Vintage Cameras are fantastic!!

I LOVE anything with a history...
Each time I find just the right camera at a tag sale or flea market I get so excited thinking about who it once belonged too. Whom they took pictures of? How much it cost to buy it new? How cherished a piece it must have been...

As you can see from this photo I love to make vignette's! A silver tray,antique books and a picture of my grandfather and his family from the 1920's on my 1914 pedal Singer sewing machine table is just perfect.

Celebrating Home with Style

Celebrating Home with Style

Handmade Ornaments

My friend Lisa and I had a great time making ornaments
last Saturday. We let our creativity go wild!!
Polka dots,stripes,rub-ons.rhinestones,paint and paint pens! And the ribbon-couldn't you just buy a roll of every color,pattern and size! My favorite to work with on any project is wired ribbon!
We will be selling these and handmade gift tags and center pieces at an upcoming vendor show!

Milk can and baby carriage

When I saw this old milk can at a garage sale a few weeks ago for $5.00-I nearly knocked over the lady next to me to grab it! I had found these great branches for a $1.00 the week before! (It was meant to be!) I placed bittersweet pieces onto the branches for a pop of orange/fall color.Then the following week I found something that I had been wanting forever! An antique doll carriage!!! Since Halloween was around the corner I decided it put 3 (LED) candles inside and a sprig of just picked bittersweet. Creepy...

Vintage Vignette

This vignette is on top of my entertainment center.
I bought 3 bottles at a yard sale and added Martha Stewart labels to them.A beautiful pumpkin ($1.00 at a garage sale) sits atop a collection of antique books.
A shabby candleholder has the perfect gourd on top.
And a silver skull is surrounded by greenery! An antique baby shoe rounds out the scene...

I copied this idea from Martha Stewart. I saw it on her show years ago

and knew I had to try it. I bought a gourd at our local farm stand, scoured it with a bleach and water solution and dried it off. Then my husband used a dremmel tool to make the opening. I bought rub-on scrapbook letters and applied them to the opening! A black crow from the dollar store makes it perfectly creepy!

I also elevated it on a cake plate. I love cake plates and stands for everything!

A sprig of fresh picked bittersweet spills out of the opening...

To complete the vignette I placed beautiful ceramic pumpkins on 3 white (garage sale) candlesticks,put a piece of silver and a glass paperweight on to finish it off!

Hoosier Cabinet dressed up for Halloween!

I used antique mason and ball jars filled with orange and yellow Halloween candy to get the pops of color that I wanted. I found these great placemats in Madison,IN with a reversible black/white stripe and orange candy corn on them! I hung a grubby candle on the door, put up a spooky Halloween menu and added leaves and gourds. My favorite thing is the wire wheel-barrel (50 cents at a yard sale) filled with gourds and Jack-be-little pumpkins!