Organized Clutter

I found this tip on Pinterest on using coconut oil to refinish furniture. Pinterest Link

Today I made another trio of junk pumpkins. Again I am using junk drawer parts and vintage kitchen cookware.  This time individual aluminum Jello molds.  

This is why the birdhouses in my yard are just for decorative purposes.  The squirrels chew them all up.  Mostly enlarging the holes, but also chewing up the sides and tops too.  With these large holes, no birds would ever nest in one.  

I started my display with an old stoneware jug with an autumn faux floral spray. Some of these floral spray mixtures are really nice.  

I haven't written a thrifting post for a while so I decided it was high time. First of all I purchase this four piece vintage, ceramic canister set with wood lids for $6.  I like the grape and pear theme, and they will be showing up very soon on my early fall mantel.

As you know, I love decorating with vintage collectibles.  Today I am fall-i-fying a clear glass oil lamp.  I know.  It's pretty early to roll out the fall decor, but as long as I don't put any outside, the neighbors won't talk! Here's the  vintage Enesco pheasant figurine  that I found last fall thrifting.  I love its fall colors.  A velvet pumpkin from Jo Ann fabrics is in front.  (I didn't make it, but I got it 30% off).  And then there's the clear glass oil lamp. 

I found another cake pan at the thrift shop for $2. It was an iridescent orange pumpkin cake pan.  I gave it a makeover with more paint, a hammer, sandpaper, E6000 glue and junk.

Last June I was lucky enough to win a very cool burlap coffee sack on  BJ's Sweet Nothings blog  courtesy of  Home a la Mode. I was pretty excited to win seeing as how I love burlap, and I'm usually not very lucky.   BJ had every confidence in me that I would be super creative, and come up with an original idea.  Well, I put part of the coffee sack on a chair seat.  I'm pretty sure it's been done, but it is  cute  on the little $3 garage sale chair. I still have another project in mind with the  coffee sack leftovers.  

Today actually started off pretty ordinary, until I saw a message on my Facebook Page from Debbie Manno (Debbiedoo's)  suggesting that I might want to check a link to Southern Belle Magazine. So I did, and there were my " Whimsical and Quirky " Gardens on Pages 26 and 27.  It was pretty exciting to say the least! If you want to check out the online and interactive version of Southern Belle magazine, click on the photo.   If you click on any of my photos ( on pages 26 and 27 ) you will be directed to my blog posts on each.   Thanks Southern Belle Magazine and thanks Debbie Manno! Follow  ORGANIZED CLUTTER In A Reader. Follow  ORGANIZED CLUTTER by Email. Follow  ORGANIZED CLUTTER on Facebook. Follow   ORGANIZED CLUTTER on Twitter. Follow  ORGANIZED CLUTTER on Bloglovin'.

Signs are perfect with the cottage, junk style of my gardens and yard.  I am not a sign painter, and I don't have to be one either, as I have two friends who paint great signs. This "Garden of Weed'n" sign on old weathered wood has been a fixture in my front flower border for years .