What Is EPNS?
Here's a question we get a lot on the phone and our website. Labels: antique cutlery, EPNS, silver plate, vintage cutlery
Here's a question we get a lot on the phone and our website. Labels: antique cutlery, EPNS, silver plate, vintage cutlery
We buy and sell 1000's of button every year and they're one of my favourite things, I love rummaging through a button box, it calms me! A bit bit odd, but, there you go!

Labels: antique toast racks, art deco, atomic, good wedding gifts, Old Hall, silver plate, toast holders, toast racks, unusual wedding gifts, victorian, vintage toast racks

Labels: cake vintage games, what is it

Labels: barrow in furness, vintage accessories, vintage clothing., vintage scarves, vintage style
A few years ago a friend gave me a lovely hard back notebook and I decided to start compiling a recipe book. It's going well, I've got Granny's fail safe scones, Mum's chocolate pudding and my friend Debi's scrumptious pear and ginger cake (just perfect at this time of year). The thing is my recipe book is almost entirely cake and pudding! It got me thinking that it's the sweet things, the treats, that make us feel the most nostalgic. Will I ever find that magical combination of equipment and skill to recreate my Granny's baking?
As a new Mum I've discovered all sorts of new responsibilities. One of the nicer ones has to be providing birthday cakes! Why not try your hand at some stylish icing with this fabulous forties icing set by Tala. You can always have a tube of smarties at the ready just in case!
Those of you with allotments, or friends or relatives with one, will know that food is plentiful at this time of year. Bowls full of apples and pears are filling my kitchen. What better time to discover some new recipes. Up here in Leeds there's a change in the air. Autumn is definately just around the corner, and I kind of like it. We're a student city and this is the moment of calm before Autumn term arrives with a bang.