Vintage Mirrors for White Wednesday

Hello Everyone, and Happy 1st day of February!

Today I am joining Kathleen, over at FADED CHARM, for White Wednesday.

I thought I would share with you some of the mirrors that I have either been given, found at Goodwill, or at my local Antique store....and that have all been given a shabby white makeover to.

First up is this wonderful heavy metal mirror that I found at Goodwill....I actually didn't have to do a thing to this one, as it was already painted a nice cottage white, but just needed a good cleaning. I did display this on the wall in our Living room, but have just recently placed it on my fireplace overmantle.



One of my favorite style of mirrors to look for are these vintage filigree metal mirrors...they are usually found in either gold or silver, and I always paint them white....sometimes pink :) These next 2 photos show 2 that are displayed in my Vintage cabinet in our Dining room...





Another style I am always on the hunt for are Vintage Syroco mirrors...I have 2 of these, this one below is displayed in our Master Bedroom....



and the other is in our Living Room....the sweet little mirror is a Goodwill find, and the other mirror below it was found at one of the local Antique stores a few years ago....and yes, that is our Big Black Box tv you see....there's no hiding it, so one must "work around" it, lol :)



This fabulous large mirror was given to us by my father-in-law....originally brown wood, I painted it white, of course :) This mirror hung in our Dining room for a few years, but when I moved the fireplace & overmantle in there, I had to move the mirror into the living room.



And lastly, is another sweet Vintage filigree mirror...this one I've displayed on the coffee table, and have placed a couple of Goodwill candleholders on it...oh yes, gotta love Goodwill!



Thanks so much for stopping by ~ please be sure to check out all the other wonderful whites being shown today for White Wednesday.

Don't forget to enter my Valentine's Giveaway if you haven't already ~ just click HERE to take you to the post so you can leave your comment for a chance to be entered...last day to enter is February 7th!

Until next time sweet friends

Goodwill Treasures ~ Past & Present

Happy Friday everyone! I am so glad the weekend is finally here, but they are calling for snow tonight and into tomorrow ~ Yesterday on the news they talked about the blizzard of '78, where we got several feet of snow ~ I was about 14 years old, and I can remember my father having to literally plow his way home from work ~ he worked at Steelcase in Grand Rapids, which on a normal day would taken around a half hour to 45 minutes...but on that day it took him several hours! I can remember looking out our living room window, and watching him plow his way down our dead-end gravel road, slowly making his way to our driveway! It was just unreal!

Okay, on to today's post....yesterday while out doing my weekly grocery shopping, I stopped at 2 of our local Goodwill stores...one in Newaygo and the other in Fremont, and found some things to bring back home with me....sometimes when I stop to look, I end up leaving with nothing...and feeling depressed, lol :)

First up is the wonderful metal wall hanging that I got for just $3....I plan to paint it white once we have warmer weather here in Michigan. I may even put it up on the ceiling in our Dining room as a ceiling medallion for our chandelier.



and I also found another vintage filigree picture frame (LOVE these), a 12" pillow insert, and a vintage filigree sconce...



These next photos I am going to show you are of some of the past treasures that I found at GW.... first, is the lamp base and shade, which I redid with some soft pink fabric, gimp and rose...the mirror to the right is also a GW find...



Everything displayed on this table all came from Goodwill, except for the tablecloth ~ I redid this shade in the same pink fabric to match the other one...



These next 2 photos show my most favorite GW finds....all we had to do to this wall cabinet was add the beadboard to the back and paint it white...



and this cabinet only needed to be painted white...



So the next time you are "out-n-about" and you see a Goodwill store, be sure to stop in and take a look around, as you never know what treasures might be waiting there just for you!

Be sure to enter my VALENTINES GIVEAWAY, you can click the photo at the top of my right sidebar to wisk you to that post....just leave a comment to be entered.

Have a wonderful week everyone! Until next time sweet friends!!

~*~VALENTINES GIVEAWAY~*~

Hello to all my Blogging friends!! I am sooooo way behind on getting this post ready ~ I wanted to get it done and up over a week ago, but just kept having other things to do ~ so.....I finally decided on what to make for this particular Giveaway...I wanted it to be something for both Valentines, and something that could be kept out all year long. A while back I found 2 cute holders designed for those candle jars we like to use, but aren't exactly very pretty to look at ~ they are pink with 2 cut-out hearts, and are a bit "shabbied" up, which is fab!! I am keeping one for myself, and offering the other for the Giveaway.....next, I created a Sachet stacker, made with 3 different pink fabrics ~ the top and middle sachets are filled with only wonderfully fragrant Lavender buds, and the bottom is filled with fiber filling and Lavender.



Isn't this so pretty in pink!



The Sachet stacker has a beautiful Vintage pink millinery rose and rosebud on the top, as well as 2 pink parchment roses, little pearl stamens, Vintage pink organza fluers, Vintage ribbon, and a pink Filigree heart charm.



The fabrics are, top, a sweet pink dotted print, middle, a soft pink floral print, and bottom, a pretty tossed pink roses print...



To be entered for this Giveaway, you just need to leave a comment ON THIS POST ~ the winner will be drawn on February 7th from one of the comments. So start leaving me those comments ~ Good luck everyone :)

Until next time sweet friends!!!