'Americana Summer' Decorating - Using Vintage Treasures

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I'm so excited to share how I have decorated the top of my bookcase for 'Americana Summer' in my entryroom.

In this vignette I have brought in my vintage red lunch box a few vintage hens and a few other collections.

I have use a vintage USA Trivia Game box as a base, a few vintage 'Ball" canning, a embellished aluminum bell cookie cutter

I also included a Vintage-Inspired Patriotic Assemblage , I made last Summer, also a vintage George Washington reader.

adding another layer with a Vintage Bingo Card and another one of my vintage hens.

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Center vignette

I really like using this vintage silver-plate mug to hold a handful of red posies

I framed a free print of a Eagle, I found on Pinterest

I'm using a vintage crock bowl to house a few boxes of Sparklers and a vintage 'Milk-Glass' vase with a couple of Fabric Posies.

An 'Old Reader's Digest' I found last summer, a few Diy Firecrackers in a berry basket.

This vignette is setting in a yellow Coca-Cola wooden crate. I also used my wooden children blocks to add a little color along with handmade sign to represent Freedom!

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On the right, this vignette

I've brought in my vintage 'President Johnson' commemorative Plate.

a vintage Ball canning jar with red, white, and blue porker chip,

a couple of vintage blue bottles

also showing a resent vintage find this amazing Wooden Cheese Box, a 

Vintage Bingo Card.

I hope you enjoyed a little peek of some of my patriotic vignettes for Summer.

 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see some of my Summer vignettes

 

 I would love to hear how your decorating your home for Summer.

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Summer Americana Vignette in the Entry-Room - Vintage Record Player - Tier Tray

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I'm so excited to share my handmade tier tray from baking pans!

The top tier of my tier tray is a cake pan.

 As you can see I added a vintage-inspired Patriotic Assemblage I crafted last Summer in a mercury glass-inspired mason jar.

I also incorporated a 'Thrifted Light Blue Vintage Doily', a Hand-Made Cloth poise 

Diy Painted Stars

and a couple of vintage 'Star Shape Cookie Cutters', with a few embellishments.

'Thrifted Army Services Regulation Military' patch, thrifted 'Wooden Thread Spool' with blue logo

and in the back another Diy Poppies

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The  second tier is a pie pan, 

on it I've collected 'Wooden Spools' of colored thread,

 'Children Letter Blocks', 

a 'Vintage Jar of Buttons', 

'Vintage Cookie Cutters', 

and a few 'Hand-Made 'Red Poppies', to display on this second tier.

also, I added a Ferry Boat Souvenir 'Tacoma Washington'

(I lived in a small harbor town just across the Pudget Sound from Tacoma).

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The base of my tier tray is a pizza pan, 

I place vintage 'Aluminum Cookie Cutter'and a 'Vintage Dairy Bottle Cap' 

a pair of 'Whiskey Sour Shot Glass', Cocktail Sticks,

 a set of Children's Metal Jacks, 

 a few Metal Vintage Thread Bobbins and a Vintage Metal Toy Airplane.

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 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by 'My Little Colorado Cottage.

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I hope I gave you some Ideas of what I look for when I'm thrifting. 

Also give you some inspiration to use your thrifted treasure in your home. 

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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

Found a Few New Treasures This Weekend

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I stopped in my local vintage-thrift store, 

I haven't visited in a while, so hoping there might be some new treasure to be found at a reasonable price, to share with you today!

First item I found was.....

two bags of older red and white fishing bobbers for $1.00 a bag.

I'll be using these bobbers in a Summer vignette
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Next, I also found.......

 a couple of Vintage 1940's Simplicity Children Patterns for a $1.00 each

Last, I picked up another..........

zinc-alloy trinket box

with a wonderful red velvet liner

I paid $7.50

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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

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

Fall Swag Using Natural Elements for Mid-Autumn

Hi Friends, 

 I'm so glad your here! 

Today, I was able to gather a few items to make a Fall swag

I'm using some corn stalk leaves, bits of tree limbs from my garden and faux flowers from my crafting supplies.

This seemed to be a pretty easy DIY, that took about 10 minutes, once I had all of the items I wanted to use together, then it was bundling like items together.

Step #1 - bundled the twigs

Step #2 - added corn stalk leaves

Step #3 - I made a little bundle of the faux flowers

 Step #4 - attached it to the branch bundle

with this swag I used a shade of orange sunflower and attached to a window frame in my entry room.

This yellow sunflower swag I placed on the window frame over my mantel

 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been doing this weekend. 

 I would love to hear what you have found thrifting or what your ideas for decorating for Fall. 

 So until my next post...... 

May God Bless You and Your Family,

 I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett