Dress ups

 

Apologies everyone!  New computer issues and internet problems stopped me from posting most of last week…..  Back on track now!

 

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My mum had a beautiful old dressing table …. bagged by an older, faster sister who also nabbed the dining table.  I loved it with its gorgeous triptych of oval mirrors, ornate legs and the general vibe of grown upedness that it gave off.  But what I mainly love about dressing tables is that they not only condone sitting in front of a mirror to do your make up and hair…they kind of demand it.   And if you have to sit down to do it the whole feeling of getting ready changes.  I mean if we are going to go through the whole ritual of make up…then why not make it a really nice ritual?

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A dressing table also gives you a surface to both order and display all your pretty girly stuff…love ‘em!  Vintage cups and saucers, boxes an bowls are wonderful receptacles and help give you the layers of prettiness a dressing table should have.

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And it doesn’t have to be an expensive original dressing table…an old desk here gets a new lease on life.

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And this dining table makes a fabulous dressing table.  A few images of non-dressing table tables to inspire…

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I love this so very very much….

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Or, you can make it all about the mirror….

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Stunning deco wing mirrors!

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Beautiful!