Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Saturday, December 28, 2013
**2014** Just Around the Corner...
It's that time of Y*E*A*R...
A time of Reflection... A time of Dreaming what's to be...
Bye-Bye *2013* ~ Hellooooo *2014*
Labels:
chippy shabby shows
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
SHaBBies of Christmas Past!*!*!
Every once in a while, I find myself regretting a few SHaBBies I Have S*O*L*D... Here are a few
** ViNtaGe HoLiDay ADorNmeNts **
that are LONG GONE!*!*!
For many a year ~ BAMBI would
Greet Our HoLIDay Guests,
adorned with her traditional Boxwood Wreath...
She found a very, very, good home just a few years back
- in the next town over...
I still miss her...
** ViNtaGe HoLiDay ADorNmeNts **
that are LONG GONE!*!*!
For many a year ~ BAMBI would
Greet Our HoLIDay Guests,
adorned with her traditional Boxwood Wreath...
She found a very, very, good home just a few years back
- in the next town over...
I still miss her...
Just LoVeD this PeRfeCtLy CHiPPy-WHiTe
Wooden Planter Box with Trellis...
SOLD -Germantown HoLiDay Show 2009...
Antique Wood Cart ~ Old Red Paint
**The CLIPPER**
SOLD
- Winter HoLiDay Garden Show
here in Cedarburg, Wisconsin...
Old Plaid Monarch Suitcase from New York
**This piece was just a Killer!!!
SOLD on Ebay in 2010...
What was I thinking???????????????????
***********
Christmas is almost here!*!*!
We're TOTALLY
S*N*O*W*E*D - I*N
this Morning and It's STILL Coming Down!*!*!
Jeanine
Wooden Planter Box with Trellis...
SOLD -Germantown HoLiDay Show 2009...
Antique Wood Cart ~ Old Red Paint
**The CLIPPER**
SOLD
- Winter HoLiDay Garden Show
here in Cedarburg, Wisconsin...
Old Plaid Monarch Suitcase from New York
**This piece was just a Killer!!!
SOLD on Ebay in 2010...
What was I thinking???????????????????
***********
Christmas is almost here!*!*!
We're TOTALLY
S*N*O*W*E*D - I*N
this Morning and It's STILL Coming Down!*!*!
Jeanine
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Greet Your Guests with HoLIDay I*C*E LANTERNS!*!*!
HoLIDay preparations are well under way at our home...
Just about now ~ the fun begins for me!!! I love wrapping gifts, baking cookies, & adding "fussy little extra touches" FOR-OUR-GUESTS to enjoy... WITH VERY C*O*L*D TEMPERATURES here in Wisconsin, this Winter,
- I most certainly am going to advantage of it ~ making my
FeSTiVe I*C*E LANTERNS...
HoLiDay Guests will be greeted
with WINTER ICE LANTERNS
ALL A-GLOW!*!*!
Sooooo EASY to make!*!*!
*Temperature needs to be
30 degrees or lower...
•FILL a 5 GALLON PLASTIC BUCKET with water, just a few inches from the top...
• ADD ADORNMENTS IN THE WATER: pine tree sprigs, pine cones, cranberries, sticks with glitter, etc.
•FREEZE OUTSIDE/ADJUST ADORNMENTS: - Keep a watch on it after about 6-8 hours... When the water becomes a "Frozen-Slushy Consistency" - ADJUST berries, branches, twigs - by moving them to the outer edges using a utensil of sort... If the water is SLUSHY enough - they will stay there...
•NEXT DAY(approx. 12-18 hrs. later)... - The top will appear frozen, but with a mass of water such as this - a 5-gallon bucket should not have yet frozen DOWN IN THE CENTER... Bring the buckets into the GaRaGe... After an hour or two, POKE THE CENTER with something sharp to see if an inch or so down - it's liquid... If so, you're now ready to turn the lanterns OUT-OF-THE BUCKET... STAND BACK SLIGHTLY, as A GUSH OF WATER will come out as they slide OUT-OF-THE-BUCKET...
•The Now HOLLOW CENTER - Allows the insertion of a Glass Jar filled with a candle... The Candle light is SAFELY protected from the wind by the glass and ice surround... Display along your walkway... On the Front Porch...
***Remember, everything depends on TEMPERATURE...
The process may happen more/less quickly depending on this...
***I start mine around Noon - Check them before dinner, & put them in the garage first thing in the morning when it's about 30 degrees...
Y*O*U & YOUR GUESTS
WILL LOVE THESE!*!*!
