Even though I no longer own a Vintage Caravan, I still love to look at them at every opportunity! Pinterest is a good source to find interesting pictures and also typing the subject into Google brings up some pretty amazing pictures too...But just lately, I have been looking at my own! And Boy! Have I taken some!
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Yes it was the end of an era for us! here at the Happy House! And I really feel that I need to update you all, as it is so overdue....!
House Move
You should all know by now that we have moved into a wheelchair friendly house and life is so much easier for my Freddy, he can access the whole ground floor in his wheelchair, so he can now wash up for me (cool! ;)) and even cook me a dinner now and again...Yes this house is brilliant...
****CARAVAN HAS BEEN SOLD****
Well, it is at that time in my life where things are going to have to change...we are going to have to move! this house is no longer a Happy House...I have divorced myself from it already...the love has completely gone for it...so many bad things have happened of late that I feel it is time to move on. So I am getting rid of a lot of my clutter to prepare for a house move.
As most of you know, we are renting, which makes it easier and quicker to get the ball rolling! but I have to find the right house this time, one that we will want to live in forever, so the search might take a little longer...I did want to move to Norfolk at one point, but have now decided to stay put in Kent because that is where our children are and I couldn't bare to be far away from them.
The next place has to be all on one level as my hubby can no longer weight bare on his legs, he has been bed bound since Christmas, apart from a couple of days out here and there!...so you can imagine morale is very low here!
So the decluttering process has started once more, but this time it is serious, because in order for my hubby to have a better quality of life we must have more room for him to get about in his wheelchair... to be able to have access to a bathroom and to be able to get out in the garden...you know the kinds of things we all take for granted in our own homes.
At the moment I am at that stage where everything is a mess...that's why I have not blogged in a while...apart from the fact I am still so blooming depressed at the unfairness of it all!
Anyways chin up aye!
I have become closer to my Mum, we have worked things out and decided to put the past behind us and look to the future, this way I am able to go over to her home to get a break and spend some quality time with her...she is the reason actually why I am getting better at decluttering, she told me that she loves me and that she is proud of me, and that I don't need all the clutter around me anymore because I have her love to replace it...and that is all I needed to start the process.
I have got rid of 10 black sacks of clothing, I was taking it to the charity shop but did a detour to the Cash for Clothes Warehouse! and bagged myself £20.50! I felt a bit guilty, so I have been taking bric-a-brac to the Charity shops promising myself not to buy any of it back :)
I am also accumulating hoards of things for a Boot Sale this coming weekend, I was going to do it yesterday, but a lack of tables (remember I gave everything away at my last bootfair including tables ~ silly me!) proved a big dilema!
Right so after all that dribble...Just updating you all!
Yes my Big White Cheltenham Sable Caravan is now FOR SALE
I was going to do it up...but how life changes!
It is a little worse for ware...there is some damp on one of the seats...which also needs a new seat pad and it needs a good clean...inside and out (it has lived under out big tree) but other than that it would make a lovely craft room, business adventure, getaway for someone.
If you are interested in it please email me with a serious bid to purchase it...
HAVE A LOOK AT IT HERE
and EMAIL me HERE
CARAVAN HAS BEEN SOLD - THIS IS AN OLD POST I hope all my Friends of Happy Loves Rosie are well
Love to you all.

Back when we bought our Vintage Caravan in 2009 they weren't that popular...well people still went away on holiday in them, but people never really just bought one to have in their garden to 'play in'! But since 2009 it has been rather a phenomenon and now peeps are buying them to decorate and use for a bit of extra space for the kids, or a craft studio, which ours was originally used for...

Well gals it looks like summer is nearly over!
I don't know about you, but I have had cold feet and have had to put on a cardigan and some socks this week!

Usually I don't feel the cold...as I suffer from the dreaded hot flushes...!
but could this be a sign that at last my menopause is on its way out!(Please please please lets hope it is lol)

Our summer has been a lovely one...I have been out on lots of day trips with my Mum, we visited Bourton-on-water for the day! I know! what a long way that was...5 hours there and 5 hours back again...but it was still a lovely day, the trip was broken up with a visit to a garden center...a cup of tea and a lovely piece of cake...which went down rather lovely may I say!...
We have had trips to the Theatre and to the beach, Southend on Sea, Margate and also Brighton...all of the trips were lovely days, all arranged by my lovely Mumma, (you know she is 84 and is still arranging outings and festivities for her WHSmith retirement Group!) she is Marvelous ain't she!
I have fought a loosing battle with the Caravan and the Garden this summer...
As for the Caravan, (white one not the green one) well I have cleaned it up, but still not painted it...I might actually sell it next Spring...its just a redundant space at the moment...and my electricity bill since my Daz has moved out has been halved,..he used to use this van like his own living room, so all through the year he either had a fan or the heater on in there! (I really miss him though :()
I employed a couple of gardeners...that I might rename as choppers! yes that's it!
I employed a couple of choppers to do the garden for me...what a mug I was!
Nearly £200 later...(over a course of a few weeks) I wished that I had of done it myself!
what a pair of wally's they were indeedy!
chop chop chop a kid could of done a better job...so I sacked them and now my garden is more overgrown than ever lol!...Oh well I'm not going to fret over it...

