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    How To Create Vintage Vignettes Using GREEN!

    Top O’ the Friday mornin’ to ya! It’s Saint Patrick’s Day and time for the “Wearin’ O’ The Green!” On my blog it’s the “Sharin’ O’ The Green!” I love my Celtic heritage and I enjoy creating vintage vignettes using green for the holiday and spring. Since Easter falls in April this year I have had a chance to add a few little St. Patrick’s day touches around the house before going full out with spring and Easter decor. I used to buy a lot of fun commercial decorations when my boys were younger and made leprechaun traps, but now I just use what I have around the house to add some festive green touches. There are many creative ways to create vintage vignettes using green without spending a lot of money. I have discovered that many of my blogger and Instagram friends also decorate by using what they have, and today I’ll be sharing some of their photos along with some of my own to give you some ideas. Take a look!

     

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    Home Tours, Interior Decor and Styling, Spring

    Early Spring Home Tour Part One: Living Room And Dining Room

    Welcome everyone to the Hop Into Spring blog hop! I am so excited to be hosting this hop and to be joining nine other talented friends who will be sharing their homes decorated for spring. At the end of my post you will find the complete schedule with links to all of the other tours, so you can hop right into spring with us!

     

    10 Beautiful Spring Home Tours Spring Decor

    For this hop I am sharing part one of my Early Spring Home Tour, which highlights the living room and dining room. On Friday I will be sharing part two, which will be my Early Spring Kitchen Tour, so please be sure to stop back by then. Now who’s ready for some spring inspiration? I know I am! Let’s get hoppin’!

     

    Vintage Spring Vignette Welcome Spring Rusty spring moss demijohn shabby chic cottage spring tour

    “Welcome spring!” March is a such an exciting month as we transition into spring decor by incorporating touches of green indoors which reflect the awakening of nature outdoors.

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    Interior Decor and Styling

    Floral Arranging: Finding Inspiration In The Little Things

    Are you intimidated by faux flowers, wreath making and floral arranging, or are you an old pro? It was only in the last few years that I really started crafting and decorating with faux flowers, and I have to admit I was a bit overwhelmed when I decided to start making wreaths on regular basis. One day, out of nowhere, I decided I was going to be a “master wreath maker,” so I headed to the craft store thinking I would just luck into some perfect combination of materials.  I almost always find something amazing on my junkin’ adventures, so I thought surely the flower shopping would be no different. I normally avoided the “tacky-fake flowers” section however, so I was shocked at how gorgeous and realistic faux flowers had become. And there were too many to choose from! I realized I just needed to use a method of design that has always worked for me in the past, which is to base my creations around some sort of  decorative item or accessory.

    How to Arrange Faux Flowers in Home Decor | Floral Arrangements Beautiful ideas for floral arranging using small treasures for inspiration.

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    Junkin' Finds

    Not So Junky Junkin’ Finds

    I am a junkaholic. Or at least I think I think I am. I love a good rummage sale and prefer to spend my free time on the hunt for anything vintage. My previous blog and IG name, “Junkaholics Unanimous” was a play on my hobby of non-stop junkin’ and being proud of it. On my blog I called for all vintage junk addicts to proudly unite along with me, (hence the name) and many did! 

     

    Rusty teal vintage truck at the Country Living Fair

    Enjoying a day of Junkin at the Country Living Fair in 2017

     

    beautiful vintage ironstone platters

    A typical assortment of finds after a successful junkin’ day

    Back when I launched Follow The Yellow Brick Home in 2017,  an instagram friend and I were discussing whether or not to keep my old name blog name on social media accounts. She convinced me that although I might thrift my treasures, my style is far from “junky,” and that the junkaholics name didn’t really tell my home decor style or story. 

     

    Summer Home Tour Summer Flowers Vintage Finds

     

    Summer Decorating with Vintage Thrifted Finds

     

     

     

     

    Brocante junk finds shabby chic rusty treasures and antique frames

    Older vignette with chippy shabby junkin-finds, and elegant, but still elegant and eclectic.

