Spring Bulbs - Sunny Warm Day in the Flower Beds

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! Today, 

I'm so excited to share my 'Spring Bulbs',  There are peeking out of the soil! I have spotted a few of the 'Daffodil's' bulbs have buds, 'Tulip' are showing their leaves, I'm so excited! Our Winter has been extremely long.

This past week I've been out in the garden when ever the weather permitted pulling grass and rake-up the straw I spread over all the plants in this flower bed.

 This is a orange 'Poppy' plant in the back will be blooming in June

These 'Tulip bulbs' were a clearance last year around Easter time, the blooms were dying off.  I think I paid $4.00 a flat of 6 pots I bought 3 flats. Not sure what the colors will be, it will be a surprise!

'Grape Hyacinth' are also showing their color.

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Today, I was given a couple of dozen, 'Tulip' bulbs from a friend and I added them to the beds on Tuesday.

Their a little droopy, I'm hopping in a day or two they'll perk up. Our temps are still in the low twenty's at night, but day high range from low 50's to high 60's.

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 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I've been doing this week. 

 I would love to hear what you have been working on this whether it's thrifting, rearranging your vignettes, gardening, sewing or just puttering around your home. 

 So until my next post...... 

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

Rustic Spring Front Porch Décor - Rustic vintage for Spring

 Hi Friends,

Spring is here, out on my front porch.   

My thought process this year was to incorporate burlap, buffalo checked ribbon, a little Spanish moss vines, twigs and a couple logs into a rustic farmhouse look for my front porch.

I keep the vintage milk cans and wire milk crates out year round.  So all I did was add the items I had envisioned. 

Then some spring daffodils, pussy willows and a couple of vintage galvanized buckets.

I'm pretty please how this all came together.  It is still quit cool here mid 30's during the day. 

I think the yellow daffodils show hope of warmer days.

Thank you so much for checking in to see what I've been up to.  Until the next post.

God Bless You and Your Family.

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Spring Mantel in March

Hi Friends,

Welcome to another how I decorated my mantel this year for Spring

I gathered some of my green bottles added a little yellow daffodils, white pip berries,  and a couple of diy's and voila' my spring mantel for 2020.

Green checked banner, adds a nice farmhouse feel to the old window frame on the mantel. 

I start with the the festive paper medallion banner I added a black and white check homespun garland I made last spring give a nice country feel, green moss garden balls I also made last spring 

 

A free St. Patrick's holiday print from

 Lucky to be in love

A few of my brass candle sticks, vintage postcard prints from 

A new diy wreath project this year

This year I brought into my décor a few felt  stemmed shamrocks I made a few years ago.

a cleaned up thrifted mirror and a few felt farmhouse shamrocks scattered around.

 

I am very pleased how adding a little moss and some of my DIY's came together. What do you think?

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my Spring Mantel.

Take care and God Bless, Vicki a Colorado Junkett

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New Spring Farmhouse Wreath Using a Thrifted Wicker Paper Plate Holder

 

I painted the wooden letters with espresso brown acrylic paint from WalMart

using the I Love sign I painted the back with moss green acrylic paint 

I used Aleene's Tacky glue to attach the wooden letters.  Digging through my craft stash I found this galvanized Happy word I  of pulled off another sign purchased from Dollar Tree.

Using a chalk pen I outlined the letters in Spring and went around the edge of the moss green rectangle board.

The sign wasn't setting in place very well so using a glue gun and three jenga blocks

I did a simple bow with burlap ribbon and a little black rickrack

This project was very simple, but I think it turned out nice and I used items I already had in my craft stash.

Thank you for stopping by, come again to see what kind of project I'll be doing next.

God Bless You, Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Three Bunny Rustic Farmhouse - Welcome Sign for Spring

 Hi Friends, 

I finished another Spring/Easter craft project to add to my Spring décor. I had notice a similar sign over at Priscilla's Spring tour.  Here is my attempt to recreate the bunny welcome sign

 I used a scrap of black form board I had and drew out a ribbon for the welcome sign the bunnies are holding, painted it gray with some of my Cracker Barrel acrylic paints and wrote Welcome with a black sharpie.

Using a pieces of white form board, I drew out a bunny print and changed up the flopped ears to give the bunnies some character and cut them out of the form board.

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I have seen black check, gingham, buffalo check all over You-Tube and Pinterest. When I found this fabric at my local quilt shop in January, I purchased 2 yards.  I have been using it in most of my craft projects so far this year.

Once I got the hang of cutting the form board I whipped out a few form board bunny crafts. Find the here

Thank you for stopping by, come again to see what kind of project I'll be doing next.

God Bless You, Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Farmhouse Spring-DIY Project for Spring

Terracotta

I decided to use some of the terracotta pots from the Dollar Tree, to add a nice touch to my Easter/spring mantel this year.  

Here on the mantel I put a little yellow chick into a pot that was laying on it's side.  I also use the waverly chalk paint to paint some of the pots, and I stuck a little nest with some tiny bird eggs.

The Dollar Tree sells 3 1/2 inch pot two to a package and 2 1/2 inch pots 3 to a package.  This was a very easy project and I think the pots added a nice touch to my seasonal decor.

I got this idea off of pinterest, go check it out there are so many ideas. 
Let me know what you think of this project.
Thank you so much for stopping by, until next time ahve a wonderful day!
Vicki-Colo Junkett

Welcome Spring the Flowers are in bloom!

Here in the Northwest of Colorado our Spring is wet, cold and very long. 

March 12th, still a lot of snow.

March 29th, the snow is melting. Robins are back!

Coming up are Iris's and Purple Illusion Spike  Veronica, (this was taken May 4th)

Same Iris and purple Illusion, (was taken June 5th)

The Lilac bush is in bloom, (this was taken June 7th).......Maybe, spring is finally here!

Thanks for stopping by,

Vicki

Farmhouse Touch to the Front Porch for Spring

Hi Friends, so glad you stopped by.

Today I'm adding a little spring to my front porch area. The temperature is still to cold at night to be putting out plants.

I ran across this bottle caddy in my basement, that I found thrifting many years ago. From my local Dollar Tree store I purchase floral foam a few clusters of daffodils and raffia.

Very simple DIY.  I just layered the floral foam in the bottom of the caddy then added the raffia.

arranged the daffodils and a little reindeer moss to try and cover the floral foam a bit.

In one of my vintage milk cans I planted a few daffodils, in the milk crate I added the daffodil caddy, but it wasn't working for me I didn't like the white color of the caddy so I just arranged the daffodils in the milk crate.

I like this arrangement better for now.

Thank you so much for stopping by and You all have a great Day!

Vicki -the Colo Junkett