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French Vintage Friday – make your own vintage inspired bread boards
Happy Friday, friends!! I hope you all had a great week! Today, for French Vintage Friday, I’m sharing something that I recently made, vintage inspired bread boards. I’ve seen some amazing collections of these lovely boards, but when it comes to actually finding some, that’s hard to do! So what could I do? Make my own! For these boards, I used a basic, one inch thick, pine board purchased from Lowe’s. I started by deciding how wide I wanted the handle to be. I ended up making it two inches wide. I cut one side, and then used my cutout to stencil the other side. After both sides are cut,…
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Decorating Ideas using a French Market Basket
Hi friends!! Happy Thursday!!! I hope you’re having a wonderful week! Today, I am joined by a very sweet blogging friend of mine, Cindy from Cloches and Lavender. We are going to show you how we have each styled one of my favorite Target finds, this darling market basket. Like all things in my home, I love to move this basket around from time to time. It is usually hanging on the peg rail in my kitchen, full of garden clippings, eucalyptus, or other greenery. The market basket even made an appearance in the Traum Wohnen September 2020 magazine, that was released yesterday!! So exciting!! The caption next to the…
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Abundant Autumn – kitchen shelves
Hi friends!!! I hope you’re having a wonderful day! Can you believe it’s September!! Fall is almost here! Today, Tara and I, are sharing some fall decor ideas for the kitchen. My kitchen is the busiest place in the house (four boys!!!) so I like to keep the countertop decor to a minimum, and focus on decorating the shelves. This year I’m going for super simple, minimal touches of fall. Just a few faux pumpkins, that I replaced the stems on, using little twigs that I cut from a grapevine wreath. I also added warmer tones by adding these DIY bread boards (which I will post about soon) I filled…
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French Vintage Friday ~ old buckets
Happy Friday, friends!!! I hope your week has been wonderful! Today, for French Vintage Friday, I’m sharing my love for old buckets. Old buckets are one of my favorite containers to hold fresh cut flowers! I absolutely love summer, but the fall feels are staring to creep in. A few deeper, moodier colored blooms are starting to show their faces in my floral arrangements. I’d love to know….what’s your favorite season? I hope you all have a wonderful day!!! Sending you all happiness and sunshine!! ~Emily Check out where I have linked this project…. Blog link list
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French Vintage Friday ~ vintage berry baskets
Happy Friday, friends!!! Today, for French Vintage Friday, I’m sharing something that I recently found at an antique store, these vintage berry baskets. Aren’t they so cute!!! I love all things vintage!!!! I hope you all have a wonderful day!!! Sending you all so much happiness and sunshine!! ~Emily Check out where I have linked this project…. Blog link list
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Simple summer vibes in the kitchen
Hi friends!! Today, I’m showing how I added a little summer love to my kitchen, using some apricot branches that I cut from a wild apricot tree that was growing randomly on the side of a road. I always love finding ways to bring the natural beauty of the outdoors into my home. Sometimes the simplest decor makes the biggest impact. Love it!! I hope you all have a wonderful day!!! Thank you so much for visiting my blog and for leaving such sweet comments! Y’all are the best! ~Emily Check out where I have linked this project…. Blog link list
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For the love of crates and baskets
Hi friends!!! Happy Saturday! I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend so far! Today, I’m so excited to be joining a group of bloggers for a fun blog hop, hosted by the very sweet and talented Cindy of County Road 407. Today’s blog hop is all about baskets and crates, and y’all know how much I love old baskets, crates, bins, buckets, etc. I love to fill them with flowers, pillows, blankets, books, etc. When placing fresh flowers in a basket, crate, bucket, etc, start by finding some sort of container/vase to hold water for the flowers. For this antique crate/box, I used four glass cylinders to hold the water.…
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French Vintage Friday – vintage tureen
Happy Friday, friends! I hope your week was wonderful! Today, for French Vintage Friday, I’m sharing something that I’ve had for a few years, it was actually one of my first vintage treasures, this lovely Johnson Brothers tureen. I added some fresh flowers to it, for a little added happiness inside my ironstone cabinet. I used “wet” flower foam for the floral arrangement. It was actually the first time that I’ve ever used flower foam, and I LOVED it!! I highly recommend using it! Flower foam comes in “wet” and “dry”. “Wet” is for fresh flowers, “dry” is for faux flowers. It holds the stems perfectly! It was a must…
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How to easily create chippy/crackle paint
Happy Monday, friends!! How was your weekend? Over the weekend, I worked on a few little projects. One of them being, this sweet little cabinet… I decided that I wanted it to be white and chippy, are you surprised?!! Using glue and white paint, I gave this sweet little cabinet a new look. I started by brushing some Elmer’s glue on the cabinet. In some areas I brushed the glue on thicker, and other areas got a thinner layer, this helps the cracks to vary in size, making it look more authentic. I left it in the sun to dry for just two or three minutes, before painting. You want…
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Bloom where you are planted ~ spring shelfie
Happy Thursday, friends!! Yesterday was a big day for us, my boys all started online school! On Tuesday night, I told my kids to do their best to sleep in the next morning, that way we could all be rested for our first day of home school. We even stayed up really late so they’d want to sleep in, but we were hit with an earthquake that ruined that! Yep, that’s right, Utah had an earthquake on Wednesday morning that woke us all up! It was an exciting start to our first day of online school. I have to say, I am super impressed with how the teachers have worked…
