Late-Summer Vignettes- One Last Look at Thrifted Vintage Treasure

 Hi Friends,

Today is overcast, the outside temperatures are cooling down, it's getting closer to Autumn, I just want to give a last view of some of the great thrifted treasure I found in the month of August and September and how I've incorporated the awesome items into my home. 

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In the family room on the red shelves a very cool  rusty bucket with lid and a handle! I think the bucket looks great on the shelf with a few other thrifted items and the DIY Felt Crow.

Wore Out Blue Jean Garland DIY

 crow diy

I've been looking for a long time for lead flower frogs, just a few weeks ago I found the two green flowers frogs and the gentleman asked me what they were, lol! I couldn't believe it.

link to wooden sunflower diy

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a whole lot of vintage bottles

Some of the little bottles I have picked-up this summer thrifting.

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This summer I was very surprised with the amount of reasonably priced Hens/Roosters I found, (I guess hens and rooster are going out of style), Oh well, I'll still be looking.

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and the hunt for the perfect copper lid, lol I'm still looking.

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In the living room I have cubbies in the hutch that serve space for a few of my collections,

red pepper shaker and a very cute ribbed salt shaker and the saucer was also a find this month

If you missed the Late-Summer on the Hutch you can see that seasonal display.

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I was very blessed to be able to find a few milk glass pieces that has expanded my Milk Glass collection.

I think these treasures were my favorite thrifted find.  Milk Glass candy dish for 1.00 and the Wedding compote for 2.00 dollars. I have think I have found a place to show off the milk glass I have collected so far.

 

I don't know maybe the milk-glass nesting hen is my favorite find.

and this awesome retro yellow glass vase

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the hand made mug, the cute silver-plate dish and the little baskets

shaving cup on a shelf in the bathroom

collection of wooden rulers with advertisement, in the corner of my work space.

Oh my goodness so many kitchen treasure I have found this Summer 

-on the the cupboard shelf the scale, and aluminum hot pad 

- with some of the aluminum pieces

more thrifted items?????

Thank you for stopping by My Little Colorado Cottage to see what I've been doing.

 I hope I was able to inspire you that thrifted item will add a little whimsical charm to any vignette. If you need more Late-Summer inspiration, please follow the link late-summer Sunflowers and Vintage on the mantel

So until next week.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Vintage Glass Insulator Project for My Garden Area

 Hi Friends,

For many years I have wanted to have a insulator pole in my garden area, so I have been collecting vintage glass insulators for a while.  If you remember a week or so ago, while thrifting, I found a box of insulators with wooden pole mount at a yard sale and the price was great!

Today is the day to get this vintage glass insulator project done. I started with the random 4x4 pole among the raspberry bushes.

Mr. Wonderful bought a drill bit the size I needed to drill the holes for the metal mounts. I didn't get the exact angle every time, but, I think it works.

I'm thinking I need one more to make an uneven number...

Let me know what you think. I love it and I'm glad I've got this project done

Let me know what you think. To me it looks a little lope-sided.

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The next 4x4 was fence pole Mr. Wonderful had to replace a year or two ago, I mention I could use it for a project and now I'm getting to it. lol

I nestled the 4x4 pole in my garden area.

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What do you think? I totally love the poles.

Thank you for spending a little time checking out what I have been doing here at "My little Colorado cottage"

So, until next week.......

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

Rustic/Country Scarecrows DIY Project

 Hi Friends,

Today, I'm crafting!

I'm changing up these cute "DT" scarecrows to fit into my Fall home décor.  I've been working on these cute scarecrows the last couple of days when I get some time to be ready for Autumn.

The Face -

I started by adding little burlap and Spanish moss from my stash to the head...

then, I painted faces using Ceramcoat in the color black, I love how the faces turned out.

The body -

Some of the scarecrows had no body, going to my craft stash I cut up a floral foam block to make bodies.

 Remember a couple of months ago I picked up two boxes of fabric I choose of couple of fall looking prints to use as clothing.

Thrifting for Vintage Treasures

I was using a yellow poster board to work on and didn't realized how awful my picture would turn out with the yellow background.

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The Clothing -

Anyhow, I just took a piece of paper and traced a shirt and pant pattern not taking a lot of thought because it's a scarecrow, after all right?

I had decided to use needle and thread to sew up seams on the shirt and pants. Using

 fall print fabric and orange felt pants.

then using recycled fiber stuffing to buff out the body and legs

and a little Spanish moss to stick out at the top and bottom of shirt.

Hands and Feet -

For the straw-poking out of the sleeves and pant legs I use raffia 

wrapped the raffia around my fingers and keeping the bundle tight with my thumb and finger, I snipped the loops at one end.

added another strand of raffia

lastly I added a little Spanish moss keeping my thumb and finger  at the top in order keep bundle together.

Using tacky glue I  drizzled glue inside the sleeve and stuck the raffia bundle in the sleeve using more raffia to tie the sleeve closed.

I did the same process with the pant legs

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The Hat -

On a the large scarecrows I made different hats for them using felt square

of course, I had to google scarecrow hats and saw this hat pattern, so with a better idea to make a new hat I used the old hat and found a bowl the size I was looking for.

For the smaller scarecrows I used a coffee cup for the brim and a small rectangle felt piece to make the cone.

What do you think? I love how they turned out

Thank you for stopping by "My Little Colorado Cottage"

I'm excited about decorating for Fall.

So.. until next time.....

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Thrifting For Vintage Treasures

 Hi Friends,

Went yard sale thrifting this weekend, I went to six yard sale in my little town, mostly picked up blue jeans for grandchildren, but I did find a few vintage treasure.

The best thrift item I found this weekend, I felt, was two small boxes of insulators 24 and four wooden mounts for $15.00! 

I paid around $0.50 a pieces, I know a great deal right! Better than the $2.00 - $5.00 at the local vintage thrift store.

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I was thrilled to find at a yard sale, milk glass pieces, there were bud vase for $.50 similar to what I already have. 

I was surprised to find for $2.00 for the larger "pedestal wedding compote" made by E.O. Brody- Cleveland, OH (I had to look it up).

The other pedestal piece is a Anchor Hocking open lace pedestal candy dish for $1.00, so excited to find these two pieces at a reasonable price.

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This cute brown glaze pot with lid I picked it up and realized the pot is Hull, oh my goodness but the lid came from a small cheese crock. LOL

The funny thing is I have a cheese crock with out a lid unfortunately, the lid is to big for the cheese crock I have, I'll keep looking. LOL!

I hadn't realized the chip on the Hull pot :( 

Oh well, can't even tell up on the kitchen cabinet shelf I love the pot paired with the creamer I found this summer.

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Spotted  a super cute divided glass dish for $1.00. I haven't seen this style of Hazel Atlas depression glass before, I had to look up the pattern - Sunray. I'm using it for the new jewelry $1.00 a pair, (I picked up at this yard sale) on the guest room vanity.

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I did pick up 4 hankies two white and two had  embroidery designs, my visions is using them as dollies, for $.25 each.

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The sewing notions went into my sewing stash.  The little handled basket is hanging on a shelf peg for now, I'm thinking about staining it a bit darker.

 

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That's my haul, I hope I gave you some inspiration of treasure that can be found when thrifting and how I have incorporated the treasure into my home.

 I hope to work on the insulator project this week and let you see what my vision was.

 So until next time.........

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett