$3 Bargain Easter Wreath!

 I have been enjoying the month of love so much, that I hate to take down Valentines decor ... but with Easter next month, its time!! 

 

This sweet wreath took a whole package of coffee filters to make.  I stacked three together, then pinched them into flowers and used a hot glue gun to attach them to a vine type wreath from the dollar store.

Then I chose these antique Easter postcards from the huge selection available on Graphics Fairy.  I tried to choose designs that would allow me to add the glue and glitter letters, swirling them around the designs, as you see.  Next I cut them out, and glued them onto old manila tags, adding rickrack and trimming the bottoms.  I used old silver garland to suspend the tags, figuring it would bring out the silver glitter of the letter.  I am pretty happy with this simple wreath ...  and what a bargain.  $1 for coffee filters, and $1 for the wreath base, the few tags, hot glue, glitter, and colored ink together were less than a dollar, I am sure, for a total of $3!!

 

 Welcome Spring and Easter, with all its chicks, birds and bunnies ... Now if I could just have something other than snowy forecasts, I would be perfectly content.

A Happy Birthday to George Washington!

Just wanted to take a minute out of my crazy February to celebrate George Washington's birthday, February 22, 1732. 

 

Because I have a mother that was invested in family history, and accumulating long lists of ancestors, I happen to know that George Washington in my second cousin, six times removed. 

 

I found this great old print of him in a stack of antique ephemera ... you can see to thr right that the corner is bent , and there were actually some tears I trimmed off.  It was a premium, probably from a magazine subsription, in 1876, during the our country's centennial.

I looked for a period frame for a long time, before finding this aesthetic style frame at the antique mall where I work.  I loved it and thought it looked good enough to be original. 

The picture has been hanging in my library for many years, but this year I thought it would be fun to decorate it for the big day.

 Since I loved all the rosettes that the rebels wore in the latest movie of Les Miserables, I thought it would be the perfect detail to help me honor my cousin's birthday. As always, I am indebted to Graphics Fairy for the awesome silhouette that makes up the middle of the rosette.        

Happy Birthday to the First George W.

Wedgwood Blue and White for Decor!

Hello blog land friends ... I thought I would take a moment and share a display booth at the antique mall that I did with another dealer last month.

I thought it turned out so crisp and yet romantic, that I wanted to save it in my 'archives'.  Of course the colors make one think of classic Wedgwood, the perfect color scheme for January!

When she decided we should change out our store's Christmas decorated booth, she wanted to go with all white, but sadly, or perhaps gladly, yummy old shabby white painted furniture has been so popular that we didn't have enough of it to fill this booth.  Then she thought by adding a couple of pale blue pieces we could pull it off.

What a happy accident, the blue and white painted furniture along with the blue and white pottery combine for such a happifying look!  Everyone who comes in comments, and we have been selling lots of goodies from it as well, which of course is the point.  The sweet tea set above found a new home today!

Thanks for coming by to take a peek!!