Pottery Barn Win @ 2805

This humongous wine and cheese board was purchased with my $100 gift card win at 2805. 

Thanks bunches Honey. 

You guys remember her fun Christmas tree party? 

That was where I won this.

 

 

I was so excited to win. 

I have ordered ten dollar hand towels and an ornament from Pottery Barn. 

That's all.

You dear readers know I never spend one hundred dollars on one item. 

The Anthropology butter dish came from one of the consignment stores I am affiliated with. 

I never thought I would own anything from Anthropology or goodness gracious anything this large from Pottery Barn.

Thrilled and delighted I am.

This board is heavy and I can barely lift it. 

It will help to fill the space in our equally enormous bar.

This little pitcher was purchased from one of the consignment stores I sell at and I am loving it will the bowl of oranges.

Here is the bar which I call the "autopsy table" in bad nursing humor. 

You can see it will hold many dough bowls and the wine and cheese board easily.

All images above taken on a grey, grey, grey day because I planned not well.

Linking with:

Potpourri Friday

Open House Party

may joy and peace surround you

Olive

A Before And After And McCoy

I promised to show some of the McCoy we have lately bought, for next to nothing, and I have a before and after.

That flat matte white bowl on the left is a 1930's unmarked McCoy. We found it last weekend at a church garage sale for three dollars. It is not in the best condition but I still felt like I won the prize.

 We also found a McCoy planter and a cookie jar sans lid on that day. This past Saturday I found a McCoy vase at another church sale. The church sales are working out really well.

Starting with the After shot.

This TV table made by Broyhill was also found last weekend for twenty-five dollars.

They had already painted it white which is good because it sits across from that massive dark buffet of ours. The large drawers are used to store table linens and I like that open pocket for books. Joe and I think this is a good re-use of a TV table.

The table works with our beachy rattan furniture.

Way over there in the window is the yellow McCoy planter. 

I do not know why I didn't take a close up of it.

Before shot taken Christmas 2010.

This chest is fake wood and too small for that wall.

The Broyhill is solid wood.

If you are patient you will find what you are looking for by shopping the thrifty way.

Linking with: 

Coastal Charm for Nifty Thrifty Tuesdays

A Stroll Thru Life for Table Top Tuesday

may joy and peace surround you always

Olive

Collections

Collections

Joe and I have a few.

We have collected pottery and dough bowls for years. 

I recently started collecting cloches.
I wonder why?

Here is a cloche with an urn in it {I collect urns too} and vintage planters from a previous post.
I like to think the AC stands for air conditioning because we certainly can use it right now.

Most of our collections turn up in the living and dining room of our yellow house at one time or another. Nothing is too precious or valuable. It is just something that strikes our fancy.

In this image you can see more urns, and conch shells. All are small collections and fun to move around.

Here are some of our bowls, wooden and otherwise.
I can think of about a thousand things I am better at rather than making a collage. 

I have posted this image before so forgive me for doing it again but we love these conch shells and right now I am soaking another one in the sink.

I am joining the marvelous and multi-talented Suzanne at Privet and Holley. 
Do visit her for more Collections!

grace surrounds us

Olive

~clay pots, a wood bowl, a lighthouse~

A lighthouse birdhouse of sorts.

 

CC and I went to a small estate sale early Friday morning and found the lighthouse.

The four new orchid pots {one dollar each} were from a garage sale later that day. I cannot grow orchids at all :(

The decor books are from the estate sale and the wood bowl is from the consignment store where I sell some items to support this habit I have.

Thrifting habit that is.

The bowl has some paint splatter but no matter I am enamored of it and have watched it in that store for some time and finally bought it for twenty dollars which, for me, is a lot.  Really that is not a bad price. Right?

Look at those beautiful lines on that bowl.

Friday was pretty dismal thrifting wise and Saturday Joe and I took the day off and rested.

The lady that runs the consignment store was appalled that I was not not out garage sale'n and was in her shop collecting my money and shopping instead. I thought that was pretty funny. I suppose it is kind of a backwards compliment as she wants me to find more goodies! She wants "modern" items also. Not vintage. I sold the tackiest lamp you have ever seen last week. I would not dare put a photo of it on this blog. So I buy items I do not like.
How about that?

I am partying here:

Coastal Charm for Thrifty Nifty Tuesdays

A Stroll Thru Life for Table Top Tuesday

grace surrounds us

Olive

The Heart of The Home

The adorable Sheila is having a Cupboard Party at Note Songs.

Which presents an issue for me.

I have no cupboards at the yellow house other than some kitchen cabinets which are not pretty.

That leaves the mega mega bar.

We could land a helicopter on this bar or perform a autopsy...just kidding { bad nurses humor}.

Underneath the huge bar I have much storage capacity.

Three cabinet and three drawers hold a lot of kitchen supplies.

Which I will not bore you with.

The bar end goes to infinity......

That's another of my old bread bowls flanked by some blue pottery I collect. Joe bought the bread bowl for one of my birthdays.

Yesterday was our anniversary and we had a fabulous weekend together.

Please join Shelia at Note Songs for her Heart of The Home Favorite Cupboard Party.

I am also linking with Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for Table Top Tuesday.

grace surrounds us

Olive

Lemons On My Mind

I made lemon cheesecake on Thursday with Meyer lemons.

The cheesecake was so much better on Saturday.

I have spring colors and lemons on my mind.

This is on the table today.

Plain and simple.

An old crocheted multi-colored table runner and a Williams Sonoma bowl I got at 60% off.

 The Meyer lemons were cheaper than regular lemons for once!

I will be joining the energetic Marty for Table Top Tuesday at A Stroll Thru Life.

grace surrounds us

Olive