Legs like chewed string today

 Well, that was a restful night, NOT!  I woke three times, drenched in sweat and my legs feel like chewed string this morning.  For heavens sake - I knelt for 30 mins max to do that bit of weeding!  My Bluebell walk with friend Pam is starting to take shape as: I guide her there and sit in the car with a good book sort of Bluebell Walk - she will find her way round the wood without me by her side.  Yeesh.  I get so few days out too and still haven't had my Birthday Day Out because the weather was inclement and then I have been busy decorating/getting ready for and doing the Fair. Ah well, another sofa day I guess, and I can see the garden starting to get away from me already. 

Anyway, the rest of the Fair photos.  I did treat myself too, and will put a photo of that up tomorrow.

Random.

 

Rather Drew Pritchard . . .  For overseas followers, he has a tv programme (well, several spin-offs of it too) and specializes in what I call grunge antiques.  The sort of thing most of us would take to the Tip! Old chairs with the stuffing hanging out, rusty old this and that, anatomical posters like this and many many old industrial lights, factory chairs etc.

 A good cross-section of stuff here.

Slightly out of focus teddies - my fault, setting had got altered for distance and I forgot to change it.

A home-made Log Cabin quilt, reasonably recent I think.

I think this had a price tag of around £950 . . .

The wonderful treen stand from Bideford, N. Devon.   A long journey but obviously worthwhile for him as he's always here and has such beautiful things.  Keith splashed out on an unusual costrel (for me) from him a few years back.

On our friend Paul's stand, a really rare plaster (with animal hair in it) face of a seal I think it was though looking at it now I think it looks rather like a terrier.

He had a wonderful selection of carvings.

Aren't these wonderful (sorry for not totally in focus).

Great skill was used on this lovely 17th C carving.

A nice Windsor chair here.

A lovely selection of things here.

I liked the green Deco jug just to the right of the red and blue plate.

Hmmm.  Nothing to take my fancy here!

Right, thank you for all your comments.  I will try and reply to them later.  Meanwhile I have to keep awake and upright long enough for the boiler man to come.

Some more scenes from my stand.  We have LOTS of room, so spread everything out.  All very well until it's going home time and lots to pack!

Right, time to try and force some breakfast down . . .

Builth - part 2

I hope you all like the New Header.  I think it should have a title - How Green is my Valley.  I did take a little artistic licence and use the gizmo which brightens up the colours, but it was a dull day and with the sun on them, those colours wouldn't be far out.  I'll do a river walk photo posting tomorrow.

I am not usually drawn to paintings of Industrial England, but this was SO good - the light and reflections in the puddles, the yellow light in the windows, the grey on grey.  Quite a powerful painting.

Pretty cushions (all new of course).  I especially like the Pansies and Violets.

A touch of the Drew Pritchards here!

A lovely early 18th C table, with fabulous patina on the top, but Ireckon that will go home with the dealer, nice as it is.  Fashions have changed so much in recent years.

This lovely old chair has been hand stripped - having had several layers of paint (top layer red I think!)  It could have done with some beeswax polish on to bring it up a bit- though perhaps they just wanted a limed finish.

On the same stall, a lovely old Welsh spoonrack with a bevy of spoons adorning it.

From the stand where we bought my costrel, some more delightful things to tempt you to part with your money.  This and the next four photos.

Isn't this beautiful?

Some horn and sycamore spoons amongst the treen.

We'd have had this if it had been cheaper (£700!)  An absolutely adorable primitive child's chair.  Not that there are any primitive children in our house these days . . .

You may be able to read the price tag for this beautiful love token dated 1845.  I think it is £245 . . .

Does what it says on the label.  Some stunning glass from the Isle of Wight studio.  Just LOOK at that fabulous lamp base.

Well, this has taken me all day, on and off, to load.  The internet is SO slow, but only the thought of having to ring India is putting me off doing anything about it.  BT - I pay good money for this and it takes 20 minutes to load a photo?  No wonder businesses struggle so much in the countryside . . .

Day Out at the Antiques Fair

You will have to bear with me at the moment, as I am going absolutely FLAT OUT here, painting and gardening etc. However, we felt we deserved a day out on Saturday and we drove up to the Antiques Fair at Builth Wells. Here are a few pics:


All the tools you could ever need, neatly laid out on display.

A lovely stand with lots of interesting pieces.

OH would have loved to have brought both these chairs home with him - especially the primitive chair above. The Windsor chair boelow is made in yew, bar the seat which is elm, I believe.

A bevy of beautiful dolls await new homes.

The Kitchenalia shop is always one of my favourites and there were lots of people shopping there.

Looking down from the gallery.

Plenty of jewellery stalls. My girls would have had a lovely time looking round!

My little treat - 6 more old bobbins with lovely spangles. The one far left just HAD to come home with me because it "spoke" so eloquently - you used what you had in those days . . .

This was OHs indulgence - apparently an "Irish kettle" - more like teapot, though I have a wicked suspicion it may have been a "po" to collect urine for dyeing purposes - hence the spout!!
It is now where the bananas are kept . . .