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

It's ALL-In-The-D*E*T*A*I*L*S...

  Add a little S*P*A*R*K*L*E...

      Add a little S*N*O*W...

   T*E*X*T*U*R*E*S...  C*O*L*O*R...

 ViNtaGe Woodland D*E*E*R Creatures

"Freshened with a hint of glitter"

Woodland Racoon & Squirrel

" Whimsical Winter Wonderland"

 Re-purposed ViNtaGe Aquarium!*!*!
S*O*L*D
*************

The HoLiDay Crunch IS ON!*!*!

Adding HoLiDay Cheer with SMALL ViNtaGe Adornments...

A few small HoLiDay Touches

 around our Home!*!*!

THIS PIECE IS ALL ABOUT 

 P*A*T*I*N*A 

including the ViNtaGe Lightening Rod Ball...

LoVe its natural silver-loss on the mercury glass!*!*!

Hope your HoLiday ShoPPing

is moving right along...

CRUNCH-TIME DAYS ARE HERE!!!

Jeanine

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

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

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...

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