Lobelia is one of my favorite plants to grow each summer. I am head over heals in love with it. I planted a six pack of them in this basket a few weeks ago and they just keep blooming and blooming. How To Grow Lobelia If growing by seed indoors, start plants 10 weeks prior...
Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Show
Do you see the tagline in my header where it says "a place for thrifting, gardening and all things vintage"? Well, I take that last part seriously. Maybe a little too seriously. This weekend my husband, son and I went to a vintage Japanese motorcycle show. If you are at all interested in the motorcycles...
Vintage Picnic Finds
In the summertime I gravitate toward vintage picnic supplies at yard sales and estate sales. I found this vintage metal Skotch Basket at an estate sale recently for $6.00. Love the green plaid. I paid $3.00 for this funky thermos. I had no idea what language this was until I Googled it. It's German. My...
DIY Potting Table
I have a new potting table! It started out life like this. A little rough (to say the least). Very, very rough. But when I showed you how to restore a vintage enamel top table it came out looking like this. Much, much better. Well, a couple weeks ago I still had not moved it...
The One That Got Away
I started out on Friday morning very cheerful. It was my son's last day of school for the year, so my last day to be totally carefree and fancy free and able to flit from from garage sales to estate sales to thrift stores without a thought in the world. It was a day full...
Ironstone Pitcher and More Finds
Last week I showed you my motel chair and wooden file boxes I found at some sales. That day was a fairly lucrative day and I finally got a chance to photograph some of the other finds. This basket was $5.00. It came from an estate sale that was run by the family and the...
Thrifted Colander Turned Lettuce Planter
What do you get when you cross a bunch of lettuce plants with a vintage thrifted colander? A lettuce bowl, that is apparently not all that original of an idea. When I thought of putting these lettuces in a colander, I thought I was being so creative. Such a perfect mixture of my love of...
Memorial Day Traditions
As a kid we would do the cemetery circuit around Memorial Day. We would start out by decorating one of my sister's graves. She died at a very young age, years before I was born, and is buried in the family plot in my hometown. At the time, the family plot was only occupied by...
Peonies Have Arrived
I wait all year with giddy anticipation for my peonies to bloom. So with much hoopla, I am proud to announce that my white peony has blossomed. Does it sound like I'm announcing the birth of a child or something? Well, same sort of thing. I think it's a Duchesse De Nemours, but I have...