Folding Canvas Stool

I found a perfectly humble folding stool.

It was soaking wet when I bought it but I liked that it was canvas and folded.

I was confident of it's potential.

I have an affinity for stools of any sort be they humble or not.

I can always use a perch for my coffee, book, or laptop.

So what did I pay for my humble wet canvas stool?

Fifty cents.

Suffice to say that fits into my budget just fine and

 fits well with the 1960's beach furniture we adore in the living room.

Linking with: Faded Charm for White Wednesday

Thrift'n On A Thursday

may joy and peace surround you

Olive

White Flowers

 Dwarf gardenias started blooming this week.

Just in time for Kathleen's 100th post at Faded Charm for White Wednesday.

I had to cut some and put them in a very special vase.

Do you like the fragrance of gardenias?

I do.

I gave this cut glass vase to my daughter's grandmother about twenty something years ago and she recently gave it back to me and it is kept by the kitchen window for fresh flowers.

The flower garden is bursting forth right now.

The sweet bunny has white petunias.
We have a huge hedge of large gardenias about to bloom and have treated that hedge for white flies.

Never under estimate the work in a garden.
We love it though.

I am linking with Kathleen for White Wednesday's 100th event at Faded Charm.

grace surrounds us
Olive 

White Pumpkins and Baseballs

I found gorgeous real white pumpkins at Publix.

I have a bowl of baseballs (used) on our recently installed round coffee table in the living room at our yellow house.

Everyone who visits us always comments on the baseballs.

Whimsy, I tell them. It is all about whimsy.

So I added the white pumpkins to the baseballs!

The autumnal bowl is from Williams Sonoma. It was 75% off . It is wonderful for casseroles as well as baseballs!

I am linking with Kathleen at Faded Charm for White Wednesday.

grace surrounds us

Olive

Tablecloth for White Wednesday

I bought this vintage tablecloth for fifty cents at a garage sale.

Cannot believe that price. Can you?

I find it just spiffy for my fall table. You saw that yesterday. I hope!

I am linking to Kathleen at Faded Charm for White Wednesday.

grace surrounds us

Olive

White Rattan

We came across this set of sixties rattan furniture  recently. It is excellent condition. It was in a beach house in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It is chippy and will stay that way. The striped pillows are down filled.  All the cushions are slip covered. We removed that large damask covered chaise from the living room and we feel this is a lighter brighter look. It somehow goes with the house. Joe and I think of this house as a cottage. It does have corbels after all.

The petite chandelier, found by brother Bob and SIL Sue, is just right for our narrow entry way. As you have seen I have not gone to an all white palette but added white and softened the look of the living room. Joe likes the pink wool rug. Me, not so much. I see something lighter and less formal in this space. When I run across it I will know.

I will be joining Kathleen for White Wednesday at Faded Charm. Please visit the others for more white goodness.

grace surrounds us

Olive

A White Sun Room

As summer is winding down I am re-visiting my friends porch for White Wednesday at Faded Charm. If you have seen a couple of these images before they actually are worth seeing again as her white wicker chaise is so charming and lovely. The other images are new. Again, I bring you Fancy’s white sun room.

Fancy’s sun room is just full of wicker and blue and white objects.  Every time I am in this room she has moved something around. Sound familiar? Please visit Kathleen and the scores of others for more whites.

grace surrounds us

Olive

White and Vintage

A white and vintage table scarf found pressed and starched at a yard sale for two dollars. Add Joe’s milk glass. I found these three pieces scattered around the old house when we married. They might be his mother’s.

The embroidery on this table scarf is executed perfectly. The stitching is fine and I think the backside looks beautiful also. This could never be said of pieces I did in my twenties.

Grouping the milk glass pieces together makes for a more cohesive look. I especially like the urn in the back.

I was shopping for an ace wrap at one am and overslept and missed my magical sun in the window perfect moment. Please pardon my glare. The ace wrap I hope is not a blog for another day!

I am linking with Kathleen at Faded Charm for White Wednesday and at Coloradolady for Vintage Thingie Thursday. Please visit them for all the white and vintage goodness.

grace surrounds us

Olive

White Wednesday

White Petunias are the feature today for White Wednesday. Petunias tolerate the heat fairly well. They do not demand a lot of water.

They were beginning to get leggy so I cut every other branch back and they bloomed beautifully again.

Enjoy

That C-Cat crept into the last photo. He is a sly one.

I am linking with Kathleen at Faded Charm for her White Wednesday link party. Please visit for more white goodness.

grace surrounds us

Olive

A Small Box

Have you ever met anyone who did not like wicker? I haven’t. Now I have seen some I might have been hesitant to sit in but it is all lovely. Some of the cheaper inexpensive wicker is not what I am referring to. Charleston, South Carolina Battery residents paint their wicker a dark green. I prefer the traditional white. I have recently seen a neat teal on wicker on some of the blogs. Whatever wicker color you have it is all yummy. Yes?

I have this small wicker box on our dresser at the yellow house. It has this interesting bow. It is discolored in a few places and I am wondering if I should spray paint it or just leave it alone. What do you think?

 

 

 

Then I look at the box or basket again and think maybe it is not wicker at all. No matter. I like it. It is useful to hold objects on my dresser. It is old and white. Which brings me to Kathleen at Faded Charm. The white part brings me to her not the old part ya’ll! I am linking to her for White Wednesday. I am also linking with Suzanne for Vintage Thingie Thursday over at Coloradolady.

grace surrounds us

Olive

White Wednesday

Two of my favorites. Ironstone and sunflowers. The flowers were reduced in price. I did not mind that they were a little frazzled. So am I. The ironstone is new but was made in Italy. I refinished this table in one hundred and three degree heat. I know it was too hot to paint.

A glimpse of the  dining room chairs is shown in the photos. We found them at Habitat for Humanity Restore. I like their shape and the fabric is pretty. The wood is worn on the arms. A man in the store was explaining to me how to refinish them and I told him I was not planning on doing that. He looked at me strangely.  

I am linking with Faded Charm White Wednesday event.

grace surrounds us

Olive