Competition – I was recently sent a few items from the C’est Ça Vintage Bird Cage Kitchen Textile Collection from ICTC to review. I have to say I just adore the design (based on a Victorian classic) which brings a touch of Mr Selfridge’s chic into your kitchen. All the items in the range (which also includes tea cosies, oven gloves and more aprons) are made in Norfolk from 100% cream cotton etched with black. Here’s what I thought:
Panel Apron £21
Such a pretty apron which gives you retro glamour as soon as you put it on. I think this would be perfect for entertaining as you wouldn’t feel unglamorous if one of your guests caught you wearing it. Indeed I’d probably want to show it off! My only niggle is the neck strap was a bit long on me but if you’re taller or well endowed this wouldn’t be an issue.
Double Oven Glove £16.75
Definitely no style over substance here. I can’t tell you the number of double oven gloves I’ve had over the years as gifts which look really nice but when you come to use them the heat doesn’t take long to get to your fingers. These “dogs” (double oven gloves) are superb at insulating against heat with their thick towelling like reinforced hand area.
Tea Towel £5.75
If like me you hang your tea towel in a prominent place in your kitchen, then this is the one you want to be seen when you have visitors. As we spend so much time in our kitchens it’s nice to have aesthetically pleasing objects around us and this vintage bird cage design puts a smile on my face! I have also washed my tea-towel and I’m happy to say it came out looking the same way it went in. (Please excuse the above photo of tea towel which I took, rest assured it does match the rest of the collection in real life!)
I love this range and think any of the items from it would make the perfect gift for anyone partial to a bit of vintage chic!
All the items are available through Quality Independent Stores – to find a local stockist call 01603 488019 or visit www.ictc.co.uk
The best news is that ICTC have kindly offered the above set of C’est Ça Vintage Bird Cage Kitchen Textiles as a prize for one lucky reader. All you have to do is enter the rafflecopter below and tell me why you’d like to win the set?
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Only open to UK participants over the age of 18.
There is 1 prize of a Panel Apron (£21), Double Oven Glove (£16.75) and a Tea Towel (£5.75) total value £43.50. There’s no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable. No part or parts of the prize may be substituted for other benefits, items or additions.
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Disclaimer: Many thanks to Pam & ICTC for the above prize which I received to review, all opinions are my own and I was not paid for this post.
Georgia Keogh
I would love to win because they’re just so funky!
clare davies
ive just done my kitchen up and this would match perfect! be nice to have things that match too! all my tea towels are old and dont match! ha!
jodie harvey
i would love to win this for my mum, although very tempting to keep as its gorgeous but i know my mum would love it!!!
Helen Garner
Bring a bit of style to my kitchen
linda curtis
the apron is really stylish
Diana Semionova
It looks so lovely 🙂 Would love to own it :}
Claire Smith
Because it matches my kitchen!
Isabelle Smith
because i love the print!
Emma Lewis
I love cooking and these are beautiful.
Holly Boyd
It is stunning, I would be delighted to win this. I currently have no oven gloves or an apron. It would make me feel pretty while slaving in the kitchen.
Sophia Kearney
because i love the style
Sarah Mcknight
Because it is beautiful!
Katarina Micallef
Because it is stunning and anything that adds a little glamour to being a mum in the kitchen is a necessity!
amanda pickering
because its a amazing prize
Amelia Makes
oh this is a fabulous set and think it would just about disguise my ham fistedness in the kitchen if i look pretty! lol
Clint Howat
Looks lovely
leanne williams
I really love this print and it would look so cute in my kitchen!
helenthemadex
this would be a lovely gift for my mum
May @EatCookExplore
That apron will transfrom anyone into a Stepford wife.
Cris Curran
I really love this print and it would look so cute in my kitchen!
Katherine L
I’ve left a comment on the Easy Cheesy Chilli cob recipe. Can’t wait to try it!
Gemma
Wow this set is stunningly beautiful! It would divert my boyfriend’s attention from my kitchen disasters with me looking oh so glamorous when us girls normally feel at our most flustered! xx
DANIELLE VEDMORE
Commented on Easy Cheesy Chilli Cob xxx
Andrea @ love and cake
It would go brilliantly with my kitchen!
