by peacocklady | Jun 23, 2023 | News
Picture this .. you realise it’s a friends birthday coming up, or your grandmas, or your next door neighbour who takes in the washing when it’s raining … I’ll leave you to imagine who! Anyway, it’s their birthday and you have choices to make! Do you reach for the...
by peacocklady | Jun 22, 2023 | News
Lola, she’s my mannequin. I bought her off some lady on market place a couple of weeks ago and I think she’s slightly baffled why she’s been up-cycled- that’s the lady not Lola lol! No, Lola is now fully resplendent in her finery. She’s been sprayed in paint in all...
by peacocklady | Jun 21, 2023 | News
What idiot goes into a line of work where the potential for allergies is the highest? That would be me lol! I have a really bad allergy to dust amongst other things and obviously dealing in old, antique and vintage items, means generally they come to me fully coated...
by peacocklady | Jun 20, 2023 | News
When is a stool not a stool? When it’s a piece by Phillipe Starck, an innovative designer, much admired and copied. Think Ikea and their version of his Ghost Chair – yep he designed the originals that sell for astronomical amounts. He is a man of many talents,...
by peacocklady | Jun 18, 2023 | News
Picture the scene … you’ve got a sugar bowl filled with sugar, and you come to spoon it into your morning cuppa – only to find it’s gone damp and all clumped together! What to do? The Victorian’s had a solution.. a glass sugar crusher (as pictured) that they’d...
