Junkin' Finds: July/August 2016

In the middle of a very hot summer and a major remodeling, I haven't had that much time for perusing thrift stores or garage sales. The last couple of weeks I have found what I call interesting bits and pieces.

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I have been on the lookout for OLD picnic baskets in great condition for storage in my craft room REDO. Ha, the before pictures will be humiliating, but I promise to post them. The top basket is vintage Baskerville, from Putney, Vermont. Split Oak, these baskets usually go for $25.00-$40.00 in great condition and are no longer made in the USA. Many different styles are on the secondary market now. I snagged this one for $3.99 at GoodWill.

The bottom basket I got at a thrift store and is a Redmon picnic basket made in Peru, Indiana. These were popular in the 1930's to the 70's I believe. Very good quality and stable, they go for $12-$50 now depending on size, condition and the style woven pattern on the side. I think I have picked up maybe 5 of them over the last year, for $6.99 and under to use for craft storage.

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The next item in the vignette here is the sheer drape at the bottom---which is a netting of some sort/poly probably from the 90's...it's a scarf very long maybe 20 feet long and 60" wide with the most adorable embroidered rosebuds sprinkled across. 

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I think this will end up in my grand's bedroom at sometime--and was only $3.00 at a thrift store. This scarf washed beautifully. 

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Here's an unusual cutwork on sheer organdy in blue (hard to find) and a white chainstitch decorations. It has the look of the late 1940's or early 50's. This was in very good condition and washed out nicely. I have to press it though before I can display this. Cost-$.50.

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This is my favorite find. A wonderful very OLD ironstone pitcher. Crazed or not, I snagged this so fast before I even looked to see what the condition was. Cost---$6.99. Can you believe that, no chips or cracks--crazed but who cares, only adds to the gorgeousness of this piece.

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I could have taken a hundred pictures of this-from every angle it was just superb. It has what I call raised flourishes and curly-cues under the clear glaze. I just love it, the size is about the size of a medium washbowl set.

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Marked WARRANTEED 

over  a crowned Lion and a crowned Unicorn with shield in the middle 

Princess (pattern)

So many pottery marks are similar, best guess, attributed to Empire Pottery of Trenton NJ. This company was in business from 1863 - 1884. IThe bottom has a "Lion and Unicorn" mark and reads Princess (which I assume is the name of the pattern line), 

White graniteware or ironstone was produced by many Trenton, New Jersey potteries. The lion and unicorn was a common mark, and several companies used variations of this. Anyway I love it and it was a steal at $6.99.

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Not so old is this spatterware cheese crock, maybe as old as the 1980s. Which I love and it was $1.99. The NEW ladybug clothespins for holding a banner or whatever were $.50 and in their original packaging.

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On top of the baskets is a gorgeous old square tin. I soo love the colors in this.

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The embossed patterns are quite intricate, the tin box is in good shape and has a domed embossed double thick lid.

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I can't even guess how OLD it is, but it is marked "Container Made in England".

In excellent condition, I can't even hazard a guess at the date or who made this with no further markings. I did find one other on the Internet, but also with no information.

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This was only $1.99. I think the sticky spot to the right held a label of some sort. No doubt it was a candy box.

The weather has been too hot to do garage sales for an old lady, lol. Air-conditioned thrift store are the only way to go---or your side table in your bedroom.

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I found these seven in my sewing table of my grandmother's. And they are very Old, very fine mending threads with their original labels and an old wooden spool of purple thread.

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Not very many items for a whole month, but they are all going to be perfect 

for my bedroom, grand's room, or craftshop REDO.

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Coffee and Calico: Setting a Table with Antiques and Vintage

What could be more inviting then NEW scents of Pumpkin Spice Apple Muffins greeting guests

 as they make their way up your walk for a morning Coffee Klatch?

A week ago, it was still late summer in Chicagoland, with only the hints of Fall.
Spindly petunias struggled to bloom in the heat,
while the marigolds blended nicely with Fall mums.

 

A (GREEN) garden pumpkin and a rusty mum were added to our summer planters, 

a great REDO.

Our decorative grass was the most gorgeous shade of mahogany brown.

 But, it was the scents of pumpkin, apples, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and cardamom 

coming from the kitchen that greeted my guests.

 

An OLD antique saucer (very early McCoy?) filled with fresh and faux produce 

flanked the centerpiece of an arrangement now dried of Hosta leaves, 

Sedum, Marigolds, Zinnias, and grasses from an earlier post. 

Dried gourds, fresh gourds, and faux pumpkins surrounded the blue square glass canning jar vase. 

 I bought one of those NEW gridded arrangement tops

 that screw on--great for arranging.

The OLD kitchen/dining table was my husband's great-grandmother's 

1890's oak table with five leaves. IT IS HUGE! 

The rusty red hopsacking tablecloth was a find in the original packaging 

at a garage sale for $2 and is 90" round, I call this a REDO.

We have added two oak reproduction chairs on each end. It's great for conversations or 

a 'kaffeeklatsch', German for 'coffee noise'.

 

Inexpensive natural bamboo placemats are perfect for a Fall backdrop. 

Faux leaves are placed under the cups, the dried gourds, and around the silverware. 

The luncheon plates are part of my everyday collection of anything earthenware in blue and white. 

The luncheon plates are 'Calico' pattern made in Staffordshire England, 

and some also marked 'QUEENS' made in Malaysia.

 I've pick them up at TJMax and Homegoods. 

The cups are marked 'CHURCHILL' also made in Malaysia, marked est 1795 

which was the same thing on the Queen's plates.

