Heaven Scent

The light in the house, here in England, has improved dramatically with the advent of  Spring and the help of daylight saving time. We're having some beautiful sunny weather and it has encouraged me to start snapping away inside once again.

I started with a pot of flowering cactus in the kitchen,
sitting on a little green book which I picked up
for a song the other day...

I couldn't resist such a pretty book called Holiday Chaplet...with stories such as "The Pic-Nic"; "The Thicket of Furze" and "Never Mind Scoffs".

I then spotted my perfume bottles, with the light reflecting on the mirror on which they are sitting...

So of course I got carried away, rearranging...
practicing my photography skills...

I really love my collection...usually selected for their
interesting shape and colourful label or stopper...

Two smaller bottles on a Victorian hand mirror in ebony...apparently after Queen Victoria became a widow, all such accessories were produced in sombre black finishes...

But it's not all sombre in my household...I love displaying things on mirrors as the glass really bounces the light around...

Old tarnished lids on glass...

and on a cushion...

A simple frosted glass dressing table container...

This little atomiser is my favourite...but there's a story...

I actually bought it by default many years ago...thought the tag said $35...didn't have my glasses on...it actually cost $85 but by this time I was at the cash register and I had fallen in love with it...

Linking up with Sarah for Good Life Wednesday.