These things make me smile…

Aug 19, 2010

I thought I would show you a few more things from around my scrap­room. I just love old and new mixed together… although what I am going to be show­ing is mostly old… also, I find it fun to dec­o­rate my scrap­room with items I have found with other peo­ple while dig­ging in antique stores or thrift shops… makes me think of them a lot when I use the prod­ucts I have stored in dishes etc.

I have used these two can­dle hold­ers for years to fill with candy hearts for Valen­tines Day or snow for Christ­mas but now they will be filled with vin­tage but­tons of every kind. Oh how these make me happy sit­ting right on my work­table at arms reach. I always think of me and dad scoop­ing out and count­ing  about 40 pounds of these beau­ties. And you all know how much I love my type­writer. I LOVE that thing so much. I always think of my mom ask­ing the lady at this antique store if they had one and her say­ing yes it is in my car in nearly per­fect con­di­tion… you can imag­ine my face.

I love the look of milk glass mixed with depres­sion glass. The divided dish works per­fectly to hold my Dis­tress Stick­les, glue sticks, sewing nee­dles and my milk glass shaker filled with fine sil­ver ger­man glass glit­ter.  The smaller oval dish is per­fect for hold­ing my scis­sors and other tools. That lit­tle salt shaker makes me so happy. I found this last month when mom, dad and I were dri­ving through TN. The milk glass pedestal piece was pur­chased in an antique store in Buck­han­non, WV. These pieces I use for orga­ni­za­tion cost me about $20.00 all together. You can’t beat that price.

These metal flower frogs are just sit­ting patiently on my shelf wait­ing to be used for photo shoots to hold tags and cards. But for now they dis­play old but­tons and a few Jenni Bowlin photo images. I love these frogs and find them all over. Mine have come from WV, TX, TN and ME.

And now for this fun item… my dad made me this paper towel holder a few years ago. I plan on decoupag­ing old sheet music to the base which I will show you when I get it com­pleted. I cre­ated the top of the holder using the vin­tage but­ton tuto­r­ial project I did a while back. I think it looks so cute sit­ting on my work­table. Now I am on the look out for a con­tainer to keep my wipes in… vin­tage of course.

So here are just a few of the things that make me smile. I will share some more pho­tos of my room once I get a few things hung. Now if I could just find my bot­tle of Fabri-Tac and Art Glit­ter Dries Clear that would make me really smile!