200th Vintage Inspiration Party

Welcome everyone!

Would you believe that today marks the 200th Vintage Inspiration Party?!!

We're so glad you are here to join in with us.  

There are some party giveaways for you as well, so don't miss them below.

Take a look at what your hosts have been up to recently!

Connect with Knick of Time - Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter / Instagram / Hometalk

Antique Birds Image Printable

DIY Mrs. Claus Decor

Repurposed Chair Side Table

Work & Play Wall Art

Connect with My Salvaged Treasures - Facebook / Pinterest / Instagram

How To Add Character to a Plain Stool and Milk Can

Connect with Organized Clutter - Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter / Instagram

Junkin' Finds

Yard of Flowers Tour

Connect with Bliss Ranch - Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter / Instagram / Hometalk

Wooden Clock Makeover

Connect with Villabarnes - Facebook

Upcycled Architectural Box

Upcoming Show

Here are our feature picks from last week's party!

Card Catalog Makeover by Dandelion Patina

Vintage Travel Trailer Dream Come True at My 1929 Charmer Cottage

Ironstone Collection - Ivy and Elephants

DIY Fish House Numbers by Scavenger Chic

Industrial Crate for Cat Toys Storage - Sadie Seasongoods

Vintage Wooden Cutting Board available from Simply Country Home

Featured blog - Patina Paradise

If you were featured today, feel free to grab this button!

Giveaway #1. Win your choice of any 2 Vintage Sign Stencils!

To enter Look at the stencil styles HERE, and leave a comment telling me which 2 you would like if you are the winner!

Giveaway #2. Visit My Salvaged Treasures HERE to enter her wonderful giveaway as well!

Winners will be announced at the party next week!

Let's see your Repurposed, Upcycled, Vintage & Vintage-inspired creativity!

(No foods or general crafts please)

By linking up at the VIP, you agree that your photos may be shared on social media to promote the party or featured in a round-up, with a link back to you.

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Blooming Hydrangea

This is a first for me.  I think.

I've been waiting so long I can't remember if it happened before.

I anticipated it every year for the last four or five years, and for whatever reason, it just.didn't.happen.

Man Overboard - Dumpster Finds

I recently mentioned that furniture finds have been making their way to me.

My kids, friends, and even strangers have started to look at discarded items as a potential project for me. 

They probably think there is no way that a certain piece of junk can be turned into something anyone would want, so they drop it off at my doorstep to try to prove their point. 

Or maybe it's out of curiosity to see if I can in fact transform the item.

My philosophy has become bring me your junk, if it's THAT bad that I can't turn it into a treasure, I know how to light a match, and we always need kindling in the winter.

Wood Clock Redo/Thrift Store Decor

I've got something new on the Bliss Ranch blog, or rather I've got something old.

The something old is a new to me thrifted item that once a month I'll spruce up.  You know I like challenges whether it's furniture or some other cast off I can update.

The new is that I'm joining eight other bloggers for this last Wednesday of the  month series called Thrift Store Decor, and I'm pretty darn excited to be part it!

Vintage Inspiration Party #199

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered,
and you can also share projects that were made to look old,
including repurposed and upcycled creations.

Orange Garage Sale Traffic Cones

I went out on the usual Friday thrifting with my pal Dii (hi Dii!) and the finds for the day were mostly a bust.

No that does not mean I found a bust at a thrift store or garage sale.

Nothing much good to be found other than the salted caramel truffle ice cream we both had instead of lunch.

No photos of those, you gotta eat them fast in the summer heat.

Barn Wood Whale

Today when I downloaded the photos from my camera there were photos I didn't remember taking.

Because I didn't take them.

This is the second time that's happened this month.  

My family is learning not only to save free furniture finds in case I can create something, but also when they make a project they are remembering to take photos.  

I thank them for doing that because it's not really any work for me.

Orange Marquee Letters

A couple months ago I purchased a new rug for the family room in my quest to actually decorate with color.

I know what I like when I see something in someone elses house, but I don't always do so good picking out my own things.

But the rug.........I got it right.

And it's orange.

Adding some color to my otherwise beige toned home was sort of earth shattering for the people that know me.

Vintage Inspiration Party #198

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered,
and you can also share projects that were made to look old,
including repurposed and upcycled creations.

Garage Sale Season

Here in Minnesota I save hunting at thrift stores for the winter time when no one in their right mind wants to be outside.

Spring, Summer and Fall however are made for being outside and enjoying the thrill of the hunt.

Many cities and towns host city wide sales, which are like a smorgasbord with very little driving once you get there, and street after street of sale after sale.

Rustic Potting Bench

I used to have a door turned into a hanging potting bench on the side of the playhouse turned potting shed.

But then we turned the potting shed turned playhouse back into a playhouse and the warped cracked door I used to pot plants was sent to the burn pile.

Spring came and I decided not to pot as many plants as usual, but I still missed the shelf I had to do that on.

Enter this big 'ol heavy piece of weathered awesomeness.

New Finds Of Old Stuff

I could just as easy title this post old finds, or finds that find me.

The stuff is old, and some of it shows up in my driveway without any solicitation.

Such was the case with this little oak desk......

Vintage Inspiration Party #197

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered, and you can also share projects that were made to look old,
including repurposed and upcycled creations.

Rock River Landscape Removal

I've told you about Albert before, he's the old farmer we bought our land from. 

