Twelve of My Favorite Vintage Vignettes of 2022

 Hi Friends,

Today I just wanted to 'High Lite' some of my awesome, vignettes using amazing thrifted finds from my list in 2022.

I found so many wonderful vintage items this year, it's really hard to pick my favorite treasure.

Amber glass pieces is one of the items I look for, most pieces are easy to find and reasonably priced I pay between $1.00 - $5.00 

This particular Aunt Jemma Bottle was $20.00!

First Vignette in January 2022

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I never run across vintage Valentine Cards,  

so every year I try and make my own Valentine Cards from vintage clip art.

This year, I was very fortunate to find a few ACTUAL Vintage Valentine Cards! 

Vintage Finds

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I really like this vignette, I like the mixture of the natural basket and carved horse and the metals, tin scale and pewter mugs along with the soft texture of my homemade felt shamrocks.

March on the Hutch Decorate With Me

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I love the contrast of Copper, Black Enamel and White in this vignette.  

When I picked-up these enamel doorknobs a year ago, the price was $1.00-$2.00, now the price tag is $10.00 and up!  Truthfully I past by Copper because of the priced, These brushed copper pieces were $5.00 and under.

Vintage Thrift Haul-Enamel Doorknobs

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Last, Spring I got in the creative mood and hand embellished a few $1.00 birdhouses to use as décor around my home.

I really love how, every thing came together on my mantel.

Early Summer on the Mantel

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I leave my Patriotic shelf as is, I will add seasonal touches here and there.

I really like finding vintage enamel, I have a few wash basins in different sizes and blue glass and will add patriotic pieces when I come across them

Vintage Patriotic Vignette

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Here is another glance at my mantel for Summer, Love how the display turned out.

 I have always like pewter & silver-plate pieces like I have mentioned several times in this post (lol), when the price is right I snag them up.

Vintage Pewter and Silver-plate on The Mantel

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I loved using the thrifted vintage clip boards this year in a few of my seasonal displays. 

Again, I think I like the hint of rustic touches with all the colors I use in my home décor. 

Red, White, and Blue

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This vignette is another favorite of mine, because of rustic look, of the  metal, wood, and glass, seem to work together, in my mind.

I feel it has a little whimsy with the pop of yellow sunflower..

Vintage Thrift Haul

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I'm very pleased with this vignette

 I was so excited to find this set of suit cases for $25.00.

 It's taken a while, but I have found a place to use these amazing suitcases on a piano bench in a spare room.

 I love how all the pieces fell into place, for this Christmas vignette.

Friday Thrifting - Looking for Vintage Tins

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This vignette on top of my Hutch, is so fun! 

I love how the handmade scarecrow project turned out so great! 

The pheasant panel was such a super cool addition to this vignette, also, loved using all the dried florals.

All of the colors in this vignette screamed Autumn!, I think.

Autumn/Fall on the Hutch 

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I really enjoyed putting together the mantel vignettes for November.

 I just loved how the pewter platter looked on the vintage window frame. I have been trying to add fullness to my vignettes this year, no bare spots.

 This vignette brings Joy and Thankfulness  to me.

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Wait! ONE MORE!

I'm so Happy! That I found a base for this awesome China Hutch and am loving styling the China Hutch with many of my vintage collections!

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Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you like a few glimpse of My Little Colorado Cottage vignettes of the past year 

I would enjoy hearing from you.

So until my next post .....

may God Bless You and Your Family in The New Year!

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Thrifting for Vintage Treasures

Hi Friends, 

I stopped by my local Vintage/Thrift Store this week, and I found a few treasures...

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I found these very cool billiards balls, and a crochet ball all for $3.00 and added them to the red toy trailer on a shelf in the grandkids guest room.

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I found a extra large "vintage white ceramic restaurant coffee mug"

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This great looking Owens-Illinois green glass oval bottle with ribbed sides, the price is $2.00. I incorporated into my vintage bottles on a shelf in the Family/Den.

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Here was another treasure to add to my ink well collection, a clear-glass square ink well for $6.00. I normally pay no more then $1.00-$3.00  for ink-wells like this one, it was added to the shelf in my mini office area.

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I found a E.O Brody Company - (Quilted Square Pattern) Milk-glass Vase -$2.00, to add to my collection

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I was so surprised to find this "Vintage glass floral frog", for $3.00 to add to my décor.

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 Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been up to and I always enjoy hearing from you. 

 So until my next post ..... May God Bless You and Your Family. 

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Winter Décor - A Few DIY Trees

 

Hi Friends,

Today,  I'm so excited to share a very simple DIY. I'm making a few cute little trees to add to my Winter décor from thrifted garland.

