My Little Colorado Cottage

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Geranium planted

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad your here!

Today, I'm so excited to share how I'm planting Geraniums, I kept over winter in a brown paper bag in the crawl space in my basement for 5 months.

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The plants still have some green stems, so I'm hoping this project works out.

I found this great information on winterizing Geraniums over at Ready and Thriving Sana M. Carlton a You-Tuber has so many great 'Gardening Hacks' please go check out her You-Tube channel.

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My plants seemed a little dry so, I soaked the Geraniums in a bucket of water before planting them in soiled prepared pots.

I just picked-up a bag of 'Potting Mix', from Walmart, prepped my pots.

I planted 5 plants per-pot and we'll see how this project progresses

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what I have been doing this week.

I would love to hear if you do any gardening or just plant flowers.

So until my next post......

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Friday, April 14, 2023

Thrifting for Vintage Cottage Treasures

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad your here!

Today, I'm so excited to share a thrift haul from my local "Community Budget Center".

The store has been very sparse lately, I think they are doing some 'Spring Cleaning'!

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As you can see I did bring home a few treasures.....

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Everyone can always use more Hand Crocheted Doilies, for $0.25 each! RIGHT?

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Love how this new doily with yellow crochet roses looks in the 'China Hutch'

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I couldn't pass up the pair of green hot pads, they will looks great with my seasonal décor.

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I use red in my kitchen year round so I also picked up the cool red and white hand crocheted hot pad

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and of course the blue doilies will be used in my Patriotic or Summer vignettes.

I can use the white doilies now throughout my cottage décor.

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In the games area of the thrift store, I founded seven Packs of 'Casino Play Cards' for $0.50 a pack, thought they would be cool to use in some of my 'Winter Game' vignettes.

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I'm displaying the group of cards on this shelf in my Den.

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I was surprised to find another 'Mallard Duck Glass Tumbler' at $0.00, so now it looks like I'm starting another COLLECTION!

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I did bring home the 'Souvenir Cedar Trinket Box' for $2.50 I just don't see these much anymore and there great to house my small collections.

I put a collection of 'Wooden Nickel's and Advertising Coins'.

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week.

I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you style it in your home.

So until my next post......

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

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Vintage Thrifting in St Louis, Illinois

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad your here!

I've been on a road trip this past week to visit my youngest Daughter and her family.

Today, I'm so excited to share a few treasures I brought home from St. Louis. I did have a list of items I wanted to look for on this trip, however I didn't get a lot of time to shop. Family came first.

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I thought this was a super cool vintage song book, for $2.00

This vintage song book have songs like - "America, The Beautiful" - "My Old Kentucky Home" - "Standin' in the Need of Prayer" -"We're Marching to Zion" - "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" - Copyright 1928

I have the sweet song book on my vintage Clarophonic record player

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When I saw these Budweiser Christmas mugs, I had to buy them to add to my small collection of Christmas mugs.

The mugs were in two different booths, I paid $10.00 for this '1990 An American Tradition mug.

And the 1992 A Perfect Christmas mug I paid $13.99

I ended up already having a 1990 mug, so now I have two! lol

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I saw this Ball Jar for $4.00 it has a large crack, but I don't care, I'll be using it for décor.

A no. 12 on the bottom
I'm guessing the date might be 1923-1933?

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I also spotted this 2 1/2" spiked metal flower frog for $12.00, the price was a bit high but, I have two thrifted stores in my tiny town and you just don't see flower frogs much.

There is no date or manufacture stamp on it.

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Lastly, I picked up a Art-Deco green vase with gold strips for $5.00. I believe it fits in the same eara with a vase I bought last summer that was yellow with the gold stripes

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I had such a great time visiting my youngest daughter and her family over the Easter weekend.

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found on my travels to St. Louis.

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I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you style it in your home.

So until my next post......

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Friday, April 7, 2023

Vintage Dolls - On the Hunt for 'Nancy Ann' - Story Book Dolls

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad your here!

I've have been on the hunt for "Nancy Ann" story book dolls to add to my collection.

Today, I'm so excited to share some super cute "Story Books Dolls" I found at a online auction, last week.

This lot of 13 "Story Book" Dolls I paid $45.19.

in order to get a great price of $3.50 for each doll.

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I'm focus on buying bisque dolls with frozen legs because they are a bit older dolls.

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Out of this lot I purchase three dolls with painted eyes, unfortunate the dolls were all made of hard plastic.

Their still super adorable!

Because, I bid on a lot of dolls I ended up with a variety of plastic sleepy eye Nancy Ann-"Story Book" dolls.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by to see what treasures I have found out thrifting this week.

I would love to hear what you have found thrifting and how you style it in your home.

So until my next post......

May God Bless You and Your Family,

I'm Vicki a Colorado Junkett

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Vintage Children Book Thrift Haul

Hi Friends,

I'm so glad your here!

Today, I'm so excited to share a great thrifted vintage book haul, from a wonderful online Seller .

I paid a total of $53.00 for 17 books plus $13.00 shipping

Averaged out, I paid $3.80 for each of these amazing thrifted vintage books.

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First book I purchased was this awesome - My Book House Volume 6 "Through Fairies Halls"

all the graphic are in black & white and very detailed.

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Next,

Hardback copy of "Make way for Duckling" was new, I sent it to my youngest Grandson that turned two in March. ( I have a paperback copy to stay at Grandma's house).