BLUE MONDAY IN MY AMERICANA BATH PART 3

Hello and welcome to Blue Monday hosted by Smiling Sally. Thank you Sally for hosting this fun event!

I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day! I had a wonderful day relaxing on the front porch, hubby cooked on the grill so I was able to read and garden. Great Day!!!!



Today is my last post on my Americana Bath. If you have not been here before take a look at my last two Blue Monday posts to see the other pics, if you'd like. It's quite a large bath so I had lots of room to work with. I love this room, it really makes me smile. It's a guest bath, thank goodness I would not want to dust this every week! LOL


Last week I told you that I would show you closups of these cute little cottages by Brandywine Collectables. I collected them through the years while on vacation in the Outer Banks. NC.

The detail in them is amazing. I usually bring downstairs the one's in season to use for vignettes. If you click on the picture you can get a better look at them.

Another Betsy Ross cross stitch. I think she is so sweet!

Some cute little collectables on a dowel tree. I loved cross stitching the little apple pie alamode with a flag. My favorite desert!

This magazine rack I picked up for a dollar at a flea market, painted it in the wall color and put on a piece of the wallpaper border.

Waste basket was from the dollar store, then just glued on some wallpaper.

Bear was a thrift store find then I dolled her up with lace and a flag.

A cute little cone hat that I've just recently made using vintage ledger and images.

I found this cute little print in a gift shop last month.

This little cross stitch sachet bag was so much fun to stitch. I love stitching little vignettes like this.

I hope you enjoyed looking at all my pics of my Americana Bath as much as I enjoyed showing them to you! Blogging is so much fun!

Bless you, Shirl

BLUE MONDAY IN MY AMERICANA BATH

Hello and welcome to Blue Monday hosted by Sally of Smiling Sally. If you go to her blog you can get a list of all the other participants.
Today I'm showing you part one of my Amerciana Bath. I have always loved the Americana look and have collected things in this style for years. I had them packed away in a box since my home is being taking over by the pink and white shabby cottage look. LOL
I took so many pics and it is quite a large room, so much too look at, so I thought it best I break it up into 3 parts.


Here's a closeup of the wallpaper border. My friend Celeste from Celestina Marie Designs helped me to choose a paint color for the walls. Thank you Celeste for the great advise!

I tried to get a pic of each wall in here today and in the next few posts I will put close ups of all the pretties. I have alot of needlework in this room. Some that I treasure.

This bath is in the new part of our pre-civil war home and I designed it after a bath in my Aunt's Victorian home that I would spend a month with every summer when I was growing up. Her home was a treasure trove of beautiful things that all us cottage chic girls are collecting today. My Aunt's was not decorted in the Americana look, her's was pink and white true cottage vintage chic. I just styled the bones of the room like hers. White wainscoting, window molding and corner blocks.

I had always loved the pedestal sinks and was so happy to get one for this bath. My Aunt had one in her old Victorian house too.

The curtains are very old but I still love them. They are Dorothy's Ruffled Orginials from back in the 80's. You just can't find curtains with so many ruffles.

My Aunt's bath had a claw foot tub which I could not talk my husband into. Darn!

I remember my Aunt having a built in shelf like this in her bathroom so I had to have my husband build this for me. It took alot of time but I had to have it. LOL

I hope you enjoyed part one of my Americana Bath. Be sure to stop back for part 2 next Monday. Have a great week!

Bless you, Shirl