Thrifting for Treasures

Hi Friends,

February is here again and I have the itch to visit my local thrift store.  My main reason is to find some discounted Valentine items, but if something catches my eye I may bring it home.

 Years ago I decorated with copper items but they were super expensive.  Lately I have seen copper items showing up in the farmhouse décor, so I picked up these copper jello mold  for  $2.00 each.

I figure I can never have enough paper heart dollies for $0.30 around, with kids in the house.

I don't think this valentine package is vintage, however when do you ever see Woody the Woodpecker item?  So I had to pick this item up for $2.00.

I picked up these very darling hot pads for 25 cents a pieces

A metal box either a cash box or a fishing box, but how cool! I paid $5.00.  Not sure how I will be displaying these items, but will keep you informed.

Thank you so much for taking your time to stop by and see what I have been up to. 

Until next time, God Bless You,

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Rustic Winter Décor - Transition from Christmas to Winter in the Den

Hi Friends,

Setting up my fireplace mantel first, get the creative juice's flowing for me.  This year I thought about bring out more of the red black buffalos checks and woodsy feel for the foundation of my winter décor.  In past years I've done red birds, snowmen, or icy, snowy winter with snowflakes.  

On the mantel I place two trees on either side that are sat in galvanized buckets.  That are cover with red/ black buffalo checked scarfs all of these items I bought at Dollar Tree.

I also added a few vintage bottles, pine cones and a milk glass vase with red berries.

In the center of the mantel I added this Baby it's Cold Outside, sign I crafted last winter, along with a few of my vintage canning jars.      

A thrifted cardinal plate from last winter, and of course the black/white and red/black checked ribbon and pine garland that I love to add to the mantel.

Also in the den I found a place for the cast metal candle holder, I thrifted this month, 

 A glass flower frog that was handed down from my grandmother, one of my cigar boxes filled with pine cones and greenery weathered sticks from my yard.

On one of the shelves in the den is a vintage blue lunch box to display my collection of glass door knobs, greenery a few pine cones and red berries.

On top of the Pepsi crate I placed a vintage white mug with a little greenery and red berries and an chrome plate pocket warmer with a red bag that I found in the trunk.

In the Pepsi crate I changed a few things, added a little blue bottle and a children's tea saucer and a little greenery and berries.

 

Over in a corner of the den, I placed wool blankets in the wooden "Black Label" box on top of the trunk, 

I also pulled out some of the games we play with the kids for time to time, some of the cold days in winter. 

I like this arrangement, I made up for Christmas, using a vintage tobacco box, some pine greenery pine cones and this very large hurricane chimney.

I thrifted the hurricane chimney several years ago and didn't know how to use it. I really like how this center piece came to gather. 

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you enjoyed seeing how I decorated my mantel for the winter months.

Until the next time God Bless You,

 Vicki a Colorado Junkett.

Vintage Farmhouse Home Décor Haul

 

Hi friends,

Today I was finishing up my Christmas shopping and thought I would hit up a vintage/antique thrift store. They were having all Christmas items half off, I just couldn't find any vintage looking Christmas items that caught my eye.

I did find a few things vintage home décor piece though. 

The hen and rooster s/p were cute they both had a chip at base but, I'm keeping them for décor, so it's not a big deal to me.

I really don't need another cookie cutter, but I don't have any with the wooden green handles, so I bought them will probably use them in my spring décor. 

I bought the grater because I saw a you-tuber, I follow use graters to hold dish towel or dollies, so I'm adding this grater to my kitchen décor.

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

My God Bless you and your family.

Vicki a Colorado Junkett.

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

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 Fabric Heart Bowl Fillers - DIY

DIY Fabric Heart Bowl Fillers

I've always love working with felt and many years ago I started sewing up Primitive red felt hearts for Valentine Decor.

I really like the fabric bundles from Wal-Mart so with, a red stripe fabric, black and white checked fabric I bought last year from a local quilter's shop,  I thought I would make up some new hearts this month. 

Dug out the sewing box

Using cotton balls for stuffing the hearts using a blanket stitch to close up the heart on all sides

I thought the hearts looked kind of plain, so I added embellishments of red felt hearts, buttons jute.

Wha-La....

cute heart ornies/bowl filler

The hand sewing was a bit time consuming, but I think they turned out pretty rustic farmhouse looking. 

 Let me know what you think of the fabric heart bowl fillers.

Thank you for stopping by

Vicki a Colorado Junkett

February Vintage Farmhouse Décor Project

Hi Friends,

I'm at it again with another project.  

Thrifted Wooden Heart Transformed to fit into my February Vintage Farmhouse Décor 

I haul this wooden heart earlier this month and am just now getting to this project.  

  I'm going to white chalk paint it

Then using some yardage of red and white striped fabric I'll cover the wood heart.

I traced the heart shape on to the striped fabric 

using Aleene's Tacky Glue to attach the fabric cutout onto the wooden shape.

I've had this wooden love piece for sometime, I'm pretty sure it came from Dollar Tree.  I just painted it with the Waverly White Chalk paint distressed it with a black sharpie

 

Here I added some fabric hearts and a button to the top and at the bottom of the heart.

Using some fine sand paper I sanded down the excess fabric off the edge when it had dried.

This was a fairly simple projects, allowing the fabric to dry took over night, but all in all this project was easy and quick.

Thank you for stopping by My Little Colorado Cottage and checking out another of my February projects.

God Bless you, Vicki a Colorado Junkett

 

Winter Rustic/Farmhouse Mantel Display

Winter 

This has taken me a while to get all of my DIY project done that I wanted to try this year, so as you can see I have add a few new DIY's to my winter farmhouse mantel decor.  

One of the DIY's is the giant snow flake made from craft sticks, this was a every easy project.  

The pine cone wreath that was made from items I already had on hand.
Two clear vases I gave a face lift by adding burlap, and filler of little painted fir cones that I collected last summer, the two pine cone garlands and Yarn pom-pom snow balls.

I did bring back the frosted pine cone and the fore-birch back candles. I made for my farmhouse decor last winter
  I really like how the mantel came out this season. 

Thank you for checking in to see this working in progress of my winter mantel.

Until the next project............

 take care, Vicki 

Paper Snowflake and large craft sicks from Dollar Tree Project

I found another way to use the snowflake cut outs I made from book pages.

Using the larger craft sticks from Dollar Tree, I built a plaque to glue the left over snowflake on.

Once I had the little plaque glued together this what they looked like

I added a light coat of Waverly White Chalk paint.

Using watered down black and brown acrylic paint to added some distress aging.

I brushed some watered down brown paint to the paper snowflake to age them and glue the snowflake to the plaque.

I really wasn't in love with this project so I decided to cut the rounded end off and added two small jenga block so these plaque would stand.

Thank you for stopping be to see another one of my projects.

Let me know which one of the snowflake projects you have tried.

Until the next project take care of yourself,

Vicki

Winter Décor Project - Let's Stay Home and Cuddle DIY Sign

Another Project using items from Dollar Tree

Using Waverly white chalk paint, gave sign two coats then added gray for distressing

Using a ruler and my trusty black sharpie, I made board lines and cut in the lines with the box cutter to make more of a imprecation.

Using a word doc I printed out the saying, "Let's Stay Home and Cuddle"

I tried the transfer methods using pencil, but the marks didn't show up.  So, I went to  plan B wooden letters and a stencil.

Glued the wooden words on and then working with a stencil  I painted the rest of the words to the saying.

I like how this sign project turned out adding a little more brown touches on the lines and around the edge made it look weathered I think.

Thank you for checking in to see what I have been up to.

So until the next project, take care......Vicki