Olive Bucket Images Not Easy For Olive

The owner of the consignment store where I bought the aqua chest said I could not take photos with my Rebel camera. Her reason was she has two bloggers with booths there. I believe she lacks understanding of the generosity of bloggers. It felt like the time the man got mad at me for taking a picture of eggplants at the farmers market. When I decided to buy the aqua chest the booth owner said I could take photos with my iPhone. 

Glory be.

The olive bucket. 

I want it but it is not priced for me. 

I had no idea how large they are. 

If I cannot have it, I at least wanted photos of it.

This display was in a hallway and particularly soft and pretty with the different shades of green.

This is the four drawer aqua chest we put in our bedroom. 

I have bought a couple of funeral baskets from this vendor before. 

I like her style.

You can see the aqua chest in the previous post in our dark cave of a room.

Linking@Tabletop Tuesday

Tweak It Tuesday

Wow Us Wednesday's

joy and peace

Olive

Adding Natural Elements

Shelley Puppy drug a wasp's nest into the house. 

It was an abandoned one and I found a place for it on this little table. 

Natural elements like the shed antlers, dried apples, and the wasp nest

 add texture and interest to this table.

My old terracotta funeral basket is one of the favorites of my collection.

I have waited for the little pitcher to go half price at The Rusty Gate 

where I consign at and it finally did.

Real life here at the yellow house. 

Birkenstock sandals found new at a garage sale, definitely a wonderful find.

 

Bring nature inside in the form of shells, rocks, driftwood, antlers, and live plants. 

It will make your spaces more interesting.

I am partying with:

Tabletop Tuesday 

Wow Us Wednesday's 

On Tuesday May 22, 2012 Hold Everything Lightly #11 will post and it is a love story!
Please do not miss it.

joy and peace

Olive

Horsetrading, Thrifting, and Fiddling

I have been horse trading again. 

I traded my friend a little chippy blue shelf for this chippy bust and vintage frame.

 Horsetrading at it's finest.

Chippy for chippy.

She had painted the old frame white and that worked for me.

These mini teapots under glass make me feel six years old again.

Joe and I have been shopping all over the place to restock my inventory at the three consignment stores I sell at and we found these vintage watercolors above behind the fern. I am fiddling with the pair of them in the hearth at present. Not selling them right now. Perhaps another post on these later.

This is my second vintage clock and it does not work. 

It was one dollar at a garage sale.

I would like to amass a whole shelf of them.

The next two weeks at the yellow house are going to be busy as we are going to host ten Teenagers from our church for the entire weekend of March 2-4. I need to get going and clean the upstairs where they will be sleeping, on the floor and any place they can find. We are providing breakfast and our small group is providing supper. They will be at meetings during the day. We think this will be fun. We bought this house to share it with our family and others and this is one way to do that.


Linking with:  Nifty Thrifty Tuesday's

joy and peace

Olive

Juxtaposition

A postal scale from perhaps the 1970's on a chippy old ladder with doilies.

A fine juxtaposition of elements. 

Brilliant.

The above vignette is from Cornerstone another lovely shop on our town square.

may joy and peace surround you

Olive

The Rusty Gate

I have spent the last several days at our old house. 

I visited with the ladies who own and operate The Rusty Gate in our town square.

 

 

 

 Jean, the visionary, who owns the shop was so wise to leave the chippy walls in the front windows. Tracy, her daughter designs the window displays beautifully.

 The mink with Blue Boy behind it is stunning.

I will be quiet and let you look around now.

Some items pictured are mine and are sold on consignment. 

Jean and Tracy allow me to indulge my hobby of shopping and treasure hunting without adding to the volume of my houses.

Partying here: Vintage Inspiration Friday

may joy and peace surround you

Olive 

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

Perfume Bottles

Joe and I have been shopping at thrift stores today.

This morning we priced and boxed items we are selling at three consignment stores near our old house.

Here are some perfume bottles I especially like.

This one is lead crystal and to the right of it is a vintage apothecary jar I found at the estate sale on Saturday.

The perfume bottle on the left was made in Czechoslovakia.

