Okio B Designs

**Thank you to everyone who let me know it was Michele Raven Designs blog that I drew my inspiration from!** I can't for the life of me remember which blog showed a beautiful farmhouse basket with a stenciled number on it.  If that's you, please drop me a note and let me know as you are the inspiration for this post! I picked up this basket at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago. ...

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Happy Sunday everyone!  The boys are back home and everything is back to normal in the house.  =)  I'm also excited to share my latest Goodwill makeover.  Remember this 3-tier pastry stand I got last week.  I was so inspired by some of the where bloggers create that I came up with this: First I spray painted it white.  Easy enough.  Then I dug out some old vintage lace and cut pieces to match each...

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Does this ever happen to you: you have a hard time finding something you collect and then once you find it, you see it everywhere?  Case in point, I found some vintage Jello molds on Etsy a few months ago, bought em and now, lo and behold, I see them everywhere.  So of course when I popped by the local thrift store today, guess what I found? Yup, you guessed it: more vintage Jello molds.  Ha! ...

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Woohoo!  Sorry but I can't contain my excitement that the men are away for the weekend.  Of course I miss my little guys terribly but I'm getting so much done since they left this morning.  Finally, some much-needed craft time!  I literally just finished up these Goodwill picture frames a little while ago.  Here is the before with the lovely 3-tier pastry thing-y I also picked up from GW.  That's undergoing it's own makeover tonight!  But before I...

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I stopped in our local Home Goods over the weekend and spotted a cute little glass dome butter dish.  For $3.99, I thought it was a steal.  No, not for butter but to use as a petite glass cloche! I laid a vintage doily on the bottom of the dish.  Then I added a skeleton key and a distressed French poetry page.  Everything fits perfectly! And it's the ideal size to display on my vintage book stack!...

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I'm a huge fan of Funkyshique on Etsy.  I recently purchased one of their beautiful LOVE burlap banners.  And as luck would have it - they sent two!  One for moi and one for YOU! The one I'm keeping is pink and brown, the other for one lucky winner is gray and pink and every bit as irresistible as the one I'm keeping (it's already hanging in my tea room!).  Here are the giveaway rules:...

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