Photos taken from my holiday in Scotland 2007


See you in a week

 I have been sooooo sleepy lately with absolutely nothing to blog about...yep gals, my life has been very boring indeedy! I havn't even bought plants for the garden...I have just let them all grow as wild as they like this year, with no pruning...they actually look quite beautiful and free..as if to say, thanks Happy for letting us be wild! lol!

I think I need new glasses, as I am getting lots of migraines lately...it will be expensive if I do! as I have about 10 different pairs, as once I found out I was 2.50 I bought the ready specs everywhere I shopped...but whenever I need them I can never find a pair! ridiculous isn't it!

Still onwards and upwards as my old Nanny Hilda would say...lets put a brave face on it :)

Can you please help me out here and tell me what you would like me to write about, bearing in mind I have not got the dresser in instead of the teak cabinet yet and I havn't finished the caravan make-over either!! Yep! its that bad! lol!

Help me out here gals :)

I have lots of new items arrived into my shop...I know August is a tough month and there is many things to buy the kids...but please do have a look.


Pretty pictures...
....and lovely jewellery! Hey I am in Love with everything....
I want to keep it all lol!

I'll be adding the size of these pictures soon...I have added a lot of them and coz I am lazy...well I was sitting in my cozy chair listing everything...and the thought of going out each time to the cupboard where I am storing everything was just too unbearable lol!...so I'll be adding the sizes tomorrow ;)

This is the dresser in question (above)
It is actually being stored at Freddy's Mums house which is a good 25 miles away...so it will take a bit of time and effort to get it back and what with the caravan to decorate - I am not sure how long it will take a weary old us to get it all sorted...but my mind is now made up ;) thankyou so much for helping me decide my lovelies :)

Also finding this little bambi light was a fantastic little find at a local car boot sale....soooo cute and look at the little rabbits...ahhh bless!
Do you own anything like this...please tell :)

I was also lucky enough to find 3 of these lovely little vintage Japanese dollies, this red one, a blue one and a little yellow one! Aren't they wonderful?

I have been hooked on shabby flowers lately too - I cant stop buying them...I am sooo terrible with plants...that I like to decorate with flowers, but not having much spare cash for fresh! ( I sooo love fresh!) I have been covering the place with fake :)  my favourite flowers are hydrangeas and roses....Can't you tell ;)

Well here we are folks...I have been meaning to show you these pictures for a few days now, but what with 'life' getting in the way! I havn't had the time...!

Welcome to our new Vintage Caravan....It is a 1968 Cheltenham Sable and we bought her a little over a week ago from a lovely couple that was relocating and couldn't take the van with them!
She has two doors...the one above is the back door (leading into the garden) and there is one at the front, near our front door, which is of course the caravans front door....

There was alot of tooing and frowing getting the caravan into this position, not to mention, the moving of a van with a flat tyre, that blocked the road off and the commotion of the bus trying to get past!! tut tut! but friends, family and passers by all helped, which was brilliant! Thankyou xx
Oh yes this is going to be a lovely little hide-away, kinda like the little community we have going on here!  You see we are living in this little 2 bedroom cottage, that we have filled to the brim and there is really no room to swing a cat! lol! and our son, who keeps a low profile...(he is like the daughter you never see in the 'Osbournes') went and bagged himself a banking job, just around the corner to us, so he has come back to live here...so it really is 'tight' with no space for him to call his own!...So thats the reason why we thought...lets get another caravan...it would be cheaper than moving! I think Daz was thinking 'Modern' but we wanted a more retro looking van...anyway he wasnt that enthusiastic about looking for it... so we looked and looked and found this one...which we all totally love!... ;)
This is currently the inside...it is totally immaculate...everything works and is full of original features.  The draw unit has a table on top that folds out longer and the smaller bed, can be extended to a full adult bed...haha! notice two singles! hehe! there is a method in my madness! ;)
There is a cupboard for clothes and the gap is the front door entrance which also forms part of the toilet area...its so cleverly designed...the cupboard that you see straight in front is the gas cooker and storage and you can just about see the mini fridge.
Now in full view...the kitchen area...lots of cupboards, nice airy windows, original cup and holder on the wall..and lights...oh sooooo lovely! A perfect bachelor pad (herhum! with two single beds :)))) lol! shhh!)

so I thought in this little update, It would be nice to show you, especially how a small space can be used to its advantages.

As you can see Fred has decorated his van with bright tins, quirky dolls, unique scrapbooking pieces and plenty of bright paraphenalia.

This is about as tidy as it gets in here...but that is the way Fred likes to work, personally I like to tidy up before I start a job! thats probably why I never get things finished...coz I then end up multi-tasking and then what with my womens doo dah...I end up forgetting what I was doing in the first place lol!

Well my lovelies...I hope you like this little update about our Holivan, I have noticed around the 'Net' that buying and 'doing up' a caravan has really caught on here in 'Blighty' its been caravan fever!'