I recently completed my newest project for the folks at Value Village and Savers. This is holiday set of projects is my favorite so far. For inspiration, I spent an evening at my local Value Village, shopping for supplies. The whole palette of grays and blues with tiny touches of red really came together within a few minutes, through a combination of things easy to find thrift any time...sweaters, plaid fabric remnants, dishes, etc. I came home and got right to work, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. This series of projects are easy to do and do not require tons of sewing skills (actually, in some cases, no sewing). You could use these to decorate from now right up until New Years. I'd love to see you guys put your own spin on them with a totally different color palette (what about oranges?) and whatever you find second hand.
My absolute favorite project were the miniature terrarium place cards. These are glass votive holders, which I filled with some fake moss and a little tiny deer (I found a bag of them in the kid's toy section). The flag is blue paper glued around a bamboo skewer cut down to size and held in the bottom with a blob of clay. (It would be so cute to add some tiny mushrooms in there too).
Every single thing in these photos was bought second hand, for these projects (the transferware dish, the flatware, napkin -made from a men's dress shirt, all of it). No expensive or precious antiques here. Which proves, yet again, that you can pull together a wonderful home decor with all sorts of random things gathered secondhand.
You can find a complete list of the projects on the Value Village and Savers websites, along with downloadable pdf instructions. Go check them out! And, as last time, if you want to see projects like this each season, be sure to let them know to keep them coming! I know firsthand they love to hear from you!
(These wonderful photos were taken by Scott Pitts at Armstrong Photography.)
