THE BEAUTY OF THRIFTING ~ VINTAGE FRENCH C

Hello everyone and welcome to the Little Blue Fly. In today's video we are going to be creating a very soft and gentle spring corner here in the sunroom. Now I know, yes, I stated that we were going to be doing the mood wall today and I do apologize for that but it's sort of the perfectionist in me. I was over on the other side in the living room getting ready to start staining the wood and it was really bugging me looking through the window and seeing that on the other side it wasn't finished being decorated. I was having a big problem with that so I decided to go ahead and just bring us on here in here in the sunroom for some beautiful spring decorating inside of this vintage tray. I'm going to call it a basket tray as well as I'll be doing something up on the door and adding something here on the chair and then please do join me next Thursday for sure for the mood wall. It's a mood gallery wall. So that being said, let's begin, shall we? Okay, so here is my two-tiered basket tray. Vintage gold guild goodness all over this piece. Very aged. I thrifted it when we were living in North Carolina and this table was a recent thrift here in Virginia and I will be decorating the bottom part of the table as well as the top and the fountain over to the right. I will not be turning that on because it's not fountain time yet. Today is actually cold and very freezing so we're just going to work on this tray and other things as well. I did, many of you might remember, the ferns were in here for quite some time but now we're going to fill it with this basket of goodness. We have some green rose hips here that were purchased from Merryfield Garden. Then I have some blueberries. They are actually in my Amazon storefront so that's in my description down below this video title. And then I was able to pick up some more of these variegated green picks and it says here variegated boxwood and then on the other side, well I paid $8.99 Merryfield Garden, but on the back it is from Regency Floral. I will see if I can find them. If I can, I will link them. Again, many of you asked where's my description box. It's below the title of this video. Okay, here in this planter it's just a simple beige planter. I have some paper whites that are getting ready to bloom with wonder. Okay, so now we're going to start working down here. As you can see when the ferns were in here it really changed inside the trays quite a bit but I suppose that's okay. It just adds in with the story, with the character of it all, right? So I will be spreading out the branches also bending the bottom into an L shape and just placing these variegated boxwoods all around the bottom of the tray. I believe I'm actually going to be using six of these today. Again, I'm just spreading them out like a fan so that it'll cover a good amount of space here in the tray. Again, just bend it and then spread out the branches and it looks more natural that way as well. When working with greenery I try my best to have variegated leaves. Sometimes I do not and that's okay as well but it just brings in a nice layer of depth when you have variegated colors on your greenery. But you'll see we have more arrangements that are coming up and the leaves are not variegated. Now I will be adding in another type of floral here. I just love working with faux florals and dried and these are I shared these actually during Christmas. Okay, look I'm catching myself now. That is two times I have said that word. I'm gonna try to stay under five times this video. How about that? Let's count them. But anyhow, these are rose hips and I don't think I have a link for these. But again, I did the L shape, bent the bottom of the stem and I'm just going to tuck it in there. When working with greenery, again, I like to weave them through each other because it makes it just look and feel natural and that's what we're going for. I like how the berries are tucking down in inside the boxwood. You know, it's almost like when you walk through that meadow garden there's always these different types of flowers that are hidden down in the tall green grasses. So I have all the green berries placed inside of the boxwood and now we're going to add a bit of color and I'm just going to go around in the inside. These were purchased from Merryfield Garden. I did share these last spring so I am not remembering the company that sells these but I know it is in my staircase video last spring when I was decorating the baskets. Just a beautiful lavender color, very soft, compliments green very well. So I just placed one in the back and what is great about these are the branches have a good length to them and that's what I try to find and purchase for when I'm making my arrangements because I can cover more area. That's why it pays to buy quality faux florals because the ones that you know we can get at a lower price point, well they don't have all these great bendable branches. So you know you get what you pay for, right? Okay so I just tucked those in and in the center part of this arrangement and yes you can see a little piece of moss right there up front because when I work with my arrangements I like using different varieties of moss along with the faux florals because when you mix the two together it just makes your arrangements look that much more natural and when working with the moss pull at it a little bit you know just don't put just a clump. I mean I guess you can if you want to but I personally like to pull tug at my moss a little bit to make it look again more natural. This is a different variety of moss and I just like to tuck it in where there are those empty spots. So I have finished finished placing in all of the moss. I like how it's hanging down over the tray and then the other variety is tucked in and then inside I placed in some color. I will be going all around the tray since we will be able to see this arrangement from