Fabric Christmas Ornaments - a Followup

I got lots of comments concerning the vintage Christmas ornaments I posted yesterday for Vintage Thingie Thursday. Many asked how they were made. I am not exactly sure how those were made, I bought them just as you see them. But funny you would ask, because my daughter wants to make some in the fabrics I used for her quilt and others to match her multi-colored room...

We are planning on making some this afternoon since they have a half day of school today. I will be "winging" it, but I will try very hard to take pictures as we go, and if they turn out, I will post my first ever tutorial on them. Check back later to see the progress.

VTT - Fabric Christmas Ornaments

I love these vintage fabric covered Christmas Ornaments.

I keep them out all year long. Being a fabric junkie what would you expect!

I've picked these up at 3 different antique stores, and am amazed at how similar they are - all have the same little felt flowers, and glass seed beads that the pins go into. I wonder if they were made from some sort of a vintage "craft kit", or they came premade. I find it hard to believe that one person made all of these, and they ended up in 3 different antique stores in 2 different citys years later.

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VTT - Bread Box

Another one of my finds while junking/anitquing with my cousin Lori...




My vintage bread box.


I love this item, because it is both vintigie cute and functional. I use to to store my bread - as I guess you would imagine since it is a bread box...


but also to store various other small things I like to keep handy in the kitchen. Glue, envelopes, thank you notes, a few sewing supplies for quick fixes, etc...


I also love how it fits in just right on my countertop below my cabinets. The cabinets in my kitchen were all built right into the home and are longer than standard ones so there is not much space between my cabinets and the counter top (the down side of that is that they can't be easily removed - as we thought of doing when we redid the kitchen a few years back - short of gutting the whole space, we just painted them. But I digress...)


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Vintage Thingie Thursday - Fire King Bowls

I love these polka dot fire king bowls. I actually saw them in a book one time, and decorated my lake house kitchen red around them. Mind you, at the time I did not own one, but loved them so much that I wanted a collection of them at the lake house, and used red as my color in anticipation of aquiring some.

Then, after searching high and low, and finding out that they were hard to come by and quite pricey, I found the red one at a furniture resale shop. It was inside a metal fondue pot holder, and priced at a whopping $10! I don't think the shop knew what they had!

The black and white one I found last year on my annual birthday "junking" trip with my cousin Lori.

I don't remember where I got the striped one, but I just liked it. I now have another small red and white one, but took this picture earlier in the summer before I found that one.

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Vintage Thingie Thursday

My second Vintage Thingies Thursday entry…

I love the old blue/green Ball jars. I love the color, the shape, and the versatility. You can pick them up cheap at garage sales and thrift stores (I have gotten most of them for under $1 each).

I use them to store stuff...

I use them to decorate both at home...

and at our lake cottage…

I even like to use them outside as tea light holders...

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