Pinterest crazy

Before I get to my Pinterest projects here are my lovely farmer's market flowers in our vintage mason jar. We bought it last week at the Squash Blossom Farm store. I love that I found a blue one. I can't find the exact date that they stopped making the blue ones, but I learned the logo has changed over the years and that's a good way to date it. The logo on this jar came from 1930-1960 (why do I spend time googling the age of a jar that cost me $5 when I have a mountain of laundry to fold? Now that's real procrastination)

As I was taking photos of my flowers I took this photo of our dining room wall.

This is Pinterest projects gone crazy. Window as a photo frame,  flower garland made from an old music book, and decorating with scrabble letters. To be fair we've actually had the window frame with pictures in it for 5 years so that was Pre-pinterest. I did the top left frame with scrabble letters of our names...I don't like how it turned out, but it has been up there for months. I think I need to glue them on a different background to see if that would help. Maybe they need their own frame and to be hung somewhere else. I have some burlap I could use as a background but I think that would be too country. If you're thinking "Laura, you've got a wooden frame with chipped paint, an oil lamp, a milk-glass vase, and newspaper flowers hanging on the frame...you might as well go ahead and do the burlap." yeah, I know...In my mind I think like modern but then when I look at my pins and what I buy my sub-conscious is obviously drawn to the shabby chic country look.

Our knick-knacks are kind of a mish mash, they make me happy.
oil lamp: this is from my Grandma Henry's house. She had 2 that she kept in her living room. They were right next to this flowered couch that was the perfect couch to read a book. So it always reminds me of her house.
white milk-glass vase: Chris's grandma got it as a wedding present. She gave it to us since the style matched our Minneapolis bungalow.
Colorful frame: we bought this in Venice on our visit in 2007
Fancy relish dish: when we announced we were engaged we got a gift the next week of a fancy relish dish. Chris and I thought it was funny that a relish dish was a our first gift and have had it out on display since the day we got it. We've actually never used it for pickles or relish. It usually has change and stamps.
candle snuffer: This is another hand-me-down from Chris's grandma.

Oh, and I realized I never shared my candle stick holders on the blog. My brother's friend Nate does wonderful pottery. We did a craft barter 2 years ago. I made him this hat and he made me 4 candlestick holders. Good deal huh?