All Mixed Up

For a while now I've wanted to collect mixed plates and teacups. It's only taken me forever to get started! I'm not sure why. I see pretty plates and teacups at thrift stores and flea markets all the time. But these two above did the trick. One vendor had both of them, and they just looked so pretty together. I'd like to collect mixed plates just to use everyday but also to hang a collection on the wall. My colors are yellow, green, red, and blue, so I'm looking out for any plates that have those colors or combinations of colors. I also bought these teacup trios below.

More on teacups later, though, back to plates for now. I've seen lots of inspiring plate collections, and here are just a few. The last example from Patchwork and Harmony is my favorite, and she also has a good post on how to hang them using invisible plate hangers. 

From top to bottom, I found these here: one, two, three, four, five. 

Blooming Heads

Ya'll know I love lady head vases even though I don't actually own the first one, and I've never even seen flowers in one before. Mom and I stopped into an antique mall in McDonough when I was in town, and I spotted this stash of lady head vases on the bottom shelf of a cabinet. (I can't remember the name of it the antique mall--I'll have to ask my mom.) These weren't as great as the ones I saw a while back at the Alameda Flea Market, but still, I think they look so cute all together in this picture. Could their eyelashes be any more exaggeratedly long? There was even a boy head vase! I've never seen a boy one before. It's interesting how his eyes are open and facing forward, which you rarely see in the female vases.