Spreading Easter Joy with Vintage Vignettes

 

 Hello my friends,

 

I am so happy to be joining 11 other talented bloggers that will be sharing our love for vintage.

 

These cast iron flower basket door stops are one of my favorite collections.  I was inspired by my cute friend, Joanne to collect them.  In fact, she found 2 of the 3 for me.

 

I bought the bunny for $5 at an antique store in Texas and found the little cart at a thrift shop for $1.  The chicks beaks were all chipped.  a little paint fixed them right up!

 

 

 

 

 

A big thank you to my sweet friend, Amber from

 Follow the Yellow Brick Home for putting this

 hop together for us.

 

 

Not only is it a fun vintage hop, but please return on Friday to link up your own spring and Easter posts.

 

 

 

If you are 'bunny hopping' (wink) over from Laura's at

Decor to Adore  then I know that you have already enjoyed lots of eye candy!

 

As long as I can remember, I have always loved creating scenes.  Yup, long before I had ever heard of the word, 'vignette'.

 

A mixture of old and new is what I consider a perfect (scene) vignette!

 

A reproduction architectural piece, a vintage scale, an enamel pan that looks vintage, but isn't, and a few Easter treasures.

 

 

Alot of my Easter décor is old, but not yet considered vintage.  But add a few old books and it's a 'winner, winner, chicken dinner'!

 

Or maybe a couple of chippy corbels.  These beauties traveled all the way home with me from Charleston, SC.

 

Although I usually like to include at least three items in my vignettes, at times I like to keep them simple.  Such is the case with this vintage laundry basket, olive bucket filled with dried hydrangeas from my Limelight tree, an old quilt top,  and a simple birds nest.

 

 

The found nest with the thrift find hand painted egg are the star of the show.  A few dried pink hydrangeas brings out the

 pink in the egg.

I am such a silly willy!  I like to play with my vignettes as if they were my toys.  :)

 

 

This watering can was joined by a vintage platter, some garden gloves, and an egg spray.

 

but then. . .

 

I bought some potted tulips at Home Depot.

 

So it found a new place to reside for a few days.

 

 

 Just simple little things evoke fond memories for me.  In the 70's it was very popular to be gifted little planters like this lamb when you had a baby.  I wish I had some of my original ones.  I scored this one for $2 at the same antique store where I bought the bunny in the first photo.  I also remember my kids playing with these lace up cards when they were little.

 

 

I have lots of vignettes on my kitchen counters.

They make kitchen chores much more delightful!

I recently purchased the toy sink and the fuzzy chick was a souvenir from a trip to Salzburg, Austria years ago.

 

The basket and both sugar eggs were thrift finds.  I added the plastic flower and velvet ribbon to the handle.  Two of my girls saw them last week and loved them.  They remembered getting one in their baskets as children.

 

 

 

 

I love layering dishes with little vintage treasures on top.



 

This old wicker scale holds spring time baking essentials.

 

This sunbeam mixer really works, and I use it now and then.

 

 

Sometimes vignettes don't turn out to be as fabulous as you imagine them to be in your head.  lol!

When I spied this Bo Peep cake carrier at Vain and Vintage in Pocatello, ID I squealed with delight!

 

This will be awesome for displaying some of my sheep collection, I thought.

 

 

It was a bit hard to work with and just wasn't what I hoped it would be.  Still, I love seeing all of my little sheep corralled together.

 

They are grazing in a field of green sugar.

It's hard to get a decent photo in my kitchen window, but I love my kitty teapot and pastel teacups!

 



I'll end with my latest vignette using the diorama egg I just made in craft group.  If you would like to learn how to make one, go here.

 

 

Now don't forget to hop over and see what vintage goodness Angelina from Petit Haus has in store for you.

 

In fact, you won't want to miss a single post! 

 Also, remember to come back Friday for our link party.

 

Here is the entire line up:

 Tuesday

My Thrift Store Addiction

Common Ground
 Follow The Yellow Brick Home

The Painted Hinge

White Arrows Home

Wednesday
 

Panoply

 

Decor To Adore

Have A Daily Cup Of Mrs. Olson

Petite Haus

 
Itsy Bits And Pieces

Debby Goes Shabby

Lora Bloomquist

 

 

hugs,