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    Home » Budget Decor

    Vintage Style Garden Decor

    Published by Pam Kessler | 474 words. · About 3 minutes to read this article. - 26 Comments

    Vintage style garden decor makes my heart go pitter-patter.

    Which is a good thing, because you really don't want your heart to NOT go pitter-patter. Because then someone really should be calling the paramedics for you!

    But on a non-heart attack related note, occasionally while trotting around at an estate sale I run across some cool old gardening stuff. And of course I buy it. Because I LOVE it.

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    But in reality once I get it home, I'm all like "this is cool Pam, but what are you going to do with it?" (Let's be honest, if I had to clarify my purchases with "actually knowing what I'm going to do with them " before I buy them, I'd probably never buy anything!)

    And then I relax, because I remember that I can make a cute springtime vignette with them! I call this my Vintage Eclectic Spring Gardening Style Vignette.

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    Or VESGSV for short.

    The top shelf:

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    The bottom shelf:

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    My McCoy blue bird planter always comes out to play in the spring.

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    I picked him up at a yard sale a few years ago for a buck.

    See that jar with the flowers in it?

    Yeah, that's a beet jar that I kept from Thanksgiving dinner and just knew that I would have a use for it. I gave it an aged patina with a little watered down brown craft paint and voila . . . it's a cute garden themed vase!

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    The Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book was found at an estate sale, I believe.

    My deer dear planter was found . . . You know what? Everything in this whole set of photos, except for the beet jar, was found at an estate sale or thrift store, so I will just save both of us the trouble by not typing that out for you each time 🙂

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    He or she (no antlers means a girl?) is not marked, but it has that matte finish like a lot of the McCoy pieces. So until someone tells me otherwise, I'm calling it a real McCoy.

    I thought my beehive measuring cups that I found at an estate sale not too long ago (dang it!) would fit nicely in with the theme.

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    Even though this is a sewing box and I'm not actually doing a sewing vignette, I thought it would be appropriate because of the flowers and springy color.

    Vintage style garden decorating in the entryway, including vintage garden planters, gardening tools and colorful retro Better Homes and Gardens Garden Book.

    This may or may not have been found at an estate sale, but since I'm not talking about that I won't bother to type it out for you.

    Now I'm off to fish some more jars and cans out of the trash to see what I can make with them. Have a wonderful spring filled day!

    vintage spring vignette

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    1. Akshay

      January 09, 2019 at 5:46 am

      Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing. I really liked your ideas for garden decor. Your ideas are really very unique and attractive. I really liked your Ideas for vintage style garden decor, I was really not aware of such designs ever. Thank you so much once again for sharing such unique ideas with us. Keep Posting.

      Reply
    2. Juanita Rodgers

      May 24, 2018 at 2:05 am

      I am inspired by your work and got some great ideas. Thanks and keep sharing 🙂

      Reply
    3. Marci

      March 22, 2015 at 8:28 pm

      Your garden vignette is lovely. That black roller cart is the coolest!

      Reply
    4. Paula@SweetPea

      March 22, 2015 at 8:03 am

      You are the blogger whose style is exactly what I like! I love this display. I have that exact BHG book (found in a dumpster). I'm going to get it out and putt it on my porch. My brother and I had rabbits just like yours that were in our Easter basket one year.

      Reply
      • Pam

        March 22, 2015 at 8:35 am

        You made my day, because I always look at your stuff and drool all over it 🙂

        Reply
    5. Pam Spencer

      March 19, 2015 at 11:03 am

      A D O R A B L E!!!! You have such a cute personality Pam (love the name by the way) and I just love how
      you put it all together. Happy Spring!

      Reply
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