As I mentioned in my A Vintage Eclectic Summer Vignette post, I have a little bit more summer home decor in the living room to show you.
I know not everyone "decorates" their living room for every single holiday or season, but I like to add bits of summer into the house here and there.
On the other side of the room (you know, the side with the huge beautiful HVAC vent in the middle of the wall), I continued on with the "loosey goosey vintage eclectic summer sports" theme. And threw in a sailboat to boot.
The tutorial for how I made the sailboat has turned out to be one of my more popular posts.
It's such a simple project that I'm sort of embarrassed that people find my blog through seeing THAT project on Pinterest, but hey, at least it keeps their expectations of my crafting skills low. I always say that if I can't finish a project in one sitting then I'll never finish it.
My living room is filled with thrift store and yard sale finds this summer.
Like this vintage Kodak Duaflex IV camera I bought at a yard sale. For eight bucks. I have no idea why I didn't scoop up all the other cameras they had for sale that day, all for the same price.
It even came with film in it!
Which I didn't realize until my husband was sitting at the kitchen counter with the camera opened up and a roll of film dangling from his hands. Wouldn't it have been fun to see what was on that film?
I found this vintage Brownie Bull's Eye camera at a local shop a few weeks ago. I love that it came with the flash apparatus. Heck it even came with some flash bulbs.
No film though.
My Smith Corona Galaxie typewriter is still one of my most favorite thifting finds. He's sexy. He's got that mid-century modern look about him. What's not to love?
Not sure what a camera, a croquet set and a thermos have to do with each other, but it's not called eclectic decor for nothing. And it's all setting on a chalkboard used as a tray.
I normally have this vintage croquet box in my kitchen on top of the cabinets, but wanted to do something different for this shelf rather than the normal chalkboard or vintage frames that I've had in the past,
so I drug it down off the cabinets and added the sailboat on top of it.
There's croquet mallets in my olive bucket below it, so it's not totally out of the blue there.
I bought that little vintage looking "splash" doo-dad on the other shelf from HomeGoods. I guess everything isn't from thrift stores and yard sales.
OK, I'm officially done with summer home decor tour. If you didn't see the first part, you can head over to my A Vintage Eclectic Summer Vignette post.
If anything in this post doesn't make sense or is spelled wrong, I'm going to blame it on my cold. My son had it last week and now he's letting me borrow it and all I can think of right now is going back to bed. My sweet, comfy bed.
Hope your weekend is turning out better than mine.
Erica
How in the heck did I miss that sailboat post? I gotta go back and find it because I am pretty sure I need to make one for Miss Norah's room!
Summer colds SUCK. Feel better, Pam
Erica
Dagmar ~ Dagmar's Home
What a lovely job decorating with vintage and thrifty finds! I'd love it if you showed this at my latest "Thrifty & Vintage Finds" link party: http://www.dagmarbleasdale.com/2015/06/vintage-letters/
Sandy R.
Pam, hope you are feeling better. I caught that darn cold and was miserable for 6 days. You are younger so you will kick it faster ! : ) just love your blog always makes me smile and laugh. And yes that is one sexy typewriter !!
Musings from Kim K.
Looks wonderful, Pam. I love that croquet box that your sailboat is sitting on top of. You've done it again with some lovely summery vignettes. You are also reminding me that I need to get our croquet set out and bring it to the lake.
Elizabeth@ Rustic Maple
Looks great and very summery! I love using our vintage croquet sets for decor too. The sailboat is adorable!!
Paula@SweetPea
I love all of your summer vignettes! So pretty! I need to "shop" my father-in-law's house for a few cameras to use in a vignette at my house. He's already given me two Brownie cameras that I adore. My mom is going to love your idea for using croquet balls in a wire basket. She has her childhood set that looks great on her porch.
Kris@Junkchiccottage
Love just love it all. Have a wonderful week end Pam.
Kris
Diane
I really like the sailboat on top of your vintage croquet box, very cute. Love everything your have displayed, so quirky and fun.
chris aka monkey
love it all especially the sail boat and the box i am sure you know this but drink as much water as you can stand to help get over cold sooner xx
Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces
I love all of your wonderful summer decor...love how the Boston Terrier is looking up at the sailboat! Hope you are feeling better soon...I just came down with this summer cold last night...ARRGGHH.
taryterre
Hope your cold clears up soon. Your summer decor is wonderful. I really love the sailboat. It really sets the scene.