What sits on my dresser

I've seen a couple of these posts around bloggerville and I thought I'd let you be nosy at my own. When I got down to thinking about it, my dresser is one of the places in our apartment which I get to fill with all my own things, filled with some of my favourite vintage goodies and items that are very meaningful to me.

As you can see my dresser isn't a dresser as such. It's a make do one till we spy a nice vintage one. Until then I'm making do with an old computer desk which actually works rather well due to the top shelf which allows me to lay out my nail varnishes and the storage on the bottom lets me hide away travel and camera things. 

On the top shelf as I've mentioned I line up all my nail varnishes. With only owning 20 or so they don't take up much room and having them out I can see what colours I own. There's a candle [far left] that Joe's gran made us for little wedding favours, they have a love hearts on the side and she wrote our names and the date on the tag. We have so many left over but they mean too much to use. I also have a photograph of us on our wedding day and some compacts which I swap around with those in the living room. [Compacts photographed; Marhil with butterflies, Marhill with flowers, green Rex compact, tapestry Kigu compact and a Bourjois Evening in Paris - some of which I haven't got around to blogging about oops].

While I'm not a huge perfume girl, I adore the ones I own. I mostly wear Marc Jacob's Daisy and Chanel's Chance. For a change I wear 4711 which although is an old scent I love how fresh and light it is. It's excellent for cooling you down on a warm day by lightly babbling it on your wrists. I also have a Donna Kahn fragrance which I was given in a bridal shower present which is a lovely soft scent.

This is another of those instances of Joe buying me a surprise present. Looking around the gift shop of the Field Museum in Chicago I fell in love with this wooden, hand painted fair trade box to store my jewellery in but in my saving money mode I walked away from it. I left Joe buying presents for friends and I wandered off to another section. Leaving the museum he handed me the bag and there it was!

Everything on the main part of the "dresser" sits on a green cotton doiley which I brought with me from the UK as it was my grans. To keep my rings that I take off, hair ties and bobbin pins I found this glass lid bowl from the dollar store - total bargain and fits the vintage feel. I also keep my vintage perfume atomizer [shown behind the bowl] that Joe brought for me it's made of gorgeous cut glass and in an amazing condition. At the back I have two cards used as love letters when we were in our long distance relationship. I pulled them out and keep them on display because I love their pictures - a love bird and a vintage photo of London's Picadilly. I aim to get them framed one day.

While I keep my make up in the bathroom [huge mirror and better lighting] I keep my hair and body products in the bedroom. My Palmers tube came with me across the ocean [so glad you can get it over here] and I'm a sucker for TRESemme. I also stand up some of the music sheets I brought last year from Pickering's flea market - this one of High Society in particular is my favourite, I love the film, the stars and the colours of the sheet. Another thing I need to get framed! 

Aside from my vintage powder compacts obsession I do take fancy to pretty vintage brushes - I currently have the three that Joe has brought for me over the years and they sit nicely on the dresser too. They are something else to look out for when we're rummaging through old shops.

What do you keep on your dresser? Are you minimalist or cluttered? 

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On a side note i've been featured twice this week on two amazing blogs this week so make sure to check them out. My blog interview over at Life of a Sweetaholic and my photograph post over on Bex's website Futures. Check out both these ladies blog - they really are great reads!