Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Cinderella comes to the Fens ..

Imagine my delight ,last Friday when I went up to town ,and discovered a lot of the shop windows were telling me a story ,a favourite one with us all ,Cinderella,I started of passing the antique shop ,(I wish I was a better photographer) but Im sure you will enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed looking into these shop windows....


Below is the vets





now the bakers





The accountants

Good old Lavender Blue ,never lets us down !




The Childrens clothes shop
And the dress agency (love this shop I often go in here ! )



With a real glass slipper ! see it ?
How lovely, they all lived happily ever after , I hope you enjoyed our walk around the shops ? as much as I did ,have a lovely day ....with love

33 comments:

Unknown said...

wow that is really nice!

Paula said...

I sure did enjoy the walk. Thanks for inviting me along. Every thing is so pretty.

Jeannette said...

How lovely that everyone has got in on the act, so to speak. What a great idea! Thank you for sharing Jan.

Ally Lifewithally said...

Thankyou Jan I love window shopping ~ and I enjoyed this more as I could do it from home :o) Your photographs are great ~ Ally x

Jeanie said...

Do you know Jan...I really enjoyed that walk around your village shops. Isn't it wonderful that they all join in the festive spirit. Just magical!
I loved the glass slipper too. A wonderful theme as well.
Thanks for sharing with us all.
Love 'n hugs
Jeanie xxx

LYN said...

What a neat idea..thanks for showing us...

Beckie said...

When i was a girl my mum used to take us round to the little village next to ours, it had a butchers, bakers, flower shop, a bank, and they used to put tiny christmas trees on top of the doorways and have 1 large one in the street, the florist always dressed their window according to the season, now sadly its all take aways and empty units, its a shame, thats all you need, some good old fasioned christmas displays, not a laser light show with fluff and sparkles all over!! take care xx

lunarossa said...

That was a lovely trip through the fairy tale world. What a marvellous idea!!! As much as I like the Xmas lights, I think this absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing, Jan. Ciao. Antonella

I'm mostly known as 'MA' said...

Thank you for sharing your shop windows. How pleasant it must be to browse there. I noticed the little mice in one picture and they looked so real. It's so nice they all go together with a theme. 'On Ya'-ma

Anonymous said...

I love when you take us window shopping!! Thank you for sharing this with us. ~~Kath~~

Joan said...

What a wonderful village you live in doing all those lovely windows you made a great job of the photographs. wish I could take that walk. Love Joan

Yasmin said...

In your village they make such an effort with the shop windows which all look lovely, loved the photo's.

Take care

Yasmin
xx

D said...

I've said often I want to go there... thank you for the walk around town it was fabulous!
love ya

Bunny said...

Loved them all, Jan, especially the makeover at the accountants. Do you think they worked out that it didn't `attract' VAT?
Bunny xx

Pamela said...

OMG that is sooooo nice that they all do that! My favorite was the one with the REAL glass slipper!
I sure wish I could have seen that. Thank you for sharing it with us Jan.
Love, Pam

Anonymous said...

Hi Jan, loved seeing all the photos in the shop windows of Cinderella, its great they all join in .I have been in school this morning in reception class,doing a christmas work shop ,decorating cards etc with lots of glitter and glue......love you ...Jeanxxx

Sandra said...

that was great..... I loved your pictures. I bet you had fun going from shop to shop and then taking pics for us to also enjoy, thanks
Sandra

Sybil said...

what a lovely place to live where everyone seems to get together. The windows are so nice. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Love Sybil

Missie said...

That was so cute!
Have a good evening.

Cathy said...

Did you know that in the original french story the slipper was fur but it got lost in translation to glass...I really can't imagine a fur slipper at all...The windows are fab :o) Hope your christmas pressie making is coming on good xxx

Chris/cacklinrosie101 said...

Oh, how pretty! If we had such beautifully decorated shop windows, I would certainly be in the Christmas spirit. There is a small town about an hour north of here that does have beautiful shops and windows. It's been a few years since I've been there. Not many towns in the states left that are like that. Thanks for sharing, Jan...lovely! xx

Marie Rayner said...

How wonderful that all your shops got together and did this! I really enjoyed seeing the pictures and reading about them. Well done Jan! Thanks so much for sharing with us!

Coelha :B said...

I love those store windows---so old fashioned and pretty...sigh... Julie :)

Aileen said...

Hello! Jan,Great theme in the shops,and nice that they take the time to do this.Wonder if 'Cinderalla' was a competition...for the best dressed window?
Aileen....X

Aileen said...

CINDERELLA.....:>)
Aileen....X

Kathy said...

Great photos of the celebration of Cinderella. Bet you enjoyed seeing all of those things in person!

All of our shop windows are full of Christmas decorations.

Kathy

Dawn said...

That was such a lovely walk with you. I love window shopping. Dawn

Sugar said...

that'a awesome! must be such a nice place to go. just to walk & browse would be a delight!
huggies...

Jeannette said...

The shop displays are beautiful Jan! I love the ugly sisters in the bakers! Lavender Blue never disappoints us do they?! Jeannette xx

Anonymous said...

enjoyed reading that gran.
sam
x

StitchinByTheLake said...

I've never seen a real glass slipper before - wonderful! blessings, marlene

Sal said...

I felt as if I were walking and viewing myself! Thank you!
Sal

Sandra said...

How lovely Jan, it certainly makes shopping a happy experience. :o)

Love Sandra xxxx