Packing up vintage china

Hello all!

Just thought I would share with you on this gorgeous sunny morning some vintage china photos.  I am packing up some beautiful pieces today in my little vintage work room for a wedding at one of my favourite venues; Beechen Hill Farm in Ilam, Derbyshire.  This is such a stunning wedding venue and the family who run it are brilliant; they really work hard to make your day special.

I will be heading there on Saturday to drop off my vintage china and hopefully will be able to say hello to Sue and introduce her to my baby boy Henry, as last time I saw her I was very pregnant!





Have a lovely day

Vintage and Cake

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Happy New Year Giveaway!!

Hello lovely people!

I just wanted to start this New Year off with a little note on the importance of family. After spending the best Christmas for many years with my wonderful family including my new husband :) in my parents cosy, small holding in West Wales, I truly realise how important my family are to me, everyone pulls together to help a family member in need and support them through the good times and the bad times, they are always there no matter what happens. So thank you to the Cliffs and the Woods for being ace!

Now I know that January can sometimes be a tough month so I thought I would cheer you all up with a New Year giveaway. This giveaway is to encourage you to feel inspired so to help you do that I am offering the chance to win a beautiful vintage teacup and saucer to drink your tea 'properly' in whilst you take a few moments to yourself and think about what you want to achieve this year and what your family mean to you as lets face it no matter what we do we will never fail if we have our family beside us!

So to be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is the following;

♥ Sign up to my newsletter
♥ Follow my blog
♥ Comment on my blog about what your family mean to you and why

That's it very simple indeed

This competition ends at midnight on 31st January 2012 and is only open to UK residents. The winner will be announced here on the blog so keep your peepers open.

Happy New Year everyone, I will look forward to sharing it with you

Lovely Lucy's Vintage Wedding

Hello! I received these beautiful photographs from one of my customers, Lucy. I adored Lucy she was so much fun and thoroughly enjoyed her engagement and wedding to the full! Lucy and her hens joined me for a cupcake decorating workshop in July and then for her wedding I provided the vintage teapots for Kerry at The Blossom Tree to fill with gorgeous flowers and vintage teacups and saucers that Lucy's mum, Lyn filled with sweets to treat her guests on each table for the wedding breakfast.




The whole look was beautiful!

Thank you for the photographs Mr and Mrs Hassall and I wish you a very long and happy life together!!


The lovely Lucy enjoying her hen party cupcake decorating!

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A lovely vintage wedding for a lovely couple

I have just received these lovely images from one of my customers (We forgot our camera on this one!). Their wedding was a couple of weeks ago and they hired all of my vintage cups and saucers and I also made them some colourful cupcakes with a little fruit cake top tier (the little wooden peg topper was made by the mother of the bride, how lovely!)






This couple were the most chilled out couple I have ever worked with and I really enjoyed working with them. Even down to the day before when the bride realised that she hadn't got any flowers for the cake display, did she panic... no not in the slightest and we sorted it all no problem!



Nicola and Marcus you are ace and I hope you have a beautiful and happy life together!




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Vintage China At Weddings

I was working late last night setting up lots and lots of my vintage china at a wedding at Rosliston Forestry Centre. It all looked so lovely once it was set up, unfortunately we didnt get to see the full set up so we had to take photos of empty cake stands but later on today they will be filled to the brim with cakes and other goodies.





The bride and groom are having an afternoon tea for their wedding breakfast and then an evening meal later on, this is a great thing to do for your wedding as it really treats your guests and is very simple to do, especially if you get me to style your tables! :)




Vintage china hire is still going strong and is a beautiful addition to your wedding decor and general feel of the day. I personally love it!






Thanks to Vicky and Alex for hiring us for their beautiful wedding we hope you have a wonderful day!





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Vintage Wedding Table Centre Piece Ideas

Vintage teapot filled with flowers

One of my gorgeous brides shared her photographs with me from her wedding last weekend. She hired out my vintage teapots, tea plates, cake stands and cake slices. The teapots were filled with flowers and placed on top of a pile of lovely old books and the cake stands were used for Victoria sponges, chocolate cakes and cute mini cakes and treats.


The lovely bride and her bridesmaids cutting into cakes with their vintage cake slice!

The bride, Amy only managed to take a few snaps as they were too busy dancing the night away! They look fab don't they, I love it when my brides take the time to send me the pics of their day its a real treat for me to see them all set out and how the couple have used them and in this case very creatively!


Teapot filled with flowers and placed on top of old books to create a centre piece

So thank you Amy it all looked beautiful!!

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Valentine's cupcake giveaway and all things pretty

I recently got together with Kerry from The Blossom Tree and we did a little photoshoot with cupcakes, flowers and a sprinkling of old fashioned sweets and vintage china too! I also used some lovely party picks that Joanne from the fab Vintage Twee made especially for this shoot, so thank you very much to her! and you can see in one of the photos that I have used my amazing Vintage and Cake sign made for me by Vicky Trainor. I won a giveaway on her lovely blog and this was the prize! All in all I am very happy with the results of the photoshoot so thank you to Ben my ace boyfriend/photographer!






This blog isn't however just about me bigging myself and The Blossom Tree up oh no, its about another giveaway for you all! I will be giving one of you fellow bloggers and readers the chance to win 4 Valentine's cupcakes, all you have to do is follow me, leave a comment making sure you include your email address and that's it!

This giveaway is for UK followers only I am afraid.




I will be drawing the winner randomly on the 5th February, so get your comments in before that please! I will then announce the cupcake winner on my blog so make sure you keep your peepers out for that.





Good luck everyone

Julie x

A white rose wedding cake

Christmas wasn't all about the eating and chilling out for me, oh no there was work to be done as weddings took place over the festive period, well on the 28th December anyway!

I had two weddings on this date one was for a large vintage china order for a British themed wedding, delivered to a lovely village hall in Nottingham (sorry no photos as yet!) and one was for a very simple yet elegant white sugar rose stacked wedding cake. So on the day after Boxing day it was back into the kitchen for me and then 7 hours later this cake emerged!

I must say I do find it rather a challenge stacking wedding cakes as there are so many processes involved and the doweling and icing is key so that your cake doesn't sink at the venue, that would be a nightmare, in fact I do actually have nightmares about that happening or the cake falling when the couple go to cut it, luckily that has never happened and I will make sure it never happens!

This cake had 3 layers, the bottom was a rich fruit cake, the 2nd and 3rd tiers were a simple vanilla sponge with whipped vanilla bean buttercream. I set it up at Donington Park Farmhouse, one of my favourite venues in Derbyshire as the staff are great and the place is so cosy. This couple had their wedding in the old piggeries and it was gorgeous, very lovely for a cold winters day.




My next wedding cake is another shells and starfish cupcakes with top tier, I love making that cake. The fruit cake is already made and maturing nicely!

Happy New Year everyone and please check back for my New Year giveaway soon!

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The Vintage Tearoom

Well we went to London and held our little vintage tearoom... was it busy? well me and my lovely helpers did not even have time to eat or drink! You know those queues you see for Betty's Tearoom in Harrogate? well it was like that, which is brilliant for business but not so good for delicate vintage china. Some of it did get broken and I was very upset but these things happen I suppose, no point crying over beautiful, irreplaceable vintage china now is there!!:(





The vintage wedding fair was very busy so I hear but I didn't even get the chance to go and have a mooch around like I usually do as I was busy serving tea and cakes to the masses of people. I wish I had more time to chat to all the lovely brides to be but unfortunately I was too busy cutting slices of lemon drizzle and Victoria sponges!



The next Vintage wedding fair is in Lemington Spa on the 10th April, I will be posting more details on that one soon, this time I am just holding a stall so will have lots of time to chat to all the vintage brides to be.

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