Spread the word!

Love the sign at Ellie's Attic

 

On Saturday we decided to visit Dawlish Warren and Teignmouth to spread the word about our next antiques and vintage fair taking place on this coming Saturday, 20 April at The Strand Centre in Dawlish. 

 

 We walked to Dawlish Warren along the sea front and almost got blown away in the process, the waves were that high and the wind that strong! On a summer's day it would have been gorgeous but what can you expect in April eh? Mind you the forecast for this weekend looks scorchio!



Yes, it's Ellie's Attic!

 

Looking like we'd spent a week in a wind tunnel the first place we visited was Lady Mile Holiday Park to drop off a few flyers, then it was onto Ellie's Attic.

 

Wow! What an Aladdin's cave, full of treasure! It's a great place to spend hours doing our favourite pastime of rummaging. We came away with some very cool jewellery which will be for sale at our fairs and a very sturdy grey record case for £3! Bargain!

 

After visiting Ellie's Attic, we tried to leave flyers with a few other holiday parks but unfortunately there was no room at the inn...as it were. All of the leaflet racks were already stuffed full of flyers and you had to pay to use 'em which seemed a bit pointless unless you put yours in front of someone else's.

Outside Hello Retro

 

We decided not to give up hope though and hotfooted it to Teignmouth where we spent a brilliant afternoon.  We visited Hello Retro and had a lovely chat with the owner Nicola Smeardon. We always get shop envy when we visit her. Then it was onto Seeking Vintage where we bought some very pretty marcasite brooches from shop owner Hollie King.

Outside Seeking Vintage

We also visited Sound Preservation Society's record shop on its opening day to buy some vinyl and then to see Moriarty play. It was loud, scuzzy blues rock and there was so much heat in the shop the windows steamed up....perfect!

Moriarty - great set!

Moriarty on the streets of Teignmouth!

Caught in action!

To finish off the day we visited our favourite pub in Teignmouth, The Blue Anchor. A proper pub, selling proper cider with proper ambience. They're holding a Cider Festival over Easter Weekend too, pint glasses at the ready!

No wonder we love The Blue Anchor!

 

This week we're getting ready for the fair on Saturday, our vintage handbags, clothes and other goodies are sorted and all ready to go and we've got half a dozen brand new traders too, so if you're anywhere near Dawlish please pop along, we'd love to see you there.