Sweet Salvage "Comfort & Joy" Event

Yesterday was Sweet Salvage's November event, "Comfort & Joy".  Scrumptious displays were all over the shop.  Beautiful!  Here are a few of my favorites from yesterday.

 There was this lovely sofa right at the entrance with a yummy "fur" throw and that blingy turquoise pillow!  Comfort!

A joyful display of beautiful things!  Love the apothecary jars, the cloche, the glass goblet full of ornaments all with lovely lace and pearls surrounding.

 Look at this beautiful, comfortable chair!  Love it!  And again, aqua ornaments.

 More lovely items to dazzle you and make you joyful!

 Love the pink tree with the aqua table and other aqua touches!

 This tree looks like it would be a great tree for outdoors.  Just imagine putting bird seed ornaments on it and watch the birds wait on those branches for their turn at the seed.

What a cute chest of drawers.  Topped by boxes of birds, nests, pheasant feathers, and mirrors.  Love it!
 These were a few of my favorite things!  Check my Facebook page for a larger album of photos.

More Christmas displays in the house

Time to change over from Thanksgiving and fall and get into the Christmas spirit.  I don't put up a tree anymore since my husband passed away 7 years ago.  But I do like to put up small trees in displays around the house.  Here are the first two I finished yesterday.

I replaced the red southwest runner for this old seed bag.  The glittery tree and the little cloche on the silver stand I bought yesterday at FOUND in Mesa, AZ.  This store has wonderful things for decorating and they were having a sale this weekend.  So I took advantage!

These candles are battery operated.  Love their nice glow in the evening.  I also put out two of my clear crystal rosaries around on the mirror.

And finally this display I put together yesterday as well. 

The little white tree was a great find at My Sister's Attic.  Had to tuck the branches up a bit so it would fit under the tall cloche, but it works!  Now I think I need a few glittery stars to decorate the tree.  Yes, that's just craft stuffing around the base of the tree.  The bottle on the right is an empty Patron bottle decorated with pearls.  The other bottle has a wonderful "Dream" collar with a rhinestone crown -- also a find at FOUND.

November weekend at Sweet Salvage on 7th

The theme for month of November is:

The gals and guys of Sweet Salvage on 7th have done just that!  Decked the Halls!  Check out some of the fabulous finds that were available Thursday morning!

Trees decorated with tiny lights, soft feathery angel wings and burlap gift bags with plenty of ribbon wrapped around!  Snowflakes hanging from the ceiling!

A tree decked out with gold and silver birds, gold and silver bird nests, plenty of twig balls and burlap ribbons strewn through it!  Love the green garland to add an outdoorsy touch!

A mantel decorated with greens, an old clock, a Canada goose decoy, twigs, and a huge mirror to reflect all the lovely decorations!  Did you see the silver tray on top that had the bottom painted with blackboard paint and "Joyous Noel" written on it?  You could do the same and change the words or sayings to fit your own occasions!

Silver trays, white milk glass, silver balls, salt and pepper shakers, and "snow balls".

Cupboards filled with wonderful items to celebrate the holidays!  Plenty of white and silver, gold and white, plumes, lace pieces, clocks, candle holders, you name it! 

 Cupboards topped with old wood sleds, rocking horses, buckets of Christmas greens, a green scale, white pieces to shine in the black cupboard, and that red wallpaper!

Great deer head and a wonderful posted of skiers!  Wouldn't that look great in a mountain cabin?  Even skis and a red and white striped stocking!

 Green wreaths, green Christmas balls, holly, and a jolly Santa!!

 Another tree, cute reindeer with backpack baskets, an old file sorter, wonderful old books and a great crate on top of an old cupboard.

I love the "25" numbers put on the sides of the old wooden boxes.  Great clock face, and gold statues and decorations! 

 I LOVE shapely storage jars on pedestals with wonderful tops.  These are filled with game cards and a little angel!  Check out the vintage ornaments!!

I love these repurposed glass vases turned into cloches!!  And that great rusty bedspring holding a glass punch cup with a pear!  Too cool!!  Way outside the box!!!

My personal fav was this vintage dresser in gray with the pink velvet chair, pink toe "pointe" shoes, and old books and pictures.  The fluffy shower curtain behind it -- I so wanted that but it wasn't for sale!!  

There's that pink shower curtain filled with twinkle lights over the dresser and that fabulous chandelier!!  That curtain was just like a gorgeous, soft pink cloud.  Love the ideas!  Love the decorating!!  Love everything!!

Even a cute outfit by Magnolia Pearl was adorning one of the vintage dress forms!

Celebrity sighting!!!  Do you know who this is???  Leave me a comment if you do!!!

My stars!

Started working again early this morning in order to finish these stars.  There are 5 in all, but I am just going to feature these two.

One again my inspiration came from Nancy Maxwell James and the images are from Paper Whimsy.  The stars were recently unearthed in my attempts to clean up my workspace.  I have had these stars for years.  They came in dark brown tin already perforated.  I thought they would sell as Christmas decorations, but they didn't.  So when I saw Nancy's stars on the Paper Whimsy website a year ago, I decided to paint the recently discovered stars and decorate them similar to hers. 

They turned out better than expected.  Once again, thanks to Nancy and Gale for the inspiration!!