Etsy Cottage Style Cottage Garden Party

This week Etsy Cottage Style is inviting members to link up and join a Cottage Garden Party.  Now I live in the desert -- at least not by me.  A beautiful garden just isn't something that is easily achieved in this dry, hot climate.  But, the garden party also ". . . includes posts about your indoor garden rooms, botanical dishware.....glassware.....fabrics......art....ceramic or porcelain. Floral motif crafts you've created. If you collect vintage gardening tools, books, magazines.....it all helps inspire a 'fertile' mind."

So, I took camera in hand and started snapping photos of the pretty "garden" things I have in my bedroom.  Lots of flowers and roses.  That's where I do my "gardening."

I recently got this beautiful pitcher that once belonged to my grandmother.  I also recently found the milkglass hands and filled them with vintage corsages.

This is the most comfortable wingback chair ever!  The pillow is something I made and used a piece of old floral barkcloth.  Just enough fabric for a great pillow!

Love these paintings of roses -- naive and really pretty!  Not my artwork, because I never was good at painting roses.

Older hat boxes and an old book with roses on the cover.

I bought this unframed watercolor at an estate sale.  Luckily I had a frame in the garage just the right size.  So I put the watercolor in the frame and took it to my antique booth.  No one bought it (!!), so I brought it home and hung it in my bedroom.  The small plates also have roses and are vintage.

I love this vintage platter.  It's handpainted and the edges are fuzzy, but that makes it soft and pretty!

 

More vintage flower corsages in front of my favorite picture of my sister and I together.  She had just recently had a cancerous brain tumor removed and my husband (also suffering from cancer at the same time) and I had gone to visit her.  This was taken 7 years ago.  Both my sister and my husband have since passed.

This dress form has another beautiful pink rose corsage that she wears all the time.

This pot of artificial lavender sits on the antique washstand next to my bed.

Lastly, I actually do buy real flowers for myself every now and then.  Last week I bought these two bouquets:

Nothing like a bouquet of pink roses and sweet smelling daffodils!

As you can see, I do have an indoor "garden" of pretty flowers and displays.  Hope you enjoyed visiting my Etsy Cottage Style Cottage Garden Party.  Check out the others who have posted their favorite garden items on their blogs for this party.

Sunday morning

This morning I decided to check out this clock I bought on Friday at an estate sale.  I really liked it but was not real happy that it didn't run and I couldn't see how it could possibly run.

This is unusual for an old GE clock.  However, when you know that the house it came from was occupied by an artist that painted every wall in the house a different color (and I'm not talking soft colors!!), painted furniture odd colors and then added his/her own touch (such as a pink flamingo on a turquoise chest of drawers), you can understand that this isn't a GE clock out of the box.  It's one that was repurposed by someone who thinks outside the box!  I even think they painted the hands of this clock turquoise to match the original numbers.

Here's the back.  All indications told me it was once an electric clock.  But once I removed the back I discovered that the hands were run by a more recent clock battery unit you can by at any craft store.  The battery was dead, so I replaced it and . . . the clock works!!  Whew!  I thought it was a loss for me!

Another nice piece I bought last week. This is just beautiful!!  You can tell that the person who painted it couldn't see well because the edges are fuzzy.  BUT!!  I love the softness of the edges and this whole plate in general.  It's headed for the wall in my bedroom.