Vintage Winter on the Hutch - Thrifted Treasures

 Hi Friends,

Today I'm spreading the wonderful treasures I thrifted during my Christmas break.  One of the newly purchased converted oil lamp, still looking for a shade and chimney, but I'm so excited that it works and I'm please with this purchase.

I love putting these adorable snowmen into my winter décor, that my stepdad carved many years ago. 

I used a wicker basket this year, to group a twine cover bottle, a pewter mug and pine cones to the center of this vignette that I have thrifted.

These three little snowmen I thrifted this year, I think they are so adorable, that I had to place them in my winter décor some where on the hutch.

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This little vignette has the wooden bowl I thrifted a couple weeks ago.  I love the look of pine cones and berries for a cozy farmhouse feel, for winter.

Thank you for checking in. I hope I gave a little bit of winter decorating inspiration to your day.

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado junkett

A Cozy Rustic Winter Mantel

 Hi Friends,

Time to change up the mantel, I've packed up all my Christmas collections.  To start decorating the mantel, I thought this DIY was very appropriate for this very cold winter season, here in NW Colorado.

I'm still loving buffalo/gingham check so I leave the black check rag garland all seasons, but added the red/black checked rag garland to my winter displays

 New DIY this winter is the wreath with a stick snowflake hung in the center, I like the rustic feel it adds to the mantel. 

This awesome white snowflake I diy a couple of winters back out of popsicle sticks.  One of the new DIY's for this winter are using collected bottle brush trees and wooden vintage thread spools and ABC blocks.

Pines cones always come out during my winter decorating, I found the little cardinal tin this year at the thrift store

I also like displaying the red felt birds that I picked up several years ago I believe from "Dollar Tree?", all throughout the house.

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you found some inspiration to decorate a corner of your home for the winter season.

May God you and your family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Rustic Winter Décor - Transition from Christmas to Winter in the Den

Hi Friends,

Setting up my fireplace mantel first, get the creative juice's flowing for me.  This year I thought about bring out more of the red black buffalos checks and woodsy feel for the foundation of my winter décor.  In past years I've done red birds, snowmen, or icy, snowy winter with snowflakes.  

On the mantel I place two trees on either side that are sat in galvanized buckets.  That are cover with red/ black buffalo checked scarfs all of these items I bought at Dollar Tree.

I also added a few vintage bottles, pine cones and a milk glass vase with red berries.

In the center of the mantel I added this Baby it's Cold Outside, sign I crafted last winter, along with a few of my vintage canning jars.      

A thrifted cardinal plate from last winter, and of course the black/white and red/black checked ribbon and pine garland that I love to add to the mantel.

Also in the den I found a place for the cast metal candle holder, I thrifted this month, 

 A glass flower frog that was handed down from my grandmother, one of my cigar boxes filled with pine cones and greenery weathered sticks from my yard.

On one of the shelves in the den is a vintage blue lunch box to display my collection of glass door knobs, greenery a few pine cones and red berries.

On top of the Pepsi crate I placed a vintage white mug with a little greenery and red berries and an chrome plate pocket warmer with a red bag that I found in the trunk.

In the Pepsi crate I changed a few things, added a little blue bottle and a children's tea saucer and a little greenery and berries.

 

Over in a corner of the den, I placed wool blankets in the wooden "Black Label" box on top of the trunk, 

I also pulled out some of the games we play with the kids for time to time, some of the cold days in winter. 

I like this arrangement, I made up for Christmas, using a vintage tobacco box, some pine greenery pine cones and this very large hurricane chimney.

I thrifted the hurricane chimney several years ago and didn't know how to use it. I really like how this center piece came to gather. 

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed seeing how I decorated my mantel for the winter months.

Until the next time God Bless You,

 Vicki a Colorado Junkett.

Two diy Pine Cone Projects for the Winter Decor

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1st diy

Using fir tree cones that I had collected, I decided to add a little Waverly white chalk paint to the cones and hot glue a jute string for hanging.

Here I gathered a bundle of painted fir cones and hung them from a shelve.

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2nd DIY

Here I used some fir cones as a vase filler

A Bonus diy

These two glass vase I use alot on my mantel, I added some burlap ribbon to the top of the vase and glued three of the  fir cones on a string to the front

I think it adds a little woodsy feel to the mantel.

Thank you for stopping by, so until next project.  

Take care,

Vicki 

DIY Pine Cone Garland for the Winter Mantel

I had been thinking about making this DIY pine cone garland project for some time.  I had been collecting pine cones for a while and had a good stash of pine cones for this project.

  Using jute string from Dollar Tree, I measured the length of the mantel, spaced out the pine cones to about 4-5" apart and hot glue the pine cones to the jute string.

I thought the cones didn't make a statement I was looking, they were to small

So I used a larger pine cone, hot glued the pine cone to another piece of jute string after measuring the length of the mantel.

I believe by adding the larger pine cone garland, has improved the over all look of the mantel.

Thank you for checking back for another DIY project.  Let me know, Do you use pine cones in your winter decor or use them all year round?

So until the next project, 

take care, 

Vicki

Winter Rustic/Farmhouse Mantel Display

Winter 

This has taken me a while to get all of my DIY project done that I wanted to try this year, so as you can see I have add a few new DIY's to my winter farmhouse mantel decor.  

One of the DIY's is the giant snow flake made from craft sticks, this was a every easy project.  

The pine cone wreath that was made from items I already had on hand.
Two clear vases I gave a face lift by adding burlap, and filler of little painted fir cones that I collected last summer, the two pine cone garlands and Yarn pom-pom snow balls.

I did bring back the frosted pine cone and the fore-birch back candles. I made for my farmhouse decor last winter
  I really like how the mantel came out this season. 

Thank you for checking in to see this working in progress of my winter mantel.

Until the next project............

 take care, Vicki 

Winter Pine Cone Wreath Project For my Mantel

I have always incorporated pine cone into my Fall, Christmas and winter decor as filler, but this year I have decided to go a bit further by making a few pine cone projects to add to my winter decor.

I always have a bag of pine cones on hand for craft projects. 

I used a willow wreath from Dollar Store, my glue gun and a stash of pine cones 

I used some ribbons I had on hand and tried to make a crazy bow like Tracy at crazy bow

The bow was easy to make, but in my opinion, I need more practice making this style of bow.

Hope you enjoyed this diy Pine Cone Wreath project using items from nature, in my winter decor.

Thanks for stopping by, until the next project.
Vicki 

Frosted Pine Cones DYI / Winter Decor

Winter Decor DYI. 

I'm getting ready to put my winter decor together and the first place I go is to Pinterest to get some ideas, I saw a lot of Snowy, Frosty, icy, touches. 

I had some left over Frosty Snow from some other project.

 I have lots of pine cones.

I got out the white paint and painted the edges of the pine cone and rolled the pine cone in the Frosty Snow flakes,

I think these snowy pine cone turned out nicely.

Thank you for stopping by.
Vicki