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
 

Looking for Vintage Treasures - Friday Thrift Haul

 Hi Friends,

Looking for thrifted treasures

Today I'm sharing a few treasures I found out thrifting.

  OH MY!

You know I can't seem to pass up on grabs bags

This is what was in the grab bag vintage 60's? plastic floral I can not believe what all I have picked up this year!

It's great for my outdoor décor.

I'm using the felt poinsettia's on the vanity in the guest room

The other flowers will be put in the tub with the rest of the outdoor Christmas décor for next Christmas

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I saw the plaid apron and thought I could use the fabric for something

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Look at this super super cute hand made felt stocking not sure how vintage it is but it looks vintage so cute

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The basket was considered Christmas so I brought it home, I think I'll use it in my Spring décor

I did cleaned up the basket so it will be ready to use

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I liked this plate for $.50, a old time church I think it will be great in my Christmas décor, or maybe Easter décor......

 the possibilities are endless.

I place the plate on the shelf with the Last Supper plaque

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As you know... cookie cutters are my weakness,

 as I entered my local community thrift store there on the right inside of the door was a table of Vintage Cookie Cutter - $.25 each! a few I hadn't seen before

I couldn't pass by these cookie cutters two cute Angels, Baby Jesus in a manger, a Shepard and Lamb, Cupid, a little Teddy Bear, and a few aluminum cutters

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I brought home this cool plate, because of the log cabin on it I thought it would look great in my 'Winter Décor' next month.

I went ahead and moved a few of my chickens elsewhere to make room for the cool cabin plate

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I had been eyeing the round gold ornament for a while, they have 'winter cabin scene' inlaid, very nice.

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Santa candle isn't vintage I don't think but he looks great setting here on the Milk Glass shelf.

The handmade clay snowman will be in my Winter Décor so stay tune.......

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Grab bag of cookie cutters a few I already have in my stash of cookie cutters, the 5 lighter red Or pink cutters I haven't seen before. Look at the two tin cutter a little mule and owl, so cute 

and who doesn't need Christmas socks?

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I put this cute wreath in my cart because I was thinking Grapevine wreaths are great to have in my stash.

The more I look at the Angel crafted on the wreath I may leave it as is.

I have the wreath hanging on the guest room door

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My local Thrift Store was pretty sparse for home décor, but I think I found some cool Vintage Christmas treasure to add to my décor next Christmas.

Did you have a favorite?  I think mine was the felt stocking and the gold ornaments.

Thank you so much for stopping by.... so until the next post.

May God Bless You and Your Family in the New Year!

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett