Vintage Fall in the Kitchen

 Hi Friends,

Slowly getting my fall décor put out, today I'm in the kitchen.

This very cool rooster wall plaque my daughter gifted to me a few weeks ago it has the same coloring of a few Royal Copley sets I've collected.

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I normally don't do a lot in my kitchen, maybe a center piece on the  kitchen table, I have a sunflower place mat with a go to floral vase from FTD 

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A few florals on the above the cabinets 

I'm trying hard this season to use more dried florals from my flower garden

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I really like how the arrangement of dried wild sunflowers and yarrow work with the faux pip berries and fall color leaves in the vintage aluminum pot.

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The dried florals did not stand out very well in this photo, could be the red wall color or the bright colors of the cracker tin, not sure?

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I like how the yellow sunflower in this bouquet, helped pop the yellow in the black / yellow rooster on the canisters

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I'm thinking more dried floral in this these two flour sifters .....

What do you think? 

Let me know in the comments.

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I added dried sunflowers and poppy pods to the tin syrup jug

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Thank  you for stopping by to see what I have been doing around "My Little Colorado Cottage". 

I hope I was able to give you some inspiration to use dried florals from nature, adds a little bit of whimsical charm to any vintage treasure.  

Please leave a comment, let me know, do you use dry florals for Autumn?

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So, until next time.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett 

Vintage Shopping at Local Thrift Store

 Hi Friends, 

Happy Yard Sale Friday! 

Thank you for checking in today! It's been raining, the rain started Thursday morning and hasn't stopped. Supposed to continue raining through Sunday. 

So I dropped by my local "Community Budget Center" thrift store. As I have mentioned the prices have raised somewhat, but I did come home with a few treasures.

Since Halloween is around the corner, my first stop was the holiday aisle, in the past I have found a few vintage Halloween treasures at this local thrift store.

 Unfortunately, I didn't see vintage Halloween, there were a lot of costumes. I did see this cute handmade Halloween treat card board container for $.75, will look cute hanging on a hook in the Halloween display.

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For $3.00 I picked up the bag of fiber filler. A couple of weeks ago I did  a DIY scarecrow and my stash of filler is getting low, so can't go wrong by picking up another bag.

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I'm starting to think about how I want to decorate for the up coming winter months. So a few of the items I start looking for are... of course vintage Christmas, silver-plate platters wool blankets lanterns and thermoses. 

In the back of the store, is where they have outdoor equipment used sports equipment, bikes, skates, and camping gear. sitting up on the shelf was two red thermoses this red and black check patterned thermos.... $3.00! don't know why but I left behind a red with black stars. 

Looks nice with the other thermoses I've collected I think.

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I saw this super cute little oval glass frame with pressed flower in it for $.50, many many years ago my sister give me a similar one for Christmas, and thought it would go nicely in the guest room. I love it!

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Lately, I've been on the hunt for smaller books to use on shallow shelving, still lookin LOL, but this time going through the book area I notice a small sign 

"fill a bag for a Dollar"! 

could not believe it! Normally I'm charged a $1.00 each for hard backs.  I did pickup 6 books for a dollar, their a little bigger than I was looking for. 

However, the red and white/blue books will be put aside for my patriotic décor, the three black covered books I'll being using for a project for Halloween, I've seen a couple of people painting on books Thought I might give it a try check back next week I hope to have them done.

I hope some of the treasure I found this week will encourage you to go out and find some awesome treasures for your home décor.

Until next time.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Canning Peaches from Local Market

Hi Friends,  

Today, I'm canning peaches, who knew! It is that time of year to harvest what we can to help subsidize  our food supply.

On our morning walk today, I notice a fruit and vegetable stand had boxes of end of season peaches at a reasonably price of $25.00.  I'll be using these peaches for pies or cobbler maybe breakfast muffins.

Last year, I purchase a larger canning pot that will hold up to 7 canning jars to make process a little quicker, because I love tomato salsa.

 

I do live at 6,200 ft. above sea level, I had to water bath the peaches for 35 minutes, on each batch

I harvest 32 pint jars, I think I paid about $.78 a pint of peaches and I can control the sugar.

Thank you for stopping by, I know this post was a little different than my regular vintage thrift hauls and decorate with me seasonal vintage décor, but this is my life in mid-autumn. 

Let me know if you have a garden or you use farmers market produce, that you do some type of preserving to supplement your food storage.

May God Bless You and Your Family, 

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage Sunday Thrift Haul

 

Hi Friends, 

My local vintage/thrift store was open again on Sunday, so I had to stop by to see if I could find some more treasures...

The two plastic pumpkin buckets were $.50 each and Ill be using them later for my Halloween décor.

$1.00 a bundle for the wire hooks

to be used on a few of my small shelves

I saw on $2.00 for the door latch and $.50 for the two piece door knob

would love to find skeleton keys

 I don't know much about the thread spindles I have been finding but I do like how they look cool in my sewing nook, this thread spindle I paid $.50.

Coca-Cola bottles for $1.50 each not that vintage I don't think, one bottle had a date 12-45, patent number and was stamped Thermopolis, WYO on the bottom. The other Coca-Cola bottle had a date of 63-9 and was stamped anchor-hocking with 10 on the bottom. I just love knowing the history of the treasure I display in my home.

Thank you for checking out my post today, Please check back by for other thrift hauls and how I incorporated my treasure into my home décor.

So...until the next post.....

My God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Autumn/Fall on the Hutch- Decorate With Me

Hi Friends,

Today I'm trying to find a focus for the hutch. I loved orangy-yellow, rusty-red, and the browns I used on the mantel.  

Then I remembered I thrifted a quilt panel of a pair of pheasants! Perfect!

First, I gathered the quilt panel, a two tone cream/brown flat fold I thrifted this Summer.

It took me sometime to think through how I was going to display or hang this quilt panel, I dug out of a closet this faux window frame that might work. 

I decided to stretch the two tone fabric over the frame just using duck tape for a quick fix.

with needle and thread tacked down the quilt panel

staying with the same orangy-yellow, rusty-reds and darker yellow tones in this frame.

got into the Autumn/Fall tub for the fall leaf garland

I've kept the green tackle boxes, the wire basket of green apples

and the blue canning jars and vintage juice jug that I have had displayed on the top of the hutch for awhile.

For this season, I had been thinking about using more dried floral than faux.

 The garden this year is starting to prepare for cooler days and nights, so I gathered  yarrow, zinnia's, poppy pods, and sunflower, to make the floral in the Ball Jar and juice jugs

Then, added a scarecrow I made a couple of weeks ago

next, I thought a grouping of amber bottles would add the darker tone I was looking for

but the tray of amber bottles was lost in this grouping, so I added a riser. 

even with the riser the tray of bottles are lost.... so I rearranged the apples

added a small basket for now.

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Now the right side of the hutch needed something, I brought in the cute little green vase I thrifted this Spring to balance out the green of the apples, filled with dried yarrow, sunflower, poppy pods, and zinnias

However, I think this grouping is looking cluttered couldn't see all of the jars..... so, I trimmed the dried floral and rearranged the jars

I changed it again rearranged jars, added a scarecrow

I think this grouping is looking better, I felt there needed to be more so I gathered up pip berries and scattered them around with pine cones

Finally, using my collection of Children's ABC wooden block I built the word AUTUMN

I love how the hutch looks, what do you think? 

Have I inspired you to maybe incorporate dried florals or little treasures from Mother Earth this year?

Thank you for checking in on what I have been up to. I would love to hear what you think of my autumn décor focus this year,

 May God Bless You and Your Family, 

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett