Welsh Dresser Dreaming

Hello Lovelies,
Hope your weekend is going well. Our home is smelling wonderfully festive at the moment, due to the fact we have been making a Christmas cake. This is a new thing for us but inspired by Frugal Queen we have followed Delia's Recipe and I'm hopeful the resulting cake will be yummy. The aromas of citrus , cinnamon , nutmeg and brandy floating around here at the moment are divine.....I wish you could smell them.........

Anyway, I digress. This post is about a long held dream of mine to own a Welsh Dresser. I simply love them as I think  they look so pretty . Do take a look at Kazzy's fabulous dresser in her blog header HERE, see what I mean ?
 Additionally they are both   a practical storage item and a wonderful display opportunity . I even have a spot I would like to put one in my dining room..........

Ummmm , I don't usually share this uninspiring corner with you lovelies because it is a cluttered mess. This picture was taken after I had moved my yarn stash and project bags. I've donated a lot of outgrown toys and clothes to charity so my yarn can squeeze in a cupbord upstairs. But I'm still left with this ageing Ikea shelf unit which does not hide any of the  remaining necessary stuff.

I'd been keeping an eye out for a secondhand Welsh Dresser in the charity shops but without much luck ( and even from a charity shop , a nice one can cost about £90 around here).

Then last week Mr BM came home  and told me his workmate was getting rid of a Pine Welsh Dresser and would I be interested ? "YES I AM" was my instant reply.
Happy day !! a Welsh Dresser had practically fallen in my lap and for only £30

Well I'm really hoping it will. Final delivery arrangements are still pending but somehow it will be mine .
And in the mean time I've been allowing myself to do some serious day  dreaming. I've made a Flickr Gallery of my favourite dresser images HERE with added notes to myself about why I love them.

I'm so looking forward to finally getting this clutter out of sight and I can't wait to play around arranging some of the pretty things I already have on it's shelves. Christmas has come early for me .Of course I'll be sharing pictures with you all :0)


I'll leave you  with a couple of Autumnal images........

Wonderful  , and just painted by my talented Mum.
Jacquie x

Vintage Colour and Pattern

Hello lovelies ,
Today was the last day of  term here , the boys now have two weeks off school to look forward to .
This morning I did a mega shop , so that hopefully I won't have to go again for a good while  and on the way home I stopped off at a charity shop as I won't get much (in fact I  probably wont get any ) chance to look in them over the next two weeks.
On the counter were lots of reels of sewing thread for 30 pence each .....

I chose a selection as they were such a bargain. I haven't bought any thread for so long I don't know what the price is for a quality brand like Gutermann, and look at these gorgeous Jewel shades....

Even better , to me anyway , was finding some Dewhursts Sylko. This is not manufactured anymore and is very nostalgic, reminding me of sewing as a child. ..........

I never really thought about where this thread was made , but a quick google search when I got home showed me it was made in Yorkshire, the county of my birth . Two of the three spools are plastic , but one is wooden......

The thread on this one is a little grubby but I couldn't resist a wooden reel ...and look what this lovely blue is called.....

Light Gobelin ????? ...........Not goblin ....took me a while to work that out :0)  Did I say spelling isn't my strong point ?

I think  the sylco threads are from the seventies (earlier for the wooden reel) and I thought the Gutermann threads were modern but now I'm looking at the first picture in this post I can see they say " made in W.Germany " so I guess they have some age too.

The other Vintage find , and one I'm equally pleased with is this Jug ......

What do you think ?

I love the geometric flower pattern .....

Close up it's pretty too , but it's the arrangement of the design that's so pleasing.....

This is what it says underneath .....Midwinter Roselle....which is from the Sixties ( Mr google told me that too :0) )....

For £2 you couldn't buy a modern jug so to get something vintage and so pretty made me really happy.
Have a great weekend.
Jacquie x

HEXAGON TUTORIAL NEWSFLASH
I have e.mailed Coats and Clark and they have very kindly given me permission to do my photo tutorial using their pattern so that should be coming very soon :0)

A Bit of Fresh Air

Hello lovelies ,
It's sunny and it's Friday ,hurray.
I must be honest with you now . If you have been thinking I've been around a lot this week , you know a HUGE Bunny tutorial on Wednesday ( that took most of Tuesday to do !)
and another post yesterday , well, it's because I've been suffering with a back injury I did last Friday .
I know my posts have been happy ,that's because I was taking my mind off my woes. I don't do illness well ( who does ) and always imagine the worst.
I can talk to you lovelies about this today as it finally seems to be getting better ( much touching of wood , and please ,please back ,don't make me regret saying that )
Today I had an appointment in town I didn't want to postpone so I parked close and took a steady walk along the sunny streets.....

What a tonic , even the pansies in the raised planters seemed to be smiling at me :0)....

The bustle was great after nearly a week indoors and the trees suddenly had leaves........

 the sun made for great photos . I'm getting quite brave at taking pictures on the street.....

After my appointment I couldn't resist a quick charity shop peek. Some of the prices were a bit scary...you know Primak tops for about the same they would have been new !
One shop even wanted £50 for some Laura Ashley fabric . It had the original price on ( which was £78 ) so I think £ 50 was a tad unrealistic, what do you think?

At this fabulous flower stall I picked up some sweet peas for me  ......

And a Cowslip for my Mum-in-law ,as hers has dissappeared ....

I did make a couple of charity shop purchases....

A ball of the lovely green/tourquoise Cygnet yarn I'm using in my blankets and a pair of stripy P.J. bottoms in a light cotton material  ( 75p !) . They will be ideal with a T. shirt for our Cornish caravan Holiday :0)
Speaking of holidays I'll leave you with this picture ....

This is on my youngests bedroom wall and I love it , it's Teddy Bear Beach by Molly Brett . I used to have books with her illustrations as a child. Cornwall I've missed you ,can't wait to come back this summer :0) .
Have a great weekend , thanks for listening .
Your comments have really cheered me up this week.
Jacquie x