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Days of Old

My friend, Maegan has a BEAUTIFUL house!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She has an eye for beauty. Her house reminds me of Pottery Barn, Ballard Designs, the beach and a farm house all in one! LOVE!

This week she found this basket for me and told me of a great place that had a lot of antique mason jars.
This is the look for our new farm table right now.
I love all things old/vintage.

Comments

A.K.W. said…
Very nice! We have some old mason jars that were my Grandma's which are filled with glass beads in one of our bedrooms upstairs but I live on a actual farm though!

When we first moved down here we built a earth home then a while later we had to build a 2nd story since our earth home was having too much condensation so we've lived upstairs for 9 years now (got it ready just in time for my brother's wedding reception even though their catered Indian food didn't get here on time).

Amy
6:48 PM
Nancy said…
Love it!
9:00 PM
Father's Grace Ministries said…
I love this look too, Laurie! Although we haven't found any real Mason Jars yet, we are slowly replacing many of our pantry containers with glass jars we've gathered here and there.
We've also started to collect 2nd-hand enamelware cups/bowls for our 3 yr old boys to use instead of plastic,
Have you visited the fun, Christian website http://www.sugarpiefarmhouse.com/ with Aunt Ruthie- I love it and it's very vintage!
Claire
9:49 PM
Father's Grace Ministries said…
I love this look too, Laurie! Although we haven't found any real Mason Jars yet, we are slowly replacing many of our pantry containers with glass jars we've gathered here and there.
We've also started to collect 2nd-hand enamelware cups/bowls for our 3 yr old boys to use instead of plastic,
Have you visited the fun, Christian website http://www.sugarpiefarmhouse.com/ with Aunt Ruthie- I love it and it's very vintage!
Claire
9:51 PM
PrincessM said…
Hi Laurie
I'm a long time lurker and love your blog =) With that said... I know your love of birds and found a picture that had me cracking up as I thought of you.

It's on pinterest

http://pinterest.com/pin/156218680794331567/
10:07 PM
Michelle said…
It's just perfect for your new table! I love vintage stuff, too. :)
10:54 AM
The B Family said…
Love mason jars! I raided my grandma's kitchen a couple of years ago and have lots of them! So many fun uses! They fit right in with our old house in the country. :) Does your friend have a blog? I'd love seeing her ideas!
1:23 PM
Kelli said…
I LOVE old mason jars. They look so nice on your prett new table.
Kelli
3:59 PM
Alyssa said…
That is SO neat! My grandpa gave me a bunch of old jars. I think I need to find me a basket like that and stick it on my dining table. Thanks for a great idea!!!
6:50 PM
Karin said…
http://cherryhillcottage.typepad.com/cherryhill_cottage/2012/02/love-conquers-all.html

Your mason jars remind me of the ones at Cherry Hill Cottage. Have you seen her blog? She used to have a really cute display of her mason jars. She put them in an old round canning rack, the kind that holds your jars when you put them in the canner to boil- not sure what its called. Anyway, I looked high and low for one of those things forever and then figured out I had one in my old canner in the attic. She uses it to hold her mason jars and then puts a few daisies in each mason jar. It is so cute!
6:54 AM
Maegan said…
Laurie, I do LOVE your wire basket and jars. I love the idea about the fresh flowers you are putting in the middle jar each week. I really would love to come over and bring in some "cottage!" Thanks for your sweet comments. I don't feel that way about my house.
4:33 PM
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