A Few Rustic Late Summer Touches to My Front Porch

 Hi Friends,

Today I'm working on sprucing up my front porch for late summer, by bringing in the sunflowers a little green foliage to the vintage milk cans.   

I love adding black and white buffalo checked ribbon here and there to added the farm house feel

I have added a few burlap ribbon to add a rustic touch to the front porch.

I added a new welcome sign to my summer front porch this year from some old shelving I had painted red.  Using some Dollar Tree supplies, this is how my welcome sign turned out.

Just a few little touches to my front porch, and my front porch is ready for late summer.

I like how it all turned out, thank you so much for stopping by to see what I have been up too....until next time.

My God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm vicki a Colorado Junkett

Front door wreath

Country Farmhouse Vintage Styled Mantel for February

Country Farmhouse Vintage Mantel

Hi friends, 

This year I brought out some of my projects from the past and some vintage pieces I have collected over the years.  As you can see I am still liking how the black and white fabric adds a little bit of farmhouse feel.  A thrifted milk glass, a couple of diy sign projects, fabric hearts, red bird, paper heart touches and dried roses.

In this area of my mantel I added a few vintage bottles a couple of diy heart projects from a couple of years ago, heart shape tea cake mold and a tea stained red strip fabric garland to compliment the black and white check homespun.  the little girl is a vintage valentine print. I just love using vintage prints through out my home décor. 

Here on the mantel I added a farmhouse salt shaker hen I picked up at a yard sale, a vintage Hazel Atlas quart jar and some homespun tried around the zinc lid. I put some of my dried roses my sweet husband gives me on my birthday into a mercury looking jar, I picked up at Dollar Tree. A vintage vintage print and two diy heart project.

I have another vintage rooster That I have collected a candle stick I thrifted last year added a jar on top with pip berries an d tied some homespun around the neck of the jar.  A few kids alphabet blocks is added for whimsical touch.

I brought out of my stash a vintage tea pot and put more of the dried roses and added some more homespun the white hen I picked up in January at a thrift store it wasn't marked, but I believe it adds a nice touch to my Valentine mantel. Standing in front of a diy moss cover twig heart I thrifted and upcycled.

The heart box I thrifted last February and upcycled with a vintage look. The "Follow Your Heart" sign is also a diy I made to look farmhouse.  The silver plate candle stick is another thrift find. 

I hope you enjoyed how I styled my mantel this year. My husband gets me roses for my February birthday along with Valentines Day, of course I dry them, so I have quite a few bundles of roses to add to my décor this year.

Thank you for stopping by My Little Colorado Cottage to see how I'm styling my mantel for February.

God Bless You,

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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A Rustic Vintage Heart Shape Keepsake Box

 Hi Friends,

I'm starting another project for my February home décor. 

I'm adding rustic vintage farmhouse touches to this cute heart shape box that I paid $0.50 from my local thrift store haul last month.  And needed a make over.

My inspiration came from Wendy at White Sparrow Living  she did a remake of a heart shape box similar to this cute box using fabric to cover the box. 

So I have this red stripe fabric, I purchased at a local quilt shop last year and thought this might go with my décor for February.

I traced the lid onto the fabric to cover the lid

Then I cut a stripe of fabric to go around bottom side of box and soaked it in coffee ground tea over night.

Liking how the coffee stain looked on the bottom stripe of the box

As an after thought, I also brushed the top of the box with some of the coffee liquid with a small paint. 

 Added some lace ribbon from Dollar Tree around the edge of the lid.  

For some embellishments, I made a few book page roses and added a little button to the center of the rose.  

I felt I needed to add a little more so I cut heart shaped from burlap and a book page added some raffia and twine.

Thank you for stopping by to see another item from my local thrift store that I have remade to fit my vintage farmhouse style.

Until the next project...

God Bless you and your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Rustic Farmhouse Valentine Wreath for the Front Door

Took a Dollar Tree tinsel, glittery wreath wrapped it with a roll of burlap ribbon also from Dollar Tree.

For the bows, I used 2" red burlap ribbon and 1.5" wired brown burlap ribbon from dollar tree.  I believe the 1.5" red & tan check and  7/8" black & white checked ribbon came from Craft Outlet. I cut 6" lengths of all the ribbon.