You can read the story {here} with the basics.  It's a pretty nice post about how we bought this land and how Albert's barn was burned down.

It's also about how I use Albert in my decorating, like this bench.....

Family Room Coffee Table, Re-do #2

At Christmas time I gave a garage sale coffee table a faux metal/pewter/zinc-ish look, and it replaced a smaller bent willow table that was topped with glass.

I loved how the garage sale table turned out.

I painted it that faux color in anticipation of the gray couch I was going to be ordering in the new year.

But that didn't work out according to my plan.

Master Bedroom Perfect Linens With Discount Code

When I do a review on this blog it's going to be because I really like something.

Sometimes I do reviews on things I have purchased myself and just want to share how great it is with you, and sometimes, like today it's because a company contacted me and I still want to share how great it is with you!

As per Thomas, the big cheese at Perfect Linens, they are a "line of superior sheets that aim to deliver truly exceptional comfort"..... because "life's too short for bad sheets".

I have to agree.

And I gotta say..... they are pretty darn comfy.

Vintage Inspiration Party #196

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered, and you can also share projects that were made to look old, including salvaged, repurposed, and upcycled creations.

Make Your Own Succulent Planter

Last month I told you how #2 daughter must be plotting a blog takeover since she's been creating and taking photos of her progress as she goes.

She did a hack of a Target nightstand, and that post included some succulents she planted in two heavy glass squares but she forgot to take photos of the mystery process.

I didn't care because I didn't have to do anything but write the post.

And such is the case with this post, and a trio of succulents she bought.

Iced Coffee As Good or Better Than At The Shop

Iced coffee.

Or if you want to call it a fancy coffee shop name go ahead.

I just call it another excuse to drink coffee all day long.

From time to time I've tried a few other recipes and never found one I'd make over and over again.

So I perfected my own.

Vintage Inspiration Party #196

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered, and you can also share projects that were made to look old, including repurposed and upcycled creations.

Cake Tester Winner (s)

First of all, thank you to everyone who entered to win one of daughter #2's lampwork bead cake testers.

But there can only be one winner.

Well usually.

But not this time.

This time there are two winners for the one cake tester I am forcing my daughter to make for me to give away.

Antique Oak Table

In the early days of kids and dinner, our home had an antique round claw foot table that was 100 years old and made of oak.

We bought it with the typical four press back chairs that had caned seats.

This was at our first house and we used it as our kitchen table.  We bought it from an elderly man named Harry Peterson who went to auctions and refurbished furniture, mostly oak pieces.  

Vintage Inspiration Party #195

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered, and you can also share projects that were made to look old, including repurposed and upcycled creations.

Lampwork Bead Cake Tester Giveaway

It's that time again.

Grand Central Station Sign

I had this metal Bon Appetit sign hanging in the breakfast nook for about 20 years.

Then last fall I made a Dairy Scale sign and Bon Appetit went behind a door.

Vintage Inspiration Party

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered, and you can also share projects that were made to look old, including repurposed and upcycled creations.

VIP Paint Tote (Very Important Parts)

I spotted this wooden tote at the end of a driveway at a home that was having a garage sale. 

It was with the pile of free stuff.

Free?  Why yes thank you very much. 

I hopped out and walked directly to the tote and picked it up.

Then I went to pay for something that was free because I had to know why it was in the free pile.

I mean holy moley - totes are like wooden gold to me, there is always a use for them.

Sun Room Window Box Fail

You know how one thing leads to another?

And sometimes the road where it leads to is to a road you should not have taken?

Well that's what happened on the road to window box FAIL.

Vintage Inspiration Party

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

The VIP is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered, but you can also share projects that were made to look old, including repurposed and upcycled creations.

Old Furniture Came Calling

Last weekend a text came in from Daughter #1: 

I pictured her and her husband driving along, spotting stuff and thinking of me.

Mud Pie Station

 Last year this time I made what turned into my all time favorite project.

A mud pie station.

Since it's ready to be hauled out of the shed and into the yard so baking can begin, I decided to re-post it in time for other people to cook one up for themselves this summer.

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Sometimes I have these crazy thoughts, lets call them pie in the sky notions.

I see something somewhere that I have never seen before and I get all pie eyed with wonder.

Vintage Inspiration Party

Welcome back to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

Between Memorial Day and July 4th, a lot of patriotic decor and crafts start popping up around Blogland, so you'll see a red, white a blue theme in the features this week.

Minnesota Rhubarb Dessert

Rhubarb.  

Growing up in Southern California I never heard of such a thing.  

My mid-western mother surely had, but I'm guessing there wasn't an over abundance of rhubarb in the produce isle in our suburb of Los Angeles. 

Rocking & Rolling Dresser By Jen

Have you ever inspired someone before?

Maybe you have and you don't even know you did?

I was fortunate enough not only to inspire someone, but also to find out that I did.

And I'll tell 'ya - that feels all sorts of terrific.

Vintage Inspiration Party

Welcome to the Vintage Inspiration Party!

This is the place to share anything old, treasured, passed-down or tattered. You can also share projects that were made to look old, including repurposed and upcycled creations.

Divided Drawer Key Holder

I've had this old drawer on a wall by the mudroom door for about 20 years and it hung just about over my head, I couldn't even see what was inside the top cubbies. 

It's been taken down to paint the walls several times, and without batting an eye, it went back up.

Dirty Laundry.... Sign

I'm gonna talk a little dirty.

Dirty laundry that is.