Erika Rankin
They are so cute! Would love these for the kitchen! 🙂
Isabel Marie Baker
Truly Beautiful….I would be the smartest Baker in my village 🙂
Donna Speight
I’d love to win this prize. The apron, t-towel and oven gloves are adorable. I could particularly do with the oven gloves as I can’t find the ones I have!
Georgina Ball
I’ve just bought my first home and just want everything new and perfect but can’t afford it now!
Nuala Rees
I love to cook and love this style apron soo pretty x
Eliza_Do_Lots
I am a terrible housewife and like to think that I would be better at it if I had pretty things to do it in!
Victoria Gregory
I love to cook and bake and this would help
Simona
I live with a little bird and she would love to see this!!
georgie pope
it;s just lovely!
Jim Williamson
Give yourself the feelgood factor in the kitchen.
cassandra matley
Love this would look great in my kitchen.
helen megraw
It’s such a pretty pattern and an unusual style
Emily McMillan
When I’m not tweeting I’m baking,! It’s the perfect design for me! Love it x
TracyJo (@tjsi1963)
I don’t have an apron or an oven glove, which I really need and tea towels always come in handy, and I really love the pattern on them, which I’ve not seen before, really unusual and pretty x
Natasha Stehr
It’s just stunning! Plus I always spill something down myself when cooking and this would do the job nicely!
Dee Blenheim
Wow How Beautiful…x
Jayne T
To add a bit of glamour when I’m cooking.
Jenny
I love cooking and it would be grand to do it in style x
Jan Beal
I just love the design!
Anne Cater
Oh, I’d love to win because those items are just beautiful!
victoria thurgood
wow would love to win, it would make a lovely treat for myself so pretty
Emma Farrell
Yes please
karen hutchinson
I need to learn to cook and this would make me look the part
Kane Casburn
Girlfriend would love these
kellyjo walters
I love anything vintage or vintage style
KARA CAMERON
Because it’s practical but still looks fabulous!
Delyth Earp
So pretty.
Kirsty Norton
I would love to win as it would pretty up my boring kitchen!
jemima
so vintage looking – need a kitchen to match it
BRYAN CLARK
Because the fabric design is beautiful and would look perfect on my wife.
Claire Willis
It’s soooo pretty!
Amanda Milton
Commented on instant orange cheesecakes
Amanda Milton
I would love to win this because it is very pretty and would be a lovely treat for my mum
Debra Johnson
Just totally gorgeous
laylat
Because they are soooo gorgeous and totally my stiyle
Christine Montanaro
I’d love to win this stylish prize to brighten up my lovely new kitchen.
vicky cockett
this set is beautiful – i would love to win it for when i host a dinner party, it would not look awful when i am trying to look decent but also cook dinner!
Rachael Barratt
My kitchen style is definitely in need of a revamp!
Alison
I love the design and it would look stylish in the ktiche
esme mccrubb
WOULD BE GREAT FOR MAKING THE CRIMBO DINNER
sam fut
because i love the style
Bev B
I’d look very fancy and retro with all matching stuff!
Cat Williams
I’ve only been waiting for nearly 18 months for my kitchen to be finished and it finally is! I would love some gorgeous kitchen attire to wear in it.
Elizabeth Gurney
I am moving out of my parents and into my own place very soon so would love to win this and help me feel like a domestic goddess!
Joanna Sawka
I could use it a Christmas present for my mum
Lancashire Food
Lovely, I could do with a new pinny
Solange
I have recently had a new kitchen fitted and need stylish accessories to finish it off.
vikkilhamer
Because its very pretty
Susan Lewis
I need a new apron and this one looks fab.
clair downham
im in desperst e need of new oven gloves and apron
Hellies Corner
I really need a new pair of oven gloves, my old ones have a large hole in them and I keep burning my fingers :-((
Andrea Goodheart
I have a shiny new kitchen and need stylish accessories to finish it off.
Vohn McGuinness
My step-daughter has always been a bit of a grungey goth but now she has hit her twenties she is wearing some pretty things, as long as they are still black and white! I’d love to win this for her to look pretty in the kitchen too! Vohn x
Jen @ Blue Kitchen Bakes
I have knackered old tea towels and having a pretty new one would make the drying up more bearable, plus the apron would make me look fancy!
Nicola Holland
Need a little boost in my kitchen as everything is looking weathered!
Nickie
I’d look pretty damn nifty with these in the kitchen!
