A sunny afternoon in Islington

Mr S and I decided to brave the Olympic crowds (well I had been doing it all week anyway) and head in to London to celebrate my birthday with some close friends.

We headed to the beautiful area of Islington and started off with some delightful Turkish food, Aubergine stuffed with chick peas, peppers and tomatoes big yum!

Having left the menfolk in a pub to watch the start of the Murray game, we went off to explore the lanes of Islington. Unfortunately it being a Sunday meant that some of the antique shops where closed and I have put myself on a self imposed teacup buying ban as my space for storage is becoming extremely restricted ( I can't turn round without the risk of knocking a teacup or teapot).

Trust us to run across a shop full of teacup but fortunately it was closed so I was not forced to test self restraint.

We arrived back at the pub in time just to see Murray win his gold in the men's single so with that we thought it would only be fitting to toast Murray's success with a frozen yoghurt from Samba Swirl.

A perfect Sunday afternoon- food and teacups

Ruby

www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk

In A Garden One Day Ruby's China Comes Out To Play

We were lucky enough to get the chance to work with the brilliant Chanon De Valois, on updating our photography for our website.

On a very windy day we set up in Chanon's garden to shot some of the pieces that have yet to be featured in our official photography. We had a great team of me, Chanon, Jenni and Q the dog. Q thought it important to inspect all the teacups and cake stands in case of any sign of food, unfortuntately there was nothing to be found.

Of course we found ourselves getting windswept and moved our efforts indoors, setting up our table shots which were equally as stunning.

We featured some of Chanon's wedding photography in an earlier blog and can highly recommend her work. Chanon can be contacted via the below details

Chanon deValois Photography 

07768 078 088

chanon@chanondevaloisphotography.com 

www.chanondevaloisphotography.com

Here is a small selection from our day but keeping some of those under wraps for now......

New Lovelies Join Ruby's Collection

Here at Ruby's we always get really excited when we find beautiful pieces of china and these pieces were no exception.

We brought these stunning pieces from the lovely Liz Rheeder who was having to sell her collection due to a house move and we were happy to offer them a great home. These pieces are all availble to hire for your vintage tea party so start planning away with these pictures below.

Ruby x

www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk

Ruby's off to a Fayre at.. Seabright's Barn

Last Sunday Mr S and I packed up the car with our china for our final wedding fair before our own wedding in July and off we went to Seabright's Barn in Great Baddow. This charming venue has only recently launched weddings packages and this was their 1st fair to promote themselves.

Organise by the fab Karen and Sam from Essex Events Company http://www.theessexeventscompany.co.uk, this turned out to be a great event to meet brides, grooms and suppliers. It was also lovely to put faces with all the names of the people we have met since starting our business in January such the wonderful Tracy Williams who might remember supplied us with stunning images for the photography post.

Ruby's was there alongside the Golden Whisk www.thegoldenwhisk.co.uk to serve afternoon tea as afternoon tea should be served of course with proper china and take a look at the result. We also got to show off a wider range of our china and our new postcards!

Ruby's is now able to offer a full afternoon tea package by either contacting us www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk or via contacting the Golden Whisk.

As the afternoon ended and the bride and Grooms left for the day, we had the pleasure of meeting Emma Brooks www.emmabrooksmakeup.co.uk and Tina Crossley www.beautifulhair4weddings.co.uk. These ladies had created a beautiful vintage make over and we got this stunning picture with china our china.

Ruby x

www.rubysvintageteaparty.co.uk

A busy few months..

So if you have stumbled across this lovely blog entry then you have located our new website at

http://www.wix.com/kkrippi/rubys-vintage-tea-party

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It has been a busy few months at Ruby's HQ finding beautiful pieces of china to add to our rapidly exapnding collection

We will be adding more pictures of these special little finds we have come across.

Until next post...

Ruby