are my old metal garden chairsas as well as my adirondack chairs which I have shown before but thought I would share again. Slowly over the years I have accumulated all of these chairs. I found every single one of them on the curb and brought them back to life with sand paper, elbow grease [...]
This is the hall tree that stood in the foyer of the house my husband grew up in. It was his mom’s and it was her mom’s before that. When we started dating it was an “antiqued” finish that was green with varnish over it that made it look old. Then his mom painted it bright [...]
There are stories behind both of the cupboards in my kitchen. 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 asked the owner [...]
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. It was in rough condition but I hoped it was a diamond in the rough. I paid only $15 for it. After a lot of sanding and a lot [...]
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. It was a gorgeous day last Saturday on the first day of Spring, [...]
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. 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 [...]
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. Last but not least, there are flowers~ especially roses. Need I say more? ~Here is the deepest secret nobody knows, Here is the root of the root and the [...]
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 [...]
