Making our Home warm and cozy!!!

Hi my Prims, as you know Mr. Hillcrest and I went out ALL day yesterday and had a ball. We bought alot for our home that we truly love, and we are also looking into land already for TN where we want to move, sooner than later!!!! It looks like we will need a larger moving truck if we keep shopping for antiques, LOL.

Here is my quilt that I bought yesterday and washed it last night.  It was made by an older lady and it was passed down from her to her daughter to her granddaughter and I was very lucky to buy it! I love the colors, they are all different color blues and some soft pale so here is a far away picture and a close up...

Now, here is a close up..

As you all know if you read my last post, I bought 5 blue jars and already had 4 here, so my Hubby and I went to the hardware store and he me made a shelf and I painted it black and it looks great with the blue jars. It shows up great. So here  it is during the process...

Here is the ALMOST finished...

How I love my blue jars, here is a full view...

One more view because I added a few things, like the black basket that I bought yesterday and the wooden spoons that I painted on your left.

I love it, I am sure I will be tweaking alot this week, but that is what we do. I want our homestead kitchen to be warm and inviting. We want our family and friends to come in and feel at home and NOT want to leave. I have been collecting crocks, scales( which I have 6 of them now), wooden bowls, I have some many I can't count, we have tin punch lighting, homespun curtains and tabacco curtains that we love.I have a stove board that I am ALWAYS changing , I also collect all yellow ware and now I am collecting redware. The last thing I love to do in my kitchen is bake and cook and you will always find me in there doing just that!!!


As you know from my post yesterday we found a firkin that has legs on it and I put it in the livingroom for my Hubby, check it out..

Here are two views...

We love it, also we bought a LARGE firkin that I showed a picture of in my last post and a small one as well, here is where I put them, in our kitchen....

The bottom one is the HUGE one, here is a another shot....

In the bottom is an off white and brown  crock, I put about 5 rolling pins in it but I forgot to take a picture of that, SORRY!!

I am very pleased how it all came together!!!!!
In the livingroom we bought 2 more cheese crocks, at least that is what I call them so now I have 4, here is what they look like in the farmhouse cabinet.

I sure do love old things and we will be adding on a screen porch this summer because we have an in ground pool and a wrap around deck so the top deck will be screened in and maybe we can make it into an all season porch with windows, after that we are going to do a face lift and hire some people to repaint our home and then I will be in my GARDENS!!!! I can't wait for that!!!!

Here are a few more things that I bought and put in our bedroom...

It is kind of dark but it is old blue, old green and old red and we love them!

Here is another makeover I did today, check it out..

 I put it in the hallway..

Another view..

Here is some tweaking I did today..

That is all for now, I am pooped and I am going to sit with my Hubby and have a HOT cup of tea and do a cross stitch that I bought!!!!!

Don't forget I have a BIG surprise to tell all my faithful followers when the time is right.
Til next time my Prims, I hope you enjoyed my post and if you have and ideas of things I can tweak please let me know because I am a very easy going person and that is how we learn from each other.

Please be kind to each other because there are alot of people out there that are MEAN and ROTTEN, and are not worth the time of day.

I know that I am very blessed for the true friends that I have but mostly my family, and sometimes I should have listened to them, even my 19 year old said something after a recent incident and I should have listened.  Can you believe a 19 year old made this statement, "people are not what you think they are", I always am kind and caring and wear my heart on my sleeve and I WILL not change. Een my Hubby was right about alot of people that use you and lie and turn things around, but my true friends here and family know it is BULL,  but enough of that. I know I can lay my head down and sleep with no problem, we ALL have to face our maker one day!!!!

I am here to enjoy colonial, prims and country and share special thoughts and ideas with you!!!

Until next time!!!

Prim Blessings,
Tricia