Hello! I have been at it again...stocking my {new} home with architectural salvage to try and give it that old look that I love so much! My husband sometimes thinks I'm a little crazy for bringing in so much "old stuff," but he is a good sport about it :) When I saw this arched window recently, I just had to have it! I have wanted one for a long time now. The patina on it is perfect! It's a good balance to the darkwood buffet that I have in this corner of the dining room. The buffet is a family heirloom that my husband lovingly refinished a number of years ago, so I can't really paint it like I would like to. I think the window compliments it well...
I hung vintage French book pages and flashcards from a large branch. I have such a love of vintage papers, and if they are French, even better!! :) I'm sure the accessories will change some {because that's how I am}, but for now this is how it will look...
I am off to the Farm Chicks Show tomorrow bright and early with my friend Jen, and I can hardly stand the anticipation! I am rooming with Jen and Tara and am really looking forward to spending time with these fabulous girls and meeting some new friends as well!!! I promise to take lots of pictures of the show to bring home and share with all of you!!!!
I want to also say that I know I have been really absent in blogland lately and I miss all of your beautiful blogs! I have been here a lot lately...
Hopefully I will be all caught up on my gardening in the next week and can have back a wee bit of spare time to enjoy and visit all of your blogs! As always, thank you from the bottom of my heart for visiting my little blog and especially for all of you who leave me such wonderful and loving comments!!!
Have a great weekend!!!
Tracey
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111 comments:
LoVe IT!*!*! Those ChiPPy Old Windows are 2-die-4!!! ~ Not to mention the "PeRfeCtLy ChiPPy" Garden Sign... Eye-Candy Envy+++ Jeanine, ChiPPy!-SHaBBy!
Hi Tracey, ooo I just love your blog and those beautiful pictures. I just fell in love with the white window and that garden sign!!
See ya soon..
Hugs,
Rozmeen
Your new window makes a charming vignette, Tracey! Good find!
Can't wait to hear about the Farm Chicks Show!
I love that tree, everything is so pretty!
~Michelle
What a beautiful collection. I really love the pages hanging from the branch like a tree of knowledge!
Tracey...this is too beautiful for words...I am so in love with those branches and what you did with them,LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! Off to work for 12 hours,that vision will be in my head all day! x0x0x
Very pretty Tracey!! Your vignettes always are!!
I found a box of those old french vocabulary cards last week, and I was so excited!! Aren't they so much fun?!?!
Have a great day!
Polly
I am lovin' your olden window...it looks great where you have it.
Have fun on your trip...
xo bj
completely and absolutely FABULOUS!!!!
Lovely!
Have a nice day!
Best regards Monica
Those windows are beautiful, I also have been looking for something like that. I was able to find a mirror close but not it.
Oh my -- I love the way you put things together -- so beautiful!!!
Have a wonderful time!
Janet
I'm truly taken with your window and your display. I like that the mirror across the room reflects such a wonderful find. Enjoy, enjoy!
Hi Tracey
Your vignette is wonderful and I love that window! It is a great one...Hope all is well with you and I should be in my garden as the weeds have taken over my whole yard! Ugh
Have a great day
Blessings
Rebecca
Love what you've done with your salvage windows, Tracey. Such a beautiful display. Have a most fabulous time at the Farm Chicks show with your buddies!
I adore your new (old) window! I'm looking for something like that to make a headboard with this summer. Thank you for all the beautiful inspiration photos! Have fun tomorrow. -shaunna :)
Love the window and your accents Tracey... Have fun and I will be looking forward to you sharing....
I so love your windows. They look so nice over the wooden piece. I love white but I have inherited wooden pieces as well. You hate to paint those sometimes. Love the tree as well......must try that. Have fun and I can't wait to see the pics.
Oh how I love those windows! You always find the most awesome treasures. And the little nest made from newspaper shreds is brilliant! ~Lili
Your lovely home always makes me so happy! Enjoy your time away at the FC...I soooo wanted to go...family time in Seattle this weekend..maybe next year. Look forward to your photos ...xoxo
You have the best little vignettes! So pretty!
Have a great time at FC!
Michelle
Beautiful!! I wish I had some talent to decorate my home but I get so dizzy trying to think of what to do.
Oh Tracey~
Everything you touch always looks magical!!!!! I am in love with the arched window!!!
