02 Apr Spring Forward
[gallery type="circle" ids="836,825,832,844,835,830,837,831,834,845,829,828,826,839,843,838,846"] It's been nearly a month since I last wrote...
08 Mar Friday’s Featured Item – Vintage Cat and Mice Ornaments with Oversized Yellow Glass
Price: £16 This is a rather eccentric yet adorable set of ornaments. It has sat by the fireplace for many years but is now the prey of my mother's real life cat, so it needs a new home. The Glass is in immaculate condition but the ceramic...
01 Mar Friday’s featured item – Vintage 1930s Glass Sweet Jar. Green and Clear Glass.
Price: £24 A delicate piece, untouched by time. The kind of piece I would like to pass on to people I love and tell them stories about the sweets I stored in it. Condition: Perfect Measurements: Height: Approximately 9 inches Maximum width: Approximately 5 inches All item flaws are described as...
13 Feb Valentine’s Day Discount Code at Tin Cup Vintage!
Will you be one of Tin Cup Vintage's Valentines? From now until Monday morning 18th of Feb at 9am GMT, enter the coupon code LOVE14 and receive a 14% discount on your order (excluding postage). Click on 'shop' above to see our lovely treasures. Spread the...
07 Feb How €15 Can Practically Buy You a Garden
[gallery columns="2" type="circle" ids="630,632,637,635,631,636,639"] Yesterday Jon and I went out on our favourite weekly expedition: first to the post office to send Tin Cup Vintage items to their new owners and then to the local second hand market/junk shop/Aladdin's Cave of treasures waiting to be found. And...
01 Feb Friday’s featured item – 1970’s Tweed Autumn/Winter Dress Red Brown
Winter isn't over just yet, so stretch out the joys of wearing cosy winter clothes until Spring arrives! This gorgeous 1970's button down dress is perfect for winter; wear a blouse or jumper beneath and it'd brighten up a work day, an outdoor ramble or digging...
30 Jan “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know” Diane Arbus
[gallery ids="539,540,538,532,536,534,541,543,542"] My favourite way of spending a Sunday afternoon, and avoiding homework, used to be to unzip my mum's tartan suitcase filled with photos collected since her childhood. On the hallway shelves sat large, beautifully presented photo albums, containing what were to be considered the...
26 Jan ‘“Before the morn ye’ll work mischief:” Indeed will I,” quo’ Findlay.’ – Robert Burns, Wha Is That at My Bower Door
[gallery ids="516,518,519,520,521"] Heritage, where do we find our heritage? My mother's family are Scottish, yet she was born in South Africa. My father's family are fiercely Welsh (my grandfather Cliff Bere wrote the Welsh Republican Movement Manifesto and had a taste for burning the Union Jack) yet...
05 Jan “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” Goethe
Cheers! Lyon, France Everyone starts a fresh on January 1st, or early September at the start of the school calendar, or simply every Monday after a debauched or slothful weekend. Recently Jon and I started a new beginning on December the 18th, 2012. We moved from the beautifully...
25 Aug Weeping into The Biscuit Tin
C'est fini! 'The Biscuit Tin' has been filmed. I got to say 'It's a wrap' in the appropriate context for once in my life. The final scenes involved lyig in bed, eating poached eggs and looking a bit miserable. None of these at once, but all...
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