Ideal Homes- Show Us Your New Purchases!

[Marth]

I love your cards, Jet.
My friend lives just up the road in Musselburgh, in a road that leads to the beach We had a pub lunch on Portobello beach.

I love the tea cups and saucers and the little bowl, Smalex.

[Calico]

I used to live right next to Porty beach too, although more the Seafield end of things. It was bloody windy.

Where did you get the postcards from, Jetski? I have an old map of Edinburgh on my wall for nostalgic moments, but some postcards would be nice too.

[Jet]

There are tons for sale on e-bid, which I have never heard of before, but it's just like ebay I think. I got most of them from the same seller so only paid GBP1 shipping for those.

[Demelza]

Lovely cards Jet. I bought this today

[aliceinwonderland]

I have a friend who had the same jug. It glugs gratifyingly as it pours!

[AliciaMongoose]

Demelza! I really want one of those for the glug factor!

[speedy gonzalez]

I love the old postcards.
It's mine and Mr Speedy's wedding anniversary in May and it's meant to be lace presents. How useless is that? When we discovered that we agreed no presents this year. So he's getting these. Well, he always gets me a big bunch of flowers so this is equivalent to flowers for him.

[Pob]

I like the second one,. Where is it from?

[speedy gonzalez]

Thanks Pob it's from Amazon and I ordered a pack of pens to get free delivery as it was only £8.60! It's called filigree so nearly lace.

[Demelza]

Demelza! I really want one of those for the glug factor!

They are fab. I really wanted one last year - I now seem to have quite a collection in different colours. I wasn't going to buy any more but I didn't have one in this colour and it was only £3 ...

[Ella]

I considered posting this anonymously and seeing how many seconds it took to guess that it was me :)). It's for the table outside, and I'm going to put rosemary in it probably.

[phyona]

Slightly off topic but Marth, I'm from Musselburgh :)

I live in Port Seton just now which is near Musselburgh and is a fishing village.

Randomness over ;)

[Jet]

Last time I was at Portobello beach was when I jumped in the sea with a hangover after my leaving party

[Sky]

Is Port Seton near Seton Sands? I was dragged there in the caravan as a teenager and I remember it being really pretty although my sullen 15 year old self hated every minute of it :))

[Pippedydeadeye]

We bought new lamps today, but I have to take the floor one back for an exchange because it's badly dented on the base. I wanted to change the shades, but I actually quite like the shades they come with. I can change them when they get grubby.

[Squirrel]

They are lovely Pip! I'm in the market for new lamps but keep dying of boredom when I start looking, I get lamp blindness and they all look the same, then I give up.

[Pippedydeadeye]

This has taken MONTHS. We couldn't find any we liked/agreed upon, and these were the only ones, and we weren't planning on keeping the shades at all. What's nice about these is that have little chain pulls to switch on/off rather than on the cord.

[olive]

I knew Ella's purchase would be concrete before I even logged on to see images. :))

Nice lamps Pip.

I'm in the market for new lamps but keep dying of boredom I start looking, I get lamp blindness and they all start looking the same.

I'm in the market for loads of new house stuff and am getting total furniture blindness. :crazy:

I am about to purchase this but am trying to find a discount code knocking about.

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[Squirrel]

Right, I'm well up for that chain thingy. Mind if I copy you? I originally thought I wanted a floor standing touch lamp but they don't really exist, as I didn't want the cord switch either and haven't properly researched what's out there. We've got one surviving touch lamp in the bedroom, a horrible one with an inaccessible switch in the spare room that enrages me, and a plain Ikea floor lamp and an ugly cheapo jobby with a stained shade in the living room. It's a disgrace I tell you!

[smalex]

I really love that Olive.