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You may remember a few weeks ago I shared a vintage flour sifter from my attic. A short time later I received a special gift of a vintage apron from Kathy at Kathy's Cottage. I started feeling the urge to redo my kitchen in a vintage style. I didn't get that far but I managed to put together one little corner in my dinning room to showcase my new-old things. As luck would have it they are all thrifty finds too!
I had this flat sided dress form in my bedroom with nothing on it. I thought it might work to showcase this beautiful apron. With a tiny bit shirring at the waist I was able to get it to fit nicely. My husband never liked the dress form, he thought it was weird. I never got around to showing him all the beautiful ones in the magazines and blogs. He also didn't care for Bessie, my dinning room cow. You can meet her over there on the left side of my blog. Hubby said the liked the apron because it reminded him of his grandmother who always wore an apron over her dresses except when she went to town. I thought, "OK, he's coming around". Then he floored me when he said, "Why don't you hang it (the dress form) under her (the cow head)?" Now that would be weird!
I kept the red necklace on it from the bedroom. Gives her a little class while she's hanging around dusting my wall!
Here's a peek at how the dress form is made. I forgot to take photos before I added the apron. It looks like a fancy wire corset. I don't remember the cost but it's from Ross so it had to be thrifty.
Most of things came from the attic. The cowgirls are my hubby's great aunts. Do you see the Scotties sticking out from the little red tin? I have special plans for those little pups when I get time to do some crafting. Translation ~ when the kids start school in mid August.
The milk bottles are part of my husband's collection. He started collecting them while a teenager growing up on a dairy. The rooster tea pot was one of my Strawberry Saturday finds, along with the doilies and the red tin on the shelf. I rarely drink hot tea but that over-scale rooster sticking his head out knew he would be right at home here.
And yes that is the microwave on a cart in my dinning room. We have a small galley kitchen with very limited counter space so we had to make do with it here. So that's my little vintage corner. The rest of the dinning room looks more like my header. It has more rustic colors and a french country feel. Fitting in the bright vintage colors was a little tricky but it's working at that end of the room. The other corner nearest it has a vintage Pepsi clock and thermometer, also part of my husband's collection. I tried to explain that he was cramping my french country style but in the end I had to compromise or face the wrath of the whole family because the Pepsi clock has always been in that corner. That's OK, compromise means everyone is happy. It does lead to an interesting room though. I hope to clean the kids' games and puzzles off the dinning room table and my shopping bags out of the corner soon so I can show you the whole room. Translation ~ when the kids go back to school...
Hope you find some great thirfty, vintage thingies this weekend.
Dawn