Spreading HoliDay Cheer
Jeanine
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Christmas Themed Displays using ViNtaGe F*I*N*D*S...
*~ ViNtaGe ~*
20th Anniversary
ICE FOLLIES PIN/BROOCH
Dating *1956*
ORIGINAL PACKAGING - Made In USA...
Besides the item pictured above, I have yet another
Ice Follies Pin that was "gifted" to me as a child -
from a CHICAGO performance - in the early "1960's"
A very treasured remembrance!*!*!
I just love that I found the pin above
on it's original card...
These BiRd Cut-Outs may be newly made,
but the "Musical Note Paper" - IS ViNtaGe!*!*!
A little clear glitter was added - for HoLiDay SparkLe...
PeRfeCtLY ChiPPy!*!*!
Re-Purposed Naturally Time-Worn Swivel Stool Base
becomes Christmas Tree Stand!*!*!
BeSt-Ever!*!*!
FOLLOWING YOUR HEART...
BUY-WHAT-YOU-LoVe!*!*!
I saw this item at the Allegan Flea Market this past summer...
Being Vintage, Naturally Perfectly Chippy-White, along with
Great Form, it tugged at my heart strings...
BUT I HAD NO IDEA
WHAT TO DO WITH IT!*!*!
The Dealer made a few suggestions -
one being a TREE STAND... Good Idea, but there was
No Way a Tree Shaft was going to fit in this Small Hole that
could not get any bigger...
FOLLOWING MY HEART ~ It Came Home with me...
A couple Kane County Flea Markets ago - I bought THIS WHITE TREE from Judy of the Iowa Junk Gypsies... Removing the tree's burlap-wrapped base - revealed a plastic stand which also came off - only to reveal a small metal rod - which fit PERFECTLY into the Chippy-White Stand!*!*!
OMG!!!
Netted from Kristen's Booth
At Elkhorn's last Flea of 2013,
I initially passed up this AwESoMe
Wire Basket during Dealer Set-Up, -but it still
kept calling to me...
Soooo thrilled that it was still there early the next morning!!!
MOST times if you think too long -
IT"S GONE!*!*!
AGAIN - I FOLLOWED MY HEART...
BUY-WHAT-YOU-LOVE FIRST
Ideas will follow...
It isn't even Christmas yet, and I have Cabin Fever!*!*!
Cold... Snowy... I've been in ALL-DAY...
** Wisconsin **
Jeanine
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
ViNtaGe DOOR COUNTY WISCONSIN **Ski Patch**
This past summer, while up in B*E*A*U*T*I*F*U*L DOOR COUNTY, Wisconsin, we came upon a local SaLe where I netted this
AMaZiNg ViNtaGe Ski Patch
from the Town of Sturgeon Bay...
What a perfect time of year to display this!*!*!
ViNtaGe STUREGON BAY
WINTER SPORTS CLUB
SKI PATCH!*!*!
It's material is soft old felt...
These PeRfeCtLy ChiPPy Time-Worn
Old Red Skis with leather bindings
make a FaB "Go-With" for the ViNtaGe Patch...
Maybe these items will get me motivated to put up this year's
Christmas Vignette in our Entry ~
that's right - STILL NOT UP!*!*! - OMG!!!
********
Jeanine
Monday, December 9, 2013
Whimsical ViNtaGe HoLiDay SODA BOTTLES...
Dating 1940's ~ 1960's
Painted Label Soda Bottles
with HoLiDay Graphics!*!*!
Less commonly seen
SNO-MAID SODA BOTTLE
Just Awesome Graphics!!!
I SOLD this bottle about 3 years ago
~ and have regretted it ever since!!!
After years of searching, I just recently acquired another one...
Needless to say - it's a KEEPER!!!
~* ARCTIC POLAR BEARS *~
** CHOCOLATE SOLDIER **
* FROST KING SNOWMAN *
All three vintage bottles found new homes at one of my recent
HoLiDay Shows this season...
Saturday, December 7, 2013
A LoVe for ViNtaGe Garden At-The-HoLiDays...
ViNtaGe Garden Collectibles has been a very strong passion with me for many years... I ALWAYS love a "twist" on it at Christmas Time...
ViNtaGe Garden Angel in Birdbath
with greens & Snow...
This was taken about 5 years ago at an Annual Christmas Show I would sell at in Germantown, Wisconsin... Unfortunately the building it was held in - next to the Germantown Antique Mall, has been Leased-Out... I REALLY miss this little gem of a show... Being just 12 miles away -MANY of my local customers would Shop-My-SHaBBies... It was always held on this first Saturday in December...
