My Little Colorado Cottage: Vintage-Inspired Décor

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Vintage Thrifting in St Louis, Illinois

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad your here!

I've been on a road trip this past week to visit my youngest Daughter and her family.

Today, I'm so excited to share a few treasures I brought home from St. Louis. I did have a list of items I wanted to look for on this trip, however I didn't get a lot of time to shop. Family came first.

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I thought this was a super cool vintage song book, for $2.00

This vintage song book have songs like - "America, The Beautiful" - "My Old Kentucky Home" - "Standin' in the Need of Prayer" -"We're Marching to Zion" - "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" - Copyright 1928

I have the sweet song book on my vintage Clarophonic record player

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When I saw these Budweiser Christmas mugs, I had to buy them to add to my small collection of Christmas mugs.

The mugs were in two different booths, I paid $10.00 for this '1990 An American Tradition mug.

And the 1992 A Perfect Christmas mug I paid $13.99

I ended up already having a 1990 mug, so now I have two! lol

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I saw this Ball Jar for $4.00 it has a large crack, but I don't care, I'll be using it for décor.

A no. 12 on the bottom
I'm guessing the date might be 1923-1933?

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I also spotted this 2 1/2" spiked metal flower frog for $12.00, the price was a bit high but, I have two thrifted stores in my tiny town and you just don't see flower frogs much.

There is no date or manufacture stamp on it.

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Lastly, I picked up a Art-Deco green vase with gold strips for $5.00. I believe it fits in the same eara with a vase I bought last summer that was yellow with the gold stripes

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I had such a great time visiting my youngest daughter and her family over the Easter weekend.

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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 on my travels to St. Louis.

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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

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Spring/Easter Vintage-Inspired Vignettes on the Entry-room Hutch

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad your here!

Today, I'm so excited to share a few vignettes on the Entry-Room Hutch.

I started with placing the yellow faux-florals and pip berries, I have gathered over the years.

This first vignette I'm sharing has one of my newly vintage post-cards

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post-marked April 9, 1914 with a 1- cent stamp. Detroit To: Grambroch Ontario, Canada, From: Billie. So beautiful.

Cute thrifted Chenille yellow chick sits in a nest of shredded newspaper, (saw this idea on You-Tube.)

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The second shelf I have displayed the thrifted Log Cabin souvenir plate from the Ozark's.

I'm using the "Little Chenille Chick" I thrifted a few weeks ago, and sprinkle them through-out my Spring-Easter décor.

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Next, I found the berry baskets, I thrifted a couple of Springs ago.

Next, I've placed painted plastic eggs in a variety of sizes, in vases and jars

another one of the super cool thrifted post-cards, it didn't have a post-mark, but it was from: Orval to: grandpa

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This is another New vintage Easter Post-Card, I purchased at a On-line Auction last week, so cute with two bunnies holding a giant Easter Egg with a cute yellow Chick standing on top of the egg.

I also decided to use the faux Daffodil bulbs I hand-made last Spring

Lastly, in this vignette I used a thrifted frame fruit bowl photo I found last Spring from my local Vintage/Thrift Store.

In a thrifted vase I added a few more hand-painted plastic eggs a couple of sprigs of pip-berries.

A pair of super adorable bunnies I thrifted from my local Budget Thrift Store several years back. The vintage post-card is another card in the bundle I purchased at a on-line auction.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see some of my Spring vignettes using some of my treasures I have found out thrifting.