Yesterday Janey had its first stall with Judy's affordable vintage fair which was in the corn exchange in Leeds. I kept it fairly quiet, only telling a few people just incase anything went wrong, which I needn't have done!
 It was a great success and an amazing day, I loved every minute of it. The only thing I found hard was parting with all the amazing vintage pieces I'd worked so hard to source and repair, but it also felt very rewarding. I can't wait to do it again.

So now I'm going to be busy re-building up stock ready for the next fair!
I didn't get much time to take pictures and wish I'd taken some of individual pieces before they sold, but I managed to snap a few of the stall and venue, when it wasn't too busy.


                          Janey's first stall

                              The venue

Vintage dresses, tops, cardi's and shorts were very popular as were the re-works. I hardly have any skirts left so it's time to get sewing up some more. I'm going to make up more scarf tops too in the next few weeks so will be on the look out for unusual vintage scarves and laces, and of course will be out sourcing more beautiful vintage on my next day off. I can't wait to get started!

I've been busy busy busy these last few weeks, sourcing lots of fabrics and sewing up dresses and other re-works and re-mades, as well as picking up a fair amount of amazing vintage! This weekend is sorting out weekend, pulling together everything I've bought so far, fixing bits and bobs, washing and ironing, pricing things up etc so I'm all ready for a stall. I can't wait!


  I thought I'd start mid week by quickly posting up a few of this weeks re-mades!




 A couple of little dresses made from the most beautiful, but delicate fabrics. Vintage silver lurex fine jersey, (that I had specially printed with some vintage transfer paper from the warehouse at work! - so many gorgeous vintage fabrics there!) And a yellow creeping vine print on high multi chiffon. 

 I also whizzed up a lovely maxi dress in the brightest soft linen I could find! Perfect for summer garden parties.

 


   I also made a few more scarf tops, some with lace yokes or lace backs.             This is possibly my favourite one so far! 

I came across some stunning luggage cases and vanity cases this week! One is so big I haven't yet attempted to get it up my stairs and its sitting in the shed! I love that it still has on its original railway tickets, when I opened it there was a newspaper dating back to the 50's lining the bottom. It needs a bit of a fix up however! 

 This vanity case has the most gorgeous lining, I spent an afternoon sewing it back up as it was quite badly damaged, but now its as good as new, and has even more character than ever.

  Its currently full of vintage scarves waiting to be made into  
                           scarf tops! 

I picked up some awesome 80's leggings and wool jumpers the other day too, but no doubt I'll photograph them at the weekend, when I have a mass sort out!