Last weekend saw us heading
back to the Cotswolds to celebrate Tim and Jo's wedding. The American was
an usher so we decided to take an extra-long weekend so the greatest amount of
revelry could be enjoyed without the fear of returning to work on the Monday
morning with a sore head. Monday was somewhat drearier than Saturday but despite this we headed west to Chipping Norton to an antique treasure trove that my mum can't stop talking about. I think she has been 3 times this summer alone, always coming back with a little trinket or two.
Station Mill Antiques and Interiors lies just on the outskirts of Chipping Norton and is a haven of furniture, jewellery and curiosities from every era. We were in heaven! Although our flat is mostly all furnished now (2 years later!) we are still on the look out for little bits and bobs to make our house a home.
We rummaged through endless blue Delftware, depression glass vases and bundles of silver cutlery. There were enough antlers and whole racks to dress a Scottish castle, velvet armchairs in dashing prints and patterns and some exquisite walnut dressers and side tables. We were somewhat limited to what we could buy seeing as we were catching the train back down to London at the end of the day so we came away happy with a sweet little posy vase and silver tray, perfect for our home cocktail-making station.
I may sound middle aged already but I am very happy to admit that a weekend antiquing in the Cotswolds is my idea of heaven! We took the scenic route back to home and stopped off for lunch in Broadway, one of my most favourite towns.
Summer seems to have left us behind but I am quite content with how we left it - a long weekend surrounded by the sun-drenched Cotswolds.
L.
Station Mill Antiques and Interiors lies just on the outskirts of Chipping Norton and is a haven of furniture, jewellery and curiosities from every era. We were in heaven! Although our flat is mostly all furnished now (2 years later!) we are still on the look out for little bits and bobs to make our house a home.
We rummaged through endless blue Delftware, depression glass vases and bundles of silver cutlery. There were enough antlers and whole racks to dress a Scottish castle, velvet armchairs in dashing prints and patterns and some exquisite walnut dressers and side tables. We were somewhat limited to what we could buy seeing as we were catching the train back down to London at the end of the day so we came away happy with a sweet little posy vase and silver tray, perfect for our home cocktail-making station.
I may sound middle aged already but I am very happy to admit that a weekend antiquing in the Cotswolds is my idea of heaven! We took the scenic route back to home and stopped off for lunch in Broadway, one of my most favourite towns.
Summer seems to have left us behind but I am quite content with how we left it - a long weekend surrounded by the sun-drenched Cotswolds.
L.
