Home Sweet Home #72

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  I have been enjoying flowers in the yard this week.  I have been babying them a lot by watering them.  Very dry here.  

Did you see this picture on my blog Monday?  I had just remodeled my dining room and received all these wonderful furniture pieces from family and we are driving by a yard sale this weekend and saw this hutch.  It was marked $100 but we went back late in the day and everything was 1/2 price and we got this for $50!  I was so excited! I have always wanted a hutch like this and it is solid maple.  So now I have a great piece to show off my transferware. I was such a happy thrifty shopper!  

 So, one side of the room has that hutch and then the other side of the dining room looks like this.  I am so happy with how it turned out!!  I can't wait to decorate it for fall and Christmas!

 Now, I would like to highlight some of the posts that caught my eye last week at Home Sweet Home.

Cindy at Beaux R'eves showed off her beautiful new French bench.

Penny ay Penny's Vintage Home showed off her pretty shabby coastal bath decor.

Jill at Sew a Fine Seam showed off this great vintage cabinet.

 Must Love Junk showed off this vintage shoe rack that is a favorite of hers.

Maggie at Little Miss Maggie showed off a French family crest that she made that is wonderful!  Info in this post as to where to get French and German grain sack stencils.

 Many great links each week!  Thank you to all who join me at Home Sweet Home!   It is wonderful to have you here! 

Sherry

I will join these ladies today:
Vintage Inspiration Friday at Common Ground 

Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage

Show and Tell Friday at My Romantic Home

Home and Garden Thursday  at A Delightsome Life 
Creative Things Thursday  at The Vintage Farmhouse
Say G'day Saturday  at Natasha in Oz
Thrifty Things Friday  at The Thrifty Groove
Furniture Feature Party  at Miss Mustard Seed

  

 Guidelines for Home Sweet Home Party:

Attention: To link up with inlinkz you must have a permalink back to this party in your post or they will not allow you to link.  

Link up anything in your home or garden.  I love seeing neat shops too!

My button is on my sidebar for the party, if you want to use it.   If you are new here I hope you will become a follower. Please don't link up more than two posts.  No Etsy link ups or direct advertising, please.  Please visit some of the other blogs and get some great inspiration.  Thanks.:)

Now let's see your beautiful homes!

Books and Their Covers

Having fun with my vintage book collection.  The hot look for the book is coverless.  I got some old books at the thrift store for 50 cents apiece and ripped their covers off.  Shocking I know, if you haven't been over to Pottery Barn, Ballard Design, or my personal favorite Restoration Hardware you might not have noticed this look.  Think of it as another way to recycle that which may be headed for the dumpster anyway.  That would have been the fate of my books in a few weeks.

But, if you really do have an aversion to tearing up a book I do have an alternative for you. 

See the covers on these books.  I created them to look old out of brown paper sack book covers.  Just like the ones you made in grade school.  See how I did it here.

I updated this little lamp.  You can read about that here.

And what is not to love about an old clock and it's time worn face.  
Loving my whites today over with Kathleen at Faded Charm.
Will also link to:  Go and visit these great blogs.
Vintage Inspiration Friday at Common Ground

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday  at Coastal Charm

Junkin Finds at A La Carte

Thrifty Thursday at Tales From Bloggeritaville

Frugalicious Friday  at Finding Fabulous
 Found a new Party over at:
Anything Goes Party at Type A Decorating

Wreath Makeover with Frames

I made a Christmas wreath that centered around these two little frames.  I found the frames at the thrift store, they were half price and I thought they would work nicely.  I took the backing off and spray painted them white.

I then highlighted the design on them with Rub'N Buff in Grecian Gold.  This product is made for frames but it works for many craft applications.

I glued them nested together and then hung them from the center of the wreath.   I took the top of the wreath and added two picks and placed a new ribbon over that.  Very simple and inexpensive.

 The wreath I already had.  I bought the frames for 75 cents for both.  I had the Rub 'N Buff and the spray paint from other projects.  I also had the Christmas greenery picks form a previous year.  So, I had 75 cents in this wreath.

I will join these thrifty ladies, go and visit them.

