Vintage Inspiration Friday

Happy Friday.

Join me for some inspiration as I join Debra from Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday.

I bought a new Halloween magazine last week to get some new holiday decorating ideas and I came across this page.  If you like Halloween or love to look at inspiring display work, then you have to see Debbie Dusenbury's blog Curious Sofa  or check out her pictures in the magazine here .

You see I have a vintage baby buggy in my garage that had been waiting, waiting for me to decide the best way to display it in my home.  Oh and that tree with the crows, it is taking everything in me to hold back and not do that on one of my walls, because if you know me well.

You know I would PAINT it on the wall. 

That would NOT make Mr. M. happy, and we must keep him happy!

So, I will just have to work with the buggy idea for now.

  I originally bought this buggy to use in my gardens as my mother had once done,

but I changed my mind, I did not want it to get ruined, I like it too much.

I love the white chippiness of it.


Look at this wheel, just perfect.

I am using my wicker buggy as a display on my back deck.

Of course I added a few white pumpkins, an old door, and a few odd things I found around the house, and of course some black for fall.

Once we are closer to Halloween I will replace the flowers with a skeleton or two.

A simple wreath I made for fall last year.
How do you like the door the wreath is hanging from, it was originally intended to use as a shop display, but now I think I may have a mirror put in and prop it up against a wall in my bed room. 

Not a handle for the door, it is a door knocker. 

Details, it is all in the details.

Inspiration can be found anywhere, from anything, a color, a shape, a sound, a touch.

Me, I have found many inspirations in the beautiful pages of several different magazines.

Much to Mr. M.'s chagrin I still have most of them, in the basement.

I hate to admit it but that is only half of them.  They do not just take up room, I do periodically go through and read them, when I am in need of inspiration.

How about you? 

Are you like my friend Blossom from Wit Behind The Ears, who saves all her favorite pictures to her computer or do you have an idea book filled to the brim with pictures or some other way to keep you inspired?

Be sure to stop over an visit my good friend Debra from Common Ground for Vintage Inspiration Friday, it is a party that you don't want to miss and don't forget Cindy from My Romantic Home for Show and Tell Friday.

 What a wonderful way to start a weekend.