Saturday 16 April 2011

Time for Tea

Today is the second day of attempting to get my vintage tea cups, saucers and sandwich plates into some semblance of order. I haven't cooked all week because I couldn't find my kitchen surfaces (seemed like a good idea to unpack my collection at the time).

This is one of my favourites
The reason for organising it all? The vintage tea room at my Vintage & Handmade Fair of course. Yes I know it's not until the 3rd July but I'm trying to get as much as possible done during my week off. All the china is to be organised, washed, polished and wrapped in nice clean boxes and nice clean tissue paper (that cost my mum a fortune for the amount I needed - thanks Mum!).


Yesterday one of my best friends, Faye, came over to help me. She was in charge of washing, me drying and polishing and we reverted to our days of house sharing at uni, ticking along like a well oiled machine. We of course had to wander off to the pub for food and taste test some cakes my mum brought over so we didn't exactly maximise our time, but fingers crossed I'll be finished late this evening. The tea cups, saucers and sandwich plates look so civilised and I'd quite like to sit down with a cupa and one of these delish cupcakes my friend's perfected over the last two weeks (she wasn't going to let runny butter icing beat her and she's spent every evening trying to get 'just the right consistency').

Only 70ish sandwich plates to wash, dry/polish & pack! Amy xxx

16 comments:

  1. I love those spotted plates! Good luck with it all! x

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  2. I love the floral cup and saucer, very pretty. Good luck with all the preparation x

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  3. Now I remember why I don't sell china!

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  4. Sounds like hard work Amy! Those plates looked so pretty all stacked neatly, really famcy a teaparty now xx

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  5. What a lovely collection, it must be fun washing up such pretty plates x

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  6. Amy is it possible for you to email me. holland8bw@btinternet.com I cannot find your email address and would like to send you a link. Thanks
    Beverley xx

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  7. What a lovely collection!
    Sophie
    x

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  8. WOW and there was me complaining up about last nights washing up I had to do this morning!!

    Victoria x

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  9. Such pretty plates, but at least they were nice to look at whilst you were washing them!

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  10. oooohhh love those spotted plates, hope you managed to get them all washed and dryed, those cakes look rather yummy to ;-)) dee x

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  11. Ooh seeing all of your lovely plates there makes me want to throw all my boring old white plates out and get a stash of vintage ones. I used to have more vintage ones... time to start collecting again maybe. :)

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  12. Sounds like fun, much better than my last minute panic when I shove all the crockery through the dishwasher at midnight the night before the fair ! Love your flyer, just put it on my side bar.
    Ann x

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  13. Washing up would be a pleasure with china as pretty as that and if I lived a little nearer I'd be first in to help!! loln Lucey xx

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  14. Too far for me sadly but I had popped your flyer on my sidebar, xx

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  15. Omg a miracle has happened, for months I haven't been able to read your blog due I think to not being able to get updates to my laptop. That's now sorted and I'm off to read your blog from November (I think when i lost contact) and see what you've been up to..
    Pene x

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