CAROL PATRICK
I love the birdcage design. We keep aviary birds, I have bird ornaments in the house, and we feed the wild birds outside. My kitchen is cream and this lovely pattern would go perfectly.
Sally Kent
I’d love to win this adorable set because it would pretty up my full kitchen and I’d look like a goddess chef in an apron like that! Well, possibly!
Rachel Smith
Perfect! its so cute and girly and vintage chic!!! I love it I could just imagine being in a sepia photo taking my cakes out of the oven with these on – I absolutely love baking!
Sue Stevenson
Desperate for a new oven cloth this is the same colour as my Rayburn be nice to have a colour matched set for a change!
Emma Clement
Wow! I love this print 🙂 I once “won” the title of most likely to be a 1950’s house wife at one of my old jobs and I actually am a modern day 50’s housewife now ha ha 🙂
Emma x (@beachpebble)
Ann Pierce
So attractive to brighten my kitchen.
faye huntington
i would love to win this because it would make the perfect christmas present for my mum! with love, faye xx
angela sandhu
I do a lot of cooking and would make a lot of use out of this
Roger Bufton
Love the prize
Jane Wells
I can cook and tweet at the same time :))
ANN ANGIES
Would make my look pretyy while cooking every day.
Amy Ripley
Would put a smile on my face when baking!
Annie Costa
Because I’m a sucker for the vintage look!
Annie Costa
I’ve left a comment on “Pork&Grapes”
Susan Hall
I love to bake and they are so cute
Anne Wallwin
i commented on spooky yoghurt scrolls
Anne Wallwin
would like to look vaguely stylish when cooking rather than a sweaty mess!
Dawn Wilkinson
Would make me smile when I have to cook.
bekki ryan
these are lovely
ive never had matching kitchen textiles before normally they are cheapies from the supermarket
Kieran
I’d like to win this for my sister.
SARAH WILLIAMS
SUPER CUTE SET, LOVE THE KITSCHINESS OF IT
Rachel Lisle
I love the design and the shape of the apron in particular.
Rachel Lisle
I love the design and the style of apron in particular.
Hazel Christopher
I would love to win to keep me safe from my little boy when we’re baking together, I usually end up covered in flour or ice sugar that he likes to use as “snow” – plus it’s a gorgeous set, especially love the apron x
Angela Walton
I’m a huge baking fan and spend a lot of time in the kitchen, these would fit in perfectly in my kitchen
Penelope Harper
At the moment, when I DO cook, I put a tea towel round my neck and clip it at the back with a clothes peg! How high-tech am I?
Maybe my food will turn out better if I actually looked the part, rather than an overgrown child wearing a bib! 🙂
Karen Whittaker
I bought a really nice matching set when I was living in Austria 30 years ago (!) and it really could do with replacing now!!
Sarah Maclean
The shape of the apron is very elegant and flattering, and I would love to have a matching set of kitchen textiles, especially in such a pretty pattern
Alice
They are all so pretty!
Elaine Dale
love the vintag set
Jane Brown
I commented on the Walnut Mocha Torte
Jane Brown
My kitchen items are in need of replacing and these are so stylish
Linda spevick
Hubby has never had a matching kitchen set before!
Linda spevick
I have never had a matching set in the kitchen before
Patricia O
I’d love it. Covering up for cooking would be great fun. The design made me smile straight away.
Becky John
Love the design and would love to own the apron.
Beccy Black
Such lovely fabric, and the apron style is great! :o)
Angel
I’d like to see my girlfriend in the apron.
Sandra Clarke
I would give it to my sister for christmas as she loves birds.
Hazel Rea
I’d like to win because I think the apron is amazing!
Kat Lucas
I just love how vintage it looks!
shaheen
I just think its pretty
Charlotte Ingham
Gosh these are so beautiful! Can’t decide which I love more, the apron or the gloves!
Katherine L
I wear an apron no matter what I’m doing in the kitchen .. but I don’t have one of my own. My husband and I share one! I’d love to win this for myself 🙂
Marge
How Beautiful…
I’m really loving bird and bird cage designs lately – Very Vintage x
Kirsten Murphy
I’ve never had a matching set although I’ve bought them for other people! In fact, at the moment I don’t even have an apron and my oven glove has a hole burnt in it!
