Vintage Bunting

Well, we all love colourful buntings. There are so many different ideas and you cannot only use nice fabrics, but allover printed paper as well. Today’s bunting idea for our porch was to use old handkerchiefs. The result is: supernice and quick to do project! The most difficult thing was to find enough of the vintage handkerchiefs in different dessins and colours (at the Diakonie Kaufhaus I found some and on Ebay of course). How many you will need? finally I had around 30 pieces available, thats why the front door got their own bunting as well….than iron it down diagonal. As a strap I used left over gift wrapping tape. Our porch and main door entrance looks fantastic. Hope you like it as well!?

Vintage Bunting

Vintage Warehouse Store in Amsterdam

Well, easter is gone. We went to Egmond aan Zee in Holland, like every year. Cute litte town, very relaxing. The weather was not really nice, so I can’t give you pretty beach pictures….but, on the way back to Germany we visited the Van Dijk & ko Warehouse in Amsterdam. This is always worth the trip. I took some pictures there so that you can imagine the varieties of this store. Please have a look to the new chairs and some small cupboards we took back home with us!

Van Dijk & ko Vintage Warehouse Amsterdam

Vintage Birthday Party

Hello sunshine, this was the greatest, lazy sunday afternoon birthday party ever….so relaxed, easy going, enjoyable time with some friends and great cake buffet. When I searched for a nice idea for my birthday party, there were always blogs with this vintage fair birthday party theme and I loved it! In Germany we don’t have these kind of country fairs, so I tried to adopt the theme and built some other stuff around it. Most important thing for me is always the sweets & treats table (the empty spot on the upper right from the cake buffet is reserved for the cinnamon rolls – they were still in the oven). To get the country feeling I added some ponies and also ribbons patched on linen fabric to the table. Not to forget the homemade cherry lemonade in some vintage bottles with doily labeling. The surprisingly fantastic weather was enough reason to put everything out on the porch: cushions, blankets, even the decorated floor-lamp, ballons, the paper baubles, a Hello Kitty pinata, everything was set up outside… We did some crafty thing as well: I provided embroidery hoops, fabrics, lace and stuff and all ladies were sitting in the sun doing some needlework.

Vintage Birthday Party

Vintage Birthday Afternoon

Finally the long planned vintage birthday party was today. The weather was even better that anyone could wish for. Everything today was perfect: food, decoration, guests and gifts. More detailed pictures from this afternoon and it`s activities and buffet will follow.

Vintage Birthday Party Group Photo

Fabric covered Tea Pots

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I love the book „Everything Alice“ and this idea comes from the book: Cover up your old and no longer used plates, pots, bowls, etc with nice fabric cuttings. I used glue which is supposed for wallpapers. At the end it turned out to be a really quick and easy thing, and so convincing! what do you think? do you like it as much as I do?

Fabric covered Tea Pots