Chippy shutters and wall paper

I got 3 comments yesterday on my post OH happy day! I love comments I then know people are really reading my blog. One was the color of the cooler. It is coke red but not a coke cooler. It is vintage, it has a zinc lining. I use it for the kids drink or when it's all adults I put the wine bottles in it. My husband thought it was a silly purchase. I have gotten so many compliments on it he loves it and see my vision for it. I was asked if that was fabric behind the bed. Nope just 20 year old wall paper. We papered it when we moved in and I still love it. Of course my husband is itching to take it down. But no way!

I love old chippy shutters. I really love the ones that are cut out like this one. I use them inside.

I just took a stiff brush to them and hung them in my kitchen.

This is over the sink in the kitchen. The zinc tray on the window sill is a chicken feeder. I put plants in it and it protects the paint.
There is a yard sale tomorrow wish me luck!

Things I have made

OK I didn't make the baby quilt that is on this table. I just bought it at a thrift store. Now the question is do I sell it and make a few dollars or keep it and use it on a table? It looks very cute on a table over another table cloth.

This you see in all the magazines. It was Sat. before Easter and I was walking the dog by the burn pile and I spied a broken rake. Instant glass holder for the porch. It is on a peg rack I have there. It was perfect for the mimosa's I served on the porch Easter.

I found this crochet edging at an antique shop for $7.00 I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but I loved it. And then I had a great idea. I sewed it to the edge of some new sheets I just bought. The bed is a king size and I had a small piece left over. I love the vintage look but I do have to iron the edge before it goes on the bed.(I always iron the pillow cases with rose linen spray heavenly)

Now the bed. My husband and I traded up from a queen to a king and priced head boards yikes!

So we took an old panel door laid it sideways. The top arch is from a door we had on our house at one time. the columns are ones that a whole one was cut in half. We screwed it all to the wall and painted it white. The hanging glass lights are from 2 different yard sales and the black shades are from a yard sale. I believe total it was under $50.00

a vintage redo

Some time ago I went to a yard sale and this chandelier was there. there were wires hanging every where and it looked like it might have arms broken off. When I picked it up the guy said take it, it's yours! So not one to pass up free, I took it home pulled all the wires out. painted it white and glued the plain votive cups on it. the arms where not broken they screwed right back in. Since I have hung it up I get all kinds of compliments on it and my brother in law who was with me when I got it did not recognize it. It is iron and heavy so I have a pretty big chain holding it to the

ceiling. I took some cloth and made a sleeve for the chain that matches a love seat in the kitchen. the total price was under 10.00. These daffodils are mini ones my mother planted. She just loved them. Happy Spring! 80's tomorrow.

Happy Easter

The egg hunt is done the meal is all eaten and everyone has gone home. I am so tired but oh what a wonderful day. we had 20 people including my husband and I for dinner. There were 6 kids for the egg hunt. The weather couldn't have been more beautiful. There was a wiffle ball game and everyone left tired and full of chocolate.(my sister-in-law,her daughter, and her granddaughter.)

On Sat My husband put up the surprise I have been talking about. All the parts except the paint and the rope came from the dump. The iron work came from an ad for wine.(which is appropriate as I plan on drinking wine while swinging) The wood was the rough saw wood we found at the dump.
It's a swing! I just loved to swing when I was little. My grandfather had one on an old maple it was so cool and shady in the summer and when it was to hot to do anything else I could swing.
When the trees fill out their leaves this is where you will find me on a hot summer day. in the garden swinging. I hope that you all had a happy Easter.

My antique booth

today I set up my antique booth. I took what I thought would be enough and the whole time I am lugging it in my husband said "You know half of this is going to go back home. You do not have enough room for all of this."I think he forgot just how good of a packer-in-er I am and I need more pictures etc for the walls. There where several other people moving into their booths at the same time. So after I was done I walked around to see what everyone else had. That will be my biggest problem. How do you resist all the other goodies! ?I already see at least 3 things if they are still there when the month ends I want! Were you an april fool today? I wasn't untill I started to look around the blogs and www.onecheapbitch.blogspot.com totally got me.
I guess there is not fool like an old fool. So my gramie use to say.

ta da dump

Tuesdays I get to go to the dump for work. I found this photo book of great matting. I would never use the book BUT I plan on slicing them out and putting them in frames as the matting. Now they look a little to new to me so I am going to try the coffee stain and bake idea. I will let you know how they turn out. Does this ever happen to you (I call it weird)? Last Friday I went to the dump and found this gold leaf. (Sorry the pictures is sideways)
So I am thinking well I can just pick up the glue or what ever it is at a store because I like some gold leaf and then I walk into a thrift store on Sat and here it is!

for a quarter! Ask (or think)and ye shall receive.

bunny, flowers, and a good soak

Did you hug some bunny today? This is a sock bunny made the same way sock monkeys are.

this was a gift from my husband. He had to go away for a weekend when we were first married and he brought me this bunny.

we have been married 34+ years does that make it vintage? Or does it make us vintage? I just love him (the husband and the bunny).

More thrifting things. I am not a big fan of silk flowers they get dusty so fast. And nothing beats the real thing. But this is in a 1/2 bathroom with no window and it needed a little spring. This came from my thrifting this past weekend. The branches are from a small tree in my garden I trimmed and the flowers were 2.50 so springy and cheap.
This is the cottage at the Boston Flower show I just couldn't get enough of. This is the roof! All pink tulips. I think I can really understand Goldie locks now. Seeing that cute little cottage and just wanting to go in.

Doesn't this just make you want to knock on the door and ask for a tour! The colors and textures were so wonderful. Oh and the smell no honey bee could resist.This tub they put in the back with the fox glove blooming and the rose pedals floating on the water. what a perfect picture to hook an rug of? Or better yet to slip into and soak your cares away. It is cold and raining here today and they predict for the next few days. But! Sat up to 80 and sunday 70's We do not get that kind of weather untill July. I am loving it that we can have the egg hunt and family wiffle ball game.

Off to see American Pickers!