Happy Sunday and welcome to another Vintage Cottage Weekend! My friend Debra of Common Ground and I are enjoying getting together every weekend to share all the things we love about vintage cottage decor, gardening and cottage living. Today I am sharing some of my easy diy spring wreaths and door decor ideas.
Happy spring, and welcome to Thursday Favorite Things! I am thrilled to celebrate my fourth year co-hosting this fabulous weekly link party for bloggers and blog readers with Katherine of Katherine’s Corner and a fantastic group of bloggers!
Happy Monday and welcome to the 137th All About Home Link Party! Spring break has begun for me and as I write this post I am currently en route to the beach for a short four day birthday-week getaway! My son turned 17 today and my birthday is on Thursday, so we thought it would be fun to do something special to celebrate since our birthdays lined up with Spring break!
As much as I can’t wait to see the ocean, I will miss my Kentucky garden. The daffodils are glorous right now and all the tulips my husband planted for me in the fall were starting to bloom this morning as we left so I am not sure if they will be opening up fully by the time we get back. So for now, I will gettting all of my spring flower, decor and craft inspo here at the party!
Debra and I love getting together each week to host this fun party, and we are looking forward to sharing inspiration with you! Before moving on to the features, here’s what we’ve been up to:
This past week was super busy and productive around the house and on the blog. On Friday I shared my Vintage-Traditional Cottage Spring Home Tour for the Bloggers’ Best Home Tours featuring 25 bloggers. You can find all the links to the fabulous spring tours at the end of my tour.
Last Tuesday I joined several blogging friends for a fun monthly Pinterest challenge hosted by Cindy of County Road 407. This month’s challenge was a cute spring centerpiece. Check out my Bunny in the Herb Patch post to see the original challenge photo and to find links to all of the other cute spring centerpieces.
Debra and I are having such fun with our new series, Vintage Cottage Weekend! Each Sunday we share posts related to the vintage cottage garden, decor and lifestyle. I shared a post featuring an adorable vintge thrifted flower girl basket filled with vintage alabaster eggs.
Vintage Easter Basket with Alabaster Eggs
Debra shared an amazing post on Vintage Florist Baskets for Easter. Each picture is full of gorgoeus spring inspo!
Seven Beautiful and Thrifty European Farmhouse Spring Ideas ~Open Doors Open Hearts
Happy Spring Decor in the Kitchen~ Decor to Adore
Easy Spring Terrarium ~ Decorative Inspirations
DIY Clothespin Carrot ~ Me and My Inklings
Happy Sunday and welcome to another Vintage Cottage Weekend! My friend Debra of Common Ground and are loving this new series where we share anything related to the vintage cottage lifestyle, gardening and decor. Today’s post is about the sweetest little white vintage Easter basket (thrifted) that I filled with vintage alabaster eggs.
I think I paid a quarter for this adorable basket at a yard sale last year. It reminded me of a flower girl basket I used in a wedding when I was abou six years old, so that makes it vintage for sure. I am turning 47 on Friday! The handle is slightly crooked, but it doesn’t bother me. I have noticed this issue with many old baskets.
I purchased several alabaster eggs at my Mother-in-law’s yard sale many years ago, but I haven’t used them every Easter. I think I only showed them once on the blog in a post all about my Vintage Easter postcard collection, and once in a kitchen vignette on IG when we first moved here seven year ago.
I think vintage alabaster eggs are so elegant and very vintage cottage. When I was younger I didn’t really like them because I thought they looked like “old lady” knick-knacks, but now that is just what I love about them! Totally vintage “Cottage Core” or “Granny-Chic” which are the new buzz terms in the decor world.
I think the neutral eggs pictured above would look beautiful in a cottage-farmhouse Easter vignette. When searching for these eggs online, you might also want to use the terms “vintage marble eggs” or “vintage egg paperweight.”
Williams-Sonoma
I found very few pictures on Pinterest of alabaster eggs being used in Easter and spring decorating, but I did come across sets of alabaster eggs from William-Sonoma in the most beautiful colors!
If I wasn’t completely sold on the alabaster eggs, I am now! Love these!
I also love the soft colors of these alabaster eggs in a vintage silverplate cake stand via the blog Celebrations for Every Season.
I purchased these little boxwood candle rings for the blue Chinoserie candlesticks on my spring mantel, but they were giving me Christmas vibes so I ended up not using them. However, they were the perfect size to use as “grass” in the basket.
After positioning the candle rings, I simply arranged the alabaster eggs to suit my fancy.
I think this little Eastesr basket of eggs looks so sweet and vintage!
This beautiful bright pink alabaster egg was a little too bold for the mix in my basket, so I placed it on the mantel next to a colorful bouquet of faux ranunculus.
I haven’t decided where it will end up, but I am liking it in the kitchen as part of an Easter vignette in the built-in cabinet cubby.
While playing around with this vignette, I discovered that a vintage salt cellar (tiny little glass dish for salt) makes a perfect egg holder!
The basket may also end up next to the lovely vintage alabaster lamp in the music room. Here the eggs take on more of an elegant look. I love how the ivory egg matches the lamp perfectly! Visit my Easter Home Tour coming up Tuesday, April 12th to find out where I end up putting the basket of eggs and to see more of my Easter decorating!
P.S. The word “Charity” popped out at me when working on this post early this morning while finishing up this post. I looked up several verses on charity since I knew the Lord was trying to speak to me using the postcard to get my attention. One of the verses, “Let all your things be done in charity” (1 Corinthians 16:14) really resonated with me. Let ALL your things (every action AND reaction (anger?) be done in charity. Everything we do is to be done with a compassionate heart of love, as Jesus taught. Something to definitely think about this blessed Easter season, and something I certainly need to work on!
I hope this post has inspired you to keep your eyes open for vintage baskets and vintage alabaster eggs on your next junkin’ and thrifting adventures!
For more vintage basket inspiration, head over to Common Ground to check Debra’s beautiful Vintage Florist Baskets for Easter.
Have a beautiful and blessed “Vintage Cottage Weekend!”
Amber