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A little blast from the past post..., I still use the items today. These are some old photos, but I use these pieces periodically for Fall.
I've always tried to post with the name of this blog in mind, so things here are
Old, New, Green, Redo.
Why? Because I stick to this premise in my decorating and everyday living, and literally everything here is OLD,
now LoL!
New means new here...and not necessarily 'NEW-new', if you know what I mean.
We have inherited some gorgeous OLD antique and vintage pieces and have vowed to share them with you...through this blog as well as use them periodically, instead of being hid away in boxes.
We don't have a fireplace mantle, but in our living room, our built-in china cabinet is used for
entertaining and display.
I chose a balanced composition across the back of the buffet, with an OLD large silverplate tray (unpolished) as the anchor. I do polish my silver for Christmas and Spring use, but for Fall, the golden and aged tones of unpolished silver is lovely.
Here I used a vintage dark green lace runner sets a contrasting background for lighter items. I often switch out colors as the top of buffet is tiled.
The floral arrangement container was from Goodwill, its flowers were dismantled, freshened and added to from the stash of flowers from the post,
The OLD porcelain berry bowl was from that stash also.
The OLD antique parrot vase is from Bornholm, Denmark, more on that later.
A NEW satin pumpkin from a craft show...(vintage REDO fabric) is on the right, next to a real pumpkin from our GREEN grown garden.
A small faux pumpkin on the left is my favorite,
very real looking--already 10 years OLD. (now 21)
The candlesticks are vintage now--from Williamsburg, Virginia, glass makers. The two brass candlesnippers were my mom's antiques and very OLD.
Here is a soft closeup of the acorns and textures of the arrangement.
I love the dusty grape leaves, how they look this time of the year in the garden.
On the left, a NEW pumpkin platter was deep discountedat the end of the season last year, like 90% off. The dried gourds are natural GREEN elements.
The OLD lantern I have had forever and is considered vintage now,the brass candlesticks are very OLD, hallmarked and European from my family's stashes.
I have to do some research on these and a few others.
Leaves are tossed all about my house and were from a bundle in a bag from
a thrift store for fifty cents, a definite REDO.
The OLD parrot vase is from Bornholm, Denmark and by Ibsen Ceramics, circa 1920.
Ibsen pottery is highly collectible...like super high $$$.
These were given to my mother by my great-aunt and from her husband's family.
On the left side of the buffet are two more pieces of Ibsen's pottery and a huge dried gourd (GREEN)
echoing the color of the matte glaze. The plate has richly carved grapes and leaves and lots of detail.
A candle from Sassy Primatives, my favorite local candlemaker, nestled in an Ibsen incised cherries on the rim of a bowl in the same orange glaze.
Sassy's NEW potpourri and candles can't be beat.
She is an OLD com-patriot from the art and craft show circuit from years ago, and continues to come up with new products and ideas every year.
Details on the platter, the grapes are a rich black/purple with a matte glaze. The shading on this piece is amazing.
Ibsen Ceramic Works created art pottery from 1843-1955 by many generations of Ibsens and many well known Danish Designers and Artisans.
Here is the whole buffet with the china cabinet.
When and if, I find my last tote of Fall and my oil-stained dried gourds,
I will place them in the china cabinet to 'Fallify' the OLD Royal Copenhagen collection
from my family. Some heirloom pieces date from the early 1800's.
I know I need new candles...just haven't been able to find the tote with those in either.
We always have a table or chest in the front window is also where we decorate for the seasons.
This oak sofa table is perfect across the front of the room and the huge windows.
I used a mix of OLD antiques, NEW and vintage.
GREEN Naturals: Indian corn in a vintage glass pitcher, gourds and dried hydrangeas in an OLD silver-plate handled tray, and a fiber pumpkin enhanced with some faux flowers and leaves,
with a touch of angel hair for glitz on a cobalt blue glass compote finish the left side.
I love the old glass with the corn, great textural differences here. The antique candlabra is one of an heirloom pair my mom and aunt split from my great grandparents, I think from the 1890's.
A New Silk pumpkin and a gourds rest on an OLD bakelite butler's tray.
The large faux pumpkin will get a REDO this week,
as it was 'decorated' last year by Grandbaby.
I'm sure she will enjoy painting it pumpkin colored.
Maybe a little copper, we will see.
The lamp I have had long enough to have been rewired once.
When I like something it sticks around forever.
A three-tiered metal pumpkin stand from a thrift store
holds pumpkins, gourds and a vintage sweet Fall Fairy (thrift store). She just needed to reside here and work some FALL magic. I found her swinging in a chandelier...hiding at the thrft store.
Acorns fill an OLD vintage orange margarita glass and along with her Fall wreath.
My last Fall vignette to share is the top of the bookcase.
The pine mirror my dad made for us when we moved into this house in 1984. The crock was his and I filled with dried (GREEN) Sedum
and some NEW burlap sunflowers from the Dollar store. The statue was a gift from my husband, a flower embroidered mini-runner is perfect on the top of this bookshelf.
The English toffee OLD tin from a garage sale...I just loved the colors to finish off the small area.
I lost the source of the NEW Fall printout on the mirror-please send it to me, so I can post for the
creative blogger.
The tin echoes the colors in the OLD antique, teensy-weensy cross titches on linen runner from Denmark. I'm not sure which ancestor made this...but it is one of my favorites and came to me, via my grandmother.
I hope you enjoyed my Old, New, Green, Redo Fall decorating.
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