Vintage Winter vignettes in The Family-Room

Hi Friends, 

I'm so happy you stopped by 'My Little Colorado Cottage' today!

I'm so excited to show you a few 'Winter' vignettes around my family-room

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This Winter Season, my vision was to add more vintage inspired snowmen and a touch more greenery with small touches of Blue into my winter vignettes.

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been up to

 I would love to hear, what was your ideas for your Winter Décor this year. 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 

Thrifting for Vintage Valentine Décor

Hi Friends, 

I stopped by my 'Community Budget Thrift Store' this week, looking for Vintage Valentine items.  I found some interesting treasures.

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This cute little Playschool pull puppy, is so cute I had hope it was a little older but it wasn't, but still cute with the black velvet-touch ears and I think the puppy can bark, I haven't put batteries in it to see it that works and the eyes are solid blue, not move back and forth.

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I know I have said in the past that I really don't collect a lot of Dinnerware, BUT! Lately, I've been finding a few...

 

This salad plate was so pretty I couldn't help myself

Occupied Japan China salad plate.

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I picked-up this super cute

'Light Green Platter' for the month of March and got it home and found out it GLOW's for $ 1.25

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I also picked-up the candles, cuz I can always use these small white 'Dipped-Candles'. $1.00

I took off the blue ribbon and dried floral to use in this little vignette in the guest-room

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a super cute dish Winter theme

a super cute Rooster Dish Towel with a crochet top

for $.50.  I will be packing it away for next Christmas

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I was really excited to find these next two little trinket

boxes, I believe I will be using both of them in my 'February Décor'. 

This cute 'Footed Trinket Box' is handmade with a date of 1974, I paid $.50 for it.

Super cute footed trinket ceramic box Stamped 'Made in Japan' with the roses! Inside was a candle for $.75 great deal!

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I came home with a few really awesome treasure for a total of $8.98!

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been up to I really enjoy sharing how I incorporate my thrifted treasure into my every day décor.

I always enjoy hearing from you, what treasures have you thrifted lately? 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family. 

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage inspired Winter Vignettes in My Family-room

Hi Friends, 

I am so happy you have stopped by "My Little Colorado Cottage" today, I really enjoy sharing with everyone. Today, I'm still tweaking my 'Winter Décor'.

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From year to year I like to use thrifted greenery and pine cones and twigs that I have collected.  

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This year I'm using vintage inspired handmade snowmen and adding icy blue snowflakes to my 'Winter Décor".

 

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Here in the Pepsi corner of the family room just added bits of greenery from (thrifted picks and winter garland).

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I place one of the cute vintage inspired snowmen 

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Among my red shelves is another vintage inspired handmade snowmen.

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This little area of my Family-room is where I display a lot of my tobacco paraphernalia 

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This very super cute snowman my youngest daughter painted and glazed when she was in 5th grade she's 30 now, what a very special time. 

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Here is another one of the vintage inspired handmade snowmen nesting himself on a tin.

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This little snowman is actually a shaker I thrifted at least 20 years ago

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I really enjoy sharing with everyone and hope I may have given you a different way to display your thrifted treasures.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by.

 I always enjoy hearing from you, please leave a comment. 

 So until my next post ...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage Inspired Handmade Snowmen

Hi Friends, 

I am so happy you have stopped by "My Little Colorado Cottage"  today. 

For the past couple of weeks I've been working with paper clay, I have wanted to handmake vintage inspired 'Snowmen' to add to my Winter décor this season. 

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This weekend I finished up the project

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For now I have all of the cute snowmen on top of the hutch as I refresh some of my vignettes for the month of February, these little guys will be moving around.

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I found a very easy recipe for the paper clay,  at Tree Craft Studios here  

I followed the recipe, but added just a little more shredded paper, this recipe makes a large batch of clay

(kind of looks like oatmeal)

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I started by using up some playdough I had in the craft stash for the Grandkids. 

My thought was to put the paper clay over the snowmen form. 

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as it turned out the playdough cracked so bad that the paper clay worked out well covering the cracks.

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I also used toilet paper rolls for a taller snowmen and used aluminum foil to form arms.

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It took some time to dry thoroughly, I did use aluminum foil shaped in a ball for the snowmen made from the paper roll 

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I had added the orange carrot nose and pipe before I added the felt scarves.

After all was done, I preferred the fabric scarves and fabric embellishment on the stove top hat instead of the felt.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been up to.  

  

What do you think of this project, for the first time using with paper clay? 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage Thrift Haul - Grab Bags of Vintage Costume Jewelry-Trinkets

Hi Friends, 

Today, I'm so excited to be sharing the two grab bags I purchased Friday, that I didn't get chan0ce to share on the last post.....

As I was checking out at my local thrift store on Friday, I spotted these two grab bags of odds and ends costume jewelry for $2.50 each, at the counter!

Some of the trinkets I kept for me and my Grand-daughter.

Most of the time, I brake a part the jewelry and save the beads and do-dads 

for other projects.

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The first bag was mostly necklaces

The wooden heart necklace had a broken clasp, but was interesting, Ill be using the wooden heart in my Valentine vignettes, next month

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The beautiful necklace with the large aqua beads was in good shape I think my Grand-daughter will love it she loves dress-up play.

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I saw this bracelet in the bag and was hoping it was a locket, sadly it wasn't.

Second bag had quite a few paired earrings of all colors and sizes, which is great! I just need to find backs for the post earrings.

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I like the black, silver, and aqua colors of this necklace it had magnetic Hematite beads strung in it, I'll probably use the beads for other projects.

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a few bracelets were also in this bag

This bracelet had interesting nautical embellishments

and the pendant with the image of a type of seed?

This is way I LOVE to thrift, you just never know what you will find!

Super cute smiley sun pendant

A pendant of sandals 

This is a new never seen before....

A Bridesmaid pendant

(To My Bridesmaid)

Had a date stamped on the back

 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been up to and I always enjoy hearing from you. 

 So until my next post ...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett