Beautiful Blogger Award

I participated in a fun game with Amy over at Whisper Wood Cottage about whose blog inspired me the most.  I chose Layla at The Lettered Cottage and you can read my comment along with the others' here.

Amy has asked that we list 7 things about ourselves and then pass the award onto 15 more Beautiful Bloggers.

So without further ado here are some random musings about my life...

     1.  My favorite color in decor is red, whether it be a dash of it here and there or a whole painted room.

     2.  White/black enamelware is one of my largest collections along with some colored speckled pieces thrown in for good measure.

    3. In 5th grade, I won my school's spelling bee.  My mom tested me for months and the hard work paid off.

    4.  I enjoy traveling, road trips and weekend excursions.

    5. In April of 2006, I traveled with my family to Maui, HI.  It was the best vacation by far!

    6.  I eat mostly organic food, pasture-fed meats, and wild-caught fish.

    7. My favorite scripture verse: Philippians 4:6

I nominate the following blogs & not in any particular order: 

(I follow so many...this was a very hard task. If I follow- I like your stuff!)

1. Midge @ Havin' fun with Junk
2. Maryann @ Domestically Speaking
3. Janis @ junkdreams
4. Candy @ Junk Sophisticate
5. Lani @ Cottage Elements
6. Kim @ Twice Remembered
7. Susie @ From My Home to Yours
8. Linda @ 52 Flea
9. Sweet Melissa @ JunkFest
10. Linda @ Itsy Bits and Pieces
11. Donna @ Funky Junk Interiors
12. Rue @ Rue's peanut butter and jelly life 
13. Jessica @ Life As I See It
14. Karla @ It's the little things
15. Gail @ My Repurposed Life

Please check out these wonderful blogs...they each have their own expertise but most love to make something beautiful from junk, thrift store finds, forgotten antiques, vintage items, and other miscellaneous items...be still my heart! 

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

Valentine's Day is almost here so I thought I'd join in on the V-day blogging.  Here are a few little ditties that I found while perusing a quaint little antique shop a few weekends ago.  I'm not one to do much decorating for Valentine's Day as I don't really go for the cutesy, cuddly, heart stuff.  However, find me some vintage cards, tins and records and I'm there!  The prices on these antiquated items were better than my local thrift store, so you can imagine my intense desire to... 

"squeal with delight"!!!

but I didn't  (sigh)

I held my potential outburst to myself, remained calm, nonchalant and paid the nice lady the ridiculous low price that was asked.  Ok, so without being overly verbose, let's get on with the "finds" for my decor.

 

The 45 rpm record in the background was a steal bargain for $.50.  This is one of 3 that was in the window display that she so graciously dismantled for me.  That's $1.50 for three old 45's!

The cookie cutters are from my stock acquired from the estate of dh's grandma.

The tins in the foreground were $3.50 each!  I LOVE the graphics...cute huh!?  The OXO cubes were bouillon for soup stock made in England.   The first cubes went into production in 1910.  Here's an advertisement for them way back when and how they're packaged today.  The cube is a little "x", isn't that sweet!?

Anywoo....here's a little vignette that I pulled together for your enjoyment...

Pay no attention to that man thing behind the curtain hanging out behind the lamp...I guess I could have removed it before taking the pic...oh well.

Here's another staging with the "hugs n kisses" box...it is just too stinkin' cute, dontcha think?!

If you can't read the song titles, here they are in clockwise order:
"Temptation" , "Two Hot for Love", and "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
The titles and the color of the records was just "too cool for school" if you know what I mean.  Not only that but the "Temptation" record is sung by that hot American-Italian tenor, Mario Lanza.  He would have been the same age as my dad, if he was still alive.  He was the Josh Groban of the 1940-50's.  I don't know about you, and maybe it's because my dad had a nice tenor voice, but tenors just give me goose bumples.  We had a Placido Domingo song sung at our wedding some twenty-something years ago.  But hey, I'm rambling on here. (sorry)


I also found two sweet little Valentine cards that I have slipped in the edge of my hoosier door.  The graphics & colors of the cards were so great back then. 

 

 Do you love the vintage as much as I do?

Happy Valentines Day to my blogging buds!

~ judi ;)