Then I layered red burlap add from my stash raffia and a couple of single strand of pip berries

wired burlap ribbon, red and tan ribbon and last the black and white ribbon

used some twine to tie up and attached to this finished bow to the wreath.

I always try and keep some light weight card stock/board that I get from cereal boxes for templates.

So I used the cereal box cardboard and cut out three hearts large medium, small for this fabric heart accent for the wreath. I used the black striped flat fold fabric that comes in this bundle from Wal-Mart, also red burlap ribbon and a aged book page.

 

I'm cutting out two heart from the fabric because, I'm making a little heart pillow. The first layer of the hear pillow is the black stripped fabric,

then the red burlap heart is a little smaller,

The third and last heart is cut from aged book paper.

 

Glue the three layer, I used Aleene's Tacky Glue and let it all dry completely.

I said I was making pillow hearts, so I added a cotton ball for batting.

With embroidery thread I used a blanket stitch around the edge to close up the heart pillow.

A finished little heart pillow.

I like how this project turned out.

Thank you for stopping by.......until the next project.

God Bless You, Vicki

Valentine Rustic Mantel - Decorate with Me

Hi Friends,

Not much new this year so far,  I  added quit a few new items last year to my February décor.

To start off my decorating for February, I'm starting with the mantel.  I left the pinecone wreath I made this year for my January winter décor and the black and white checked homespun rag garland I also made last year with black and white checked fabric and a piece of white yarn, the evergreen garland from Walmart is left up through March.  This year I added a wooden black buffalo check heart to the wreath, placed wooden children's letter blocks I picked up in a thrift haul in January that spell LOVE.  Some frosted tiny cones, red berries from Dollar Tree, a "XO" conversational hearts and a "All of Me Loves all of You!", I made last year.

Like this gray heart made with puzzles pieces, the little wooden heart with "A Key to My heart".

I did find a few cute items this year at my local thrift store, so I'll show you where I added my new revamped thrifted purchases through out this month.

Thank you so much for checking in to see what project I'm working on now.

God Bless you and your family, 

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

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 

DYI- Thrifted Heart Shape Twig Wreath

A thrift heart shape wreath, I believe I paid $.50 from my January 2019 Thrift Haul

I removed as much of the old hot glue and greenery as I could, I also trimmed up the center twigs.  I had some left over Spanish moss from another project, using Aleene's Tacky Glue, I applied the moss to the wreath.  When the moss applied wreath was dry I attached the burlap ribbon bow  with hot glue.

I really like how this project turned out.

Thank you for stopping by,

Vicki

February Decor

Here are some of the areas of my home that I decorate for the seasons

In my living room on top of the entertainment center

A cherished black shelf in my entry way, that my mother painted beautiful flowers on.

The two tiered shelves in our main bathroom.

The mantel of the den fireplace.

I want to thank you for stopping by My Little Colorado Cottage.  And have a wonderful day!

Vicki

DYI - Valentine Wreath "'Dollar Tree" make over

Using a grapevine wreath I had, I added some of the Black and White Checked material and thin red ribbon and wrapped around the grapevine wreath. 
Next I added some of the little wooden hearts that I bought at "The Dollar Tree" that were a welcome sign and chalk painted white

and also added the letters to spell the word love from the yard of  black and white checked fabric, using stencils I had in my craft supply box.

I used wide popsicle stick from Walmart and laid out the letter heart out and glued to popsicle stick, then attached it to the ribbon on the grapevine wreath to get a 

I added a bow made from the 2 inch wired burlap ribbon from "The Dollar Tree "store and a 2 inch strip of the black and white checked fabric.  I think I should have added another black and white checked ribbon on top of the burlap bow.

I hope I gave you some decor  ideas to implement into your home decor for February.

Thank you for stopping by
Vicki the Colorado Junkett

New Vintage looking Diy Easter Wreath for my Home

Easter Greetings

I found this very cute vintage looking greeting sign at Dollar Tree, this year and wanted to incorporated this sign into my farmhouse spring décor.

Using Dollar Tree burlap ribbon, I cut many 4-5 inch strips and tied the burlap strips with brown pipe cleaner to a circular wire wreath form.

Then I added a few strips of green mesh through out the form, also from Dollar Tree

Here I'm trying to fluff the burlap the finished project.

I really like how the vintage looking door wreath turned out.

Hope you enjoyed this easy diy to add to your Spring décor.

Thank you for stopping by and have a Great Day!

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett