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Welcome everyone to Vintage Thingies Thursday. If you have a love for vintage things, well....you have come to the right place. We have a really good time each and every week!!!If you are new to this party, please take the time to read and follow the instructions for participating in Vintage Thingies Thursday, click HERE. I try and keep things fairly simple, so please make sure you follow the instructions. Please only ONE link per week. Lastly, if you link in, LINK back to my blog, so everyone can see all of the vintage goodies on display that day. If you don't link back here, they won't know who to visit......thanks so much.
I have had a love affair with vintage windows for a mighty long time. Just ask my husband.....I have them stashed by our garage and threatened bodily harm if any suddenly go missing. I have been known to stop and fish them out of peoples trash.....out of scrap piles....and once out of a dumpster.
Don't judge. 
This vintage window is in my hallway.....long before pinterest came into being, these widows have been destined to be picture frames. I have another that is going to be framing something else a little later this year....and other projects for the ones I have stock piled. I seem to have a running theme with things like these old frames...one is never enough. I have to get as many as I can and then figure out what I want to do with them.
Photos, scrapbook paper serves as the backdrop of this old wooden frame. I did not repaint this frame, just a little cleanup work and it was fine like it is.....I love the chippy paint.
This frame is in the hallway at my house. I see lots of hall photo walls on pinterest with the pretty black frames...but for me, this is more my taste...a little battered, a little worn, but filled with things and people I love...sorta like me in a lot of ways.
These prints are not vintage, but they certainly look vintage inspired. I love the stitch work....just my kind of art.
Happy Vintage Thingie Thursday! Have a great week!!
Thanks for hosting one of my favorite parties!
ReplyDeleteI love the old windows! I only have one but it is going to be on a wall soon with photos! Thanks for hosting this wonderful party each week. Hugs, Linda
ReplyDeleteGreat use of vintage windows! Love the stitchery too. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting. ~ sarah
Love them too.
ReplyDeletex jeanetteann
I have a stash of windows too! I have one in my laundry room with a favorite ocean photo blown up. Have a Blessed day! Debbie
ReplyDeleteLove the window frame!
ReplyDeleteI understand about doing or collecting something and then having it become popular, and then folks assume you are following the pack. Yah, like Martha Stewart invented collecting vintage kitchen glassware, seriously.
Personally, I have a set of vintage table legs just waiting to become something wonderful.
Happy Thursday morning to you! I linked up something I think you and your readers might like & I hope fits your criteria! I created and thoroughly tested a "Gma" recipe for Cheap, Organic Facial Moisturizer that ends up only costing $0.75 per 2.5 oz (standard facial moisturizer size)! Thanks for hosting the party once again. Have a great week!
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I have some of those newer stitched pictures too, love them!
ReplyDeleteI also have a love for the windows, i have one that sits in front of my fireplace when its not in use. Another i have put in our bathroom to hold towels! Then i have one sitting in the garage to make a cabinet out of... such charm and perfect chippyness in their paint!
ReplyDeletelove your window frames. I tried to get my neighbor to do the same with one she had behind her shed.
ReplyDeleteI have a storm door off the front of my grandparents house I plan doing pictures and handkerchiefs of my Grandmothers in it.
You seem to have a knack for turning trash into treasures.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe your stitchery isn't vintage. Love them and your windows. Thanks for hosting one of my favorite parties!!!
ReplyDeleteI've always loved architectural accents in the house and in the garden too. I once saw a huge multi-paned window..like from a Tudor style home, used as a partition over a sofa in a great room separating it from the kitchen. It gave the room a whole new outlook.
ReplyDeleteOf course you know I love the embroidered peices and those frames are perfect. Like you, I think new frames need to be softened up. Thanks for the lovely party!
Thank you for hosting this wonderful party. This is my first time here and it's really charming.
ReplyDeleteI find old windows so charming too! Love what you've done with yours and adore your needlework pieces!
ReplyDeleteHappy VTT!
Oh I love to use windows like this. You have done a great job with yours. The shippier (sp) the better!!!! Your pics next to it do look vintage.
ReplyDeleteAnn
I just discovered your party on another blog and linked up. Thanks! I'm also a new follower. Love your blog & your doggies!
ReplyDeleteOoo! I love the old windows as picture frames! VERY neat!!
ReplyDeleteThe window frame is awesome! Scarlett x
ReplyDeleteI love the old window and what you've done to it, it looks right at home! And about your post on my blog, I too had lots of clothes that my grandma made and would give anything to have them back. How silly were we to let these things slip away. Have a great weekend, Nan
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I love your windows! I am the same way!! Mine also have photos in them of special people and occasions. I like to use fine thread tatted dioly or lace for the back drop. But I like the color your papers add. I have one know I'm working on. It will have newere color photos in it, as opposed the the others that have old family photos in them now.
ReplyDeleteI am on the hunt for more...I'm out after this one :(:(
*hugs*deb
i think this is so cool and creative! although i'm not sure if i'm ready to go looking in the dumpster for them ;) hilarious!
ReplyDeleteHi lovely lady.
ReplyDeleteThis is a Great use of vintage windows! Love the stitchery too. I always love coming over to see you. Thanks for hosting your sweet linky party I did miss this one.
Im your newest follow on linky. Hope you have a wonderful week with your family.
XXOO Diane