I hope you have all had a lovely summer...what have you been up to?
Are you feeling the weather changing?
Have you turned the heating on yet?
Bye for now.
I have found the perfect little heater, I actually bought it for my caravans, but at the moment it sits pride of place in the Sitting Room...the pictures here show it switched off...but when it is switched on, the coal lights up and look like a real fire.
It has really come in handy of the winter and I have saved a fortune on the gas central heating...and being on a key meter, I have found that it is very economical with electricity too!...there is an option of two heat settings and you can also just have the lights on...which makes it feel warm in the room even with no heat coming out!

I will eventually be moving it out to my new caravan when all the work is finished...but I think I might have to get another one, as I will miss it in the Sitting Room, as even in the summer it can get chilly in there, our cottage is a very cold house indeedy!...
There is a couple of colours to choose from, but I am recommending this dimplex heater to all you fellow Caravaners out there, as it not only looks good...its a perfect little size and is very economical too!
What piece of Caravanning kit would you recommend?
Catherine is from New Zealand and wanted to show you her lovely Vintage caravan, so please sit back and enjoy the read and her beautiful pictures...
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One morning, just before Easter, I found a message on Trade me, an unexpected listing that took my breath away & captivated my heart; a listing for an adorable shabby chic vintage caravan. I kept going back to have a look at it again and again, that's when the dance began...twirling round and round in my heart, flipping my emotions as if I was caught in the waves on the edge of the ocean and couldn't walk out. "Yes, do it..no I couldn't possibly..don't be ridiculous..besides, surely you don't really need this caravan, there's just some kind of emotional response going on here so you'd better figure it out & let it go..." But the attachment persisted and somehow (this was the biggest thing I had done in all my life)...I made it through the process & bought her!!!! I bought her on a "buy-now" as free delivery was a part of the deal. she was living in Nelson in the South Island, that's across water & a long way away!
Come on then....lets be 'aving ya!...all you guys and gals, that have been inspired enough to buy and 'do up' a vintage caravan...
I want YOU!
I am starting a feature on here, like the vintage caravan mag that I am giving away HERE ... where I want to interview peeps with wonderful vintage caravans (worldwide)...being that there is such a revival here in the UK...
I don't even mind if you have a vintage vehicle that you would like to show off...just drop me a line with your details and I will send you an interview pack, for once you have finished...I will upload it to my blog and tag it under the 'Revamping Your Vintage Caravan' section...brilliant if you are smitten about your vintage caravan/vehicle and want to show it off....and get a little publicity...even!
Sooo if you are up for it please email me HERE.

I want YOU!
I am starting a feature on here, like the vintage caravan mag that I am giving away HERE ... where I want to interview peeps with wonderful vintage caravans (worldwide)...being that there is such a revival here in the UK...
I don't even mind if you have a vintage vehicle that you would like to show off...just drop me a line with your details and I will send you an interview pack, for once you have finished...I will upload it to my blog and tag it under the 'Revamping Your Vintage Caravan' section...brilliant if you are smitten about your vintage caravan/vehicle and want to show it off....and get a little publicity...even!
Sooo if you are up for it please email me HERE.
Or leave a comment with a link to you...
and I'll come and get ya :)
and I'll come and get ya :)
Add this button to your blog....if you want to spread the word!
To grab the caravan interview button,
Just copy and paste from the scroll bar into your HTML gadget in Blogger.
Just copy and paste from the scroll bar into your HTML gadget in Blogger.
Happy's Vintage Caravan Club, a group on Flickr.
I have a new group...so please come on over and join and we can share our Caravan experiences Yay!
THIS POST WAS FIRST AIRED ON AUGUST 1ST 2009...I HAVE UPDATED IT AT THE END OF THIS POST...Well here we are! The sun was shining today and I was able to get out in the garden and take these pictures of our 1952 Vintage Holivan....now we have given it a make-over!
Loving this Campervan Tent...the number plate is H for Happy, VW and 1965 my birthday year! surely they created this tent with me in mind! lol!
Wish I knew about it at the start of the summer...
I think I would have been tempted!
Still there is always next year :)
Thanks to my lovely friend Jane for sending me the link :)
Wish I knew about it at the start of the summer...
I think I would have been tempted!
Still there is always next year :)
Thanks to my lovely friend Jane for sending me the link :)


They were happy for me to email over my old pictures of the Holi, from the original makeover, but wanted something different for the front cover...so they asked me if I could style her for the front cover of their December Magazine.

It only took me about an hour to find all these bits and pieces...alot of them were in the garden anyway! (if you have ever visited the Happy House, you will understand!) and place them here and there...and although i felt pretty tired, I made myself do it, as i tend to work better under pressure.


I had a look in the caravan for some quirky pieces that Fred has in there...also I added the blue french coffee pot that is currently on my website..a bit battered and bashed...but we love this look....sooo happy shabby! and I also included the flower tin, which I had purchased the week before.

Infact that week was pretty weird, because I also got an email from Lucy, a stylist for Princes TV asking if she could rent the Holivan for the V festival...for which I sooooo wanted to say YES! but alas had to say no to, as it would have been impossible for us to of got her there :( probably something I will regret forever, as they wanted it for interviewing all the bands in front of!!! Grrrr! I could of got everyones autograph!!
Still perhaps next year aye ;)
Bye for now my lovelies
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