May DAY Bloom From the Garden

Blooms from the Garden

Tulips are just about spent

This Red Bud tree of the neighbors behind my house is so beautiful it is drowning out the lilacs

Plum Blossoms

Lilacs in full Bloom

Apple tree has just one or two blooms this year, this isn't a producing apple year.

Thank you for stopping by, hope your gardens are blooming.

Have a wonderful week!

Vicki the Colo Junkett

Farmhouse Touch to the Front Porch for Spring

Hi Friends, so glad you stopped by.

Today I'm adding a little spring to my front porch area. The temperature is still to cold at night to be putting out plants.

I ran across this bottle caddy in my basement, that I found thrifting many years ago. From my local Dollar Tree store I purchase floral foam a few clusters of daffodils and raffia.

Very simple DIY.  I just layered the floral foam in the bottom of the caddy then added the raffia.

arranged the daffodils and a little reindeer moss to try and cover the floral foam a bit.

In one of my vintage milk cans I planted a few daffodils, in the milk crate I added the daffodil caddy, but it wasn't working for me I didn't like the white color of the caddy so I just arranged the daffodils in the milk crate.

I like this arrangement better for now.

Thank you so much for stopping by and You all have a great Day!

Vicki -the Colo Junkett

Rustic Diy Nest - Project for Spring or Summer

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad you stopped by. Today, I up to a new rustic diy .... Nest Building! I was surfing You-Tube and ran across several post of how-to.

I gather sticks, some coconut bark from one of my hanging baskets, a little grass and leaves from the yard and all-purpose glue.

Using aluminum foil for a form started layering the materials and let dry.

I really like how the nest turned out, I'll be adding the nest in my Spring and Summer décor. So please check back.

Until my next post, May God Bless You and Your Family.

I Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Farmhouse Easter Sunday

Happy Easter

This year I changed up the wreath on my front door

A new Easter Wreath made with Dollar Tree materials.

Decorating my mantel for Easter and the month of April with items that I thrifted.

I have included the vintage bunnies that I thrifted in March, the diy nests, vintage brass candle sticks I have had in my stash for many years, a vintage rooster I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago, the little yellow chick I thrifted in my March Haul and a few diy eggs, two white hens watching over their eggs, yellow flowers were added this year from the Dollar Tree store.

The Welcome Spring/ green checked flag banner I diy last month looks really nice I think on the mantel. 

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Vicki - the Colo Junkett

Farmhouse Vintage Easter Vignettes Throughout My House

Hi Friends, 

I have been slowly making little Easter Vignettes throughout my house decorating for the month of April and for Easter! I hope you will enjoy see some of my collectables and also some old and new DIY's I have added to my April décor.

Here on my front door is the Spring - Easter wreath I made from  "The Dollar Tree: items.

This old window and shelf is right inside my front door.  I think it turned out nicely, the hanging bunny was a March thrift haul items,   a bunch of carrots I made with toilet paper rolls and orange yarn and the little nest is a diy this year.

this vignette is in my living room.  Just a few thrift finds I have collected over the years. My new addition is the little red wooden cart being pulled by a gray bunny I put a little cloth bunny in the cart with a couple of diy eggs. I just this arrangement in my living room. 

This shelf was given to me by my granddaughter, she used  part of a pallet and sanded and stained it.  I love this new added piece to my farmhouse décor. I added a few of my chicks and hen in their roost.

This little vignette has bunnies nesting in a Star Tobacco box and hip hopping around.  

Happy Spring!

Thank You for Stopping by.

Vicki - The Colo Junkett

Simple Rustic DIY - How to Age a Fabric Bunny

 

Hi Friends, 

Today, I'm trying to put a little age on this cute fabric bunny. I have had this bunny for almost thirty years and I love it.  However, my décor is rustic farmhouse,  

    

    I would like to try to age this cute bunny to fit into                  my rustic farmhouse Easter décor.

So, I put bunny in bucket and used some left over coffee to soak the bunny in, over night.

What do you think?  I'm liking how this cute bunny turned out, lace and all.

A thrifted bunny refreshed, along with a thrifted brass candle stick and a few small painted eggs.

I hope you found some inspiring ideas, for you spring décor.

Thank you for stopping by, if you would like to be notified of my up coming projects you can scribe to receive new post to your inbox.

Until next time take Care, Vicki

Spring Break is here! and I have a Spring Farmhouse Project to Finish

Spring Break is Here!

During Spring Break I have a few things I would like to accomplished around the house.

• Get Spring decor out
• get laundry caught up
• vacuum the house thoroughly, lol will see!

Remember the big bag of all size plastic eggs

Painted the plastic eggs with white chalk paint, but as you can see they needed another coat

 I ended up with close to 3 dozen from that bag.

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I also found two cartons of easy paint Easter eggs on  clearance at Walmart for $1.00 a piece.  I've been working on getting these eggs painted for my Easter décor

The paint I used was Waverly white chalk paint with Ceramcoat - 'Moss Green' and a old bottle of Delta Ceramcoat -Copen Blue. 

I ended up painting 6-18 count egg cartons full. Now I have plenty to use around my house for my spring décor

I hope you all had a great week, So until the next project.

I'm Vicki the "Colojunkett"

First Day of Spring Spring - First Robin Sighting

Hi Friends,

It may be the first day of Spring, with flowers blooming, but here in my area the spring tulips and Iris bulbs are just coming up.

A couple of days ago I spotted the first  Robin in my yard!  That exciting, I now believe spring is coming.

Just sitting enjoying the ray of sun

sitting high on the fence.

Yeah!  First Day of Spring!

Have a great Day!

Vicki - The Colo Junkett

Spring $5 Good Will Challenge Put on by Hillary at Old World Home

$5 Goodwill Spring Challenge

I love thrifting when I get a chase, I also follow quite a few You-Tubers that also love a good thrift find. This challenge has arrived for Spring 2018, so I thought I would blog about my $5 thrift store find

In my small town we have an awesome store called the Budget Center, every time I stop in I can find something I didn't know I needed. LOL 

What I found was this brass plated bucket with a handle for $2.00 

I think I may paint the bucket not sure I do have a few brass plated candle sticks that might look cute paired up with this bucket.

Old World Home by Hillary

$5 Spring Goodwill Challenge 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fC3sxRUXMc

Please follow Hillary's link to watch all the wonderful You-Tubers that have joined this $5 dollar Goodwill Challenge

I decided to leave the bucket as is, I added some greenery and a few white flower sprigs.  I did add my brass candle sticks as I mentioned and of course a hen and little black lamb for a spring touch.

Thank you for stopping by, have a great day!

Vicki the Colo Junkett

DYI Spring Flag Banner

Spring Flag Banner Tutorial

Here is how I made a Flag Bannerto use on a couple of my old windows and the fireplace mantel.

I had the green checked sheet I have been using for a table cloth  but it needed hemmed up badly, so I use the extra length of the material to make my Spring Flag Banners. 

I also have some of the flour sack material I bought at Walmart several years ago to add to the banner.

The flag banners I made real similar to my winter flag banners.  I used green hot glue and hemp twine to attach the fabric pieces to make the spring flag banner.

This is the finished project, I made three, one for each of my old  windows.


I hope you enjoyed this turtorial

Thank you for stopping by !
and have a wonderful Day!
Vicki - The Colo 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