    What? Why? How? Junk IS my style. I love anything chipping, rusty, crusty, old…junky! My blogging friend had never been to my house, so she hadn’t seen my collections of  jars of antique marbles, vintage buttons, and mismatched game pieces, hoards of vintage pearls, or stacks of antique post cards curated neatly around my home. Neatly. Yikes! So maybe I wasn’t really a junker? I might have had a crisis of identity!

     

    Vintage Valentine's Day Vignette

    After listening to her reasoning I began to agree with her. I love to go junkin’, but I really do have a more brocante and shabby-French or English cottage style. I don’t have hoards of rusty metal and salvaged wood piled up behind the garage (anymore). Inside the garage is a different matter…and the basement…ugh!

     

    Staircase ideas Staircase gallery wall antique frames and mirrors #staircase

    A collection of vintage frames and antique mirror gallery up the staircase, all junkin’ finds.

     

    Junkin’ Finds Summer 2021

    The types of items I buy on my junkin’ adventures can vary, but I am most often drawn to vintage items with touches of elegance, especially if I can somehow incorporate them into seasonal vignette. Anything with flowers or that can be used in garden-inspired vignettes is coming home with me!

     

    Unique Vintage Fall Vignette using thrifted treasures antiques and vintage fall decorating ideas

    Vintage Fall Vignette with Vintage Thrifted Treasures

     

    In fact, I have filled our house with mostly thrifted furniture, some of it truly looking like junk before a little TLC. The antique china cabinet, century old farm table and chairs were all thrifted finds that received makeovers with paint. The china cabinet is filled to the brim with beautiful vintage china and dishes.

     

    More Examples of Elegant Junkin’ Finds

    Gorgeous collection of vintage brass

    I remember back in the spring of 2017  coming home with a loot haul that would make Aladdin jealous! I scored all this vintage brass in one morning  between two church rummage sales. The items literally were spread out all over the place at each sale, and I am not sure anyone else even gave these pieces a second glance—except for my son (eleven at the time) who inherited the junk gene! I had to laugh when he kept coming up to me handing me brass pieces, and I hadn’t even told him I was considering them! I decided to go for all the brass pieces we could find, and it wasn’t until I got home that I realized I ended up with a beautiful insta-collection.  

     

     

    Vintage Italian Florentine Pictures Romantic Vintage Style

     He also found these vintage Italian Florentine pictures for me, $1 for the set.

     

    Vintage Shabby Chic Dishes China Teacups with roses

     When I am out rummaging I never pass up pretty shabby-chic mismatched dishes. When these pieces are mixed in among old eight track cassette tapes, used fly swatters, and broken egg timers at sales, they do seem like junk. But once they are cleaned up and grouped together they are so very beautiful.

     

    French Farmhouse Spring Daffodils Vintage French Graphics

    This little crystal vase for only .25. The pretty French calendar is from the Dollar Tree, and the daffodils were picked from my yard for free. Frugal, not junky!

     

    Beautiful Antique Ironstone Tureen with Shabby Chic Roses and gold detail

    This gorgeous tureen for only $5 at a local consignment shop, and a set of two little ironstone vases for .98.  Not so junky!

     

    VIntage Italian Gold Florentine Nesting Tables and Magazine Holder

    I remember finding   this set of vintage gold Florentine nesting tables and magazine holder for only $60 at the same shop. Junk? Not according to many antiques dealers, and certainly not to shabby French decor enthusiasts!

     

    French country vignette vintage vignette French vintage style vignette with purple tones

    A French Inspired Summer Vignette with mostly thrifted items

     

    I guess I can see why my friend didn’t see me as a junkaholic, but since I would never find any of these treasures if I wasn’t a true junker, I am going to stand by my own assessment of having a signature “Junky Chic” style.  

    What’ your style? I love hearing from you!

    Amber

     

     

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