Sunny Stroud

Hubby, youngest daughter, and I arrived in Stroud on Saturday, just around lunch time. We sat outside in the bustling farmers market that was bathed in glorious spring sunshine, and sampled some of the tasty organic foods on offer.

After lunch we made a quick visit to the Rag Market in the Old Town Hall (eventually finding it up a small flight of stairs around the back of another small market - it wasn't well sign posted!)

Lizzie was there with her stall and she ran off a list of Blogger's names who I had missed that morning, who had also visited the fair. :(

That'll teach me for feeding my face, before going shopping!

So apart from missing the opportunity to say hello and have a quick chat, I suspect I missed some great items, which were probably snapped up by our blogging buddies! ;-))

Well done ladies!

This little cutie wasn't for sale!

I bought a couple of small C19th French raggy pieces, red vintage buttons and a large length of Sanderson glazed chintz.

Having recently made a large investment on a whole unused bolt of c1920's French cotton fabric, from a lady in the States, I needed to be good!

I have just received it in the post this morning - I'm so pleased with it; the colours are still so vibrant and pretty. It came from Lynn who trades under French at Heart.

Back to Saturday...we left Stroud later that afternoon and came home via some of my favourite antique/vintage shopping haunts...

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There was plenty of French brocante available - I bought a mirror, C19th white linen sheet and a small vitrine.

Sunday was spent all day in the garden cutting, pruning, mowing the lawn etc. - wasn't it a beautiful day?

Today I am reminded of muscles I had forgotten I had...ouch!

Hope you had a lovely weekend too - Enjoy the sunshine,

Niki x

Thank you to everyone for your kind and generous comments to my previous post - I'm glad that you enjoyed it - I'll do my best to pop in to visit your lovely blogs this week too...