Farmhouse Décor for Spring-Upscale Thrifted Bird House

Hi Friends,

Today I'm giving my collection of thrifted bird house a facelift.  By giving the home décor bird houses a new color.

This is what two of the houses looked like before I painted them white

My little wooden bird houses that I have collected over the years, were all sorts of colors. This year I decided to change things up to more of a farmhouse style. 

I took Waverley white chalk paint and gave all of my little wooden bird house a new coat of paint.

Here are two bird houses from the Dollar Tree craft section, that I glued the pre-cut pieces of wood in the packet together to make these cute bird houses. This is the first coat.

This cute little bird house I displayed on my mantel in the den.

I added these two cute bird houses on top of my entertainment center in my living-room.

I really like the new touches that I have made to my little wooden bird houses.  What do you think?

Until the next time, have a wonderful day,

Vicki- the Colo Junkett

Rustic Farmhouse DIY -Spring Banner

Hi Friends,

This is last year egg banner I had some cream color felt in my crafting stash and cut out egg shape and spelled out "WELCOME SPRING" with a green sharpies to go with the green and white checked banner. It just kind of plain this year

Because, I'm really liking the black and white checks in my decor,  I added black and white checks to the cream eggs.........

I traced around my egg shape and added a quarter inch, then using tacky glue, placed the felt on top of the black and white gingham.

Using small safety pins I attached the letter to a piece of jute string and hung the Welcome Spring banner on the fireplace mantel.  I think adding the gingham helped to make the letters pop.  What do you think?

Here is the mantel for spring with the updated banner. I'm loving how it looks.

Thank you for stopping by!

Until next time, Vicki

Welcome Spring the Flowers are in bloom!

Here in the Northwest of Colorado our Spring is wet, cold and very long. 

March 12th, still a lot of snow.

March 29th, the snow is melting. Robins are back!

Coming up are Iris's and Purple Illusion Spike  Veronica, (this was taken May 4th)

Same Iris and purple Illusion, (was taken June 5th)

The Lilac bush is in bloom, (this was taken June 7th).......Maybe, spring is finally here!

Thanks for stopping by,

Vicki

March Leprechaun Tricked Us

The two youngest grandchildren made Leprechaun traps for school last week.  

The were able to bring them home to see if we could catch the little guy

That evening after the grand kids went to bed. I thought it might be fun to stage a visit from the little guy.

 I had some random felt in my craft stash and decided to made a little Leprechaun suit.

The grand kids put gold coins in their traps and set the out in the playroom. The bet was on to see whose gold coin would be taken.

When the grand kid got up they saw that the leprechaun was running so fast through their traps while taking their gold coins,  that he lost his clothing as he was running so he wouldn't be seen.

I hope you had a wonderful St.Patrick Day celebration. Thank you for stopping by and until the next adventure.
Have a great day!
Vicki the Colo Junkett

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

Rustic Farmhouse Valentine Conversational Hearts Diy

Hello Friends,

I have another rustic farmhouse project from a thrift, paper heart banner I picked up in January.

The heart were pink with glitter and as you know I'm not much into glitter so, I painted all six heart with Waverly white chalk paint, it two coats. 

I used Sharpie fine point markers to free write the saying and added the doodles.

Added a red felt heart then glued a wooden heart shape painted white that I used stencil to write X O, and free hand arrows around edge.

With this cute heart I used a black Sharpie, to free hand the word and vine, added a checked fabric bow.

Another heart I just used black and red Sharpie markers wrote Be Mine then free hand the little heart vine

The last heart I added a large fabric heart and glued a small red felt heart in center and then added a little doodle around the edge.

I think the finish project turn out quit cute. 

Thank you for stopping by,

Vicki

Valentine Decor DYI - Button Hearts

 From my thrift haul in January, I pick a set of three paper hearts on a ribbon to use for this project.

I decided to paint them with Waverly white chalk paint.  I have a stash of buttons and choose colors of white, tan, pale pink, and faded red. Then I glued them about a quarter inch in from edge.

This is how I used the hearts in my February decor.  On my coat closet I have hung a small twig wreath and added one of the hearts. 

This year I'm using a lot of the black and white check material in my decor.  Here I took a picture frame added the black and white check material to the card board backing of the frame and attached a button heart on the material, I also added a heart from a material I have in my stash.

I think this project turned out nicely and didn't cost me much.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Vicki

Valentine DYI- my take on buffalo check heart

Hi friends welcome to another DYI!

I had a plain wooden heart I picked up in my January thrift haul  for $ .50

I painted the entire heart using white acrylic paint.  Then using 1" making tape I laid out the tape 1" apart, next I painted the heart gray, just mixing white and black acrylic paint together.

Letting the piece dry after painting the white and gray, I applied black acrylic paint for the final step.

Here is the unveiling, I reused the masking tape so in this picture it looks like I really got mixed up with the stripe, but there is still more tape to pull off.

This is my attempt to paint a "Buffalo Check" pattern, I did have to touch up a little, I suggest using new masking tape with each color

Here is the finished project, I added a red felt heart and topped with a small red felt heart glued on a large burlap heart glued on a larger red felt heart heart left over from a I made last year.  I place the heart on my mantel leaning against a silver color charger I thrifted.  I think this project turned out great.


Thank you for stopping by,
Vicki

DYI - Red Felt Heart Garland

This year I wanted to add more garland to my seasonal decor.  

So for February I added red felt hearts garlands to my old window in my entryway

First window is on top of the shelving unit in the living room

and the this small window is in my entry-way.

I always keep on hand as part of my crafting essentials jute string and a collection of felt, of many colors. I dug out the red felt and spent a couple of evening tracing and cutting out red felt hearts 

and hot gluing the hearts onto jute string.

This project  took a little of time cutting and tracing, but a very simple project to do.

Thank you for stopping by.

Until the next project, happy crafting.

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

Seasonal DYI - Red and White Yarn Pom Pom Garland

One of my DYI for February were these red and white yarn pom poms.  I believe there 1" in diameter.  I tried each pom pom to a length of yarn to make a garland for my mantel and one of my old windows.

I really like this new addition to my seasonal decor, I may use these pom pom garlands in July.
Did you made a DYI for your February decor?

Thank you for stopping by and have a Great Day.  Vicki