Finding time to blog

Its been quite a while since my last blog post as i have been really busy , I've   been feeling quite well so have started my market stall up again to see how far i get  without feeling unwell , I feel like  like like a yo yo with my decisions but thats what happens when you try to make a living with health issues , Same goes for my weight loss campaign i am like a yo yo with that too , but am now back on track again to be much more slender.

With the house we need a new bed  as the old one is too heavy for me to move to clean underneath it , It's still a good bed so will be going back to my friend mel who gave it to me initially.

Her daughter will use  it in her spare bedroom.

 So we  have decided to move into the back bedroom and  at the moment  i am painting it if you remember it was only completed  quite recently but it was just done with old paint we had and dressed with stuff that we had now i want it totally different and i will be posting about it soon, Still to be done as frugally as possible. 

Jumble season is upon us i have two evening ones this week which are usually very good  and i don't know about saturday yet jumble sales are like buses none or they all turn up together , There have been a few through the summer but not many, Here are some of my best finds. 

A shelley Tea set .

Its really rare to find something so good as this now.

This fruits tea set was from the same jumble sale 

Two very rare finds. for £5.00 each.



Then there have been market finds , This Tam 1950s tea set was £2.50 on the charity stall.
This is for our own use.

I  have still been buying the jewellery at auction.

This huge citrine ring.

This is by goose 1962.

The Amethyst  stones are very large on this suffragette brooch too.

This is so sweet its edwardian gold on silver.

I also purchased lots of fur coats in the summer for less than a tenner each.

The jumble sale the tea sets were from   i found two boxes of vintage cards mainly christmas 

There were some vintage notelets 

This is my favorite one though , I have told vicki over at https://vintagevixon.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/ay-caramba-vintage-couture-for-fiver.html that it must have been made for her. 

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Here we are again in the middle of the night

I am getting a bit fed up with not being able to sleep for one reason or another now at 12 .30 am i am up out of bed,

 It's a nuisance because the next day i am walking around like a zombie ,

 I tend to drop off ok but when my sleep apnea wakes me up i can't go back to sleep ,

 The  mask i wear to sleep in should stop that , The only way to combat it is by taking Amitriptyline , It works really well but makes me feel down , I dont want to do anything when i am on them , I didn't realize how they affected me until i came off them while i am trying to lose weight as they hinder weight loss and can make you gain weight , 

Stopping them i have  a lot more energy and get up and go , I have put a lot more effort into my business and fingers crossed at the moment it seems to be working so that's a positive but i really wish i could shake of this Insomnia any ideas would be greatly appreciated ,

 On a positive note here are some of my latest finds.   

A Jumble sale clock £1.00

Vintage perfume gift  sets from Auction 

Grouping all the vintage faulty costume  Jewellery together for spares or repair works well.  

Interesting Masonic watch.

  

Job lot of   costume Jewellery 

 Job lot of brooches.

Two chain belts amongst the Jewellery i purchased 

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Lots of pretties

I have found some beautiful Pretties both at Auction and Jumble Sales in the past few weeks.

I know i am like a Yo Yo changing my mind about carrying on with my business but when my health is really bad it's hard to do all the things that go hand in hand with running a successful business  , At the moment i am  Happy to say i'm  really well , fingers crossed it will last a long time so i am going to give my business  one last try to see if what i have learned works , Buying more selective and concentrating on jewellery  & linen wich is smaller to handle and store.

So here are some of my latest finds.

I was puzzled by this when i saw it at a jumble sale left on its own at the end of the sale so i took a chance for 50p , I was thrilled to find out it was a 1960s doorbell.  

  

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In the middle of the night , well it was when i started writing it

Well, what do you do when you get up in the night not being able to sleep with the dehumidifier in your  sleep machine almost as hot as a boiling kettle , So while I have shoved it  in the freezer to cool down I thought I would write a blog post as you do at 2.30 am lol.

I have  been working on the garden for
four years now with trial and error with trying firstly to grow vegetables (My Dream ) but when you have to keep getting down to ground level and you have problems getting up and even moving into different positions when you are down there I have had to give up that idea.

This is what it looked like before.
lawn was that lumpy nearly every time i was in the garden i tripped up.

The initial attempt at growing vegetables.

Now I am focusing on the garden being as easy to maintain as possible but as pretty as I can make it too, We have had to pay to have the garden leveled we did half last year and a half this last few weeks,
 Initially with the help of our nephew who could not fully commit in the end ,Then we were recommended two retired gardeners who came and finished leveling and laid 96 square meters of turf, The company who grew the turf had also included an extra lot of 50 rolls  wich we could not use so that was freecycled

The old garden table and chairs needed a makeover.
You can just see the chairs before in this picture.
Its amazing how flat the lawn looked in this picture but it wasn't , It was dangerous.

The first thing we did in the garden when we moved in was put in a new shed but of course, the colour was not right.

  It now reminds me of a beach hut with the bunting i made.

The large planter has been made to disguise  an ugly manhole that we cannot do anything about as its a rented property .
  All the herbs were reduced at b&Q when the weather was hot , I picked of all the shriveled leaves and gave them a good drink and look at them now after a good feed.

The hanging baskets were from last year the ivy was still in there but all the plants were again reduced the total cost me £5.00 for the two baskets.

All these plants were either grown from seed bought from car boots and jumble sales or from the reduced section at B & Q, Plus presents from my friend Mel and our Daughter. Nik.

This is just one of the pictures of the reduced plants, The  grass before from a couple of years ago

Look at it now,

The grass needs cutting now but at least i dont trip up.

   



The table and chairs  look great.

The bottom of the garden needs weeding and some bark laid but i have to Pace myself and there will be some raised planters and maybe some trees/ shrubs around the wall.

Even my Christmas tree from Tesco has been worth buying this together with another reduced plant takes your eyes away from yet anther drain .

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Health wise mammogram was fine doctor said the change in shape  of my breast must be due to loosing weight now stands at 12 pound just two pounds to my first stone.

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