Birds in the Late Spring Holiday Cupboard

May has always been Bird Month for me. Around here we have nest building, new babies, and new faces at the feeders. I've collected a bit of bird themed vintage items during my time as a vintage market dealer, picking up figurines, tins, illustrations and ephemera during the years. It's a perfect themed match for my other favorite vintage theme which is old garden goods.

I love using that theme for vignettes and centerpieces this time of the year. Of course nests are also a fun theme along with the birds for seed boxes and vintage prints. And since I love to create a theme in the Holiday Cupboard in the Garden Room, it's a perfect time and place to mix it up with anything bird related, dishes, pottery, and any spring decor.

In early April I changed out the green transferware dishes for my French Faience Pottery that are covered with spring and summer color. I have a few pieces of the green transferware and Ivy dishes stacked, and a wonderful "Berry Basket" platter/tray from Fitz and Floyd hiding behind the tureen and "Natural History" book.

A small painted white cigar box is holding a vintage print, Enesco figurine, small ironstone pitchers, and a few green transferware dessert plates. Below, another box with old clay pots and teacups. A Lefton "flycatcher" figurine with a discarded finch nest sit out front.

This "May" not be an actual "May" postcard, but I love the charming and quaint English cottage theme, which seems like spring.

Bluebird mini flower vase.

Framed antique flour card in a mini wheelbarrow

Last week I put together a super easy seed packet garland for the Holiday Cupboard.

Here's last year's late Spring Holiday Cupboard...

and a few years ago...

Vintage Bird Prints in the Spring Cupboard

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