On Top Of The World

I've had people ask me what I do with all my thrift store finds.

Right now, I am using my thrift store items in my own decor. I sort of rotate things in and out of my decor all the time. Use the "new" finds for a while until I find something else that I like better and then switch things around.

At some point, I will probably get a booth to resell some of the stuff that I tire of. Or be on an episode of Hoarders. My husband would probably prefer that I go the booth route.

These are some more items that I've added to my stash this week.

The globe ended up on top of my TV armoire.

It's sitting on a couple of Britannica's Books Of The Years - 1961 and 1963 to be exact.

BTW, have you heard that they will no longer be publishing the Encyclopedia Britannica. Since this whole internet thing is catching on, there's not a real need for parents to buy the books for home use. I'm not sure that Wikipedia actually killed it as some suggest, but I'm sure it didn't help.

Anyhow, I thought the globe looked vintage, but it turns out that it's from the 80's. If you ever find a globe and want to figure out the age of it, you can go to this website by Replogle Globes that tells you, based on the country names, how old your globe is.

The chicken ended up on my kitchen table.

He is extremely chippy and the paint is pretty worn, but I thought he was sort of cute. I'm calling him Mr. Chips.

Mr. Chips is telling me that it's time to start thinking about dinner. I don't think we'll be having chicken tonight.



Linking with Coastal Charm's Nifty Thrifty Tuesday and Savvy Southern Style's Wow Us Wednesday.

       

Blue Typewriter Love

I had a fun thrifting week. Found this old 1970's Omega 30 typewriter sitting all alone on the thrift store shelf.

Such a pretty color.

Plus, it came with the top cover (the ditsy photographer forgot to take a photo of it snapped into place) which makes it highly portable and ready for a road trip.

Sure, it's not as portable as the new iPad, but it has more character.

Now where's the camera on this thing?

Linking with Apron Thrift Girl's Thrift Share Monday, Her Library Adventures' Flea Market Finds and Coastal Charm's Nifty Thrifty Tuesday.




       

Daffodil Update

You might remember The Daffodil Wars from a few weeks ago. Where a certain sister who lives in sunny Oregon won the battle (not me).

Well, just to keep you updated, mine finally poked their heads out on Sunday.

BTW, I heard it snowed in Oregon yesterday. Bummer.

High in the low 50's all week.

Today in Ohio it was 77 degrees and sunny. High in the mid 70's to low 80's all week.

Do you ever wonder if this unseasonably mild winter is a plot by an evil villain who is messing with the weather of the world in order to upset our ecosystem and take over the planet? Am I alone in this thought?



       

Changing Out The Corner Cabinet

I have been wanting to do something different with the corner cabinet in my dining room for a long time.

I love the cabinet. It was a family piece and probably not in the fine antique category, but it means a lot to me, so painting is not on the menu (can you hear my entire family breathing a collective sigh of relief).

I use it primarily as a place to store my formal china and glassware.

But the cabinet was sort of boring to look at.  A very uninspired and run of the mill display.

I originally thought that it would be fun to use it to showcase my white ironstone tureens, pitchers and vases. A sea of creamy, dreamy whiteness. But I still needed a place to store my china and glassware. Call me crazy, but it seemed pretty silly to have a china cabinet and then store my china in a box in the basement.

So, I decided to rearrange the china, by stacking some of the plates and glassware, to gain enough room to add just a few larger pieces for more interest.

Corner cabinet before:

(yawn)

Corner cabinet after:

I replaced the white vases and soup tureen on top of the cabinet with this vintage basket that I bought at an estate sale last summer.

One would think, that since I originally had planned on all white in the cabinet, that I would have left the white pieces up there, but I thought it needed something more simple on top.

I put one of my white tureens on the bottom shelf along with one of my dogs.

My silver oblong footed bowl on the second shelf with another dog. These dogs really have mastered the "stay" command.

The third shelf still has a primarily china and glassware theme.

And the top shelf is where I put another white tureen with some hydrangea in it, alongside my MIL's silver candlesticks.

Not a huge change, but it seems lighter, brighter and less serious now.

I would love to leave the doors open. But Otis, the cat, would be in there in a flash, throwing the dogs to the floor and making a bed out of one of the tureens.

After all, he is the cat who tried to sit in my vintage McCoy mixing bowl and knocked it to the floor breaking it into 100 pieces. He'll try to cram his butt into anything.



Linking with Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm, Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style and Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps On The Porch.

       

Pansylicious

Is pansylicious a word? It should be.

I know, I know. We haven't exactly passed the spring equinox or St Patrick's Day yet, but they were selling them at Home Depot. So, I figure if they are selling them, I will buy them.

I ran home, potted them up and put them in my iron hanging planter on my front porch.

I know that pansies come in all sorts of colors, but I tend to stick with the light blue

and bright yellow.

I always think I'll venture outside my comfort zone and pick a burgundy or something wild and crazy like that. But I always come home with the blues and yellows. They just shout spring to me.

Does anyone else need to stick forks in your plants, so the birds don't make nests in them?

I spent the better part of the summer last year with bird poop running down the wall beside my front door, because they insisted on making a nest in this planter. Did you know that baby birds don't leave the nest to do their dirty work?

Decided to nip it in the bud this year. Or poke them in the butt.