My Vintage Thingies this week are my cupboards. There are stories behind both of them. This first one actually was in the back room of the Salon I used to work at. It was a basement shop, really nice with stone walls, very vintage. When they sold the old home that it was in I [...]
If you saw my post two weeks ago about picnic baskets, I promised to show the progress of the dresser I bought that day at a garage sale.Â
It was in rough condition but I hoped it was a diamond in the rough.Â
 I paid only $15 for it. Â
 After a lot of sanding and a lot of elbow [...]
 are my old metal garden chairs as well as my adirondack chairs.Â
Slowly over the years I have accumulated all of these chairs.Â
I found every single one of them on the curb and brought them back to life with sand paper, elbow grease and most importantly RED paint.Â
  I love turning a piece of junk into [...]
  I am posting this for Vintage Thingie Thursday since we found some vintage windows on the curb last fall, and they inspired this entire project. With a bit of wood found in the garage and a quick trip to Home Depot, we had the makings of a fun weekend.Â
 It was a gorgeous day last Saturday on the first day of Spring, and [...]
Trying to think of something interesting to write for this post and right under my nose were two vintage thingies just waiting to inspire me.Â
 So here is a vintage aqua canning jar filled with marbles. Some are really old, others belonged to my boys growing up, In any case, they are colorful in the light. The other is [...]
Found this guy at the Madison Bouckville Antique show last summer. It is an old soup terrine. It says Italy on the bottom. It appears pretty old, but even if it isn’t, as soon as I saw that face I knew I had to get it.  That and the aqua color on the bottom made it irresistible to [...]
 Valentines Day is the best.
 It’s all about love and the color red.
Any day that involves the giving of chocolate can’t be anything but great.Â
 Last but not least, there are flowers~ especially roses.
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 Need I say more?Â
~Here is the deepest secret nobody knows,
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky [...]
This metal flamingo was on the screen door of a little “summer house” in my husband’s back yard, growing up. It was there as long as I remember and we started dating at 15. I would say that it qualifies for vintage. The house was really a screened in porch attached to the garage where [...]
I didn’t have anything garden related to show for vintage thingies thursday so I thought I would share something that would spark a bit of humor on this cold dreary winter’s day.
 I found this picture among a box of photos that I purchased from an elderly gentleman at a neighborhood garage sale. I got a [...]
Here are a few of the stained glass I have hanging in my windows. What I have realized doing this post is that all my stained glass pieces except one, has flowers on it. Go figure… me,… flowers.Â
 This first one hangs in my kitchen. I love it’s simplicity and it’s colors. The light that streams through in [...]
June 2009