Long Gone...
ViNtaGe Concrete Angel
BeSt natural time-worn PaTiNa!*!*!
Have a wonderful Winter Weekend!*!*!
Word is we're in for some S*N*O*W on Sunday...
Jeanine
Thursday, December 5, 2013
ViNtaGe Concrete ~**ChRiStMaS F*O*X**~
Sooooooo behind with my
Christmas HoLiDAy Decorations!!!
I haven't even bought a single gift ~ just yet... OMG!*!*! STILL WORKING on readying the GaRaGe for Winter SHaBBy Storage - and that includes getting BOTH vehicles IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tonite there's light at the end of the tunnel ~ Froggy's Car IS FINALLY IN!*!*!
Old Galvanized Tub ~ with hints of rust...
Spruce Tip Branches...
Winter Berries
Mr. F*O*X got pulled from the Garden
& now graces our front door entry!*!*!
Jeanine
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Re-Purposed Industrial Ventilator...
Over the past couple days Frog Husband & I have been Organizing, Stacking & Storing - SHaBBies for the long Winter Months...
Occasionally I'll get inspired & route a few items inside house...
This VENTILATOR was one of them...
I brought this FaB Old VENTILATOR to Sell at the Kane County Flea last weekend... A good number of people thought it was quite awesome, but no one took it home...
EVERYONE said - "What would I do with it"???
Here's what I did with it!*!*!
Just PeRfeCt at the End-of-the-Hall,
"UP" on the Cabinet...
It's such a nice "smaller-size" and has acquired a
wonderful time~worn PaTiNa...
I'm planning on adding some "tiny round Christmas bulb lights" just under the top band...
ANOTHER DISPLAY IDEA
Just FaB Outside On-The-Deck/Porch
with HoLiDay Lights & Greens...
I can just **SEE** the Snow Falling down on it!*!*!
~ Still Available ~
NOW S*O*L*D
NOW S*O*L*D
Jeanine
Labels:
Chippy Shabby,
Industrial,
Patina,
re-purposed,
Ventilator
Monday, December 2, 2013
Selling ViNtaGe SHaBBies at the KANE COUNTY FLEA
Warm Weather this past Weekend, drew
FLEA MARKET ShoPPers to Kane County's
Last Flea of the 2013 Season
St. Charles, Illinois
St. Charles, Illinois
**********
Sooooo glad I set up...
Thank Y*O*U SHaBBy ShoPPers!!!
*~ All Decked-Out For the HoLiDays ~*
Darling *Hook's* Heavy Fabric Basket
with wood bottom supports
S*O*L*D early-on...
I had competition OUTSIDE with
HoLiDaY Greens, Pinecones, & Birch
Sooooo Needless to say, I came home with more than I wanted to!!!
Containers were also slow to sell - unlike a couple weeks ago when
they were a "hot item"...
Just K*I*L*L*E*R!*!*!
Sooooo Hard-To-Part-With...
SHABBY OLD METAL WINDOW FRAME
~ I had two ~
BOTH S*O*L*D
•Corbels
•Shabby White Tree
•Teal/Blue Ice Cream Bucket
S*O*L*D
BeSt Old
ViNtaGe Red Skis with little
"Deer Head Decals ~ Pin Striped Edging...
S*O*L*D
A part of me was hoping that these
Re-Purposed Architectural Column
Cylinders wouldn't sell...
Deer Box
- Still Available -
Wire Baskets
- Still Available -
PeRfeCt Time of year
for a TWIG TABLE
ViNtaGe Musical Note Paper
"Re-Purposed"
**Glitter Song Birds**
AwEsoMe Arched Window
with old bubbly glass...
with old bubbly glass...
S*O*L*D
AwEsoMe Old Corbels
with "Fan Motif"
S*O*L*D
** PeRfeCtLy ChiPPy **
Old WHiTe Gate
with ViNtaGe *Merry ChRiStMas* Signage
was the last thing to go out-the-door
shortly before closing...
Time to start thinking about decorating
** ~ Our Own Home ~**
for the HoLiDays!*!*!
Jeanine
Old WHiTe Gate
with ViNtaGe *Merry ChRiStMas* Signage
was the last thing to go out-the-door
shortly before closing...
Time to start thinking about decorating
** ~ Our Own Home ~**
for the HoLiDays!*!*!
Jeanine
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