Easy Ivy Topiary for Valentine's Day

Hi Friends, hope you all are well and staying warm. And I'm hoping all our friends on the East Coast are safe and staying home somewhere away from the blizzardy snow and winds. Although we're having a sunny day here in the lower Midwest it's still cold and shivery. Anytime I can sit still for awhile you'll find me wrapped up in an electric blanket or throw. It's days like today that make me want to play with some plants and then put out a few vintage Valentine's to brighten up the house and shelves.

Vintage Christmas Monday

Hi everyone!! I survived Thanksgiving, and we had a wonderful time.  I am now up to my eyeballs in Christmas boxes, ornaments, flower arrangements and twinkle lights!

Joan at Anything Goes Here

is having a wonderful party these next few Mondays until Christmas. We are celebrating our decorating for Christmas with vintage Christmas decor. Be sure and go by. There are lots of people signed up. It's not too late!

I wanted to share this little vintage Santa hanger

 with NOEL ribbons and bells.

It's hanging off my picket fence gate in the sunroom.

He is such a happy little fella!

These next few photos are from Spring Creek

Antiques and Tea Room in Ozark, Missouri.

Vintage Santa vignette

A pair of sweet angels to light up anyone's front porch decor.

And an old Santa in a vintage sleigh!

These next two photos were taken at Leola's in Ozark,

at last year's Christmas Open House.

Love all these vintage Santas and elves.

What a great way to display vintage figurines...

 in old white pottery

I should have my decorating finished by next Monday.

Hope you didn't mind seeing some

 fun things from the local shops.

Have a great Monday!

And may all your Christmas decorating be Jolly!

Debra

Cupboard Top Spring Garden Vignette

Hi Friends, it's hard for me to believe, but I haven't shared the cookbook cupboard (in real time) since last late summer. It has been seasonally decorated, but somehow didn't make it to the blog. Since I love decorating with a garden theme for spring I wanted to make sure that I share the latest on the cupboard top. 

Let's go for a visit...

Do you know who lives behind

 this adorable garden gate?

 Tracie over at Fishtail Cottage 

is celebrating her 1 Year Blogiversary

and has asked me to be a part of the fun.

She'll be giving away one of my zinc tag necklaces

 as part of the celebration...

So let's head on over and congratulate her.

Thank you Tracie for letting me join in for the fun!

See ya there,

xoxo,

Vintage Christmas Home Tour

Hello Friends, today I'm super excited to be part of a wonderful Christmas Tour of Homes with a bit of a twist.  Our good friend Amber from Follow the Yellow Brick Home has put together a great group of bloggers to share how we decorate our homes for Christmas with vintage pieces and decor. Some of us are fortunate enough to live in historic homes, and others of us just love antiques and vintage furniture that we use to give our spaces a vintage vibe.

Fall chicken feeder and a winner...

OK, last Spring I found this pint size chicken feeder, I suppose for a pint size coop. It sat out in the garage all Summer waiting for me to finally get around to sprucing it up, and when we finally managed to organize all my various and sundry boxes and tubs of "stuff" this weekend, I figured now was the time to "Fallify" this cute little galvanized "potentially adorable" bit of randomness.

Here's the "Before".

I mean hey,

 look at that perfect little wire hanger already attached.

and...Perfect farm-y patina potential.

One thing I love about Fall decorating is that you can grab a bunch of miscellaneous floral "leftovers" and stuff it into almost anything and it works.

Of course,

 I knew it had to hang from my old chippy picket fence gate

on the sunporch.

More sunporch fun coming...

And the winner of the Tattered Goods

$40 Gift Certificate is....

Pam from Moments Like These

congrats Pam!!!

Don't forget that Monday Marketplace is live all week.

Be sure and check in to see new items listed.

Just scroll down to the next post.

I'll be hanging out at these parties this week:

Wow Us Wednesdays at Savvy Southern Style

Cowgirl Up at Cedar Hill Ranch
Treasure Hunt Thursday at From My Front Porch to Yours.
Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson
Rooted in Thyme
2805
Stuff and Nonsense
French Country Cottage
At the Picket Fence
Redoux
The Charm of Home
Jennifer Rizzo

Hope you're having a good one...

xoxo,

Vintage Inspiration # 110

Hi Everyone,

and Welcome to Vintage Inspiration!

We were out of town all last week, so I didn't get to visit many of you, but I had a great time going thru the links picking features this week. Amazing what lies behind those little thumbnail photos that are posted! Here are just a few of the wonderful links from you all last week, that are full of vintage Fall and Halloween inspiration.

Jill from Feathers and Flight is a wonderful artist, and if you haven't met her you will want to check out her blog for her amazing collage and digital work. When I saw this Luna Hanger and Tree of Crows I wanted to share it with you. Thanks Jill, you always inspire me!

Just part of Jill's Halloween decor along with her beautiful mantel.

You have to take a peek at this Vintage Spooky Dolly and Carriage and then read the backstory of these family treasures from Tracey at Crow's Feet Chic

Cathy has the most "Charming" cottage, and just take a look at her front porch decorated for Autumn at My 1929 Charmer . The white wicker and plaid blankets are just my cup of tea!

What a great way to decorate your garden gate; a fun rustic rake head with Indian Corn from Linda at It All Started with Paint.

And Missy from Junkfest

worked a miracle on these wonderful chairs

using vintage burlap coffee sacks...so cool!

Hope you'll join in today for the party, 

"Anything vintage or vintage inspired"

And since we're still in the middle of Fall

I'd love to have you share any Fall or Halloween related posts.

