Last Sunday morning, as the rain set in for the day, I decided I could not resist the pull of Orla Kiely's line for Target and drove down to Bellis Fair (just across the Can/US border) to see what I could snag. What I hoped would be a quick trip, turned into a bit of a long drawn out affair, thanks to the border crossing. I am 100% convinced that those new signs they have on the highway that tell you the traffic at each crossing are 100$ lies. I'm also now officially convinced that there is an evil time vortex at the Pacific Truck Crossing border that turns a 30 min wait into 2 hours every. single. time. Anyway.
Down to the land of malls I did go and stuff I did buy. I was a bit disappointed with the kitchen wares to be honest. I wasn't expecting everything to be plastic/melamine type stuff (except for some of the mugs and the canisters all the plates, bowls etc were plastic). I really wish the large bowls had been ceramic as I'd have loved one of the pear bowls and think they would have gone excellently with my fiestaware, but really: I don't need more plastic bowls and am in fact trying to move away from plastic stuff in general. I was pretty smitten by the linens though and snatched a bunch of tea towels (as an aside, I think I may have a small tea towel "issue" as my collection is getting slightly out of hand), a lovely flower pattered table cloth that I plan to shorten and make napkins out of the excess, and one of the covered boxes (the blue one you see here). Oh, I also snagged one of the pear/apple aprons even though I have a rather lovely apron I made myself, cuz I really couldn't resist the print.
All in all, the Bellis Fair Target was pretty darned low on Orla Kiely wares. It was mostly picked over. I'm not sure if they'll be restocking or if this is a one time thingy, as I'm not so familiar with the ways of Target.
Down to the land of malls I did go and stuff I did buy. I was a bit disappointed with the kitchen wares to be honest. I wasn't expecting everything to be plastic/melamine type stuff (except for some of the mugs and the canisters all the plates, bowls etc were plastic). I really wish the large bowls had been ceramic as I'd have loved one of the pear bowls and think they would have gone excellently with my fiestaware, but really: I don't need more plastic bowls and am in fact trying to move away from plastic stuff in general. I was pretty smitten by the linens though and snatched a bunch of tea towels (as an aside, I think I may have a small tea towel "issue" as my collection is getting slightly out of hand), a lovely flower pattered table cloth that I plan to shorten and make napkins out of the excess, and one of the covered boxes (the blue one you see here). Oh, I also snagged one of the pear/apple aprons even though I have a rather lovely apron I made myself, cuz I really couldn't resist the print.
All in all, the Bellis Fair Target was pretty darned low on Orla Kiely wares. It was mostly picked over. I'm not sure if they'll be restocking or if this is a one time thingy, as I'm not so familiar with the ways of Target.
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