Vintage Inspiration #115 Being Thankful

Hope you found us a day early this week. In order to enjoy our special time with family and friends, I'm just starting a little early. And speaking of Thanksgiving, I want to say "Thank You" to all of you who come over here each week to join in on the vintage fun. Thanks so much for sharing your homes, dreams, and ideas with all of us. So here are a few links from last week that bring out the best of "vintage".
Mary from Home is Where the Boat Is had a little "window of opportunity" to do some decorating at her Potting Shed. Using vintage turkey platters and plates, she dressed up her amazing little shed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Carolyn from Aiken House and Garden has been planning for a more simple approach to Christmas, and is using lot's of pops of traditional red. Carolyn's home and blog posts look like they came straight from a magazine. Thank you, Carolyn for sharing the romance of your lovely home and gardens with all of us.

Patti from Ivy and Elephants shared a gorgeous crystal cruet set, I can just see this for an elegant Christmas tablesetting. Lot's of crystal and silver are a magical way to decorate for the Holidays.

Diane from An Extraordinary Day gave us the pros and cons, ins and outs, of transforming a gifted sideboard. Gosh, I'm a sucker for a white sideboard!!! And this one turned out amazing!

Pocket Mirrors with a vintage touch from Erika at Boulevard de L'antique. Wouldn't these be a wonderful Christmas Gift or Stocking Stuffer? Love those images!

And Penny from  Penny's Vintage Home, decorated her wonderful white piano with a menagerie of Christmas delight. A winter wonderland of Santas, deer, and other woodland creatures playing in a glittered forest of candlelight.

Hope you'll join in with all your vintage and vintage inspired posts. Please have a link back to Common Ground within your post to be featured. And yes, it's finally time to unpack all those vintage treasures and ornaments, so come share all your Christmas bits and baubles over here, from now till New Years!

Check out these other great Friday parties for some weekend fun!

Have a wonderful weekend,

 full of gratitude for what's so important in our lives!

lots of love and blessings,

Top Three links from Vintage Inspiration

We're all saying it,

 "This month has just flown by and now it's Thanksgiving!" 

I didn't want to skip Vintage Inspiration this week, so I'll be starting the link party later this afternoon instead of Thursday morning. Just a little early, so we can all still join in, and if you don't have all your relatives looking over your shoulder shaking their heads. Do you know what I mean? 'Nuff said...

So here are the three top viewed links from last week,

Are you ready for Christmas?

Jennifer from Town and Country Living shared some great inspiration images as she was thinking about going with a more natural theme this Christmas.

Jody from Rooted in Thyme gave us some paperwhite inspiration. Not only does she use containers, but she has them growing "en masse" in her lovely garden. You'll love her potting cupboard, too.

And Brooke from Creative Country Mom has a Fall Country Kitchen Tree that will have you putting up that tree just a few weeks earlier next year.

From now on until the end of the year we'll be sharing 

all things Christmas.

Please join in with all your vintage and vintage inspired posts;

DIY, decor, Christmas traditions, recipes, crafts...

whatever says Christmas or Vintage to you!

See you later today!

xoxo,

Welcome to The Marketplace and a Winner

Time for The Marketplace;

Your place for some shopping fun!

I really enjoy sharing a new Online Boutique or Etsy Shop, so today I want to introduce you to Ella Claire, the Shoppe. Many of you by now have met Kristen, the momma of adorable Ella, and follow along with her blog, by the same name. Kristen and her sisters have recently gone online with some beautiful jewelry and holiday home items. Here are a few wonderful items they are now carrying.

Charcoal Bubble Necklace

Cranberry Bubble Necklace

Mocha Cinnamon Dipped Candles

these look good enough to eat!

more fun shopping items coming up!

