♥ “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” - Confucius ♥

It turns out this may be a little bit of heart week.  For some reason I have been inspired to create heart or love items and will continue on with this by showing what I did with my heart origami.  The uses for these are endless; little love notes, decoration in a bowl, you could attach them to wire and make a bouquet, and the list goes on and on.

I put mine in my vintage soda crates.  I created 2 bigger ones for the larger openings in my soda crates.  (To do this just keep the paper ratio the same)

What will you use your origami hearts for? 

P.S.  A shout of to the BF for buying me a new Nikon Coolpix camera for Christmas :) muah!

My Vintage Mercury Glass Christmas

I love Mercury Glass.  It has a rustic but elegant quality.  This is the second year I have decorated our tree with vintage ornaments and beads. Some actually from both of my grandmothers as well as some I have purchased myself on Etsy.

Our Tree

My Favorite Bulb - not really sure why?

 Christmas themed soda boxes with chalkboard message blocks as well as mercury glass bulbs:

 My non-vintage mercury glass candle holder centerpiece:

Rustic Candy Cane

After creating this A Peppermint & Mercury Glass Christmas Treasury List, I was really inspired by all the candy cane items I found so last night I sat down on my living room floor with my pile of bed springs and created:

I then had to paint each spring separately and put it back together but I think it turned out super cute.  It is available for sale in my Etsy Shop

♥ Vintage Soda Box Love ♥

I love vintage soda boxes, coke, pepsi whatever brand.   The hardest part in purchasing one is what to do with it.  I know they are great for organization, but I don't really need anything like that.  So I decided to try them out as wall decorations. 


So once I got them up on the wall, yes I actually hung them up myself and didn't get hurt :) (I'm a little accident prone)  It was time to figure out what to fill them with.  The sections are rather small, so small trinkets would be needed and since I am not a big knick knack person I didn't really have anything.  Vintage letterpress blocks would have been awesome but they are so expensive.   So I had a chunk of balsa wood hanging around and had just recently bought a thing of chalkboard paint.  I cut the balsa wood into small blocks, then sanded them down and painted them.  Chalkboard paint is one of those crazy awesome things, that once you get you aren't sure how you crafted without it before, the uses are endless.  So now I have small chalkboard blocks to put messages in my vintage soda box wall decoration.