Adventures at Kitty's Cottage

Goodbye Typepad- hello kitty's cottage!

Well, the time has come for me to stop pending money on typepad and go it alone. it has been a wonderful relationship and I have loved adding my christmas wish list and other photo albums (which i never updated!) but I have a new blog on my website www.kittyscottage.co.uk where you can subscribe to the link and still be updated with all my news. I hope you have enjoyed what was the start of my new venture in shopkeeping. My life has changed, and I must move with the times, so this will be the last post on this blog. I shall leave it up and running so that you can all see where to go in the future, and please add my website to your favourites! I have some amazing Christmas stock coming in and it would be grand if you could support your little friend when you need to buy a gift or something to spoil yourself!
Best wishes to you all and I'll see you over at
www.kittyscottage.co.uk
Adieu, you lovely things!!! xxx

Oh my husband!

Well, I heard a little kerfuffle this morning whilst sitting in my shop and when I went "Backstage" This is what I saw! He's been a right busy bee and now he's on his way to Frinton to do all my postage! What a diamond!




I think this might have something to do with a little secret I told him last thursday... Anyway, what have I been doing today? Well, my Ebay store has picked up and I've sold a lot on there this morning! It's all very exciting as my website is having an overhaul and it's all going crazy! I'm so glad I chose to give up acting for a while- I couldn't have coped with all the extra stress right now. I have a lovely friend coming in a minute with all her vintage purses that she will be selling in my shop and I can't wait! Even though the weather was awful this morning, it has been one of my best mornings all month and now the sun's out i feel grand!
Must go now- I'm advertising for extra help! Ooh, get me HAHAHAHAHA
xx

Thank you, my friend xx

Yes, ladies, as you can see, a little pin box has disappeared from my christmas wish list and landed in my hand, all thanks to my special friend Sarah who is champion of all things shabby chic and food related. I love her blog for the fabulous pictures of the simple, homely yummy food. I was feeling down at the beginning of the week so she sent me this gorgeous box and now I can't stop pinning things. Thank you, special friend!

I was just sitting here thinking back to 5 years ago. I was in Richmond and there was a delightful shop called Papillon Rose which sold a whole load of Cath Kidston and other shabby chic beauties. The lady behind the counter was listening to Nora Jones whilst chatting away on the phone. She seemed so blase about sitting in such a heavenly shop, and i so dreamed of being her. That's ll I wanted to do from that moment on. Well, just five minutes ago I caught myself sitting behind my counter, Nora Jones' velvet tones filling the room and I gazed at all the gorgeous things that fill my shop. I can see why it is now some people's favourite shop now. I told a customer yesterday that if I want something beautiful, I just come into the shop and take it. It's like shoplifting with a conscience!

I hope to get some free time this afternoon though. It would be nice to pop down to the beach for half an hour and get some fresh air.

New look website!

Dear readers, I am currently having a new look designed for the shop, website, business cards etc and am adding new and exciting products to the site! What do you think?

You'll have to log onto the site www.kittyscottage.co.uk to see the new colours, I think they're grand...

What have I done now?!

Well, ladies, I closed the shop yesterday, after rising at 5.30 a.m. and started the refurb. I took all the goods out of the shop, took down all the shelves, cut them, re hung them, brought the (V.heavy) Armoir in from the back room, made more shelves and put them upp, re-stocked the shelves. redressed the windows, put up lights, tidied the house and did all the housework, finally to sit down with a glass of diet coke at 10pm.





I have to tell you that I've never been so tired. And the impending accounts, orders, cards, christmas stock, ebay listing and everything else that has fallen by the wayside is making me even more tired. But still- I'm living the life of my dreams and count my blessings everyday that I have everything that I could wish for. (Well, almost!)
xx

Wonderful, wonderful Lavenham!

Sorry for the delay in posting this (We got back on Wednesday and I really have been busy in the shop!) But I MUST tell you about my new favourite place- Lavenham!
It is SOOO pretty, wonky and English- and only an hour away from where we live! I felt like I was hundreds of miles away, and I can't wait to get back on a little jaunt.

We were in a little cottage full of period charm (Shall I get a job as an estate agent?!) and one afternoon, whilst lying on the bed reading short stories from a very aged book off the vintage bookshelf, I overheard two ladies walking past the front:
"Kitty's Cottage.. ahh, that's a nice name"
"Isn't that the shop in Thorpe le Soken?"
YES! I'm famous! anyway, whilst there I descovered my new favourite shop....


I went back over and over again and couldn't stop cooing over everything! She had many of my own suppliers in there, and we had chosen the same things from them! We obviously have great taste!
In the afternoons we went into gorgeous tea rooms and ate real clotted cream teas, with fresh baked scones as big as our heads! Then we would go back home for a nap, I might wander out of the house and into Vintage Pink again!, and then we went out to dinner. On our second night there we ate at the Great House, which is a gorgeous French restaurant and we ate sooo much wonderful food, all finished off with the most amazing selection of cheeses I have ever had. Oh, Lavenham, I love you so!