Things I like

This Hornsea owl mug was a Christmas present from my sister in law. I tried really hard to buy one of these on Ebay in 2007, but got outbid everytime because they were going for silly money. So it was a nice surprise when it made an appearance on Boxing Day and has now gone on display in our Hornsea and Carlton Ware cabinet:

Hornsea owl mug

I bought this fabric from Ebay last year, and my Dad’s wife turned them into an amazing pair of curtains:

Bedroom curtains

I found these mugs in a local charity shop. I loved the handles, pattern and colours. They look vintage but I’m not sure if they are. I’d love to know where they came from, there’s no markings on the base of the mugs but I’ve looked on Flickr and there are many mugs of a similar shape and style. Some are tagged as vintage and / or Japanese:

Flower mugs

Lovely owl moneybox from Oxfam, a Christmas present from my Mum – it’s made of leather:

Oxfam owl money box

The last of the Food Friends stash:

Food Friends pots

New member of the family:

Pipkin Dobinson

Again I wrote about a few of the bits I got, but never updated fully. The owls range was amazing. I managed to buy pretty much everything I wanted, with the exception of the glasses case and the travelcard wallet, both of which I am cheesed off about because they sold out in Portsmouth and Southampton really quickly. I got the spies out for them all over the south east, but unfortunately they were long gone from the shops. Although I do hold out a tiny bit of hope, because when I went to Tottenham Court Road Paperchase on Wednesday night they had three owl passport holders, which definitely weren’t there when I visited in June and scoured the place.

Anyway here’s the bits I’ve got.

Paperchase owls stash

Paperchase owls doormat

Paperchase owls tea towels

I’ve just realised that I forgot to include my A4 binder and A4 document wallet, however in these photos are: big laundry size bag, smaller magazine size bag, shoe box, stationary set, tin of coasters, stickers, key top, mug, pen, purse, passport holder tea towels and door mat.

The designer of this range is fab, some more of her work can be seen here: http://www.lillarogers.com/artists/jillian-phillips.

I wrote previously about a couple of the bits I got, but here’s a pic of my mini stash:

Paperchase Funny Foods

I found this range quite late, so there wasn’t much left of it in the shops and I didn’t want most of the stuff I saw (e.g. the mini bag). The thing I am most gutted about not buying, and what makes it really gutting is that fact that I actually saw and held it in the Brighton Paperchase but returned it to the shelf, is the plastic toadstall moneybox. It was perfect.

I was in London for work purposes for a few days during the week and paid my first visit to Westfield on Tuesday evening to have a good look round and to also pop into Paperchase to see if I could get anything Food Friends related. I was unsure what, if anything, would be available in the shops cos it’s not on their website or Amazon as yet. Very excitedly I came away with the two melamine plates, a pencil tin, mug and stickers. The next evening I went to the store on Tottenham Court Road and got a beaker, keyring and shopping bag. Neither store has properly merchandised the range yet, so it was all scattered around and took a bit of hunting around to find. I also saw a CD case, key tops, luggage tags, an umbrella and Ipod cases.

Paperchase Food Friends

Back at home, today I went over to Gunwharf Paperchase and they actually had a proper display set out for it. I got a recipe book, bookmarks and a pencil sharpener.

Paperchase Food Friends

They also had little tin suitcases and some of the other stuff I had already seen in London. The recipe book is lovely, I think it’s my favourite thing so far. I’m going to stop buying stuff from the range now, having spent quite a lot of money, however if tea towels or any more kitchen related items make an appearance then I’m pretty sure I’ll be adding them to my collection!