Floral Quilt

 My husband and I went on a trip down to Florida. On our drive down to Fl, we stopped at an antique shop in Alabama. I wanted to find something unique for my mom. I couldn't find anything really cool, but I did find a quilting book. I thought it was cool, it was a Better Homes and Garden quilting book from the 70s. I LOVED the quilt on the cover of the book. I said to Chris (my husband) I have to get this book so my mom can make me this quilt. (This is another one of her many talents.) It was only $2 so I was totally getting it. When we got home I gave the book to my mom and said I want this quilt. She told me there is no way she could me it. I was like really? The pattern is in there. She said it was way too hard. I was so bummed. So I never thought in a million years I would be getting this quilt, because I don't know how to quilt, I wasn't going to make it. But my mom (without me knowing) was busy learning how to make this quilt. She said there were a few times where she almost throw it away and was so frustrated with it, but with some encouragement from my grandma, she finished the quilt. She surprised me with it on Easter. I was so shocked, I couldn't believe it!!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my quilt. It is so beautiful!

 

 

This is the book I got her...

 

This is the quilt, it looks just like the one in the book.

She did a great job of matching the fabric,

it looks almost identical. I LOVE IT!

 

Winter Blues

In Wisconsin in the middle of January there isn't much of thrift sale"ing" or flea marketing. The only thing that we have been thriving on in these winter months are the over picked Goodwills and Craigslist. So when my mom and I were finishing up Christmas shopping right before our Christmas party at my grandmas in the town she lives in, we found this little thrift store tucked on the corner. We were pumped!!! (That is an understatement, I think the lady who owned the place was a little scared of us, we were just a little excited finding all the cool finds...lol.) We got there about 10 min before she closed, we told her that we wouldn't be long and we only took 10 min, I think that was the best 10 min she ever had in sales...lol. We found the cute little table below with a lamp attached, a mirror, (waiting for a makeover), some awesome vintage skis, and I scored some vintage Christmas ornaments!

 

 

 

So this is the lamp table (I know, I know, no before pictures. We have slowly started remembering to take before pictures, we get too excited and start on our projects right away, then go oh crap, we forgot to take a before picture).

 

 

 

My mom redid the lamp shade, we both went to the fabric store and decided which fabrics to use, we wanted to go for that "shabby chic" look so we went with floral and pink ticking. I just love the knob that keeps the lamp shade on, it is some kind of bird, I think it adds that uniqueness to the piece. We spray painted the pole white, it was a brass color before.

 

Then we painted the table a pale pink and distressed it.

 

These are the skis, aren't they cool?

Christmas Proud

If you have ever watched the Nate Berkus show you know that he does House Proud, well I am doing Christmas Proud. Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday, I love to decorate for Christmas. Over the years I have had pretty much hand me down decorations from my grandma and my mom. Now that  I am older I have found my own Christmas style. I have been collecting Christmas ornaments since pretty much after high school. Mostly the European ornaments. I have recently have really gotten into vintage Christmas decorations, like the 50-70s, the plastic Santa's and painted little nicknacks. Here is some of my decor...

  This year with Miss Bailey around we have brand new shatter proof ones on our tree (see the picture on the right, with that little hand...). I am sad I am not putting up my ornaments that I have collected over the years, but I rather not have them broken...lol.

I tried to find the most "vintage" looking ornaments. I got them from one of my favorite stores Target!
The tree topper is from my great grandma Schroeder, my grandma had it and gave it to me. She gave it to me in the original box, I thought that was pretty cool!!!

 

 

We don't have a fireplace to put our stockings on, So I hang them from something to be honest I have no idea what it is, maybe an old lawnmower handle...no clue. I got it one year at cranberry fest.

I got this really cool vintage Santa. I am not sure how old it is, but I got it at the thrift sale that my mom and I found those 5 dressers. I was so excited to find a score like that, I only paid $1 for him!!!

 

There was one more thing that I wanted to put up with the display. I looked at it for about 20 min and it came to me, an old Christmas card and put it in a frame! I always keep my old Xmas cards. I rip off the front of the card if there is no writing on it and keep it for name tags. So I had a bunch to choose from. I like how this one looks old.

 

All the trees and the picture are hand me downs from my mom and grandma. The Santa is wrapped in tinfoil and painted, it was something I haven't seen before so I really liked it. My mom got it for me one year during the "deer hunter widow" shopping.

 

I have this display in my kitchen. I have a little bit of everything on here. I think I am more into Santa's then snowmen looking at my decorations...lol

 

My favorite two things in this display are in the bottom right hand corner. You can't see it very well, but it is a tin candle with Santa on it. It was a gift from my son, Korbin. They have a Christmas store every year at his school. Parents donate new or gently used items and the kids can bring two dollars and get presents for people (each item is a dollar).  I just LOVE it, it is so special to me! The other thing is a homemade decoration from Korbin, it is a present with his picture in it. He made it when he was in preschool. I LOVE, LOVE getting things like that from him. I have a bunch of Christmas stuff he has made over the years up around the house.

The matching snowmen are from my mom. Remember when there were ceramics and you painted them, yup those are it. I think they are so fun and they remind me of my childhood, I will always keep those! The little pink tree, I found at a thrift sale for 10 cents!!! Can't beat a deal like that!

 

I have always wanted a real Christmas wreath! When we got our tree tonight, I told my husband that I wanted a wreath. I said ask the guy if he will throw in a wreath with the tree. My husband is all about a deal so of course he asked and well we got the wreath!!! I just love it, when you open the door and walk in you can smell the fresh pine!!! I hope you enjoyed the Christmas decorations and got some fun ideas!

 

I hope you all have a Happy Holiday and God Bless!!!

 

 

Vintage Junkies~

Deer Hunter Widow Shopping

Here in Wisconsin we have deer hunter widow shopping weekend. Tonight my mom and I went around the local shops looking for goodies! We went to a place called Gypsy Maefly (for those of you who are local, it is in Banbury Place, you can check them out on Face Book.) They have different shops that are located all in one area. They are so neat they sell little bit of new, recycled, and vintage!

I got some really cool things that I had to share with you all.

I got what I guess you would call a microwave stand, I LOVE it and got it for a steal because it had a little scratch on the top. It fits in perfect with my current kitchen (but got it more for my future kitchen). Just something I could not pass up! (The little black thing in the corner is our dog Winston, he is in about 50% of my pictures...lol)

 

I am into the old Christmas decorations, not sure what era for sure, mostly 70's I think, the brighter color the better. 

I got this cute little candle holder.

 Someone put it down and my mom snatched it up for me.

 

Then I got these awesome Christmas ornaments, I have been wanting to start a vintage ornament collection and these were perfect! I have never seen ornaments like this before so I had to have them. They are in great condition and they were a great price!

 

Now I just have to figure out how I am going to display them!

 

 

If you look very closely on the box you can see that back in the day they were 59 cents! I thought that was kind of cool, plus old packaging is always neat, I think anyways!

 

 

Tomorrow we are going to find some cool knobs for all the new pieces of furniture we got done, so keep checking back for pictures!

 

Vintage Junkies~