Thrifted 2/21/12

I realized I haven't posted any thifted finds in quite a while. The clothes I pick up are featured in What I Wore Wednesday posts, but the house ware items rarely get their little moment on the blog.


This weekend was epic - I found my first two pieces of genuine (read: not reproduction) jadeite.

I adore jadeite. 

This is part of Martha Stewart's collection. The link has great info about jadeite and some beautiful photos of Martha's stash.

Source: marthastewart.com via Kathleen on Pinterest

If I could only have jadeite in our kitchen I would. But alas, it is ridiculously rare to find them for affordable prices (at least in my neck of the woods. I'm not yet ready for eBay.)

These two darling tea cups also came home with a Fire King Restaurant ware mug in milkglass. She was only 4 bucks but if she was jadeite, she would be $40. And I probably would have passed out from joy of finding one locally. But I love her just as she is.

What I Made Monday 2/6/12

For the past several years I've wanted to make this punch collage by Ali Edwards.

Source: aliedwards.com via Kathleen on Pinterest

Years. Five years of wanting to make this.

After the de-decorating from Christmas I lost a piece of wall art. For most of January I wandered around the apartment wistfully saying "where's my wall art??"

Finally I caved and decided to make the heart punch collage. Just in time for Valentine's Day.

I purged a ton of my scrapbook papers and found some of my favorite Chatterbox sheets, so started punching away. Punch is the Martha Stewart heart punch.

Originally I thought I would mount the punched hearts on red cardstock, but we really don't have much red in our kitchen, so decided to go with white textured cardstock instead.

The sheet was 8x8 and I added pop dot adhesive for each heart. All the years I've used these foam dots I threw away the extra leftover adhesive scraps.  I finally realized I just had to rip it apart and use the background that is still sticky and just as good as the circles.

I bought an inexpensive matted 12x12 frame from Michael's and now the wall art is in its place.

Of course, now that it's hanging, we found the wall art. 

Behind the bookshelf.

Linking up with Conni.