Happy Easter

"You are the God who performs miracles"

Happy Easter

Some purple columbine decided to bloom in time for Easter

Celebrating with family and some new friends.

Easter Flowers: Real & Enamel

HAPPY EASTER.  Easter seemed to have fallen on the perfect weekend for our region.  Everything is bursting with new life.  The trees are sporting their delicate blossoms.  Forsythia bushes are blinding. God is so creative.

Daffodils are at their peak.

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These little cuties have naturalized all over my yard.

I love how they herald the very tip of spring.

The natural spring flowers put me in the mood to sell some cheerful

enamel ones on ebay. 

Love the colors. Love the shapes.

Love me  a whole bouquet of enamel flower pins.

 

Vintage Easter Baskets Planted With Live Wheat Grass

I have been wanting to try these for several years.  I accumulated these Easter baskets over the last year, limiting myself to $1 or less per basket.  I love the hard plastic ones, I think I got those out of a free pile. Bonus, I didn't have to put a plastic liner in the hard plastic ones.

I am glad that I only came across six baskets, I had a hard enough time getting six together and ready in advance of Easter.

I read a couple of blogs about growing wheat grass.

But really they were tutorials for those who want to eat it for nutritional benefits.

I didn't order enough to fill the containers as densely as I would have liked.

I ended up scattering some regular grass seed into the soil, but it didn't

have time to germinate.  Sigh.

I managed to catapult this basket across the porch in the process of picture taking.  All of the eggshells were smashed to oblivion.  I used the nest to fill the "blank" spot where all the soil and grass had spilled out.

Back to the issue of sparse grass...I ended up sifting florist moss down over the soil and between the blades of grass.  Definitely looked better than bare soil.

I used craft paint to color the egg shells, a different color for inside and outside.

Bottom line:  I probably would not do them again.  It was fun for one Easter.

Upcycled Art Cross For Easter

I had created an altered wooden cross last year, see post here.  I had found another wooden cross at a flea market last fall, but didn't get around to the "altering" part until recently.

Nicely timed for Easter.

I had gotten a few containers of hardware at an on-line auction recently, and almost all of the "bits and pieces" came from that stash. 

I love how the hinges give it a gothic feel.

Selling the cross and other vintage Easter décor at The Rusty Chandelier.

Vintage Farm Animal Themed Feedsacks On Ebay

These are the last of the really interesting feedsacks.  Click here to view my post on western themed feedsacks, and here for heart themed feedsacks.  This last bunch have a farm animal theme:

Too cute and just in time for Easter.

Paid $1, sold for $10.

I am kind of a sucker for chicks,

so this is my favorite of the lot.

FEED ME!

Sold for $14.

I have two of these smiling little piggy feedsacks.

Sold for $14 each.

I find it interesting that these were made for farm use

and yet the graphics are very sweet.

The cow has long flirty eyelashes.\

Bought for $2, sold for $21.

This collection of barnyard friends feedsacks

will be for sale on ebay the week of February 22.

PAid $1, sold for $8.

Stocking and Fluffing My Booth

I only have one (indoor) booth at an antiques / decorator mall.  It suffered some neglect during March while I held some stuff back for the Topeka Antique Show.  Time to show it some love this week.

I added the dripping lace header. 

But looking at it now I think I'll take the branches off.

The Italian tole flower chandelier is already sold.

  

Cameras from last Saturdays sale in the only pool basket I have left

from the Topeka show.  I bought a bunch for $10 each, 

and sold them for $24 each..

Took In my last two Easter baskets. 

I added feedsack fabric to the handles.

Spring Basket Bonanza

I had the itch to use the hot glue gun, make a mess, paint, stamp, drag out all my misc stash... and walah!  Spring Baskets!

I had about 40 peat pots, picked up with a peck of garden junk at an auction

 last year.  So I painted the exterior of all of them an ivory or turquoise.

  The rest is history.

Since I am trying to stick with vintage or vintage themed items for my booth;

that is basically what I tried to go with.  Vintage photos, buttons,

 "scraps", millinery flowers, jewelry, postcards, lace. 

Even the letter stamps I used were vintage.

Mostly stuck with neutral or pastel colors for spring.

 Decided to stay away from an Easter theme because I want to be able to

 sell them around Mother's Day too. I have a huge spool of wire

so the handles were no problem.

So I made 40 of them.  Each one very different.  One of a kind.

Filled with easter grass or shredded paper. 

The ones I am taking to the Topeka Antique Show will have eggs too.

   $4.00 each, which I know is cheap - but I want them to sell.

Vintage Easter Items To Sell

I try not to save a lot of seasonal items to sell from year to year.  And if I do keep something, try to "reinvent" it for the next year.  

So I had this glass egg left over from last year.  Someone had decorated it decades ago with old millinery flowers.  I thought it was stunning all by itself, but apparently I was the only one.  (How do you like my green chalk paint on my thumbnail?)

 

 For the 2014 Easter season I put it and two additional unadorned

glass eggs into a metal basket with a sheer antique hankie.

 

Last year I was inspired by the little millinery egg.  I had this

large glass egg which I almost entirely covered with millinery,

jewelry and other misc.  I enjoyed it myself last year, and this year I will sell it.

Last year I was purchasing "Easter Egg Chicken" eggs by the dozens from a

local farmer.  They came in hues of aqua, olive (my favorite!), tan and blues. 

I would carve a dime size hole out of the bottom and use the yolks.  The empty eggs I simply washed, put back in the carton and sold.  I had one dozen left from last year, so I painted this basket a complimentary color and loaded them in. I'll be taking them in next week sometime.