Last July I thrifted a few boxes of Christmas Treasures for $2.00 each, one of the boxes was filled with green garland. 

My idea was to cut up the garland in varies lengths from 3' -5'.

I had a package of bamboo skewers in my stash

So using Aleene's Tacky G

glue, I applied the glue onto the skewer and attached the garland strip. At my first attempt

I didn't realize the skewer should have been painted, as you can see the skewer didn't get completely covered. 

I did use kids play-dough I had in the house to use as a base, but I think I'll change it out with some other style possibly a wooden spools.

I did end up putting a little white acrylic paint on some of the trees and placed them in vignettes in the Family-room/Den

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been up to, remember I always enjoy hearing from you so please leave a comment.

So until my next post .....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junket

First Vintage Haul of 2023

 

Hi Friend,

I'm so excited to share my 1st thrift haul of 2023.

While thrifting this week, I found some very cool Treasures.

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1st-treasure are Children's Alphabet Blocks!

I always look Alphabet Children Blocks to build my collection of blocks to use in my décor, I don't believe these blocks are vintage, but possibly at least 5-10 years old? made by? (Playschool)

In the bag of blocks for $3.00 there were16 large wooden letter blocks.

these wooden blocks have upper case and lower case letter on opposite side and animal prints and numbers stamped on the other sides

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A cute tin of wooden blocks for $3.00 sticker on bottom of the tin (Made in Taiwan)  

These wooden blocks were also stamped with numbers and animal prints

There was a total of 26 letter blocks in the tin.

My collection is growing Hey!

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Next, I dug through the hankie/napkin shelf and found.....

Two darling Hankies $2.00 each 

- this cute hankies had lavender machine crocheted edge and some hand embroidery gray flower buds.

 A very adorable crafted trinket box with sea shells $1.50

I paired the awesome shell crafted trinket box with the light green hankie with machine embroidery white and red flower here on my vanity in the guest room

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Today was not a very big haul, but the treasures I found I think was great and I'll be able to incorporate these awesome treasure in to my home décor.

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I am so happy you stopped by to checked out my Friday Haul today.

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I love to hear from you all, let me know what is on your list to find on your thrifting trips.

So until my next post .....

May God Bless You and Your Family in the coming year!

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

A Few More Thrifted Vintage Christmas Treasures to Share

 

Hi Friends,

This week, I'm slowly getting my Christmas tubs out of the crawl space, to pack the Christmas table linens, wrapping paper, plate and glasses, items like that.

I generally wait a week after New Years to pack up all of the rest of Christmas décor and transition into January-Winter décor.

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 Today, I realized I have a few vignettes in my Family- room/Den, that I notice I have not shown you all.

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This vignette is in a corner of the Den near a window a little bit of a angel hair fern hangs. 

As you can see, I just added some greenery red berries, one of my Santa's a few Christmas tree pewter molds, mercury glass bead picks to the vintage bottle grouping and I love adding strips of fabric to the bottles, lastly a very cute ceramic candle from Step-son, back in the 80's. 

(to the décor that live here most of the time-so-to-speak.) 

 Same corner of the Den see the fern and my Fall blooming Christmas Cactus

- a thrifted wooden seed box from a couple of years ago I added greenery, red berries, Santa tin, a few more mercury glass bead picks sticking out of the thrifted oil can, and two of the vintage bottle brush trees I thrifted in July.

Over on the Red Shelves

A few more mercury glass bead picks (I only have about 15-16 picks so I spread them out this season), added another vintage Santa, greenery, red berries, the caroler was a thrift find last year 2021.

a super cute Santa pick 

 

A small  Santa in his sleigh of package being pulled by two thrifted deer, along with a few of my amber bottles I added greenery, red berries, white pip berries.  I added the newly thrifted glass ornaments from the 70's 

Pepsi corner of the Den

 A couple of supper cool Santa pick

A couple of cute Angel picks

In another corner of the Den 

- a pewter Angel I thrift this summer

couple of picks of mercury beads picks, red berries and greenery was added the thrifted vase

I added a few embellishment to the vintage Santa a little basket I took off a thrifted wreath and a small bottle brush wreath from a package of two I thrifted for I believe a dollar or less.

On a book shelf by the fireplace, a sign from 'Dollar Tree' that I embellish a bit and a sterling gravy boat filled with a couple of vintage glass door knobs and a little touch of greenery

Please check back as I'll be decorating for January.

Thank you so much for stopping by, and I always enjoy hearing for you.

So until next time.......

May God Bless You and Your Family in This New Year.

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett