mrs roomtobreathe: Discovering Homestuff With History

mrs roomtobreathe: Discovering Homestuff With History: I needn't have worried myself about shopping opportunities when I left London. Cambridge is not only complete with the normal high stree...

No Open Weekend in September!

Sadly, we haven’t got enough stock for our Open Weekend this month, so it won’t be happening (but you already knew that, because you’re on our mailing list!). But never fear…expect another announcement soon telling you exactly when you can next come along and have a proper look at our amazing finds…

In the meantime we’ve added some industrial pieces, children’s goodies, tins, furniture and plenty more unique items that you know will look just perfect in your house!

SWEETS MADE SIMPLE!

Guess who supplied the wooden print blocks for the new BBC 2 series 'Sweets made Simple'? The photographer (http://www.crisbarnett.com/) Cris had a great time routing round in our workshop looking round for props, so see if you can spot any other www.homestuffwiththistory.com stuff in later episodes!

DRIFTWOOD...

An elderly couple came into the shop. The man walked around looking, and prodding, before stopping in front of one of the driftwood boats. I was about to say how I made them from Suffolk driftwood when he suddenly exclaimed "Well it's not the worst model I've ever seen"

Slightly taken aback I replied "But possibly in your top five?"

"Well, definitely in the top ten" he countered.

He then proceeded to tell me all about the worst model boat he had ever seen. As he left the shop his wife sidled over and said "So sorry, he's a naval architect"

Ho hum….another day with the public!

ICONOGRAPHY

We've just uploaded some new stock to the shop including this very religious oil painting. We have to say, this type of iconography is very in at the moment. Matt actually has a large chalkware Mary and baby Jesus in his house…although this isn't that weird compared to some of his other stuff

PERFECTLY PINK!

We don't often talk about chairs but we couldn't resist a photo of these very distressed pink hoop backs. They have it all going on..!

DAINTY DISPLAYS!

We're busy building more display space for the June Open Weekend (have we mentioned that?!  http://www.homestuffwithhistory.co.uk/pages/open-weekends). It should allow us to do some interesting themed displays such as this muted collection we were dabbling with, in between resto jobs.