More Vintage Handkies...an Etsy Shopping Spree!

I went on a bit of a shopping spree this past weekend.  If you read my blog last week, you'll remember that I had a hankering for vintage hankies and wanted some...like, now.  That led me to etsy.  And let's just say that my credit card is still exhausted.


I put in a search for "vintage handkerchiefs" on etsy and came up with over 19,000 results.  Jackpot!  I ended up buying a few, OK alot, from the etsy shop, AllVintageHankies.  They were shipped super fast and I received them yesterday.  


They are gorgeous!  I love them.  I wanted to display them immediately.  So I made this:

I painted a wooden dowel with some AS chateau gray paint that I had left over from another project and hot glued some mini clothespins to it (space apart equally, or roughly so - I didn't measure).   I painted the mini clothespins with some smoky purple craft paint.

I suspended the dowel under one of my kitchen shelves (also painted with AS chateau gray) from bracket to bracket.  Then I hung up all of the hankies from the clothespins.  


I use this shelf to decorate with things that I like...my current obsession being birdnests, spring flowers and, of course, vintage hankies.  


I recently redecorated my shelf when a certain package arrived in the mail a few days ago (no, not the hankies).  Remember when Gina from Random Thoughts had an amazing Spring Giveaway?

Well, guess who won it?  Me!  THANK YOU, GINA! 


Guess what I did with it?  Put it in my "place of honor"...my kitchen shelf.  So here she is, decorated with my new lovelies and dangling with my new vintage hankies.

Just look at that chicken wire cloche...I just love it!  The print next to it (on the stand) was in the giveaway also and I already had the rectangular bird print.  They match so good.  I also had the little white bird. The small globe holds the book page flowers that I made a few weeks ago.  Lastly, the aqua jar was another etsy purchase (months ago).


The giveaway also included a sweet bird's nest that I have displayed on a stand that I made (here) on my kitchen counter.  I think it can be seen there better than on the shelf.  I absolutely love the colors of it.

Oh, I'm in love! 

I'll be posting more about that little space in my kitchen soon (I hope).  It's my "mom space", my hub, so to speak.  And it needs re-decorganizing (new word).   But that's OK, I love new projects/challenges :)

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