Recent Acquisitions

It's a horrid start to the Summer out there so I felt some cheer in the form of photos of shiny new things was in order. A recent trip to the Cath Kidston outlet store resulted in some delightful new purchases, including these mugs:

You can never have enough mugs I always say, although the bulging mug press and HTB's unimpressed face when I took said mugs out of the bag said otherwise..in fairness, he doesn't drink tea or coffee so he doesn't get the whole mug thing. Personally, I think there's nothing more comforting than a nice hot mug of tea. Hence these little babies. Plus they nicely match the other Cath Kidston mugs I have, which is handy for when I'm entertaining (for "entertaining" see: pretending to be a housewife from the 1970's).
Before I could be pried out of the store I also bought these amazing retro cake tins:

You'd imagine that one would never have enough use for THREE cake tins simultaneously..one would be wrong (apologies for the terrible photo, I just realised how lopsided it is..it was not in fact taken on the titanic, although you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise). I also got these lovely bed sheets, cause, you know, we're running dangerously low on Cath Kidston bed linen. Ahem.

While on a discounted shopping roll, I popped into the Ted Baker outlet store and picked up this make up bag set:

I'm currently already using a Ted Baker make up bag but I like to change them regularly as I think they can get a bit grimy and unsanitary from make up and constant use. I love the print on these bags and tragically, I have a dress in this print too..just in case I ever want to somehow..reverse camouflage myself???
My self gifting ended here but I do rather luckily have a very generous family who see things and think of me. More importantly, they then buy those things and give them to me! Legends. On that note, I received these beautiful tomato red pumps from my extremely generous sister who got them in monsoon:

Aren't they pretty? Such a gorgeous summery shade and great detail on the front, they'll go perfectly with a nice floral dress. Hurrah!
Lastly, my brilliant mother bought me these as an early wedding present:

The perfect tools for when I'm once again, pretending to be a lady and serving afternoon tea- a Newbridge cake stand, cake slice and matching cake forks.

God I love me some afternoon tea.

I have yet to assemble the rather lovely cake stand but am very excited to do so! Just look at the pattern-so pretty! My inner ICWA lady is just itching to get out!!