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Showing posts with label blue ball jar. Show all posts

Farmhouse Vintage Cake Carrier and Ironstone Cow Milk Pitcher

July 21, 2013



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Isn't she beautiful?  She was a recent Goodwill score for $3.99.  I can't get over my luck.  As soon as I brought her home I just had to use her in a kitchen vignette.


Here she is sitting on my stove, along with my ironstone cow milk pitcher ($1.99 Goodwill find) and my vintage ironstone kitchen canisters (also Goodwill finds from a few years ago).  I threw in a large blue vintage mason jar and some hydrangeas that are starting to dry (yay!).


I have to admit my family didn't quite feel my excitement about the whole thing.  That is, until I used it for this.

 
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Now they're just as happy as I am {insert smiles here}.


Isn't she beautiful?  The bottom plate is made of very heavy, ornate, leaded glass.  I just love her.  I did a little research and found similar vintage cake carriers going for $38.00 on ebay.


I also love how you can see the reflection of the hydrangeas in the lid.  The white clay tag (with a bee on it) that's hanging on the vintage ball jar is one that I made myself.  



If you're interested, you can see my easy, DIY clay tag tutorial here.


I was also thrilled with my ironstone cow milk pitcher.  Isn't he cute?

 
In all honesty I have to say that I already enjoy baking, but this beauty inspires me to bake even more! 

Brownies, anyone?

Keep cool and have a great week!

Xoxo

 
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Ball/Mason Jar Palooza and an Unintentional Copy That

March 19, 2012

O.K., how cool is this?  Karen from The Graphics Fairy strikes once again and shares a fabulous blue, {blue, people!} Mason/Ball Jar.  I love these things so much that I have my own Pinterest page dedicated to them.  And the possibilities are endless in the craft/home decor department.  Today I'd like to share with you my most recent Ball/Mason Jar home decor creation.

A while back I blogged about a great flea market find, my vintage canning tub, here.

I knew when I found it that there would be more than a few uses for it, even if I didn't know exactly what those uses would be at the time. Besides using the tub itself as a home decor element, the inside held a more exciting possibility.




For starters, you need 6 jars to fill all the slots.  So I patiently waited, all the while collecting Atlas/ Mason (spaghetti sauce) jars.  It's a good thing we love pasta in my house.  Just sayin'.  Once the jars were assembled (sans labels and lids of course) this is what I ended up with. (Only 6 months after my first post about this lol.)






The metal tray is just the right amount of rusty.  And as much as I loved the look of the empty jars as is, I decided they needed a bit of spring.  Enter Dollar General.

I bought some hydrangeas, (what I'll call ) fuzzy green cattails, and some white flower thingys that I thought worked well with the mix. Can you tell I'm quite the gardener?





And then I got to arranging.  Boy, was I happy with what I got!





So here I sat all proud of myself for my barn sale/dollar store creation.  And I had to smile when I got the Home Decorators Collection catalog in the mail today.  



Page 63.   Iron Baskets with Roses and Hydrangeas.  $64.00  


Maybe I'll add some pinks and blues to my arrangement for Easter.  Then again, maybe I'll just leave well enough alone.




Hope you all have a great week.  Spring Break and Easter's on it's way!  Enjoy!


xoxo






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