It's a Small World After All...

Thank you to all who have visited my on-line shop over the last couple of days and made a purchase or two. I was very surprised by the fact that well over half of my parcels this time will be leaving these shores and travelling by aeroplane to be with you in other countries. What a wonderful invention the www!

Thank you for buying British and for calling on me in my tiny corner of England.

I think us Brits have been led to believe in the past, that we weren't a well-liked nation. We are seen as pompous, arrogant or overly reserved, posh, fanatical tea (with milk!) drinkers, and we all have bad teeth and serve rubbish food!!

I feel blessed to have crossed paths with you all, and just to set the record straight, I think you'd find the majority of Brits are 'thoroughly spiffing chaps'!! ;-))

I hope that your parcels arrive safely with you soon - Some have gone to Australia, Hong Kong, U.S.A., France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland - my local postmistress loves me ;-)) And despite the fact the the postal system has made new restrictions on size and weight of parcels that can be sent economically, most of my goods are of a small enough size to travel comfortably within them, so the postage quotes haven't been too shocking!

Of course, thanks too, to all in good old Blighty who have shopped with me again...I am very grateful to you all!! x

I'm not a particularly well travelled person...we have holidayed in France and Germany in the past, but could never risk taking our girls abroad to hotter places when they were younger, as they had such fair skin. But, having said that, I have lots of vintage items from various places in the world which I have enjoyed collecting over the years...

French brocante is a bit of a passion of mine (I used to think I may have been French in a previous life ;-)) ...most of my collection can be found in our kitchen...

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And I have piles of French fabrics in my stash...but we won't go there today!...

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One of my favourite pieces is this little set of fabric covered drawers for storing handkerchiefs, gloves and lace in the boudoir.

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There's a smattering of Spanish senoritas about the place...and my lovely collage from Louise in the U.S.A.

Our letter rack in the hall is from Belgium...

Eau de Cologne from Germany in the bathroom...

And a Florida Water bottle can be found here too.

The vast proportion of my vintage hat collection has come from the U.S.A. as well; with most of the millinery flowers used to make them back in the 1950's, coming from France or Japan!

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So thank you again for stopping-by...I've been neglecting my duties as a good blogger lately, having been tied up with my on-line shop somewhat since the fair...so I hope to come and visit your blog soon in your little corner of the world...these are for you!

Have a lovely day wherever you are,

Niki x

(Oh, and by-the-way, I'm not wearing my bowler hat today! ;-))