Handmade & Vintage loveliness at Winslow !

We have had some lovely weather recently, and this week had been forecast as being showery, with possible thunderstorms. This was the case on Saturday, when it was dry when we arrived at a car boot sale, and within about 10 minutes, the heavens opened!! No great finds this day!!
Arriving home, and reading a local newsletter for the Buckingham area, I saw a Summer Fayre advertised with a Vintage & Handmade market!! This was in a nearby lovely little old market town of Winslow. Of course this was somewhere I really wanted to visit, and crossed my fingers that the weather would be ok : ) As you can see from the pic above, it turned out a lovely, sunny day! A bit blustery, but no raindrops!!

Winslow is a really pretty little country town. It has a main street, with a market square, and lots of beautiful buildings in the little side streets. It certainly is a great place to take your camera! Love this little cottage !

Lots of lovely little individual shops, and tea rooms too.

The Handmade & Vintage stalls were in the market square, it all looked so pretty with plenty of colourful bunting, and gorgeous goodies. I arrived early so i had a chance to get some pics before the crowds arrived! This lovely stall belonged to a fellow blogger, who I know pretty well, Annie, of Vintage at the Corner House. It was great to see her, and lovely to catch up. It will be the Northampton Vintage Fair on Saturday 21st May, so we will certainly both be busy then!

A lovely selection of vintage china, and glassware on this stall!

Another stall full of loveliness! Don't you just love that pretty rosy table cover too?

There were also lovely things to eat too. As you probably noticed there was a Vintage ice cream van in the first pic, selling scrummy flavours of ice cream, such as Strawberrries & Cornish clotted cream, Belgian Chocolate Truffle, ans Sticky Toffee fudge!! Certainly makes a change fron the usual vanilla, chocolate & strawberry. Also there was this lady who makes the most gorgeous cupcakes! So beautifully decorated, it seemed a shame to have to eat them!!

Lovely live vintage music serenaded us! It set a lovely atmosphere for the day : ) Sunshine, music, scrummy food & vintage - sounds good to me !

One thing I think I often look for is ideas for display. Love the duck egg blue painted ladder!

More lovely china, and the lovely old Singer sewing machine in the backgrouns is still in working order!

That is one thing I think we love about vintage, you never know what you will see, you can find something out of the ordinary, that is not mass produced, and it is lovely to visit a pretty little town like this , and get away from shopping centres and supermarkets. You can speak to the stall holders, and it's a lot friendler atmosphere. Winslow has a monthly Farmers Market too held the first Sunday of the month, so I can see I will be paying a visit there too! It is also a great idea for the shopkeepers in the town too, as many shops, and tea rooms open specially on these Sundays, so it's a win -win situation for everyone!

More pretty cottages in the town. Hope you've enjoyed the visit : ) x