Home Sweet Home at Sweet Salvage, Part I

Yesterday was another fabulous opening day for the month of December's Sweet Salvage!  The theme was Home Sweet Home.  Wonderful displays, a bit of bling for the New Year coming in a couple of weeks, and lots of goodies to make your home your special place.

Have to first tell you that I met up again with my friend, Dawn, of Bohemian Valhalla.  I introduced myself to her a couple of months ago and now we love seeing each other each month right here at Sweet Salvage!  Be sure to visit Dawn's blog for more pictures!

Now, come along with me for a look inside Sweet Salvage on 7th.  Here we go:

This display case was beautiful!  So love the chandelier in the middle section.

Here's a close up of the middle section in the cabinet above.  Sparkly, pretty!!

Silver and pearls!  Love it!

Candles that look like scrumptious desserts, cloches full of bottles, a bit of elegant fur!

Whispery bracelets and pins in a silver bowl full of lavender.

Plenty of rings of bling!  So sparkly and pretty!

Lovely frames, perfume bottles, champagne flutes, and a vintage camera.

Simple, yet elegant displays of books, thread and a silver bowl.

Pretty champagne flutes, clear "ice" cubes, chalkboard, and . . . . . Gift Certificates???  Wow!  Should have told my son about that.  Didn't know!

I would love to have this display cabinet!  Isn't it beautiful??  A close up of a display in here in tomorrow's blog post.  I'm not done!

Industrial carts full of goodies that are industrial chic and shabby chic.

What a nice display for a garden or a patio here in Arizona.  Lovely!

This red wall just sets off all these wonderful industrial pieces and the signs.  I do love that "Time to Drink Champagne" sign!  Sorry I didn't buy that one!  It's great!

Clocks and film wheels, industrial cabinet and lamp, rusty stuff!

Vintage pictures, railroad cars pic, old fan, wire drawers, numbers, old crates!

Cigar boxes, hourglass, books, signs, can't recall what the measuring instrument is called, sorry!

Pretty canvas of flowers!

What a pretty display for an entryway or corner of a den or gathering room!  Love that fern!

I have more pictures to post on tomorrow's blog!  Please come back and check out the rest of my pics.

The pink tree

I took the pink tree into the antique mall today and decorated it as well as the table it sits on.  Here are the results:

I love this pink tree.  I bought it last year after Christmas when it was on sale.  Today I decorated it with ornaments in white, pinks and red.  I also added a serving bowl full of Christmas craft items, bags of vintage ornaments, a white Eiffel Tower with a pink wreath, a box full of glittery postcards.  Note the pink and blue switch plates on the wall.  A great find on Sunday's shopping.  They are vintage and very pretty!  The little pink tray in front of the tree has bags full of frost white ornaments that look like Christmas tree bulbs.  So you can see I added lots of goodies today.  More to come in another day or two.

Be sure to visit Judy B's Shabby Chic for a few more pics of items taken in today for the booth.

I also visited with my sweet friend, Kim, of Sweet Sage Vintage while in Merchant Square.  She was fluffing and organizing her booth today as well.  She was kind enough to give me this little gift of tea roses in a tiny bottle.  Thank you so much, Kim!  I love them!!  Be sure to visit her blog and check out the pretty bottles she has decorated and put in her booth at Merchant's.

Fun with flowers, recycling them

One of the items I bought at a rummage sale on Saturday was a hand bouquet of pink and white flowers. They were stuffed into green floral foam and then put into a white plastic posey holder (don't know what else to call it). I think it was a bridesmaid bouquet from the 50's. I wish I had taken a before pic of it, but didn't. What was I thinking??!! Anyway, here are the flowers I have put together from the bouquet. I removed all the plastic stems and pieces that held the flowers in place in the bouquet. Must say I like these better!

Aren't they pretty??
This last flower is made of a text page. Lots of circles, gradually smaller, then held together in the center with an eyelet. Then dipped in glue and over to gold glitter! Pretty!!