DIY, decor, crafts, recipes...anything about Fall.

Please have a link within your post to be featured.

And I'd like to introduce one of my new sponsors

My Art Habit

Where you can find some beautiful art prints framed and ready to go.

This is one of my favorites

and while you're partying today, 

be sure and visit these other fun Friday parties:

And on a side note, I wanted to invite you by my sweet friend Debbie's over at Debbie-doos Friday morning as she has invited me to be her feature in her Home Tour Series. thanks Debbie for the honor!!

Got your Fall On?

Let's Party!

xoxo,

Gotta Go Sale

This is a post, that I'm semi, sort of, embarrassed about, but I'm doing it anyway, hoping you don't mind looking at a few photos that are old ones from my space at Relics, (here in Springfield, Missouri) from last year. I wouldn't take pictures and post them on a bathroom wall, of what my booth space looks like right now. pretty much like a tornado went thru a junk store... yep that's pretty much it. 

These are old pics so it doesn't look anywhere

 near this good in there anymore.

I'm closing my space out by the last weekend of this month. On July 27 and 28. The reason I'm posting all this mayhem is that big architectural window in the center...it has to go. It won't fit in the back of my husband's suv and I'm not paying someone to haul it home for me. I don't have anyplace to put it, but it's super cool piece. It's an actual window (no glass panes, though) that is probably about 7 to 7 and 1/2 foot tall, in good shape. It would be so great for an outdoor arbor, or for a gardener's shed...so many wonderful ways to use it, except I don't have a place for it. I'll probably kick myself later, but at this point in time getting my husband to try to build something wouldn't be practical.

I also have a couple of tables and small tabletop bookcases that I've used for display that now need to go too, and they're marked at a good sale price. It all has to go, so if you're local and want to see about any of it, it's at Relic's Antique Mall, on West Battlefield, just west of Kansas Expressway and the Grizzly Tools Showroom. I have $95 on the big window, a real steal. Now remember, it's big, and behind a bookcase, so it will require some manpower to untether it and haul it to a truck. First come first serve. My booth is the first row to the west of the restrooms and tearoom, it's in the middle of the store, on the west side of the aisle. 

Just about forgot that I have two or three old doors also, one is 17 or 18, the other ones are 25, (but not marked at this time) also behind furniture. I was hoping I could get those out for whoever wanted them on that tear down weekend.

Most of all of this is gone, 

except the wonderful white metal fence gate is still there, for $50 I think.

I still have some smalls for good prices, too.

OK, I'm done groveling.

 I just need to see this stuff gone

 so it's not home in my garage...my marriage won't stand it.

thanks guys,

Goat Carts and Wagons Filled and Displayed for Fall

Today I'm sharing some fun ideas for putting together a cart or wagon for a beautiful Fall display, indoors or out. 

I've been working on my front porch this week getting it ready for a Fall Hop where a group of us will be sharing our front porches next week. Creating a fall garden display in a cart or wagon is always my favorite theme. So I needed some inspiration for putting things together, then share some pics from some of my previous cart and wagon fall displays.

Christmas on the Sunporch

I've said it before... I get so much of my inspiration from all of you out there! I pinned a few ideas from last year that I wanted to try. One was a tote full of Christmas Kitch. Last year I filled some little drawers on my kitchen counter, so this year a white wooden tote became home to a congregation of Christmas goodies.

I've been using Tartan wool blankets out here on the porch each year since we've lived here. Always love a good ole Christmas-y plaid!

The old mini muffin tin has cranberry tealight candles this season,

and my old green metal tackle box is filled with my stash of paperwhites and another candle.

Another fun trend I'm copying this year

 is a toy truck hauling bottle brush trees.

Sorry, shameless copy catting here.

I found this cutie last January at an antique show.

Perfect red and white.

More plaid Thermoses and lunchbox on the Baker's Rack.

The lunchbox held an Angel Vine plant until last week 

when it turned too cold.

And a trio of little elves have found their way here.

These are the vintage variety,

and they're up to lots of crazy antics.

This one's pretty cute...

this one's sorta creepy.

but I AM digging those great eyelashes.

While we were in St. Louis earlier this month I picked up these

wonderful winterberries at of all places, Schnucks. (grocery store)

and placed them in this old French watering can, 

along with some Holly from our big old bushes out back.

Here's my Santa jingle bell door ringer,

on my old picket gate.

You've seen him before, 

but I smile each time I look at him!

These next few photos were from earlier in the month

before I put together the tote,

but wanted to have pics that showed more out here.

(oh yea, here's the angel vine in the lunchbox)

found the red plaid umbrella at Leola's last year...love it!

And I won this adorable Drummer Boy pillow

 from Dear Lillie earlier this Fall.

Thanks so much Jennifer!

Gotta dress up the birdcage too,

 with some vintage bottle brush trees and a reindeer.

Can you see the patch of furry cat carcass on the lower left chair?

Yep, that's HER chair for viewing birds and squirrels.

 It gets a little nippy out here unless the sun is shining. Miss Wrigley is a Maine Coon, so she's oblivious. Miss Jenkins on the other hand is a shorthair and like to sleep next to the heater in the bathroom...she'd rather stay toasty than bird watch.

Couldn't let Christmas go by without sharing the sunporch.

I think I have 4 or 5 different Christmas Pinterest boards,

run by and check them out if you have a minute.

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joining in at 
Savvy Southern Style
Stone Gable
A Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson

Hope you have a great weekend.