Rach James
Because it will suit my husband down to the ground when he does his Saturday evening special (I must specify, this is a meal, not some exotic dance or the like!)
Jane Willis
I’d like to win because I’ve got an embossing folder in almost the same design, which proves how much I love it!
Lesley-Ann Dunn
I love cooking and baking so would get lots of use out of it, and the pattern is so pretty – I’d feel like a glamorous 1950s housewife!
Winnie
I love the blank and white design
Darren Collins
I would love to win for the buzz of winning and also my wife thinks it all looks fab 🙂
Stephanie Tsang
I’d love to win because these would go really well in my kitchen
Lynsey Buchanan
i love this vintage look
Aimee R @ Wallflower
Very stylish and I’d love a new apron!
cecelia Allen
I would love to win this , I’ve never seen such a pretty kitchen set.. I absolutely love the apron, they are usually such a boring unflattering shape but this is beautiful.
chris
They are gorgeous and would make a lovely present if I could bare to give them away
Hannah ONeill
I love the pattern!
Nina McFadden
Because I love the design.
Helen T
Oh I love that apron – can swish around the kitchen like a vintage domestic goddess (stop laughing!) – think they’re just gorgeous x
Jill Webb
Because I would look fab in the apron !! and the gloves and Tea towel would smarten up the kitchen
Shakila
I’m about to buy my first flat so I would love to have nice accessories like these in my kitchen.
Tammy Tudor
It is soooooo gorgeous!
Sylvia Witham
These tempting teasers are guaranteed pleasers
Stephanie Whitehouse
It’s the most glamourous apron I’ve ever seen
Lyndsey B
I just love the whole freedom feeling of the open birdcage 🙂 Its very me 🙂
Karen Nagle
Because the apron is soooooo beautiful to me!
Svetlana Lemantovic
it is lovely
Vikki
I would looove to win this prize!
Melanie Gardiner
I think the apron is just fab, I’d love to have it
Lauren
I would like to win this prize as it’s so cute! It would make a lovely gift for my mum 🙂 xx
Dee H
to bring a touch of Parisienne chic to my less than glamorous kitchen!
Orla Double
WOW! I love the vintage style. Had a vintage tea party for my birthday recently where my friends and myself all got a make over and hair style in vintage fashion. Especially love the look of the apron and would love to win it!
Emma Holness
I’d like to win because I think the apron looks nice
Dawn Chapman
I love the uniqueness of the items.
Suzanne
It looks unique, very individual and is a reminder of wonderful French cuisine on holiday.
Sharon mead
because it is just so pretty 🙂
frances hopkins
Very nice!!! Love the apron!!
Samantha Holloway
I love the apron it looks like a dress
Nic OBrien
Very pretty, It would look great in my new kitchen.
harriet
great material but it is the cut of the apron that makes it
katie
So a tired mum of 2 can look gorgeous in the kitchen. 🙂
Andy Thompson
My current apron has definitely seen better days so this prize would be fabulous.
Debbie Finch
A great prize, and who says you can’t look good in an apron
Natasha Male
I would love this for cooking in the kitchen its beautiful
Patricia Whittaker
I’m sure wearing an apron like that would improve my cooking
Michaela Turner
Because my kitchen could do with a touch a va va voom!
claire nutman
LOVE to…………….x
EMMA WALTERS
such a beautiful unique design, would love to work my new kitchen decor i with it 🙂
carole thorpe
It would be nice to have a matching set in the kitchen for a change!
kay panayi
because its gorgeous
Susan el Carter
I have commented on ‘Apple & Pear Spelt Cider Soda Bread’
Jo Jones
I could entertain my dinner guests in style
Louise A
The set looks really pretty and unusual and would be a great for my kitchen!
Beky Austerberry
I love vintage patterns and this apron looks so different and unique
Sharon Griffin
i love the vintage chic style of these kitchen accessories and baking would be even more fun if i had these in my kitchen x
Sarah Davies
I strive for every functional thing in my life to be stylish too and these C’est Ça Vintage Bird Cage Kitchen Textiles certainly are. They are gorgeous!
Susan Elaine Carter
Getting Divorced, moving house (little terrace) and make-do and try and mend kitchen so this would greatly cheer me up and have something nice and new in there.
