Okio B Designs: lace

It's been a gorgeous weekend here! The perfect weather to hit some garage sales. I hit about 5 or 6 of them yesterday and found a few goodies.

I love this vintage sleigh. I saw a clever idea on Pinterest where someone made their sleigh a welcome sign for the winter holidays. I'm definitely going to do something similar with mine. It was only $5.

The shell plate was $2 and is from Pottery Barn. Can't wait to use it for when we get fresh oysters over the summer. The pieces of lace were $1 for all three.

I love embellishing spice jars so I grabbed these for $2. The little wood shelf is going to get a makeover as well.

Not bad for $10!

Jeanine

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It seems the taste of Spring we had a few days ago was to be short-lived. We're back to freezing cold temperatures which means I've essentially been trapped in the house. I dipped into my French paper stash and made some new pieces to keep from crawling the walls.

Bundles and bundles of vintage French poetry pages.

My camera hates these cold, dreary days as well. Can never get any good light. Sigh!

French paper votive.

Burlap and lace. One of my favorite combinations.

Rolled up French paper and some bling.

Fingers crossed this weekend won't be a bust.

Linking to French Country Cottage: Feathered Nest Friday.

Jeanine

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I really do love embellishing bottles. These are some I had used for other projects but kind of fell out of love with. So I peel off the old labels and embellishments, and start over from scratch.

The tall bottle originally had a Halloween touch. Now it's a shabby button holder. I used some leftover red ticking that I bought from Somerset a couple of years ago. I hand-stamped PARIS on a random piece of white fabric and adhered it to the ticking using fabric glue. Not sure if you can tell, but at the top of the tall bottle is a French address label from the Graphics Fairy.

The little salt (or pepper!) shaker is a Goodwill find. They only had one the one at the time and I loved the shape, so I snatched it up. I hot glued the photo holder to the back of it and then added some burlap, and another piece of random fabric which I hand-stamped SPRING onto. It's holding a miniature Tarot card from a deck I've had since my 20s.

I love the shape of the one with the lace. For that one, I used a pretty Paris image that I printed onto label paper. I distressed the edges a bit and stuck it on. Then I hot glued the lace on top and added a faux dried flower.

The best part is that I used remnants and random pieces from my stash so it cost me $0 to make these!

Jeanine

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Sometimes I like to keep it simple. Especially when feeling like poo thanks to my first cold of the season.

My hubby and I used to collect old bottles when we were first dating. I like to display them all year. In the summer, they get a beachy touch. In the winter, they get the royal treatment.

Just some crown pendants tied on with twine and lace. Simple.

Jeanine

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I don't know about you but when I craft, I just can't seem to throw out bits and pieces of paper, cardstock, etc. While those random bits come in handy occasionally, they are taking over precious space in my little craft room/office.

In between the movies and pumpkin picking this weekend, I broke out this petite dollar store clipboard for a quick organizational makeover. First I spray painted it white. Once that was dry, I Mod Podged some vintage sheet music to the front.

The bits of lace on the top are some of those random bits and pieces I was talking about. Luckily they fit quite nicely on top. I used the cover from an old sheet music book to make a pocket for the bottom of the board. I printed out the French receipt from The Graphics Fairy to add my miscellany wording.

Now I can nicely tuck in some tags that I use as thank yous for my Etsy shop, and other small random pieces that I just can't seem to part with.

Jeanine

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