My weekend in aqua and cream

I finally got my Varga girl framed and hung on the wall. I so love her!



I have been working on some pics for my contact page. The above pic is of my parents' old vintage telephone that I revamped and blogged about a while ago.



I have been dreaming of getting our Lambretta fixed! It's the same model as the miniature in the photo above.



I love the vintage feel of this ring from Aldo.




I bought some vanilla scented spheres for my glass bowl.



I treated myself to a mint macaroon at Selfridges!

Vintage telephone

A friend and I recently bought a 1970’s cream rotary phone from Alfie’s market as a birthday present for a mutual friend. That got me interested in finding one for my newly decorated craft room! I asked my parents if they still had any of their old phones, and my Dad found a couple in the attic: a cream one that was a bit worn around the edges, and a two-tone brown one. It had to be the cream one!

After a thorough cleaning, the phone looked much better, but there were still problems: both the line and receiver cords were grey and stained with ink, and the plastic middle section was missing.

After a bit of searching, I found a great online store (dialtelephones.co.uk) that sells missing phone parts for phones from the 1960’s and 1970’s. I designed myself a new centre dial and I was ready to go! It only took about ten minutes to fit the new parts, and I'm so happy with the results!