Hello friends! I hope you are having a great week! Today I am excited to be sharing one of my favorite home decor shops, Bits Of Vintage! After the holidays I have decided that there seriously needs to be a “Winter Home Decor Refresh” around here! Although I am primarily a vintage decorator, I always try to incorporate a few stylish new decor accent pieces to keep my style from looking “dated.” Even though I junk hard to use mostly vintage and antique finds, in the winter it can be more difficult to get out and go junkin’, and there can be some “slim pickin’s” this time of year. That is why I am so thrilled to have discovered Bits Of Vintage, and I am proud to be partnering with them too! *This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure policy for details.
Happy New Year! Welcome to the first TFT of the New Year! I am so happy you are here. I am blessed to be joining Katherine at Katherine’s Corner and a wonderful group of bloggers as a co-hostess for this fantastic weekly blog party. If you are looking to grow your blog, make new friends, and be inspired each week, this is the place to be! If you would like a chance to be featured, please leave me a comment with the number of your link up. I am looking forward to seeing what you have been up to!
Before we move on to the party, here is what I have been up to recently.
This week I was busy wrapping up the holiday season here on the blog. I shared A Holiday Grand Finale: Christmas Home Tour 2017 which was so much fun! I feel like the holidays flew by, and working on this post after Christmas actually allowed me to spend some more time playing around with my Christmas treasures and trinkets and now I am a little more willing to part with them for another year.
Although I have blogged for several years on my previous blog Junkaholics Unanimous, last Christmas I was in the process of transitioning to Follow The Yellow Brick Home and did not post a Christmas tour. Since this was the first Christmas for Follow The Yellow Brick Home, I wanted to share my Christmas Home Highlights 2016 with my readers as well.
French Ethereal linked up her readers’ top 12 favorite posts from 2017. I absolutely loved her Vintage English Candy Boxes!
Although I am a lover of the quiet solitude of snow and stillness of winter, I have to admit this gorgeous photo of some Sweet Inspiring Gardens by French Ethereal has my gardening heart pitter-pattering!
Sew Historically shared an interesting article on Victorian Store Bought Christmas Presents. I love Victorian Christmases as you can see in my last two home tour posts!
Debbie Dabble also shared some Victorian Christmas magic with her Victorian Christmas Doll House. You simply must see all the amazing details! Being a music teacher, lover of the Victorian era, and tiny treasures, I was absolutely giddy about discovering the little music room on the top floor of her “home tour.”
She also introduced us to Mr. Nelson, who is cozy reading his newspaper in a parlor decked with all the finest furnishings of the time period!
I did share a couple of photos of my Victorian doll house in my Holiday Grand Finale Christmas Home Tour 2017. I only showed the exterior because the interior is a bit of a fixer upper and will be getting a makeover during winter. I will definitely be on the lookout for tiny treasures on my junkin’ adventures of 2018!
As we move forward into a fresh new year, we can all use a little detoxing and clean eating! Due to multiple food allergies and autoimmune issues I must follow a strict diet with low sugar, but I do indulge in nutritious fruit smoothies from time to time. Shannon at Aka Design.CA shared a 3 ingredient Banana Berry Smoothie that looks delicious!
Blogger Lora Bloomquist stunned me with this amazing Christmas home tour full of unique ideas for decorating with vintage finds…my passion!
How cool is her collection of antique and vintage Christmas tree stands??? I am on the hunt in 2018 for pretty blue vintage Christmas decor and some tree stands too. Thanks for the inspiration Lora!
Thank you to everyone who linked up last week. Now it’s time to see your Thursday Favorite Things!
Happy New Year! How are you spending the holiday? Our family is comfy and cozy enjoying a quiet night inside. Over the weekend we had a light snow that made for some very cold and slick conditions, so we are just happy to be safe and warm at home together. This evening I am wrapping up the holidays here on the blog by sharing a Christmas home tour “grand finale” for 2017!
This year there were many “plaid tidings” and vintage Christmas goodies to explore in our 1921 yellow brick home! A very old and rare blow mold Santa standing on an antique, chippy pressed back chair greeted guests at the front door which gave a hint of what types of treasures awaited inside.
Come on in out of the cold and take one last look at Christmas 2017 with me!
Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying the day and getting excited about the start of a brand new year! I am taking a break from working on my last Christmas post from 2017 to wish you all a Happy New Year’s Eve! Here is a “timeless New Year’s Eve vignette” I just came up with this morning to celebrate the special occasion.
I think it is quite sweet, and it was really easy to put together. Although most everything in the vignette actually is old and does show the patina of time, there is just something about classic and vintage decor is timeless to me!
This year my wonderful vintage junkin’ Mother surprised me with these adorable vintage kissing angels for Christmas. It really was a suprise, because these sweeties are just the kinds of collectibles she loves too. She is always putting others first! I know it was hard for her not to hoard these junkin’ finds! This morning I was just “shopping the house” for something quick to use for a New Year’s Eve vignette and I got the idea to use the figures in a cloche display.
I already had a winter vignette inside this rusty old “cloche” (a junkin’ find, I really have no idea what it is…but it’s rusty, crusty, chippy, white goodness and I love it!) using antlers, chippy salvaged tub claw feet, an old mirror and distressed shabby candlestick. I just added the angels, a couple of ivory bottle brush trees, some pieces of my sheet music paper chain and a vintage watch clock face. I hung one large mercury glass bulb from the top (kissing ball, disco ball or New Year’s Eve ball depending on your imagination) and this little vignette came together like magic!
The clock is not pointing to midnight, but that is okay…true love is timeless!
I simply love this sweet vignette and since it has such a wintry look I will keep it out for at least another week or so. All the chippy, shabby shades of white here are making me a bit excited for some fresh decor looks and home projects in 2018! After experimenting with some color the past few years, I have plans to add even more white and neutral tones back into my home with chippy salvage, more distressed furniture pieces, ironstone, and any other bits of white I can get my hands on. I know that color is predicted to be big in 2018, but I always follow my heart when it comes to decorating. This next year will be about embracing all the things I love about life!
I hope all of you have a safe and Happy New Year’s Eve full of beauty, love, and happiness! My God bless you richly in the upcoming year!
