Milk White Ware Mantel

I indulged my new love of all things white on my mom’s fireplace mantel this week.  While taking down the holiday directions and rearranging the store room I noticed several pieces of vintage milk white ware.  The next afternoon I stopped in a thrift shop and again my eye was drawn to a milk white vase which I bought because…I have a new love of all things white.  I picked up a few branches of pussy willows and headed to mom’s.  I used a white lace curtain valance and placed some of the white pieces on it.  Mom loves it and so do I.  Then of course, I kept looking at it and improving it. 
I’ve been staying with my mom helping her out and preparing her for hip surgery.  It has been bitterly cold since Christmas so when we got a 51 F day, I hopped into my car and headed out.  It was still a bit too cold for mom, she opted to stay in.  I ran a few errands for her then stopped in at an antique store at the edge of town.  There is so much to rummage through there, it’s amazing.  Unfortunately the buildings are not heated and the sunny 51 degrees did not extend inside.  I strolled rather quickly through the isles stopping at a collection of white ware and picked up the cute little pedestal creamer you see in the photo. 

                      

Here are a couple of other pieces around the living room.

I love that the Christmas cactus is blooming!

DIL and little grand found this abandoned nest. I put some clay eggs in it. 

             Are you caught up in the "decorate with white" world yet? 

I often link up at these parties…

You know you're "vintage" when...

You know you are "vintage" when:

• The typewriter you learned to type on in high school shows up on the Antique Roadshow.
• When your grandchild finds an old four sided camera flash cube in the kitchen junk drawer and wants to know "what is that?"
• When Hobby Holly's lunch box comes up on Pinterest as "I remember when" and you know your YOUNGER sister had one. (she's still mad at me for painting in and carrying it as a purse)
• You know how to turn off the TV without a remote.
• You can set up a "vintage" mantel vignette from your wedding gifts.
• When you start to hoard old junk because you just know there will be a neat use for it on Pinterest soon.
• When you read a story to your grand kids about "grandma's attic" and you have one.
• You can make a canning jar lid wreath, and you didn't have to buy the lids.
• And all those old Ball canning jars in the garage...are collectible!
• When you hear someones cell ring tone...and it sounds like you remember the rotary phones USED to.

 (If you're wondering what "rotary" is...you aren't vintage.)

How about you.  Are you "vintage"?