Lazy Vintage Days.

This morning I woke up and for the first time in simply ages I found myself at home with no guests, no work, no plans...and I liked it! Don't get me wrong, I love spending weekends with my boyfriend or going out with friends or drinking endless tea with family, but sometimes it's nice to just fill your time doing nothing. My Godmother used to sing me that song...

I'm busy doing nothing, working the whole day through
trying to find lots of things not to do
I'm busy going nowhere, isn't it just a crime?
I'd like to be unhappy buuuut I never do have the time

...and on days like today, with a hint of sun and no commitments, I think of it and smile.

I always wake up fairly early, but with nowhere to be today I just reached out to my bedside table (bought last week at the Tip Shop for £4 and painted with black lacquer paint, £8) and finished my book, Isobel Wolff's A Vintage Affair. Have any of you read it?

I work for a shop selling "vintage-inspired" clothes but it was lovely to read about genuine 1950s prom dresses and broderie anglaise and auctions and house sales, and to remember the true meaning of vintage. The book was just a cute easy read but it got me dreaming of opening up a little shop and hopping over to France every six weeks to search through the flea markets for hidden gems.

Anyway, after a leisurely shower and lazy breakast I went into Warwick and Leamington to look in some of the interesting and independent shops. Trawling through the antique centres, the things that really get to me are the rings. So many old rings and surely each one has a Story. I like to let my imagination run wild, picture the scene when the ring was first bought - by a nervous young man, by a woman in a delicate circumstance needing to appear otherwise? When did it first come out of the box? Was it well received, did it make it onto a lady's finger, sit for sixty years next to a wedding band..? I'll never know, of course, but I like to invent something.

Am I the only one going crazy? Does anyone else love vintage? Dream of opening a shop? Make up stories about jewellery with history?

Tomorrow I'm off to Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds. Surely prime vintage land so I'll let you all know if I find a good story....