Sanctuary

At the beginning of a new day, and especially at the end of a long one, this small bedroom under the eaves is my sanctuary

with its sloping ceilings, inheirited pale pink walls and red border I slowly add more pretty things, like this ornate vintage mirror

and it becomes more and more a place where I can find peace and calm

amidst the pretty things that I have gathered over the years and more recently

that reflect what I like

who I am

my tastes not anybody elses, 

like these pretty pale pink knobs on the old dressing table I rescued and painted

( Mr G has his own room thankfully as he snores loud enough to wake the dead ;0  )

so I can be as feminine as I want

with tattered but beautiful

 antique lace

and dusky pink walls

and vintage floral linen curtains

and ornate mirrors

and lots of cushions (Mr G just HATES cushions!!!!)

and I have just re-discovered today some squares for a pretty crochet cushion that I started for this room months ago

that I have worked on today for a while

a round here

and a round there

on and off

throughout the day

only 4 more squares to go now

9 should be enough

I find these colours so gentle and undemanding

off to do a bit more before bed

my sanctuary

Vintage Fabrics

Some lovely new "old" fabrics came this week

 

a gorgeous bright and cheery 60s/70 pinks and oranges floral fabric


 

a pretty soft 50s type floral -  very, very  like Cath Kidston but is supposedly vintage


 

a bright turquoise 70s floral


 

another 50s style vintage floral, blue roses, just love them as they remind me of a lovely original 50s dress my mother had when I was a child in the 60s, which I used for dressing up - I'm sure that's when my love of vintage fabrics started.

 I remember having a wonderful dressing up box full of vintage floral dresses, each full skirted with tiny waists made in white fabric covered with blue roses, yellow roses, pink roses, and a marvellous big silk embroidered piano shawl with a long fringe. I would play out in the garden with them, dress up and make tents over the swing frame and washing line - I adored making tents from old clothes and sheets with a handful of pegs, and passed that love on to my own daughter!

I wonder what happened to all those gorgeous frocks? Sadly my mother is much better at getting rid of things than I am so I know she won't still have them.


 

more wonderful blue roses


 

and some yellow ones


 

and a piece of floral linen, possibly 40s or 50s judging by the design, picked up at a local junk shop


 

the back ground is a pale green, my photos didn't come out very well colourwise


 

so lots more sewing to come!


Since typing the above I have made a couple of cushions to go in my online shops from some of this new stash.

a floaty vintage floral one with a flange, backed in vintage candy stripes (I remember this very sheet from when I was a child - it sat at the bottom of the pile of clean linen in our airing cupboard for years, a permanent fixture!)

and a bright patchwork of vintage florals from the 60s and 70s.

Before Easter is completely behind us, just a couple of Eastery themed things to show you.

Bella made some pretty iced biscuits for Easter

and I was one of the lucky winners of an Easter themed giveaway at Vivienne's blog Green Rabbit Designs, and the lovely goodies arrived in time for Easter - thanks Vivienne!

Now if Vivienne is reading this, she may well be wondering whether she forgot to pack something in my parcel, or whether the postman or the dog got there first........because there were some rather delicious little chocolate bunnies that mysteriously disappeared before they could be photographed.............

how very odd!

But I shall remain calm and maybe just eat some more chocolate.

Sweet crochet corsage, so beautifully packaged it seems a shame to open it!

Part of Bella's Easter goodies involved lavender - I made her a little lavender bunny to hang from the bedpost - made in a rush so not the best of bunny shapes!

and yes, her bed is a floating island in the middle of the room at the moment, too complicated to explain but it involves spiders!

My favourite tulips are flowering now - just love the mix of pinks and oranges

and you can just make out a snakeshead fritillary in the foreground here with these red tulips - I have some better photos of this somewhere for the next post.


 

Hope you all had a lovely Easter!