2nd Time Around  at A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
Twice Owned Tuesday  at House of Grace
Before and After Party at Savvy Southern Style
White Wednesday at Faded Charm

Making a Cloche

I see this type of clock in the thrift stores and I had decided I would try my hand at making a cloche out of it.  The dome was glass but the base was plastic.

I took the clock apart and tried to salvage the base, but it just wasn't going to work so I pitched everything but the glass dome.

The dome was a perfect fit to this little French Haviland plate I found at the Salvation Army for 25 cents.  The white tree and the deer were just modern Christmas decorations.  And, I sprinkled a little fake snow on it all.  The clock cost 50 cents at the thrift store on clearance.  So I created this for under $5.

It was my lucky thrifting week because I also found this.  I am sure it is a hurricane shade of some kind but, it also will work for a cloche.  It was also 50 cents.

I placed it on a little Limoges bread and butter plate with a glass ornament and it was a very nice cloche.  You can get any glass ornament to stand upright if you put a little hot glue on the bottom and spread it out as a flat base with a popsicle stick. 

I will link this to these blogs, please go and visit them.
2nd Time Around  at A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
Twice Owned Tuesday  at House of Grace
Before and After Party at Savvy Southern Style

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday  at Coastal Charm

Junkin Finds at A La Carte

Thrifty Thursday at Tales From Bloggeritaville

Frugalicious Friday  at Finding Fabulous

I will join Joni at Red Couch Recipes for the Thanksgiving Challenge.  I will put at the end of every post till Thanksgiving what I am thankful for.  I am thankful for the community leaders that put so much work into helping out the youth in our county.

Some Sparkle For the Holidays

I love the look of some sparkle for the holidays.  When you have guests over it is nice to bring out "the good stuff."  Like most these days the budget for the holidays has shrunk.  So being a fan of repurposing and recycling people's throw away treasures, I shop the thrift stores.  Most of the stores I shop, at one time or another, have had some silver or silver plate serving pieces. 

You never know what luster might be hiding under the heavy tarnish of most silver.  But, for only $1 this silver plated butler's tray had sat on the thrift store's shelf neglected and I decided to risk the $1 in hopes of gaining a valuable serving piece for the holidays. 

Mission accomplished.  It shined up beautifully and champagne will never look better than served on this tray.  Inspired by Mary Carol Garrity of Nell Hill's.

Please go and view these blogs for wonderful ideas:
2nd Time Around  at A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words
Twice Owned Tuesday  at House of Grace
Before and After Party at savvy Southern Style

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday  at Coastal Charm

Junkin Finds at A La Carte

Thrifty Thursday at Tales From Bloggeritaville

Frugalicious Friday  at Finding Fabulous

Inspired by Fridays at The Inspired Room

Olive Table

Image from Pottery Barn

Inspiration picture for this week's tablescape is from Pottery Barn's Olive Oil Tasting Party.  I love Pottery Barn's earthy style.  So when I caught a glimpse of this tablescape I got the idea to reproduce it.

Here I have laid out the table party-style like Pottery Barn did.

Instead of laying this table out like a party I just laid it out like a meal.  I love the idea of an olive oil tasting party but a meal would be what would be happening at my house instead.  

 The olive dishes are from Walmart made by Better Homes and Gardens.

 The place mats were also Better Homes and Gardens but I found them on clearance at Big Lots for $1.50 a piece.  

Goblets are Icon made for Macys.

I didn't use several types of olive oil to taste, but instead I tried using herbs to flavor some olive oil for our bread.  Recipe will be posted tomorrow.

 Earlier this week I used these dishes in a tea post.  You can view that here.

So you can recreate the theme of the Pottery Barn table for an affordable price for your own home with the help of Better Homes and Gardens and Walmart. 
The Better Homes and Gardens dishes were $34 for a 16 piece place setting and it included a coupon to redeem $6 back or to get a BH & G magazine subscription for 1 year.  That would make the dishes $28.
Pottery Barn dishes and linens:
Plates, appetizer: 4 for $40
Dipping bowls: 4 for $34
Olive place mats: 4 for  $42
I will link to these parties:
Go and visit these sites to check out all of the great ideas.
100 Ideas Under $100 at Beyond the Picket Fence

Thrifty Thursday at Tales from Bloggeritaville
Tablescape Thursday at Between Naps on the Porch