Have fun with the Farm Chicks!:-))
Hugs,
Melanie
It looks gorgeous Tracey!!! One more day ! One more day! One more Day!!!!
HI Tracey ~ That old window looks perfect - your mercury glass candleholder collection is soooo nice. It all looks great.
Your arched window is beautiful and I love all your accessories.
Hi Tracey,
I like the old window very much.And the tree with french vocabulary as well.And the glass candleholder collection.....
Greetings from rainy Germany
Sabine
Great window! I will miss you this weekend at Kane but wish you tons of fun at Farm Chicks! Looking forward to your pictures when you return.
Love the window love.
I'm headed to the Farm Chicks,too and cannot wait! Hope you and your friend have a wonderful time!
:)Erin
http://homeswheremyheartis.blogspot.com
beautiful Tracey!
I too have an old window above my dark wood buffet.....
all fantastic pictures!!! and I can't wait to get together when you get back and hear all about it!
Great windows! Love it all!
Theresa
Gorgeous photos, Tracey! Hope you're having a beautiful day!
Julie
Oh I just love arched windows! What a wonderful find! When I visit towns with old houses I am always photographing arched windows and arched doors. My hubby doesn't understand why I take pictures of strangers homes.lol
I love every white, cream, glass, wood, crusty, flaky, stylish, classy, chippy bit - it all looks superb!!!! Jennifer miss you girl, jennsthreegraces pop in...I'm the queen of poison ivy right now :(
everything is beautiful in your post,I love it!
Val
Tracey,
your corner there is just BRILLIANT! I love it AND your photos. Happy gardening!
Love, Katy
Love the window and your wee tree with the cute little cards attached!! do I really get to meet you TOMORROW? we are going to have so much fun... now that reminds me I need to pack! ekkkk! :) muwahh, see you soon! xo
I can see why you love that window...it is lovely! I also like the cloche filled with the little white plates!
Rebecca
Gorgeous!! I'm so in love with the shabby look!! I'm still working on my little work space but the hubby made me a work table from 2 LARGE corbels (that use to hang on an porch on an old old house) and made a shelf above it from an old fire place mantel. I will soon blog pics of my space once it's done:) Truly eye candy you have going on there!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!
The window is divine! Your photos ~ enchanting. Swoon! ~ Angela
j'aime beaucoup!!
Ta petite branche avec ses mots français c'est charmant.
Amitiés
Manon
Tracey this is gorgeous! I love the pic looking through the oval mirror, just beautiful.
I think we've all been a bit absent from blogland lately...it's just a crazy time.
Hugs~
T
Really gorgeous, love the feel that these old windows bring. Glad to see a piece of stained furniture. It fits in so perfectly!
Have super fun at farm chicks!
xo,
Debra
That is one LOVELY window!!
This is all such a pleasure to look at. Really beautiful and original and balanced. This is all I come to blogging world to find! Great to visit. Jacqueline
Thanks for the eye candy, Tracey;)
That window is AMAZING! Seriously incredible! I also love the branches and how you dressed them up. You are going to have such a blast with Tara and Jen...they are both such wonderful women! Can't wait to hear all about it. I will be home most of today...call my cell and MAYBE :-) we can catch up.
Love that arched window, it is beautiful! Your branch looks adorable with all the vintage papers on it, I have been searching for the perfect branch from my yard for quite some time now.
Can't wait to see all of your fun pictures and goodies you find from this weekend! Have fun :)
I am luvin your window as well! I want one too.........Enjoy Farm Chicks~Kim
Beautiful vignette, Tracey. I love everything in it. Have fun at Farm Chicks!
Kathleen
it is so beautiful. I have an old dark wood buffet passed down from my Mother that I would like to paint white someday...but I don't know if she would like that, so for now it remains. That white chippy window does just the trick!
I received your lovely pearl rosary in the mail. Thank you so much Tracey. ox
The windows are gorgeous!
Wow--love it!
your room is beautiful and that window, wow! i think it's just perfect!! you have such a talent for putting things together. i'm always amazed! have fun at farm chicks, one of these days i'm going to get out of buffalo. can't wait to see your beautiful pics!! hugs, susan
I adore your window! It looks perfect on the wooden buffet! You made a wonderful corner! Love your old french paper! Very charming!
Have a great day tomorrow! I'm looking forward seeing the photos!