 NEW nearly matching napkins (IKEA) finished off each placesetting.

 I used my grandmother's OLD Royal Copenhagen Blue Flowers coffeepot, 

creamer, sugar bowl, and leaf plate to serve. 

We've inherited a service for ten for dinner and many more for a formal coffee service. 

I'm such a klutz though, I only use the cups

 when I have help to hand-wash, as they are see-through thin.

 

I have the kitchen blinds partially closed because the sun was so bright 

from our huge South and East windows

 the photos were nothing but glare.

 

 My 'Happy Fall' banner was a bargain at Walmart for 99 cents, very early in the season. 

It's simple design was the perfect low-key colors for the kitchen with all the blues. 

Grandparents sign is a craft show piece, 

I'm sorry I don't have the name of the crafter.

 

 My white shelf is topped with more bamboo placemats, my granny's enamelware coffeepot filled with my only burlap-anything-anywhere (burlap sunflowers-because they didn't smell from the Dollar Store), while Xmas Pig has her own trough of corn and real acorns.

 

Granny's stoneware mixing bowl was filled with real and faux fruit with 

dark rattan balls found in their original packaging at GoodWill, a great REDO.

 My grandmother's OLD Monk cookie jar looks on...dressed in his golden robes for Fall.

My husband's great-grandmother's OLD wool carders finish off the counter, 

while my mom's OLD porcelain rabbit vase holds a dried gourd.

 

You can almost hear Xmas Pig snorting over her corn and acorns in her own trough.

Extra muffins were served in an OLD Swedish blue glass compote.

The everyday silverware was tied up with string and a faux leaf.

The Pumpkin Spice Apple Muffins 

were delish as was the conversation...that I will never repeat, LOL.

Recipe Here: Pumpkin Spice Apple Muffins 

from a previous post.

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Fall Arrangement for Our Porch

Fall Arrangement for Our Porch

Hope you all had a beautiful weekend.

The weather was gorgeous here in Chicagoland and I was busy in the garden, attending a fab art show, my writer's group and the grand baby here all day on Sunday. 

Temperatures have dropped, but the pumpkins are still GREEN in the garden. 

This morning, I had to REDO my porch one more time.

In My last post I had begun to make Happy Fall on our front porch. 

There were a few places still waiting for some Fall action though. 

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This hale bale just screamed---FALLIFY me. 

The lime dracena plant so much like too-green cornstalks. 

Behind a corner shelf is full of some house plants that will be back in the house soon. 

But, what to use, here?

Years ago before we had the patio furniture, I had a big round table 

staged in the corner every season, with a big arrangement or artifact display. 

So I went in search for my OLD antique gray graniteware coffeepot.

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Then I remembered my Junkin' in Grannys' Garage post and the marvelous bucket of flowers

 I found to REDO with.

I have to confess, my original antique/craft shop had a garden theme. 

And everything was filled with flowers, greenery, fruits, vegetables, or some sort of rocks, moss or candles. I have tons of product left, as I closed rapidly before I could sell it all. 

Thinking I would do shows, I kept way too much.

So now, all I have to do is go to the basement and dig---and it's all there. 

(I have donated tons---though and only kept what I actually love.)

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Here's the OLD Graniteware coffeepot filled with rustic wildflowers, grasses and thistles. 

I always use naturals mixed with silks to add a GREEN element.

Normally I would use five sunflowers as focal points, but that was just too much. 

So there are three dark purple Delphiniums, three Cattails, five of those burgundy thistle balls, 

five multi stems of brown-eyed Susans from a bush, the three Sunflowers, one triple stem of Queen Anne's Lace, half a gray bush of some sort of grain stem, 

and lots of naturals/grasses, twigs, zebra grass, curly ting-ting and more.

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Here is how the arrangement looks in its designated corner. 

TIP:When doing arrangements for outside---avoid using

 any hand-wrapped berries or high-end flowers. 

Less expensive stems will hold up longer. 

Nothing in this arrangement was over $5.00 a stem at today's prices… 

and most suppliers sell NEW florals on SALE discounted 50% off every other week.

 Estimated cost for this selection would be $30-35 at sale prices.

Custom done----way more! LOL.

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Heres a wide shot with a bitty pumpkin from our garden and 

the dracaena (cornstalks) next to it. The little cherub plaque looks on adoringly.

I think its just the right amount of color pop needed here.

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Closeup on the grasses and other elements in the design. 

Choosing naturals, helps to make the arrangement look not so 'designed'.

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Lots of grasses and structure elements in the back support the flowers. 

We have heavy wind here and I know from experience to arrange this way. 

Also weigh down your outdoor containers.

 Rocks are in the bottom of the coffeepot and three blocks of floral foam, 

so the stems are inserted deep into the container.

 I attached picks to stems or gobs of hot glue to really secure things. 

TIP: The test of a well done arrangement is to turn it upside down and shake it. 

Nothing but tiny bits of moss should fall out. 

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 This shows the backside fan structure in this 3/4 arrangement. 

I knew I would only be using this arrangement for this space, 

so I designed it front facing and sized for that particular spot. 

You can see how cheap the cattails are. 

It's hard to find quality cattails, for some reason, 

so I always use them in the rear of my fall arrangements.

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"Fall is Pumpkin Time!"

Behind is the OLD chalkboard I used in my brick and mortar shop, 

BarberryLane, to announce specials or just to say 'Welcome'. 

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Speaking of Pumpkins, my squirrel decorator continues 

to enhance my pots and displays with walnuts. 

This one was found right in the back corner of the frame, 

so I moved it up front. 

Squirrel said, "One always needs a bit more green."

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