Sometimes when we are out thrifting a theme emerges and today was one of those days because at Habitat for Humanity ReStore we found perfume bottle stoppers.

They are adorable and if I am not mistaken I have two little perfume bottles sans stoppers at one of the consignment stores I sell at.

The wood tissue boxes in the background are from Italy.

The strange aspect about me liking perfume bottles is I detest perfume as it gives me a headache but the quality and beauty in these bottles is hard to deny.

I want to keep them all.

Can you blame me?

Linking with:

Savvy Southern Style for Wow Us Wednesday's 

may joy and peace surround you

Olive

Cloches Brightened

The milk glass and cloches have not changed one iota on our three drawer chest.
The much beloved pineapple lamp stays in it's place as well.

Brightly colored ornaments were added.
Plus a live plant in an urn and a vintage bottle brush tree.

I keep teasing with this tree. 

I did not show it last year. 

I will this year.

Pinky swear.

I have not tired of the cloches and milk glass urns yet.

They are terribly easy to jazz up or down.

Saturday at the consignment shop was fun. I was running the cash register, much to my dismay but no disasters occurred that I am aware of yet. They asked me to do a live advertising spot on the radio and I said I can only learn one new skill a day and that was not the skill for the day.
Live radio? Dear Lord.

Linking at these parties:

Nita at Mod Vintage Life for Mod Mix Monday
Marty at A Stroll Thru Life for Table Top Tuesday
Debra at Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday

Happy Christmas
Olive

Reflection

Note the reflection of the tree in the ornament.

 It was not planned but I am liking it.

I trained at one of the stores I consign at on the square today.

Just to help out on occasion and have fun in the process.

Surely if I used to administer morphine drips I can run a cash register.

That is what I keep telling myself.

I do know how to make change.

Many young people have no clue how to make change these days thanks to everything being digital.

On a completely different topic I managed to add PAGES (under the header) to this blog this week.
I surprised myself. If you slog through and read the novella ABOUT ME you are pretty.

Joe and I hope you have a terrific weekend. 

Olive

~vintage linens and stain removal~

I have been ironing vintage linens.

Enjoy.

It is not unusual to find single pillowcases.

I do not fret about that. I pair them with another one in similar tones.

These pillowcases are terribly soft and I have two or four on our bed at all times.

I sell matching pairs when I find them.

This little table scarf will be sold on consignment. 

It is in perfect condition. I soak all my vintage linens in OxyClean and hot water. 

Be patient when doing this, sometimes I soak them for twenty-four hours and change out the water and OxyClean. I use several scoops of Oxy depending on the amount of stain present. 

This does not damage embroidery or fine fibers like Clorox does.

If I have a persistent stain I make a paste with OxyClean and put it directly on the stain. I already have a stain so what do I have to lose? 

This large rectangular table cloth was stained a lot. 

They are gone now but it does have some holes which is fine because that means I keep it.

I had a helper.

You can pick up stained vintage linens at tag sales, estate sales, and garage sales for a few dollars or less and turn them into beautiful accents for your bed or tables. If you have not tried the Oxyclean method I encourage you to do so and let me know how it worked for you.  

Linking with Sherry at No Minimalist Here for Open House Party.

may joy and peace surround you

Olive

Red Love Seat

A nine foot tall live Christmas tree and a red love seat sets the scene for one of our local consignment stores near our old house.
The love seat sold as I was snapping these images so I am glad I took them even though the sun was in my eyes.

 I consign a few items here (that Holidays book is one of mine) and enjoy the ladies who manage this store. I helped them a wee tiny bit to get ready for their ribbon cutting ceremony with the chamber of commerce.  Joe and I are thrilled that our small southern town now has several businesses on the square. I consign at three of them and have a ball doing it. Joe is also a big help in this endeavour and by now you know we are all about the thrill of the hunt.

In my next post I will show a silver, black, and gold vignette, from this store, that is terribly pretty. 

It made me turn around and get in my car and fetch my camera.

I am linking to The Tablescaper, for the very first time, for Seasonal Sundays.

may joy and peace surround you 
Olive