Vale
OK...Love, love, love, LOVE the arched windows you found!! If I knew where you lived, I would sneek in your house after all were asleep & as quite as a mouse, I would carefully take them out of your house & put them ever so gently into my waiting & running car & without looking back, drive back to CA as fast as I could!!! So tell your hubby you have a cyberstalker now simply because of those amazingly awesome arched windows. LOL He's probably going to make you stop blogging once he hears this! ;)
Smiles & congrats on the lucky score!!!
Susie
Tracey your photos are fabulous!! I LOVE your decor (that window is amazing) and my hubby is right there with yours. Sometimes I just get "the look" , but he still lets me do most anything I want. LOL.
Hugs~
Hi I just wanted to say hello and say that I like your blog alot =)
Greetings from Sweden!
Wow Tracey, it looks fabulous. Love how you put it all together, beautiful!!!
Also a big thanks, I received my Jeanne D'Arc Living Magazine in the post today....beautifully wrapped and the vintages pages were a wonderful surprise. Thanks again,
Kerry
Mmmm....drooling over your window! :) Looks lovely, as always!
Smiles,
Rachel
chippy paint, mercury glass, and french words.............
YUMMMMMMMEEEE
shell
gypsylemonade.blogspot.com
Hi Tracey! LOVE the window. Love to think about the sweet home that it must have come from, too! Your mirror and mercury glass candlesticks are a great compliment to it, across the room. I know that you are going to have a blast at FC and will come away with some great treasures, as you did at Na-Da, as you seem to have a better knack at swooping in and getting the goods than I do! Looking forward to the pictures.
xx Suzanne
Love the window. Hope you have a wonderful time. Can't wait to read all about it!
It's all so gorgeous! I just love your taste=0)
Have a great weekend,
xoxo,
Carol
It's an absolutely wonderful display.
Thank you for the inspiration, have fun at the Farm Chicks.
Margo
This is truly lovely. You have inspired me to seek create my own branches whispering French wisdom. thank you. Felicity
Hi tracey-
It's gorgeous, it fits perfectly on the table! Love how you hung the book pages on the branches, it's so pretty! Have a wonderful time this weekend!
XO
KRistin
Oh window and doors are my weakness.....your new windows are such a wonderful find.
Have a wonderful time at Farm Chicks can't wait to hear all about it,
xo,
LuLu
Hi Tracey,
I adore your beautiful old window, and it looks wonderful with all your decor.
I have an arched window in the stairway, that opens out like yours, but it is not old and chippy.
Enjoy the Farm Chicks show, with your friends.
Hugs
Carolyn
wow! its gorgeous! i have always like the arched windows as well! and you got a beauty! have fun this weekend! i am so jealous! i wish i didnt live so far! cant wait to see the pictures!
oh....my....gosh....do you even know how much I love your window? I DON'T think so!!! This looks wonderful Tracey!
Have fun with your friends at the show.
Hugs,
Debbie@houseatthelake
Oh that window is GORGEOUS! Your style is so, so lovely...I'm just drooling...especially over that mercury glass:)
Fabulous - and a very lucky find.
Everything about this is beautiful!!!
What a brilliant person you are. And so creative. It is a wonderful pleasure to find someone like you.
xx's
Absolutely stunning! You are so creative and I so appreciate your sharing it with us!!! xoxo Beth
Hi Tracey~ lovely vignettes! Just love the little bird in its paper nest...
You are going to have the BEST time this weekend! Oh, how I wish I were going, not so much for the junk, but for the good company.
Have a BLAST!!!
XOXO,
Anne
Simply Stunning! I love that window! Wow so beautiful!!
Brenda
tracey, how do you do it? your home blows me away!
i love how you combine loveliness & simplicity in such fresh and creative ways.
little french pages on the branches? seriously?
gorgeous
i LOVE when you share glimpses into your home!
have a fabulous time at farm chicks!!!
Gorgeous. You have a gife with decorating and such! LOVE your blog! It's the look I love but have a hard time getting! I try anyways! Thanks for the ideas
Ahhh....nothing like some great Girlie time...bloglandia is going to be empty....EVERYBODY is going to Farm Chicks. :-) I hope you have a wonderful time.
LOVE everything in these pix....totally and utterly charming. I'm going to copy the chalkboard paint on the tin vase... YUM.
Huggies,
Spencer
That vignette is PERFECT!!
Nuff' said.
