Rustic Vintage Woodsy Face Lift to the Bird Houses

 Hello Friends,

Today I'm doing a diy to give my Dollar Tree bird house a little ace lift.

I have thrifted three sets of wooden candle sticks.  My idea is to use them as risers

Then, I thought maybe to add a few embellishments.  First part of the year I purchase several bags of wood rounds from "Dollar Tree", I believe to make a winter wreath...Well it never happen   so I thought they might be good as risers

I want to thank you for stopping by to see this fairly simple project,

to give a few thrifted wooden candle sticks a face lift,

 just by adding Spanish moss, reindeer moss, and a few wooden branch rounds, all from "Dollar Tree"

I really like the woodsy, rustic touch to these amazing birdhouses.

Leave a comment and let me know which style of bird house caught your eye.

So until next the next blog post....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett.

Vintage Thrift Haul - and this is Where I Displayed the Treasure in My Home

 Hi Friends,

I've been thrifting again and I found some real exciting treasures.

I stopped by my local community thrift store to see if there was any treasures to find and I was presently surprise to find vintage hankies .  

I couldn't believe how very cute these hankies are! reminded me of my grandma, The hankies had a price of $1.75 each - I only paid $.50 each. For now I'm displaying the hankies on top of the high-boy dresser in the guest room, very fitting for a girly room.

There were a good collection of S & P, at the store that day. I brought home 5 interesting salt & pepper shakers had a price of $1.50 each - I paid $.75 each.

 I put two sets on a shelf above my kitchen cabinet and paired them with some of brown pottery pieces I have found in past years, bean pot, cheese crock and my small two piece collection of Hull pottery

the pair of salt and pepper shaker with little homesteader is marked "Japan"

The pair of little brown jugs are stink'en cute, I new they would great paired with my other dark brown pottery pieces.

 I was kind of surprised to see the cream lid thermos since its spring,  but hey! Great for me. I display my thermos in a guess room when I'm not using them in vignettes up on the shelf. I paid $2.00 for the thermos.

I think my super favorite find at this store was a cute brushed copper planter with a glass frog in it that I paid $2.00. The frog look to be green, however green putty was holding the frog in the planter. lol 

I grouped the flower frog two others I have on top of a couple of vintage cigar boxes.

I was also excited to pick up two more black enamel door knobs for $1.00, (they had a tag of $1.00 each), to add to the collection. Don't they look great in among the brushed copper pieces?

                                              

I have a Small collection of sewing items, when I spied the spindle for $5.00 I gladly put it in my basket  to display in my sewing area.

I've been picking up kitchen utensils the past couple of months, so when I notice this aluminum funnel/strainer piece for $1.25 it came home with me.

"Louis L' Amour", books I will enjoy reading this summer, and for a dollar a piece, I can read through the books and past it on.

The "Give Thanks", book, I'm putting away till November sometime.

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Then I stopped by my local antique/ thrift store 

I found two books, this cute little red books is titled the velveteen Rabbit for $1.00. The yellow book with the title "Threads of Time" prefect for the sewing corner.

I will be holding on to this book to use in my Easter vignettes next year

I also came across a couple of vintage cigar boxes that I thought would be great with my other vintage cigar boxes in a grouping.  The Montecruz 10 count (thin cigar box) I paid $3.00, the Roi-Tan was $6.00.  I probably paid to much for it, the box was in good shape for a cardboard box. funny! I really like how this vignette looks.

At this vintage/thrift store I have seen quite a few terra cotta pot for under $3.00 so today I picked up two. I'm using the pots for my herbs on the deck.

I always look at the dollies, if I can find dollies under $3.00, I usually do these dollies were $1.75. I place dollies under lamps, under small catch all dishes etc., throughout my home.

The funnels and ink well I added to a shelf in office that has a few school items gathered already.

I sure hope you enjoyed my haul today and where I placed these wonderful treasure I found for my home. 

Decorating is all about what you love, so get out there and go thrifting and find home décor you love for a reasonable price.

Thank you friend for stopping by my blog, please check back next week to see some more treasure that I have found to incorporate into my home......

So until the next time.......

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage Spring/ Easter on the Mantel

Hi Friends, 

I'm so excited to be showing how I displayed the mantel for Spring/Easter.

 I've been trying to spend at least an hour and a half each evening after work, to pull out another holiday tubs to get my Easter collection put out to show you all.  The month of April is such a busy month for me as a intervention assistant, in a elementary school.

With all of that said, here is how I set up the fireplace mantel for April/Easter this year. 

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As you know I love collecting vintage cookie cutters,

I looked through my collection and found these three bunnies to display on the mantel.

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I've noticed on several social media sites, creators using vintage clip boards in their display and vignettes throughout the home. I have used a clip board a few time in the past with clip art and I just happen to pickup a legal size clip board last month, so I was excited to incorporate I my clip boards into this vignette on the mantel.  

Let me know what you think.

The vintage clip boards and spring print are new this year, on the mantel. I found this sweet daffodil print from Pinterest, 

See the cute little chick egg and a little, I found at a thrift store in North Dakota quite a few years ago, there were two of them a chick or hen egg and a rooster egg. I  thought they were very unique, did have a "made in China" sticker on the bottom.

This little chick print came from Graphic Fairy

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Don't you just love the chocolate bunny? There was a Spring craft fair in town last weekend, when I saw this very adorable chocolate bunny, I thought it would be a great addition to my Easter décor, so I purchased two of them for $6.50

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The light blue red eyed hen was a thrift find earlier these year, also there are a couple of diy's from last year. A bundle of diy carrots and a diy chalk board bunny also from last year.

chalk board bunny

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The little six egg carton is a new diy this season.

diy egg carton

I hope I have given you some inspiration to get out there and thrift shop and maybe even do a couple of simple do-it-yourself project to bring your celebration full circle.

Thank you for stopping by, 

My God Bless You and Your Family, during these uneasy times.

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Simple Diy egg carton

 Hi Friends,

Today I'm trying to recycle a couple of paper pulp egg cartons.  My thought was to make a few more vessels to display a few more of my upcycled plastic Easter eggs.

Starting with a 12 count egg carton........

I simply cut the lid off the carton

Cut the locking flap edge off

Cut the cups side in half

I used the lid to cover the raw end of the six cup carton. I cut out the center strip in the lid and cut just to one side of the latch holes of the the lid.

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As you can see I  just glue the end piece holding tightly to help it stay in place. 

At the end is a little gap and I just cut a triangle from the lid to cover the gap

Here is the finish project, fairly simple craft that I can use to display a grouping of upscale plastic Easter eggs.

Taking some Spanish moss lining the egg cups I placed a couple of upcycled plastic eggs along with egg shells. I love how they turned out.

I'm so glad you stopped by, this project is a simple diy using items you may have around the house.  I hope I gave you a little bit of inspiration to try a simple craft project for your Spring or Easter décor.

So... until next time May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett