Country Farmhouse DIY Valentine Cards

 Hi Friends,

 I decided to make a weave heart pouch for chocolate goodies to give away. I found a very Valentine's card/basket for candies treats for the students in my reading groups. In this great book I thrifted a couple of months age.

It's that time! For a diy Valentine Card! So I took the challenge to  make these little weave basket heart card this year, for the students I have in small group reading.

They look so cute and the diy video made it look easy. So, Why not, I thought.  I can whip out these cards in know time.  Oh No!  It wasn't that easy for me, any way I persevered on.  lol  

I had the pieces cut out and the idea in my mind was to just slide the two  pieces together. It didn't happen that way.

In four and a half hours I had made 17 I needed 80 by Monday! What was I thinking?

I filled the little Valentine basket with candy and will give them to the grandkids for Valentines Day.

I hope I give you a little inspiration you to make Valentine Day special for your love ones.

Until next time, May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Very Easy DIY Checked Black and White Homespun Country/Primitive Garland

 Hi Friends,

I've started another project using fabric and yarn to make this very easy homespun Country/Primitive garland.

I bought 2 yards of checked black and white fabric from my local Quilter's shop.

I cut 1 inch strips about six inches long from the fabric

I measure the width of the mantel to get the length of garland I would need to drape my mantel.  Using white yarn from my craft stash, I started tying the strips of fabric on to the white yarn.

I ended up making two garlands one for the mantel and one for the Livingroom hutch. 

This country farmhouse homespun garland will add a nice touch to all of my seasonal décor, this year.

Thanks for stopping by to checkout this very easy homespun Country/Primitive garland project.

Until the next project.  

God Bless you, 

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Sunflowers Late/Summer-Changing Décor

Hi Friends,

I have taken down the Fourth of July décor and starting to put up late summer décor, sunflowers crows etc.  I like summer so much and we have such a short summer that I feel it's okay to stretch summer décor into September.

cigar collection vignettes

country style spitoon

vintage white milk glass

vintage cigar box

vintage lunch box

green vintage books brass country candle stick

May God bless you and your family, I'm Vicki the Colo-Junkett

August Sunflowers in my Late Summer Vignettes

Hi Friends,

I have a few late August vignettes to share with you today.

In a few vignettes in the den I have added sunflower florals with some yellow shredded paper for filler. I have been collecting vintage bottles for a long time I love these aqua bottles.

I place a couple of roosters in this wine box added some raffia and a few sprigs of sunflowers and pip berries.

 Just another vignette a canning jar I filled with shredded yellow paper and added a yellow homespun fabric bow and floral.

I have a small collection of cigar boxes and this King Edward cigar box I added a vintage glass fishing net ball and some floral to make up this late summer vignette.

It was great to get some of my August sunflowers displayed around my house for late Summer décor.

Thank you for checking out some of my ideas to use collectibles in and around the home.

So until the next project. May God bless you and your family.

I'm Vicki the Colo-Junkett

My Out Door Happy Place

Hi Friends,

It's another glorious day here at My Little Colorado Cottage. 

This is the cottage gate to my happy place, my garden. 

  

Today I just had to show off a few blooms in garden, these blooms make me happy!

This wired milk crate is one of my yard sale finds this summer and I thought it would be a great planter for annuals.

My yard is always a working in progress.  Some of the perennials I planted last summer are coming up nicely this year.

I'm going for a kind of rustic,  kind of cottage, and kind of rural feel to my outdoor living space 

What do think?  Thank you for checking out my outdoor happy place.

May God bless you and your family.

Have a wonderful day! I'm Vicki the Colo-Junkett

A Few Easy Winter Vignette Ideas - Using some items from my Vintage/Country Collections

Hi Friends,

Today, I'm sharing a few easy décor ideas I am using for vignettes this winter season in my home.

  This brass spittoon I picked up at a auction many years ago sit by my front room window all the time to hide string light connections so I always try to keep some kind of floral displayed in it. I just added a few dry stems from clematis vine in my garden, a bunch of red leaf eucalyptus stems some dried broadleaf  plant and of course white pip berry.

I'm sure you have seen this Sir Walter Raleigh tin I have had in my collection for ever, it seems. I use it in a vignette almost every seasons. 

To a vintage wine crate on a corner shelf, I added pine cone, a few cinnamon sticks and a couple of branches of red eucalyptus wrapped with red and white pip berries.

I'm so glad you stopped by to check out a few ways you may use some of your vintage boxes or tins to put togethers an easy display for winter

So until next time friends, May God bless you and your family.

I'm Vicki the Colo-Junkett