Saturday 11 May 2013

Corner of my Home (beware LOTS of pics)

This week I'm joining in with Kylie and Donna's   "Retro and Vintage inspired corner of my home" linky party.



Let me present to you our dresser which lives in the corner of the dining room:



A close up:



The dresser (not old at all) houses some of my various collections such as my Meakin coffee pots:


More coffee pots, the red Habitat 70s one on the left and a Palissy "Madeleine" on the right (I've also got coffee cups and saucers to match):


A couple more coffee pots in the background.  The chrome one on the left is Melitta from Germany and the one on the right is another Meakin called "Midnight Star".


Oooh a close-up of my favourite jam pot.  It's soooo cute.


A Hornsea coffee pot on the left and a rabbit teapot.  I bought the rabbit teapot from Liberty as a prezzie for Mr J and P when we first got it together - over 20 years now (egads!).


A rather cluttered shelf with a few Swedish glass vases and some of my collection of salt and pepper sets:



Yes.  My salt and pepper collection.  I've been meaning to bore you with that for a long time.......and here's my chance!

A jumble sale buy from yesteryear:



Another jumble sale buy from yesteryear:



More jumble sale buys:


The  following two sets were bought for me by Mr J and P from Brick Lane market in east London if I remember rightly:





You may well wonder what is peeping behind the ridiculously large pompoms on this lamp?



Recognise the pompoms?  From my failed attempt at making a pompom wreath here.



It's one of Mr J and P's (many) "family heirlooms" (so he likes to call them.  I won't go into what I like to call them.....).  It's a buddha lamp from  Singapore when Mr J and P's granny lived there in the 1940s.


A few of the Mexican tin animals that I've stuck onto the dresser courtesy of Mr J and P's bruv went he went to Mexico some years ago:




On the windowsill next to the dresser are an owlie salt and pepper set and...


wooden chef salt, pepper, paprika and allspice shakers:


On the door nearest the dresser is my lovingly painted knob rack......






with my modest collection of pinnies:


Well that's all folks.  I'm off to Kylie's to slobber over some vintage nooks and crannies.  I do hope you'll be joining me. xx

38 comments:

  1. Hi Loo!! Yey - so excited to see your pics. I love your dresser! You have so many great collections. Your teapots are fanastic - particularly like the Meakin ones - really lovely patterns. And salt n pepper shakers galore! I really like the little wooden ones on the window sill. Thanks so much for joining in today. : )

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  2. Pom poms and pottery! You have won me over! :)

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  3. oh my gosh the fruit salt and pepper shakers, love them.
    and the knob rack (interesting name). I think I need to get me one of them.
    x

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  4. I loved the peek at your dresser and seeing all those amazing pots, you do have a brill collection.
    Favourite pic though has to be those pinnies at the end, such a jumble of wonderful colours and patterns.
    Lisa x

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  5. WOW! Love the dresser. Your collection of coffee pots makes my one and only plain white coffee set looks so insignificant! Lovely collection of things.
    Julie xxxxxxxx

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  6. Your coffee pots are fantastic, and I really love the black/yellow/white salt and pepper set, as well as the black/white one. Thanks so much for sharing with us.

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  7. Well you've got me slobbering over your incredible treasure trove of goodies Loo!! I adore the apple and pear shakers so much, I've never seen anything like them before. The duck jam pot and cottage teapot **sigh** xoxo

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  8. Hi Loo, love your coffee pot collection. The wooden owls I have not seem before, they are fab! Thanks for sharing, Tam x

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  9. Oh fantastic pictures! I love your dresser... I think I neeeed one! :)

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  10. Fabulous collection of retroware..just amazing. Love the wooden salt, pepper,spice pots...too cute!

    I thought this corner of your home thing was tomorrow and i am supposed to be taking part too- better get my boots on then.

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  11. I really enjoyed your salt and pepper shaker collection Loo!

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  12. What a great collection of beautiful thinks. The lamp with the pompons is so sweet.

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  13. I'm intrigued by your coffee pots. These are the English Meakin? I've never seen something so modern from them. I have an Art Deco/Clarice Cliff style plate in my shop, but these look genuinely modern. Wonderful finds! And thanks for dropping by my little blog!

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  14. What a great collection! The apple and pear ornaments are lovely, perfect as kitchen decorations xx

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  15. Love love love your black and yellow pots and your modest (ha!) collection of pinnies.

    So love nosing at other peoples houses...this link up thingy is fab....don't even have to go out in the rain....?

    bestest as ever to you loo.

    daisy j xxx

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  16. Well lovely Loo, I'm doing a bit of slobbering of my own at the mo! You are a love for joining in (and you said you had nothing worthy?! yeah, right!) Everything on your dresser is lovely, lovely, especially those Meakin coffee pots! I'm also very fond of your collection of salty and peppies, and those pretty pinnies on such a perfectly painted knob (that's where you insert one of your ooh-er's!) rack are gorgeous too. x

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  17. LOve the aprons and how you have dsplayed them and those cool coffee pots well, what can one say just love the style:)

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  18. Fab collection of coffee pots Loo, espesh the Meakin. I love your crazy lampshade too and what a preponderance of pretty pinnies. You certainly have a lovely colourful home.

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  19. Ooh, I love your dresser. All those retro knick knacks. This is right up my street this is. I wish my home had room for a massive dresser like that cos I'm slowly running out of space to put my collection of vintage tat on! Xxx

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  20. Don't apologise for lots of photos - love them! Your coffee pot collection is amazing. It's so much fun to look at other people's bibs and bobs. :)

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  21. I love looking at peoples collections and you have some fantastic ones x

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  22. Lovely things Loo!! Your dresser looks so bright and cheery, adore the Meakin coffee pots - I have a few pieces from the set matching the middle one. Really keen on your wooden shakers too xx

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    1. Love all the salt and pepper sets, the coffee pots, the travel items and the history behind each item.
      Your home is made out of the things you like, organize and placed where you like and it reflects you; as it should!

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  23. I really love the Swedish glass a lot. I am kind of a sucker for glass. You have quite the collection. It is hard to take it all in. I must go back and have a look around one more time. The coffee pots are wonderful as well.

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  24. Oh the coffee pots are wonderful.......what a fabulous collection.
    Now Loo I am screaming this.....the rabbit tea-pot is AMAZING!!!!!!!!
    I just love it....I have pussy-cat tea-pot, but I would be in heaven if I had a bunny one.
    Thank you so much for the look at your wonderful treasure...it's such a treat.
    Good on Kylie for this show case it's brilliant.
    Love V

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  25. Oh Loo, I love it all! I'm glad I'm not alone in having a coffee pot fetish! I love how you've mixed your glass in with the ceramics, I feel a change-around coming on. xxx

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  26. Love it all, I like the way you've arranged everything into categories, very colourful OCD organisation. xxx

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  27. Such a collection of treasures!! I love that you bought your future hubby a rabbit teapot as a present - at least he knew what he was letting himself in for I guess! xx

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  28. Cool collection! I love the coffee pots and the salt n pepper shakers. Pretty and practical!

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  29. Love all your collections! I've just bought a big stash of old pinnies, think we share a lot of the same interests!

    Thanks for sharing your home with us, it's delightful ...

    Love Claire xxx

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  30. All faded into the background once I had seen the bunny teapot!

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  31. I just love those coffee pots.....I NEED one! :) x

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  32. Your dresser is so pretty! Did you paint that? I share your vintage pinny love! x

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  33. What fabulous collections you have and how beautifully arranged. I think your dresser is just the thing, modern and clean so that all this colour can sing out! x

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  34. What fun items, so bright ad cheery.

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  35. You have so much delightful stuff I almost can't believe my eyes. I am totally loving all the color!

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  36. Ooh I KNEW someone collection S&P sets. I will have to have a dig around in the boxes in the attic...
    Love all the coffee pots and the mexican tin thingummies.
    x

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  37. Love all your Meakin coffee pots Loo, they are amazing! It all looks so good on your dresser, you have a great collection of pots and cruet sets.
    Loving all those cheerful retro pinnies on the blue rack too - and I thought i had a lot of aprons!
    Gill xx

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