A new quilt and other knick-knacks

I have been looking for a handmade quilt for the bed for a while now but they seem to be few and far between, I would love to be able to make one but they are far beyond my basic sewing skills. Well last week I found one in our local hospice charity shop.

I'm not the only one who loves it though!

I also picked up a couple of sheets, not sure if there's any age to them (I don't really know a lot about vintage sheets) but I really liked the patterns and they'll eventually be cut up and made into one of the many ideas floating round in my head.

The purchase I'm most excited about recently is my dresser, yes I have finally found one! After buying all my knick-knacks and never having anywhere to put them I can now have them all out on display. But not quite yet, at the moment the dresser is in several pieces being sanded, stained and painted to within an inch of it's life.

Here'e a before shot and hopefully next week I can show you it finished.

After finding out I'd bought a dresser my mum went digging in the back of her wardrobe of pulled out.....

                                   
                                                                 Not one Sylvac bunny



                                                                   But two Sylvac bunnies!!

She asked me if I wanted them to put in my dresser, as you can guess my answer was a big fat YES. 
Aren't they cute? 

Yesterday I also picked up a little tea set. Now I was originally only going to collect local china made in Stoke on Trent. I liked the idea of having some local history in my home and researching about all the little pot banks that were once around my area. But the one I picked up yesterday is Royal Tara from Ireland, it was too pretty not to have.

I'll do another post later and show you some more pictures of the other pieces, I'd love to find out some more about it too.


Just wanted to say hi and thank you to those who have chose to follow my blog. xx