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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Sweet Hubby's Gift + More

Hello friends. If you are a regular reader of my blog you know I have a love for sterling, especially Victorian vanity pieces. For Christmas my sweetie bought me the perfect little addition to my collection. Take a look and see if you can spot it.

Look a little closer

I am in love with my new sterling Victorian clothes brush. It has a beautiful repousse handle and horse hair bristles. I think these pieces appeal so much to me because I like to imagine where they came from, were they a gift from her sweetie, and what was the lady like that owned them.

These are also new additions to my collection of serving pieces. I recently purchased these three pieces at a thrift store for fifty cents each! They were so badly tarnished I could not read the markings but I assumed they were silver plate. Imagine my surprise when I cleaned them and found monograms on two of the pieces and that all three were marked Sterling!!

Here is a close-up of the handles. See the beautiful transferware plate they are on....

My sweet friend Lynn at The Vintage Nest knows I love transferware and she gave me this plate filled with goodies she had made. The sweets were delicious and they didn't last long around here. Yum!

My newest blogging friend is Betsy from A Perfect Setting and we met for the first time a few weeks ago at the lunch I held for several local bloggers. Betsy brought me this gorgeous napkin holder. She knew I was a recent transplant to Virginia and she included these wonderful napkins.

Thank you ladies for these wonderful gifts! It is so true that bloggers have the biggest hearts.

I wish each one of you a Happy and Healthy 2011

xo,

Sherry

I'll be joining the parties at:

French Country Cottage

Bargain Hunting With Laurie

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Thrifty Tabletop Breakdown!

I want to thank you for all the sweet comments on my Restoration Hardware look-a-like table. You guys are the absolute best! I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate your friendship and support.

If you have read my blog for any time at all you know I prefer to decorate on a budget and thrive on finding that fantastic bargain. I like having nice things in our home but I have found so much of the expensive decor can be duplicated or purchased for a lot less money. That being said I want to show you what I spent to put together the look in my previous post. Here's the breakdown.

The table is a copy of a $1295 Restoration Hardware one. As I mentioned in my previous post I found the identical table at Roomstore for $379.

The mirror I found at Anthropologie at 70% off. I have seen this same mirror priced at $300 other places. I paid $62.00.

Wisteria had some gorgeous prints in a mirrored frame for $150 each. I loved them but I knew I could find something I liked as well for a lot less. Last year I found similar prints in mirrored frames on clearance at Target. I paid $9.00 each for my version of Wisteria's art.

The little black sconce was purchased at a consignment shop for $5.00 and the Quimper style plate at a garage sale for $1.00.

During my search for the table I stopped at Bassett Furniture and purchased the green glass lamp for $10.00

from the clearance room. This lamp had an original price tag of $140.

The metal urn was painted bright gold when I found it in a junk shop for $6.00. A little paint and glaze solved that problem. The urn was filled with seashells purchased at a garage sale for $2.00. There must have been 200 shells or more in the bag. The coral, star fish and pink shell I have owned for years.

I Love this plaster architectural piece and it was $8.00 from the same junk store that had the urn. I also got the large basket there for $5.00 and the metal gym basket for $10. The two wine bottles and large apothecary bottle I have had for years. I am sure I paid less than $10 each for them. The best buy of all were the two antique clay pots purchased locally at an on-line auction. My cost for both pots was $3.00!!

Total cost for all accessories, including wall and tabletop = $150! See why I love hunting for bargains?

*Thanks for the advise on painting the vent. I had wanted it painted but hubby was afraid the paint would chip off the metal. With so many of you backing me up he caved in!

Thanks for stopping by.

xo,xo, Sherry

I am linking up my thrifty table top to the following parties:

Southern Hospitality

Coastal Charm

Bargain Hunting And Chatting With Laurie

Colorado Lady

Tales From Bloggeritaville

Dipity Road

Debbiedoos

Finding Fabulous

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Free Botanicals + GIVEAWAY

There are some big changes going on in our living room. You haven't seen much of this room because I have never been totally happy with the results. Well, that is all about to change! We just finished painting, there are new drapes to hang and I have been looking at sofas and chairs. This process may take a little while to complete so I will show one change I have made.

I recently posted about the trumeau mirror I painted and the blue and white plates hung on each side. If you missed that post you can see it here. I really like the plates but I felt the room really needed some color.

Before

After

The botanicals were found on-line at a royalty free site. I tweaked the pictures using Picasso so that the colors were more vibrant and the images were cropped so they would be larger. These were printed at home on textured photo paper that was purchased at a garage sale for 25 cents. I believe any good quality copy paper would work also. The matted frames were purchased on clearance at Target for $2.50 each.

The total project cost $10.25!

Now, if you like these prints you can copy the ones below for your own project. Just right click on the image and "save as" to your stored pictures. I enlarged my prints to 8x10 and printed without a border.