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French Vintage Friday ~ a sweet little sugar bowl
Sugar and spice, and everything nice. I’d like to introduce you to the newest obsession, the sweetest little sugar bowl that you ever did see! Look at that spoon with a little flower on the end. So in love with it!! This sweet sugar bowl comes from one of my very favorite companies, Vagabond House. Click HERE to check out the Vagabond House website, and this sweet sugar bowl. Now let’s hop over and see what Tara is sharing today. Simply click on the picture below…. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!! Lots of love to you all! ~Emily
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Thrifted Treasure – a vintage dresser beautified
Happy Monday, friends!!! Today I’m super excited because we Tara and I are hosting our first thrift store challenge since March! What is my thrifted find, you might be wondering? Well, you might be surprised, but it’s a piece of furniture, a dresser to be exact. Her she is when I first saw her. A little beat up, and in need of some serious love…. My mother-in-law found this darling dresser for me at a Salvation Army store near her home. I love the shape, and of course, the castors are an added bonus! I started by sanding down the top of the dresser and the drawer fronts. I then…
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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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Summer flowers
Happy Monday, friends!! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and my dahlias are blooming!! I’m one very happy girl! I adore the summer months!! Here is an arrangement from my latest garden clippings (except the eucalyptus, it is from Trader Joe’s). Yay for flower season!! I hope you all have a lovely start to this new week!!! ~Emily Check out where I have linked this project…. Blog link list
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French Vintage Friday ~ deconstructed antique chairs
Happy Friday, friends!!! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! Today, for French Vintage Friday, I’m sharing something that I’ve had sitting in my garage since December…. Yep, these chairs have been waiting for quite some time to get all fixed up. I started by taking the fabric off the chairs, and removing all the staples. I LOVE the old burlap on the back, so I’m going to leave it exposed. Why cover up such beauty?!! Notice the big divot in the middle of the seat, it most definitely needed to be fixed. To fix it, I placed a big pile of batting in the seat. I then placed a…
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Simple summer vibes
Hi friends!! Happy Thursday! Today, I’m so excited to be joining my sweet friend, Tara, to show y’all a simple summer project. For my project, I found these plants on clearance at Walmart. With a little clipping and trimming, these little plants are going to be cute topiaries. After they where all trimmed up, I planted them in pots that I recently found at Michael’s for just a few dollars. All of the summer decor is 70% off at Michael’s right now! Vintage books, terra-cotta pots, and these topiaries is all that is needed for this simple summer mantel decor. Hopefully I can keep the plants alive! 💗💗💗 Let’s hop…
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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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weekly table centerpiece – summer vibes
Happy Thursday, friends!! It’s good to be back after my little break! How was your Fourth of July? Although life is a little different this year because of COVID, we had a great holiday weekend! I hope you did too! As many of you know, especially those who follow along with my Instagram page, I love to have some sort of centerpiece on my table alway, and always!!! I think it would be fun to show you my weekly centerpieces from time to time. This week, my centerpiece is all about the summer vibes. Flowers, teacups, gold lanterns, and the sweetest little bunny taper holder. Isn’t that little bunny taper…
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French Vintage Friday – old blue jars
Happy Friday, friends!! Here in the states, it’s Memorial Day weekend! In honor of Memorial Day, I put together a patriotic mantel display, using antique/vintage blue jars and flowers from my garden. I got these beauties, last year at an auction, for just $5 for the set! Some are more on the vintage side, and some are antique. I especially love the old jars with air bubbles in the glass!  For my mantel, I simply put some viburnum “snowballs” in the jars, with flags. Here’s a little tip, if you want to keep your viburnum clippings lasting longer, dip the ends of the cut stems into alum, before placing…