inside of the living room and up at top I added in the paper whites. I placed some moss around the pot up at top so here again up at top we have real floral and then down below we have faux which gives this arrangement a nice balance. Try not to look into that living room because it's a mess. I'm telling you right now it's a mess. So this little um it's like a candle holder. I have not painted it yet. I really want to paint this gold and age it because I want that rich warm gold tone. It was purchased from Hobby Lobby and then they had um these glass cylinders and I thought huh will it fit inside this candle holder? Perfect fit! So both of these can be purchased at Hobby Lobby and I always wait for the sales. I mean they look they're perfect with one another right? And this is a I can't even talk correctly is a vintage brass candlestick. I like the touches of black with that brass. Here's another vintage brass candlestick. I will be sharing three and all of them were purchased together off of Facebook Marketplace. So if you're looking or in need of some brass put inside the search vintage brass candlesticks. And again I always put my radius out at least a hundred miles. I like how this one spirals. I put the black one inside and they just all work so well with each other. Having that glass cylinder around the candlestick really um gives it a nice some nice character. But now we're going to add more and we will be using these vintage books that were thrifted. And just look at the difference these books make when I place it here on this table. I mean something so simple right made such a difference. Lifted up that candle stand it just brings in that depth. Makes the eyes go up and down and left and right. Just how I like it. Keep the eyes busy. I like all the layers. So this is just the sweetest little crystal and gold gilded basket that we actually went to. I think it was called Purserville Tag. It was a big open thrifting type of day. It was great and that was very inexpensive. So as you can see we have metals going. We have the brass, the aged, the gold gild, the wood, the crystal. And now we're going to add in some sweet little gold foiled chocolate bunnies. I always try to make sure we have the little treats. And I just filled the bowl with some little bunnies and for you know when the children come through or you know I come through we just grab a little bunny and unwrap it and enjoy just a little sweetie. And that candle was a root candle. I'm going to put it on this side to try to get a better view. Williamsburg blue. Again I will try to remember to link these in my description box below for those of you that might be interested. So I have two of them that will be burners and one I will just leave as is. And the blue goes very well with the lavender and the green. It's all about mixing in the colors and I try to keep that in odd numbers as well. A recently thrifted Mother Goose book. You know some of these vintage books when you go inside to look at all the different illustrations the colors are just so rich. We don't see that too much these days in our books. Okay now we're going to switch over to the door a little bit. I have my Mackenzie Childs basket hanger up at the top that actually was purchased from a barn sale. I purchased three of them. I don't remember where I purchased this basket. I'm thinking though it is the flower gallery in Manassas. And then I just have a long draping greenery hanging from the side and I do not remember where I purchased this. However I am thinking Maryfield Gardens. So here is some greenery I will be using. I have a couple of these large leaves. I actually wish I would have grabbed the other one from storage. Then I have some of these berries. Again I do sell these at my Amazon storefront. I have three of them. And then we did just use a couple of these over in the arrangement to the side. Such a soft wispy whimsy feel. I love working with these. And then some of the green berries. Watch it's going to start like a runaway egg. Okay we have a nest here. I'm not quite sure where I purchased that but nests can be found everywhere. We have a little green sash and of course some rollaway eggs. And so here we go. We're going to, I'm going to take you along as I build this arrangement. So I like to use, to keep the taller leaves in the back of the arrangement for some height. I keep the height to the back of when I make arrangements. And then I bend the best I can some stems off to the side. I have fanned these out because again I just have two. I really wish I would have grabbed the other but we'll make it work. I love this green color. And again now see on these I don't have the variegated. It's just a solid color and that's okay. Now I'm going to add in this nest. Not at this point quite sure where I was wanting to place it. If I was wanting to go through the handle maybe. I mean that's cute but for some reason I just wasn't, I wasn't wanting to go that direction this morning I suppose. So I'm going to place it over here on the side. Yes. And adding the nest into this arrangement you know it's adding in the brown right. The brown color with all of the greens really it was a game changer. Again I'm going to spread out these branches. Now I'm wanting to have these hug around the nest. And then I will place another one up at top. You know again it's nice having these longer branches because it can really save you some money when you have floral that can really spread out nicely. Then you don't have to purchase as much because florals they can as we all very well know us decorators they can get up there in price especially these days. Okay now it's time to start working with some of the blueberries. Whenever I make spring arrangements I have to add in the berries. These are even nice during fall time adding in the blueberries with all of the muted colors. So they work great not just for spring but also for fall and all throughout summer. You can even add them in Christmas. So I placed one in the back to give some height and I think I'm wanting this one to come down in front of the basket. Yes that's going to be nice. I'm gonna have to I'm going to have to secure that nest a little better and then again weave those branches in with the berries because that's how things work out in nature. And then I have one more berry stem to place in here and for those of you that might be new to my channel or returning and you have not subscribed as of yet I invite you to join and subscribe to the Little Blue Fly because we have so many wonderful adventures that are going to be taking place this year and I don't think you're going to you're going to want to miss any of them. And as always if you enjoy this video if you have enjoyed it give it that thumbs up it truly helps in the algorithm get us there and we have been there lately and this has been wonderful. For all of you new subscribers thank you so much and returning thank you just all of you for helping this channel grow into what it is. I just cannot thank you all enough this is has just been a wonderful journey and now I added in the green berries right underneath the handle that is why I decided one of the reasons not to put the nest there. I will be placing just a simple green sash it can be purchased a roll of this from Hobby Lobby and it's in the area where all of the fabrics are at because there's two you have the ribbon that's over by the bridal area and then the other is in with the fabrics this is the fabric area. I will be making just a simple bow and I'll fidget with this arrangement you know a little bit afterwards to get everything just so. I just wanted to bring you all along and share with you the steps that I take when I make a flower arrangement. I like when my bows just sort of drooped down they droop down they're very relaxed and again we're mixing several different greens with the lavenders and the richer blueberry color adding in the natural tones from the basket and the nest. Okay so I'm going to pull back a little bit here so we can take a look at what we have achieved so far. We have a nice sweet little spring basket up on the door over to the side we just decorated the tray and added in some candles now here on the chair I have something just so special to share and I thought it would be perfect for this space and this is a bunny pillow that can be purchased from robin king designs I will link her in my description box make sure when you visit her site put in the little blue fly so these were out of stock she just added some in so if you like them I suggest you get over to robin before they sell out again now this is an actual picture of a real bunny rabbit from her yard and she just took that photo and with graphic design just changed it up a little bit and added in some periwinkles it's a excellent material very um very thick very good quality this is an 18 inch pillow and I did put in a 20 inch feather fill so again robin king designs and I will link her in my description box and it's perfect it just adds the perfect touch to this corner now I just ordered another one because I need another one for the other side now to decorate down here at the bottom of the table so this is so remember in previous videos I did share how I was going to put this on top of my green chest here in the sunroom and I decided against it because this is going to be absolutely perfect for what I'm about to use it for um it's a very uh aged uh like a drawer and it has some rustic hardware um it's been aged in front I did purchase this from Merryfield Garden but you can use any drawer to achieve this I have a couple baskets that I purchased from Michael's and we have this is a Tenzi game we're about to have some fun playing Tenzi and different card games that we like to play as a family we love card games and board games and I want to make sure that everything stays very functional here at the cottage that it's not just all decorating but we are actually living here this is this is a home um and so I I try to keep make sure that games and just different things um that help us to gather with one another in the house more often we can achieve that by having the different games about okay this is Tenzi it will be in my Amazon storefront it will be linked below it comes in a set of four everyone gets 10 die and what you do all the more players the better okay so you get to rolling these dice you choose whatever number you want so here I have more threes than anything which is horrible because for me it's hard to get a three okay and you keep rolling and rolling and rolling and you're trying to be the first one to make all of your die be the same number and then when they are the same number you scream out Tenzi okay I have one left Tenzi okay now what happens here is all the other players when they see you're down to like two everyone's just rolling really fast really fast because you're trying to be the first to get 10 Tenzi puts you in a frenzy you just this is a wonderful game to play with the family again it will be linked below in my description box okay so I have my candles they are unscented I'm burning here in the sun but I thought to add something scented this can be purchased from robin king designs again she will be linked in my description box and these are her lavender sachets and they're fabulous every woman should have if you're a decorator have it in your home a sachet one here one there it is a wonderful touch to always have the scent of well I love lavender in the home and here we have a new friend and he's going to need a name he was just recently purchased from maryfield garden I'll see if I can find him out there somewhere and share a link but he is just fabulous and let's see which one of you are going to be able to find him in the closer look thank you so much for coming to visit me today and the mood wall will be this thursday