the same things, and 'oohed' and 'aahed' over the same fabrics. We got on like old friends, which I suppose we are in a way. I was very glad that I'd asked her to join me for the day. I hope she was too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last Sunday I held another Vintage Fabric Market at Paper Village, my local craft shop. Unlike last time when it was just little old me and a table full of fabric, this time I was joined by another local Mum who has an enormous collection of beautiful vintage buttons! As you can imagine it was a lot of fun...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preparing for the day was fun too, as I really needed to buy a bit of new stock! Here are a few of the lovely new (to me) fabrics I took with me...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a stunning geometric design by Peter Hall, who designed some of my favourite Heals fabrics...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a huge scale print on lovely thick cotton...excuse the rubbish photo, it was a very grey day!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really enjoy selling in person, it's fun to meet people who love fabric as much as I do, and to see the big smiles on their faces as they walk away with an armful of gorgeousness. I'm sorry to all of you who have been waiting patiently for ages for me to set up my Etsy shop; my youngest is starting pre-school after Easter so hopefully I will be able to make the time then...if the sun comes out so I can take some decent product shots! In the meantime, I am selling a few bits through my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rainbow-Vintage-Home/319039901471210" target="_blank">facebook page</a>, and you are more than welcome to message me for details if you see anything you like here or there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I must thank you all for your lovely comments on my last post, sorry I haven't been replying...I have managed to pop over to a few of your blogs this week, if I haven't left a comment on yours I hope you know it's nothing personal. I'm hoping to get back into a good routine of blog reading soon...I miss you guys when I don't get a chance to catch up with what you're up to!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hope the stupid arctic weather isn't ruining your weekend, I'm supposed to be doing something exciting tomorrow but I'm not sure if the snow is going to scupper my plans...I'll let you know what happens either way...in the meantime, stay warm!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rachel xx </span>Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-3615284031891153772013-03-18T08:04:00.002-07:002013-03-18T12:20:39.346-07:00swapsies...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello and Happy Monday!! The sun has been shining here but both my boys are ill - again! - so we are sofa bound today. Still, it's good to see the sunlight and glimpse green shoots in the garden. How are you? I hope you had a nice weekend. </span><br />
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in progress so home is even more messy and chaotic than usual. </span>I have been such a haphazard blogger this year; I have decided my blogging mojo is a small furry animal who likes to sleep a lot in winter. I think it hides under the sofa with the dust and odd socks and only comes out when the sun shines. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Something I should have shared a while ago is the <a href="http://mrsbobobun.blogspot.co.uk/p/so-to-talk-this-idea-through.html" target="_blank">lovely swap </a>I took part in, organised by Lisa of the gorgeous blog <a href="http://mrsbobobun.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">BoboBun</a>. My swap partner was Joanne of <a href="http://revampedvintage1.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">ReVamped Vintage</a>, she's not been blogging long and her blog is lovely. The swap's theme was 4 Happy Things (to celebrate 4 years of BoboBun) and Lisa suggested sending gifts with the themes of Childhood, Handmade, Vintage, and Favourite Colours. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">surely the loveliest hot water bottle cover ever made!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AND a very gorgeous handmade pin cushion!</span></td></tr>
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<br />Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-72158006100706594292013-02-25T14:22:00.000-08:002013-03-06T13:37:55.030-08:00lately...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh my goodness it's been too long since my last post! So to get me back into this blogging lark</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[0]">,</span></span></span></span> here are some pics of recent goings-on round my way...</span><br />
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already! We have been given some 2nd hand kitchen units - our
kitchen was in dire need of refurbishing so the last couple of weeks
have been spent stripping artex (vile stuff!) off the ceiling</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[0]">,</span></span></span></span> and plumbing</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[0]">,</span></span></span></span> and living surrounded by the contents of our kitchen in boxes. It's nearly finished but we still have the tiling to go</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[285].[1][2][1]{comment351750794941048_1789977}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0].[0]">,</span></span></span></span> and as Frank's doing it all himself it's still going to be a week or two before we can stand back and admire the final result. It's been hard work but it will be worth it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Than<span style="font-size: small;">ks for <span style="font-size: small;">reading and welcome to my new follow<span style="font-size: small;">ers - lovely of you to join me here!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lots of love to all of you! Hope you're having a lovely day whatever you're up to. Rachel xxx</span>Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-24465566519264274562013-02-07T13:51:00.001-08:002013-02-07T13:51:29.392-08:00so much prettiness...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello lovelies!! How are you? Haven't got long tonight...on deadline to make a lampshade that a friend has commissioned...as usual I have left it to the last minute! But in a weak moment I checked my blog roll and look what <a href="http://www.handmadebyaliceapple.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Alice Apple</a> has been up to...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank you all so much for all the amazingly supportive comments on my last post - I'm so sorry I haven't had a chance to reply to them all but we've been hit by more illness - will it never end?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fabric sale went really well and it will definitely be a regular thing. I had a great time and met lots of lovely people; I got a real buzz from the happy smiles on their faces as they left clutching piles of my gorgeous fabric! And best of all I sold enough to justify buying more fabric to top up my stock - Yay!!! So here's a sneak peek at some of the lovely new bits I've bought...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yikes what a treat - it appears that I now have the beginnings of a job - buying fabric! And the best bit is that I can sell a bit and keep a bit for myself - I'm in heaven.</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have set myself a deadline of end of March for getting my first listings into the Etsy shop so I'm going to be busy for the next few weeks - fingers crossed for no more germs!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope you've had a good week and have a nice weekend planned...I'm popping down to the seaside to visit a good friend - on my own. She has a free and easy lifestyle with no kids...I can't quite imagine what we'll get up to but I'm most excited about the prospect of a lie-in! Have fun whatever you do won't you? I will be!</span><br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I totally missed my 1st Blog Birthday!! It was on Friday - I remembered all week and then on Friday all kinds of unexpected things happened and I totally forgot. But I think the universe remembered...Caroline of the lovely blog <a href="http://carolinescrapsofus.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Scraps Of Us</a> has just had a lovely giveaway on her blog and she chose the winner on Friday...and I won!! Thanks so much to her</span></span></span><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">, I'm really looking forward to receiving all these gorgeous scrapbooking goodies she's sending my way...</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Rainbow Vintage Homehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08074537730057546641noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6645488985982877384.post-9188515147457574282013-01-09T13:35:00.000-08:002013-01-11T12:31:36.285-08:00January so far...<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hello</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,</span> how are you doing?! I've been living in the land of germs...both boys have been ill and our return to normality was delayed, as M wasn't well enough to go back to school. There's so much I've been wanting to do, both here on the blog and in 'real life' - but all has had to be put on hold in favour of nose wiping, cuddling and dvd watching. But today the sun was out, the coughing fits were less frequent and I'm emerging into 2013 feeling hopeful that things can only get better!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While browsing Pinterest - about all I've had the time and energy for - I came across this beautiful print by one of my favourite contemporary printmakers</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,</span> Angie Lewin...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">just beautiful. I love the combination of grey and yellow...it feels like winter sunshine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also I'd just like to say hello to all my new followers - it's really lovely to have you here</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,</span> and I'll do my best to get over to all your blogs to say a proper hello when everything's back to normal here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy 2013 - fingers crossed for more sunshine and less germs! </span><br />
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