Jacqueline Cook
I would love to win this set as the design draws me in. It is so “me” and would look great in my kitchen 🙂
Amy Beckett
Because they are so cool. I’m sure all my food would taste lovely if I was wearing the apron – My boyfriend might disagree
katherine grieve
I love the retro style and the Apron is out of this world amazing!!
jenny owen
oooh this is just gorgeous!!
Ashleigh Allan
Looks an amazing collection!
Tina Lockett
I have a vintage hire business and the apron will look great when I am serving tea and cakes to the guests
Zoe G
Because I love the design, it would look fab in my kitchen
Grace
I love the feminine, flirty cut of the apron!
katie skeoch
I’d still feel pretty covered in flour if I had these 🙂
suan watts
Would brighten up my kitchen
oksana
wow, great prize
Laura Wilce
Commented on ‘Vegetable Dhal Curry ‘
Laura Wilce
I’d love to win because the pattern would look so stylish in my kitchen and I love that apron so much I would wear it as a dress!
Tracey Peach
Because I adore the shape of the apron. Why can’t more aprons be shaped this way it’s Gorgeous
Alice Matthews
This is just so pretty. It is good to see the revival of beautiful vintage style prints on fabrics.
YOLANDA (YOEY) DAVIS
IM NOT THE BEST IN THE KITCHEN, MY COOKING LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED, BUT IF I WON THIS IT WOULD MAKE MY KITCHEN A HAPPIER PLACE TO BE AND I MIGHT EVEN MAKE SOMETHING (DARE I SAY IT!) nice.
Dawn F
This is everything I love in one prize package: French chic, monochrome, bird and cage motifs and accessorising while baking. 🙂
maureen findley
I would feel so stylish doing my Christmas baking.
Caroline H
The print is really lovely and the apron coverage is great – perfect for entertaining over the festive season while still looking stylish.
S Edwards
as a present
Helen Dickinson
I would love to win this so I can look great in the kitchen, especially this xmas 🙂
Christine Dodd
Love the cool print
Karen Barrett
Our kitchen is on the refurb list for next year, would be fab to have some lovely new accessories
Mrs T
Because the apron is amazing – real 50s vintage glamour.
Susan P
I’d like to win this as I have become obsessed with baking and some new goodies would enhance the experience!
vandervaulk
I would like to win the prize because I think it is beautiful!
Kay Sheridan
I would love this prize so that I can get my cook on in style!
Anna
Because my current oven glove is frankly shameful and it would be nice to have a matching set to go in my retro (just old really!) kitchen
keshia esgate
That collection is stunning!!
liz denial
I love anything vintage
Ursula Hunt
Commented on Pork in Grapes
Ursula Hunt
The Apron is absolutely gorgeous and would really make me look like a yummy mummy in the kitchen ! (and my oven gloves defineately need replacing they’re a disgrace)
katrina day-reilly
As it would go with my kitchen
Maya Russell
Commented on ‘No Bake Cookies’.
Maya Russell
I’d like to win the prize as I like the design and it’d look pretty in the kitchen.
DANIELLE VEDMORE
Because that apron is amazing! I never thought an apron could be sexy!!!
Hannah Bee Griffin
I have always fancied myself as a 1950s house wife and the style of the apron reminds me of that period. Love the design on the pieces, I would look fab baking in this
melanie stirling
I love birds and this set would be greatly loved by me! 🙂
Clare Webb
I commented on Dansom Jam
Clare Webb
I would love to win this because that apron is gorgeous! I love the style, the pattern and think it would look lovely on!
Jo welsh
I love the feminine apron and the shape of it so much more ‘fitted’ than normal aprons.
Sarah
I’d like to win this, it would encourage me to cook.
June Etherington
I would love to win this prize because they are all lovely quality items. Also because I can no longer decorate I have just bought some birdcage & birds wall stickers for my kitchen walls & everyone says how nice they look. But then they ask “whatever made you think of bird cages & birds in The Kitchen” I reply because I like them. And I do very much. Wonderful prize thank you
Tracy Nixon
Spooky Yogurt Scrolls – commented
Tracy Nixon
I would love to win this for me as I collect vintage and it would match my kitchen!
tracey gwynne
I have just bought a new cookbook ‘Little Paris Kitchen’; and this set would help me prepare my Parisienne delicacies in style!
euphoriabuzz
Love the way the apron sits.