Late Summer Sunflowers and Vintage Treasures on the Mantel

 Hi Friends,

I'm keeping the silver-plate on the mantel from my July mantel adding a few of my small crock pieces.

I filtered into the mantel décor a few of my thrifted brushed copper pieces

a few pieces of nature

vintage amber bottles

touches of black & white checks fabric

I want to thank you for checking out what I have been doing this week. I post every week with thrift hauls, vignette showing off found treasures and seasonal home decorating inside and out side my home.

Until next time.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Upcycle a Thrifted Vintage Resin Kitchen Plaque

 Hi Friend,

You may remember, last month I went to a awesome yard sale, there was so many vintage items I ended up going back a second day. 

Today, is the day show you how I upcycled this old resin kitchen plaque into a country farmhouse/cottage farmhouse décor piece.

I clean this plaque with a couple sprays of crud cutter and got many years of crud off of this plaque

Then I painted two coats of linen chalk paint, let each coat dry.

I've seen other crafters top the the chalk paint with antique wax to seal it. 

So, I applied the antique wax with a paint brush and wiped off the high areas, the more I wiped the high areas, the more the white chalk paint showed through. I think it turned out great.

What do you think? Please leave a comment. 

This was a fairly quick upscale project, just allow time to let the paint dry. I have this super cute Kitchen Prayer plaque hanging in the kitchen on an end cabinet.

Check back next week for another update of what is going on at my house.

 Until next time.......,

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

One Last Look at my Mid-Summer Patriotic Décor

Hi Friends,

Patriotic Mantel 2022

 I've thrifted a few new treasures for my decor, I added

added two thrifted legal size clip boards to either size of the star on the mantel.

DIY sign I made a couple of years ago with the grandkids. The silver-plate platter is a new find this Summer.

Patriotic Hutch

The wooden oval picture frame I thrifted this Summer

The President plate was also a find this Summer.

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Patriotic Vignettes

I thrifted a music book with Patriotic Song, I tried to age the music sheet a little and backed it with construction paper.

"America the Beautiful"

I thrifted a glass flower frog this Summer and I'm using it here on the shelf to hold little flags

In the Kitchen

I sure hope this "One Last Look", gives you some inspiration.  While your out thrifting look for Red-White and Blue items, you just never know what you may find.

Until next time.........

May God Bless You and Your Family

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Christmas in July -

Hi Friends,

When I go thrifting I always look for Christmas items. I shop all year long, so I have a few thrifted Christmas items to show you, that I have  thrifted earlier this year.

For $1.00 the cool sheet music

$.50 a vintage Gurley candle

another $1.00 Christmas sheet music

This last weekend I hit a couple yard sales that had Christmas boxes

Oh my! so many ornaments!

A lot of glittery birds

Glittery birds and butterflies

salt and pepper shakers

grab box for $2.00

Hand-made ornaments

Mint green bead garland and metal candle sticks

In the second box

Santa's ornaments

glittery hearts, disco-ball photo holder, glittery dove, and snow flake

Amazing Angels

Vintage insulated metal kitchen hot pad

Christmas table mats and Napkins

Very cute bottle brush trees with fruit on them

Very cool pine cone wreath or center piece.

straw wreath

shiny tree garland

I want to thank you for checking in, please check back by anytime.  I'm trying to post at least every two weeks, with thrift hauls, with vignette of where I show off the treasures I find.

Until next time...........

May God Bless You and Your Family, I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

In the Garden DIY from thrifted Finds

 Hi Friends,

Remember a couple of weeks ago I picked up three Pampered Chef tart pans at my local community thrift store for $1.25 each, for a back yard DIY project, I wanted to try.

 

using Kilts I gave the pans a base coat, and let it dry over night

Next I gave all three a second coat of Kilts and let it dry- still not great coverage, but continued on with the next step,

Using a crackle medium from Delta Ceram-coat I  covered the three pan with a layer of the crackle medium

 waited about forty-five minutes

I had some left over all- purpose acrylic craft paint in the color "Bright Yellow" and put a good layer over the semi-dry crackle paint. 

Let it dry, can you see the crackle affect?

This is in the back yard on a wall of the garage.  I love how this project turned out for a fairly simple project to do.

Tell me what you think, I just love the bright the color. 

I want to thank you for stopping by, I try to post at least once a week, with thrift hauls, vignettes where I show off the new found treasures in and outside of my home.

Until next week.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett