Pretty Breakfast

As they say, "Life is short.  Use the fine china!"

 

 

Breakfast is so much more enticing served in vintage pretties.

 

 

Do you use your vintage dishes?

Romantic Styling for Coffee Table

 

Decided to add a little romance to our home décor in anticipation of Valentine's Day this week.

 

 

Grabbed a couple of my vintage creamers and placed them on the beautiful silver tray Daughterlypoo gave me for my birthday last year.

 

 

Twyla decided to photo bomb my pictures.

 

 

Guess I'll stop now since she's obviously bored!

 

Disc Plate Hangers & Guest Bedroom Tour

For years I've been using pieces of my vintage china collection as wall décor.  In the past, I've always used this type of expandable hanger:

The expandable hangers work just fine but they can leave scratch marks on walls and now that we're in a rental I wanted to find something that would not leave any marks.  I found these Discs on Amazon:

 

Have you seen them?  They're easy to use and remove AND they're reusable.

 

 

"Plate scape" in our guest bedroom:

 

Here's a look at the other details in the room...

 

Old wrought iron bed I found nearly 20 years ago at a flea market in Georgia.  Thrift shop white quilt covering the bed and my grandmother Lela's hand stitched quilt at the foot.

 

Table I recently bought from Home Goods.  It was a really bad gold color so I simply spray painted it with primer for a rustic look.

 

 

Antique cabinet a neighbor gave us many years ago.  See the little lamp there?  This was in my childhood bedroom.  Funky atomic-looking clock is also from Home Goods.

 

 

My daughter's old ballet shoes hanging from the closet doors.

 

 

I found this white, hobnail mirror at a resale shop in Florida a few years ago.  It's plastic!

 

 

 

Cute, little trash can from...yep, Home Goods!

 

 

I'll be hanging up more goodies on our walls this week.  Living room is next on my list.  What are you up to today?

Vintage Easter Tablescape

We're all set for Easter here on the farm so I thought I'd show you our table.

I put together this centerpiece with a 1950's carnival giveaway bunny and a few vintage-inspired tin eggs.



I found the bunny on Etsy...



...And the tin eggs at Michael's.



My daughter gave me this aqua, ceramic fruit basket (from Anthropologie) for Christmas, and I think it's perfect for holding a handful of speckled eggs.



Here is my pink Depression Glass pitcher that I found at a flea market probably 20 years ago.  Next to it is my favorite salt/pepper set in Jadite (another gift from Daughterlypoo), and my robin's egg blue butter dish ~ a gift from my BFF.



This is my latest find ~ a mercury glass candle holder with metal flowers; found it while visiting Iowa earlier this year.



Our lead crystal wine glasses were picked up at a flea market in Gulf Shores, Alabama many years ago.  And the green water glasses are another gift from our daughter.



In case you can't tell by now, I really like an eclectic olio for our table.  No matchy-matchy here, just lots of vintage with a touch of new.

A hodgepodge of our vintage, floral plates and purposefully mismatched flatware for each place setting:



A mx of vintage china platters and bowls dot the table, ready to hold deliciousness.





Wishing you all a beautiful Easter!

Vintage Perfume Bottles

My Daughter told me that she's on a hunt for a few vintage perfume bottles to use as decoration in her bathroom.  I remembered I had these pieces tucked away in a cabinet because I don't have room to display them.

They're both very old, and this one is a Limoges, signed and dated in French on the bottom:

The gold, hand painted details are so pretty against the creamy pink porcelain.

This one is very similar in color, is marked "Parisienne" on the bottom, and has its own little matching dish tray:

I'm happily packing these up and mailing them to Natalie in Philadelphia!

Foyer Fancy {Foyer Make Over Part 2}

Remember what our family room and foyer looked like when we first bought our home (I shot this pix when looking at the property/previous owners were living here)?



We walled up the loft and now it's our master bedroom.  We replaced the spiral staircase with a traditional one, and used the space under it for built-in storage.  We also decided to create a nook on the foyer side of the wall.

But the nook remained empty.  For a long time.



We didn't know what to do with the space.  Well, Captain Project did.



We finally decided to use it as a showcase for some of our pretty things.


(That's Twyla on the couch.)



I found this antique sewing machine cabinet at the flea market.  Painted and distressed it a bit, and now it holds my vintage tablecloths.





Photos of our childrens' weddings sit on top of the cabinet.



I love these antique frames.



The iron detail!



On the two glass shelves sits part of my vintage china collection.





And a few pottery pieces from my grandmother:



Sure feels good to cross this "to do" off my list!