Autumn Among My Vintage Collections

Hi Friends, 

 Today, I'm so excited to share how I'm adding some Autumn touches to some of my vintage collections.

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This Fall season I'm using pumpkins, acorns, pinecones, fall pip-berries and color leaves.

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As you know I love thrifting for vintage treasures, and I really like picking up vintage jello molds ...........

........in this cubby I made a little pumpkin using two molds for the pumpkin and a vintage glass drawer knob as a stem

 I do love milk glass, usually priced fairly and easy to find (my collection is growing).

I have always enjoyed finding vintage canning jars, they are reasonably priced at $2-4's and not to hard to find.  My favorite jars are the lavender color jar, they are a little harder to find.

Over 30 years ago I started collecting "Hull's" brown drip pottery.  The year I was married (1980) I had a nice table setting gifted to us from my mother-in-law. I used it for many years. 

Unfortunately, I gave it away.

Now I'm collecting it again, go figure?

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 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week. 

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 I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you style it in your home. 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Milk Glass and Vintage Oil Lamps Weekend Yard Sale Haul

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I'm so excited to share this weekend yard sale.

haul.

There was so many great vintage pieces, however nothing was priced, so I was hesitating what to pick up.

This person was a crafter, lots of fabric in vintage suit cases, I know I don't need fabric! so, I left it for someone else, I do regret leaving the suit cases though.

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I walked around several time being careful to only pick up items that I loved, because I wasn't sure how the items were priced.

I paid $5.00 for the 4 pieces

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the two nice pieces of milk glass to add to my growing collection.

I also added the light blue enamel cup to the outdoor enamel collection here on the red cocktail cart.

I was super excited to find this beautiful vintage  lavender blown glass oil lamp. It looks great on the vanity

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 then, the seller asked if I would be interested in a few more oil lamp and of course I said yes!

I've place these three lamps on a book shelf in the Family/Den until I receive the chimney's on order.

These lamps were so dirty two of them had old kerosene oil dried in the bottom, after wiping the glass lamps with a rag dipped in acetone and then in soapy dawn dish soap they came out nice and clean

$2.00 for 5 glass oil lamps.

I believe these two have found a home for now.

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Fun weekend finds

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week. 

 I would love to hear what you look for when your out thrifting. 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

I Found a Few Pieces of Vintage Milk-Glass at a Great Price!

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

We have had rain storms for the past couple of days, so I thought I'd stop by my local thrift store and found some fun treasures!

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First items,

were a few milk glass vases for $1.50 and a planter/urn for $5.00 each to add to my collection.

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Then, 

I picked-up two little fancy vases that will look great on the vanity in the guest room.

1940-1950 cornucopia sweetheart ivory vase 22kt gold trim

Art-Nouvean 'Rose Relief' vase.

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I was very excited when I noticed these three vintage 'Ball' rubber sealing rings used in canning food. The color of the boxes look great added to this vignette on the cubby unit in my entry room.

Beautiful 'Fall color' - USA California Pottery planter for $3.00, will look amazing with fall florals. Right now, I just filled the planter with some rusty crusty springs.

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I found a super adorable little chick shaker I thought it would be great in my spring décor.

by Our Own Imports-Japan

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Earlier this summer one of my vintage glass feeder broke, I've been looking for a plastic bottle to make the feeder usable. I found one today for $3.00

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check out this very nice cloth covered book for just $1.00

a gift 1908

One in a series of six books by L.T. Meade, Ill use this for vignettes but I may have to read it first.

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Look at this cute little shaker for $.50 I could not find a maker mark, but I like how looks

with the other pieces of brown pottery I have.

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Lastly,

A bag of faux acorns for $1.00

and a bag of small pine corns, which I will be using as filler in my Autumn vignettes.

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 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week. 

 I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you style it in your home. 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Shopping for Vintage Treasures for my Home

Hi Friends, 

 

I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I'm so excited to share a thrift haul from my local Vintage/Thrift store. I totally love every treasure I brought home today.

I passed on these treasures up last time. I thought these beautiful patterned plates, would look nice for Easter or Mother's Day. I paid $2.00 each.

This beautiful embossed plate with a light pink rose transfer had no stamp but I believe it might be made in Germany.

This super cute saucer with the gold trim and flower did not have a stamp on the back, I thought it would be nice to use this saucer in a Saint Patrick's Day or Fall vignette.

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Last visit to this Vintage/Thrift store I notice these two Flatware boxes the dark color one was $12.00 and the lighter brown didn't have a price.  I past on them thinking if these boxes are still in the store I'll buy them

The light brown box had red lining and a sticker 'Good Housekeeping Institute'.

The darker wood box had a light blue lining and a W.m. Roger sticker.

I saw on Pinterest how to use these boxes to corral décor vignettes, but for now I'm using them as risers on the hutch.

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I saw this cute milk glass pieces also last time I was at this store but wasn't sure I wanted to pay $15.00 for it but because of the uniqueness I did bring it home this time. I paid the asking price (I'm not much of a haggler).

Searching the 'WEB' to get some information about this interesting treasure, I found out it is called Mortar & Pestle and held potpourri made produced in New York by Jean Vivaudou Co. Akro Agate in 1930's. Unfortunately, I did pay high for this piece because it is missing a decal and painted florals.

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I picked up these last two plate because, they were very pretty and I think they'll look great in a vignette for March.

Noon at the Dontinee Marshes

Night at the Dontinee Marshes

 Beautiful décor plated made in Germany for $2.00 each

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week. 

 I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you style it in your home. 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family. 

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage Silver-Plate and Pewter Touches on the Hutch - Decorate With Me for June

 Hi Friends,

Today, I'm decorating the hutch for June. 

All I did was, packed up the rustic DIY rustic bird houses, diy bird nest and eggs.

I kept all the white faux florals, 

Gathered up my collection of blueish vintage Ball canning jars to display on top of the hutch.

I moved around the white milk glass bud vases into different vignettes,

brought in some silver-plate items like the large platter, pedestal candy dish, and a pewter mug to the top of the hutch.

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I stack the chrome/gray color, metal fishing box on top of the two green tackle boxes that were already on top of the hutch.

In the fishing box I gathered silver-plate cutlery my dad gave me and a couple of metal embroidery hoops.

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added a wore-out blue jean diy garland to the top of the hutch

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This vignette did not change much I added a pewter mug and pewter saucer and a Towle sterling silver candle stick.

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This vignette didn't change much, I rearranged the hens around a bit.

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I hope that I'm an inspiration to you to go out and thrift. You just never know what you may find.

I want to thank you for checking in, please checkback any time, I'm trying to post at least every two weeks, with a thrift haul and vignettes of where I have used my new vintage finds.

Until next time.............

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett