Retro Rooms made me cry...

We went to the Frock around the Clock retro rooms fair today in the holiday inn in Belfast. I've been to the frock around the clock fairs before but always the ones selling clothes, jewelery and bric a brac, so thought the furniture one would make a nice change.


Sunday is our little day together so we always get up early no matter how late we were up the night before and head off for an adventure! so out the door before lunch and the first thing i see at the fair i WANT! it was a beautiful china cabinet that had been refurbished and painted a beautiful baby pink with patchwork in the background. I found a picture of it pre-pinked, but it really was much prettier in pink!

Both of us are oddly nervous when asking for directions, booking tables in restaurants, asking for the bill, haggling etc etc. We;re pretty much awkward at everything in life that requires interaction with other people. Maybe its because we're both a little odd, maybe its because we were both picked on when we were younger, maybe its a mix of the two...or maybe we're just wimps, but anyway, by the time we gathered the courage to ask about buying the cabinet we spoke to the makers mum who told us all about it. We paid and went off to phone the fathership to use his massssive car to transport the precious cargo. 5 minutes later the poor woman was chasing me looking very embarrassed and told me the cabinet had already been sold by her daughter about 15 minutes before we had asked about it. Just our luck!! I know it looks like a cabinet you could make by taking 1 hour or so and just sprucing it up, but realistically i have a box of fabric and a sewing machine upstairs that are unloved because i never have time to make anything so when am i likely to find time to make a beautiful cabinet...


It's so silly to think the woman who painted and added some patterned paper to an old cabinet can charge £100 for something you could probably make for about £30, but it's just so much easier to buy it ready made right? I've been moping about all afternoon now pining for the pink cabinet of joy.


Or perhaps i should learn form this and start going into charity shops on the hunt for bargains again like me and husband used to do every free minute we had! those were some of the most fun shopping trips I've ever had finding funny old records to frame, crocheted blankets and odd little ornaments to display. Maybe fate is trying to tell me something?


Look out charity shops and craft emporiums here i come, armed with a vision of the cabinet of dreams!!