Vintage Italian Tole Gilt Roses Candleholder

from Romantic Farmhouse

Burlap Stocking with a Toile Crown Cuff

from Blue Creek Home

(love these wonderful colors)

Shy Cherub Girl Chalkware Lamp

from Vannas Armoire

(this would be perfect for a little girl's room...
or a big girl's room)

Vintage Enameled Marbled Graniteware Bucket

from I'm So Vintage
(Filled with Apples and Greenery for your Christmas decor)

Vintage Milk Bottle

from Sweet Magnolias Farm
(this looks like Christmas to me. 
Wouldn't it be fun filled with a Christmas "mix" of something? yum.)

Today, the talented Leslie Janson is in the Sponsor Spotlight.

You'll love Leslie's beautiful repurposed items including jewelry,

 pillows, and these great Christmas ornaments.

Grain Sack and Rhinestones 

Repurposed Cuff Bracelet

Repurposed Horse Brass Ornament for Christmas

Repurposed Ornament

Repurposed Ornament

Antique Grain Sack Pillow

Thanks Leslie, I always love coming to browse!

And now the winner of the French Bleu Gift Certificate

Rhonda from Blue Creek Home

Congrats, Rhonda!

If you have an Etsy Shoppe or Online Boutique please come link up your items (up to Three), and if possible link to the individual item for easy shopping. You don't have to have a blog to link up. If you're here to shop, we're so glad to have you. Remember this link is open all week, so drop back by and see the new links each day.

Have Fun!

On the table...

Since our younger daughter and her husband will be hosting Thanksgiving at their home this year, I haven't had to be concerned about a proper tablescape.  But I have changed out a few things on the table last week. I filled my ironstone tureen with about 10 paperwhite bulbs and sat it and my white velvet pumpkin  on my dark harvest-y vintage tray.

The Dining Room has beautiful soft light most of the day.

I took out the "orange" leaves in the windowbox centerpiece

 and in their place added some faux evergreens.

adding a little "Winter" and removing a little "Fall"

But a bigger change came on the table by swapping out the dark grain sack fabric for this lighter creamy burlap fabric, which I just folded over once lengthwise and left the edges raw. I like the lighter burlap for this week which will soon be changed out for Christmas. I found a wonderful antique grain sack with a red stripe on Etsy from Austria. I'm planning on adding it over the burlap for my Christmas Season tablerunner. I'll share that with you soon, and the Etsy shop I purchased it from.

A set of my lambies approve.

See you Monday morning for

The Marketplace,

where we list our Etsy and Online Boutique Stores

then shop our little hearts out.

I'm joining in for these parties:

Sunday Showcase at Under the Table and Dreaming

Make it Pretty Monday at The Dedicated House

Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch

TTT at A Stroll thru Life

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm

Tweak it Tuesday at Cozy Little House

Knick of Time Tuesday

Cowgirl Up at Cedarhill Ranch

Blissful Whites at Timewashed

Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style

Share Your Cup Thursday

House Party at No Minimalist Here

French Country Cottage

Primp

The Charm of Home

Rooted in Thyme

Shabby Art Boutique

Have a wonderful Sunday,

xoxo,

Same time, last year...

This has been a pretty hectic month with my husband's doctor visits to St. Louis, (ear specialist), and because of that I just haven't been able to get everything done that I had wanted to for Thanksgiving. Case in point, I didn't get my Holiday Cupboard dressed for Thanksgiving. (just one of many little things) So as I was looking back through my posts, I thought I'd share again what I did last year at Thanksgiving. 

 This is in our lower level sitting area. 

It's always fun to come up with new vignettes each season
for this "married" cabinet and dresser.

squirrels and chipmunks

(hey, I heard they don't have chipmunks in Europe?)

this is my old chalk squirrel bank.

quail, turkey, and pheasant

white ironstone...

The season before Christmas gets a little "woodsy".

 love all my little fuzzy plastic vintage deer

and more ironstone pitchers

I'm counting the days until Christmas decorating starts.

the boxes are posed and ready to explode!

tonight the Give Away closes,

if you haven't entered click here.

If you haven't joined in for Vintage Inspiration

then just scroll down to the next post.

Share all your Thanksgiving ideas with us,

Some of us still need some help!

xoxo,