Weekend wanderings

A couple of lines an snaps of my weekend wanderings. Starting with my investigation into the King's Road...was it surprisingly annoying to get to? Yes. Were there many Chelsea tractors on the streets? Oh yes. But how were the interiors shops? Well that I can answer too:

The Shop at Bluebird was a little quiet on homewares. But the products in the store were divine, a bit out of my meagre budget, yet still beautiful.

This other King's Road shop was so tempting...but so shut. Damnit

Designer's Guild was florishing with colour as always and had some great deals. Including bargain stacks of cushions in any colour, print, texture you could want from £15. But it was this nest of tables with pressed flowers that caught my eye...

I am going to save the new Anthropologie shop on the King's Road to a visit all to itself. It is amazing.

I also made my first visit to the new car boot sale in Pimlico today...the inside stalls were great for a rummage but it was a little quiet outdoors. I still have great hopes for it as a great in/out car boot - when the chilly weather and thifty late January buyers have gone...Come springtime I can see this handily central car boot being a regular haunt.

I did however scoop up this selection of picture frames for £1/£1.50 each. Can't go wrong with a car boot bargain.

Anthopologie haul

Anthropologie treat

I'll be honest - I usually save my summer sales enthusiasm for clothes (well clothes, shoes, bags, underwear...you get my point). But this morning I learnt of a homeware summer sale that was worth getting my rummaging hat out for. One special store - Anthropologie mmm

I work just a short hop away from the Regent Street Antropologie store, so (purely for research purposes) I made a beeline to the sale. The sale in fact also covered the clothing and jewellery sections of the store, but I only had eyes for one section.

As always the interior of Anthropolgie was looking shabby chic cool, with the living wall blooming, animal motifs aplenty on show and New York accents heard throughout the store. The discount section was given the usual 'jumble-sale' feel, but the range of products on sale and the prices still pleased me greatly.

The (up to 50% off) sale offered flock towels, cute fabric covered capital letters, cushions with naive animal prints, bright coloured glassware and even Anth's famous patchwork aprons all at great prices.

This bargain hunter invested in handy Latte Bowls in a low key Sky colour at £1.95 each. I also toyed with the idea of getting my credit card out to buy some of the twee bed linen - check out this Bird Song print! But then came back to earth remembering that despite its half price tag it probably wasn't a good idea to invest...can't quite imagine sneaking floral *and* birdy bedding past the boy see...