pottering ...

you cant beat a potter can you.. you know when you find yourself going from room to room just moving things or adding things to what is already there, usually you don't even realise you're doing it until you take a step back and think.... "ooh that looks nice!!"..

well you know i asked for your help on how to dress my dressing table last week.. yesterday i found that i was just having a move around in the bedroom which led to me having a play to see what i could use to make it look a bit more pretty...

so i used the mirror that is normally on my chest of drawers ( £5 from a junk shop.. i slapped a bit of paint on it... ) as i had to move it anyway as the hubby came home from helping his grandad in the garden the other day with a TV for the bedroom.. eeek i hate telly's in bedrooms and what made this worse was he actually brought a bracket to put up on the wall for the TV to sit on... can you imagine it .. we would have looked like Daisy and Onslow from "Keeping Up Appearances" .. so i had to put my foot down as i just couldn't have that.. but as the hubby so rightly pointed out .. it was his bedroom to and the whole house is a reflection of my tastes and he is allowed to have two guitars and that's his lot!!( and even these two guitars get on my nerves.. they don't half get in the way!) ... so i suggested he put the telly on top of the chest of drawers...

which is what he did...


i do find this very offensive!!!


so i had to make room for it so moved the mirror that sits on top and just put that on the only available space i had which was the dressing table and decided i quite liked it there which is a little bonus!

so what else have i used well here goes!.....

i took the little crochet runner off my fireplace in the living room as it was starting to get on my nerves and put that on top..

used some candle sticks that i bought from the flea market last year for about 50p and put them on my little blue glass tray with the glass dishes that hold my hair grips and various odds and sodds that i find on my travels around the house and jsut shove in them to keep it tidy!and also put a lamp that my mum gave me next to the little set ..i love this. .its not an antique or anything but i always think it looks really vintage very 1930s!!

i took the little glass cake stand off my kitchen window sill which i never really use and a little glass dish that i bought from the carboot sale last year which has just been hanging around doing nothing!

so Ive put my cheap and cheerful rings in that..

and then just put a little candle and a glass perfume holder next to it..

added a jug that needs filling with flowers

( you know i cant remember the last time i bought flowers.. the house needs some. must get some later!)

a little glass candle holder that has a lovely etched pattern on it .. which I'll add a nice scented candle in when I'm having a read in bed



and my favourite big necklaces draped over the mirror to

( that is how not to paint around a mirror... you're not suppose to paint the actual mirror!!)

i just need some fairy lights to go round the big mirror thats behind and i think it will feel a bit brighter as well ..

I'm still going to have to paint it all which i think will make it feel a whole lot cleaner as well...but i love the fact that i haven't had to buy anything but just used what i already had.. yet it all feels new, i have to say I'm doing that thing you do ( or is it just me) that keeps going up stairs to have a look at it because its a bit new and the novelty of it hasn't worn off yet!! ..

just have to say sorry for the rubbish quality of the pics.. i dropped our good camera on the bathroom floor and broke it eeeeek.. it cant be fixed which I'm gutted about as i love that little camera so I'm back to using an older one which is basically rubbish!!..will have to get saving for a new one me thinks..