Blessings, Jo
LOVE that window!!! Have a fun weekend!
jen
those look absolutely amazing above the buffet. can you believe i forgot to look at that when i was there last night. perfection!!! have fun this weekend.
love that note tree~
so whimsical and fun.
Hi Tracey,
Oh dear....I'm way down the list of comments and that is probably because I have been 'in the garden' as well !!!! I just LOVE your arched window and wish that I could 'come upon 'one sometime soon !! They don't seem to have caught onto windows in the UK yet !! Everything looks wonderful and, I think that it's lovely that your sideboard (buffet) is wood. I do think that a bit of contrast is good sometimes and it looks as if your husband has spend a lot of time getting it to look so good.
Have a great time at the Farm Chicks Show and take loads of photographs ! XXXX
i love coming here- you have such wonderful ideas. Have fun shopping at farm chicks.
Your windows are so lovely.. just love them.. you know what I love about your blog so much? Your seriously sweet attention to detail.. love the faded charm of the papers!! Love the little French cards hanging from the simplicity of the twigs.. can't stop swooning over these photos. And oh yeah.. I would love to go for coffee someday.. we share a love for vanilla lattes. Have a nice weekend, Tracey.
XO-Lara
WOW! Love that window Tracey!! I have that same crazy love for the architectural salvage! Cant get enough of it!! Everything looks awesome! You are so full of creative inspiration!! Thanks for sharing such Beauty with us!
Wishing you guys a Beautiful weekend! ~ Teresa
LOVELY!! Wann come help me at my house?? It's nice and cool here... with farm fresh eggs...
Gorgeous window, cute garden sign.
That old window looks so beautiful! You are right, it fits that dresser perfectly.
What a beautiful frame you got there and how nice all the leaves from a French book that you've hung in the branches. You poor man's silver candlesticks I also really like, I love it. Happy Sunday. With love, Mea
Oh my goodness Tracey that window is a dream, so wonderful! What a lucky find!!!
I also like the branches with the bookpages, very creative!
Wishing you a happy Sunday
Carola
lovely vignette...have a great weekend! verbena cottage
T! So good to see you! I adore those windows. Really. Am slightly jealous you are going to farm girls without me. :) Have a blast, get some goodies and then come back and tell us all about it so we can live vicariously through you and your adventures. :)
XXX C
Hello Tracy ~I've just strolled in for my first visit...I've enjoyed taking a peek around. Your blog is so beautifully inviting.We share similar tastes for so many of the same creative design elements.
It's wonderful how inspiring blog friends as yourself can be, that's why I love returning the gesture, with summer in our midst it's sure to prompt some creative juices.
I've bookmarked you in my favorites.
I look forward to coming by your charming blog again.
I can't wait to see what treasure you'll be sharing from the Farm Chicks show. I've heard it's wonderful.
Stroll on by for a visit. Your company would be nice.
Sweet wishes,
Sara
Everything loos FABULOUS!!! LOVE it!!!
xo
Traci
i LOVE your style and you never disapoint. i am 31 and i love "old stuff" too.
Tracey....oh my gosh I just got my magazine!!!!Have just flipped through it quickly but I think it could be my favorite issue so far...and thank you so much for the lovely papers,already put the music sheet under a cloche in the sunroom! Gotta go...JDA calling! Thanks again! x0x0
The window is gorgeous...and I've been hiding in the same place as you ;o)
Hey there ;)
Great post and pictures, I love the light in your picturesit seems so clear and fresh!
I will add you to my list , so if you are interested in swapping links pease pass by and say hi ;)
I will have a give away this week for my US readers!
Greetings from Amsterdam,
desiree
Love your blog.
i have given you an award, you can find it over at my blog:
http://casarue2658.blogspot.com/
have a great day. donna
Gorgeous as usual! I love the tree branches with the flash cards!
xo,
Adrienne
Hello Tracey,
I just wanted to tell you again how much I love this post! I can't get over this window you found!!!
It is beautiful. I just love how you have this area styled. You are AMAZING!!!
You inspire me in so many ways!
Talk to you soon,
Your friend,
Maria
I don't have a blog and I really love yours ~ saw your house on houzz.com, Neat!
Wow. I just found your blog and I am really enjoying rummaging through it! Love Love Love the arched window. It looks great with your husbands vintage buffet. The wood on the buffet looks dreamy too. I think it is great to keep some gorgeous wood pieces to accent the white. Beautiful
Wow.
The window is a dream !
And your blog too.
Nice !
Julia
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