Vanity can be fun

 Dressing table items

 Rococo style powder box

 Pommade pot

 Powder blower

 Miles Redd vanity via Chinoiserie Chic

 Boucher painting

Vanity tables

I am sure you have seen the two paintings at the bottom-- one of Madame de Pompadour and the other by Boucher titled The Milliner.  I saw the pink Miles Redd chinoiserie style vanity table/powder room on the Chinoiserie Chic blog last week and loved it. 

That got me thinking about some other photos I have of items that may have been on a woman't vanity table. Women of the nobility used the time at their vanity tables to meet with people, choose clothing items, seduce and gossip. It was a setting that usually showed a woman's best attributes. Even 200 years later we still have the feminine vanity table. Some of the items on it are different but idea and the prettiness of it endures.

Have a Pink day!

A new addition to French vanity

Vanity in master bath so pink

An EBay find lots of cute things there!

Pretty and useful a winning combination!

I have started to collect inkwells ( see previous post last week) and as I mentioned before most are not very expensive. I found this one on EBay they were selling it because of moving the mother into assisted living I think it was. It is not really old just pretty to me.

Well, I only have one desk so I am being creative in using my inkwells. I thought this would look pretty on the bathroom vanity atop my papier mache mirror I got in San Francisco years ago.

Part of my pink living is to use the pretty things you have--don't save them for some time in future. I think I can put hair pins in the inkwell and as you see perfume bottles on the tray.

I am joining in on Table Top Tuesday at A Stroll thru Life:

http://astrollthrulife.blogspot.com/

Have a Pink day!