Do you all have any green popping up where you live?
Not much going on here with green outdoors, but inside I've been bringing some green things together to celebrate the "early" start of the Spring Season. Hopefully the forsythia will be budding out within the next week. Time to cut a few branches to enjoy indoors.
I have a few vintage pitchers that are faux bois (fake wood) that are spring themed. Some have a bird and nest motif, others are florals like the dogwood blossoms. So they are not technically Majolica, but similar and affordable unlike the real deal.
The blue and gold pitcher below is very old and real Majolica, and the only way I could afford it was because it has a chip on the rim. I'm not a purist, so I painted the chip in a gold color that matched so it works for me. The brown wood look pitcher with the blue bird was the same. A little brown paint and some glass glaze made it not too noticeable.
A garden themed box, an antique green "Orchid" talc powder tin, and a sweet little vintage cauliflower teapot, gather in the old SEED box.
I have a couple of old British cottage prints from the 30's or 40's that I brought out to set the cottage mood.
My ceramic covered veggie or small soup tureen screams Spring Garden. The green depression glass measuring cup was my paternal grandmother's.
A moss ball in my vintage concrete planter brings in a little outdoorsy feel.
My faux paperwhite woodsy look in the olive bucket is still here...
Faux daffodils make themselves at home in one of my faux bois pitchers.
I'm gearing up for Easter. This year we have a nice long time to celebrate, since it's mid April. Soon rabbits will appear and I'm looking forward to some sweet pastels.
Did you catch my last post on the Spring Green in the Holiday Cupboard?
Here are a few more Majolica stylings....
Good Morning Debra. Your bakers rack is beautiful. The Majolica is sweet and so pretty in your collection. Enjoy your Garden room as we now get closer to spring. Hugs. Kris
ReplyDeleteI love the greens on your shelf and your majolica is especially beautiful. I really love the "cabbage" that is your centerpiece and also how you used the measuring cup. Those daffodils and sheep are icing on the cake!
ReplyDeleteI love all of your cottage majolica and prints. I was so happy to have found some faux potted paperwhites a couple years ago. Like yours, I think they look very natural. Tell me, what is glass glaze? This is a great welcome for spring. I am still waiting on my daffs, let alone my [newly planted last fall] forsythia to bloom!
ReplyDeleteHey Rita! Well, that's what I call it. Glass Glaze is just a clear coat of finish paint. I think I used a Ceramcoat product that was "satin" finish. I tried hunting for it here but couldn't locate the bottle. It gives a luster to whatever has been painted, otherwise the base coat looked flat and very noticeable. With a clear coat on top it was less noticeable as a repair and blended in better.
DeletePlease be sure and share pics of your new forsythia, mine is so old and gnarly. The only time it's pretty is when it's blooming. Unfortunately the deer use it to rub their itchy antlers. I can't have anything growing around here! Faux Paperwhites are a real life saver around here and they're out 3/4 of the year. Have a great week!