Why?
Because we've just opened an Etsy shop! Here are a few of our items. Whether your style is farmhouse, cottage, boho, or some eclectic combo, we have vintage items to suit your decor.
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Showing posts with label milk glass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label milk glass. Show all posts
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Special Announcement!
We're very excited here at Quince Cottage...
Why?
Because we've just opened an Etsy shop! Here are a few of our items. Whether your style is farmhouse, cottage, boho, or some eclectic combo, we have vintage items to suit your decor.
This collage represents a few of our currently available pieces. You can see all of them here on our blog, or just go straight to the shop here. We're adding new inventory all the time.
Why?
Because we've just opened an Etsy shop! Here are a few of our items. Whether your style is farmhouse, cottage, boho, or some eclectic combo, we have vintage items to suit your decor.
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Instagram 5K Giveaway!
Welcome to Quince Cottage!
You've chosen a great time to visit, because you're just in time to read about our Fantastic 5K Giveaway!
If you've visited before, you know we love and collect milk glass. In fact, our collection has outgrown not only one, but TWO, cabinets. But we're not hoarders, honest. So, given that we can only hoard, er "display properly", a reasonable amount of milk glass, we've decided to spread the love to our followers.
So, this is the milk glass portion of the giveaway... It includes two footed pieces, a mini bud vase, and a small round vase. Oh, and a velvet bookmark Rhiann made using vintage beads!
Now, to make things even more WONDERFUL, our dear friend Lynn at Paris Hotel Boutique is helping us celebrate the 5K milestone by adding this spectacular hotel silver teapot AND antique French menu to the giveaway. Isn't that incredibly generous? She sells the most stunning antiques and fabulous jewelry from her website ParisHotelBoutique.com (be sure to wear a bib when you visit, because otherwise you'll drool all over your keyboard).
Now you're all grabby hands, right, wondering how to make all this marvelous loot YOURS?
Here's what you do.
1. Follow Quince Cottage on Instagram here.
2. Follow Paris Hotel Boutique on Instagram here.
3. Leave your Instagram name on both our posts about the Giveaway (those will go up Sunday May 22, 2016. Be sure to "like" the posts. Tag as many friends as you want, one per line, (each tag will count as an entry for you).
4. Contest only open to those 18 years of age or older, who live within the contiguous U.S. (sorry, the shipping costs too much otherwise).
Boom! Done! The contest will be open Sunday - Wednesday May 25, 2016. The winner will be chosen randomly. We will announce the winner Saturday May 28, 2016. The contest is not affiliated with Instagram in any way.
Buster passed out when he heard about this giveaway.
And Daisy, well she said you'd be a *bleep fool, if you don't enter! (Yes, she swears like a sailor).
See you on Instagram!
You've chosen a great time to visit, because you're just in time to read about our Fantastic 5K Giveaway!
If you've visited before, you know we love and collect milk glass. In fact, our collection has outgrown not only one, but TWO, cabinets. But we're not hoarders, honest. So, given that we can only hoard, er "display properly", a reasonable amount of milk glass, we've decided to spread the love to our followers.
So, this is the milk glass portion of the giveaway... It includes two footed pieces, a mini bud vase, and a small round vase. Oh, and a velvet bookmark Rhiann made using vintage beads!
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Now, to make things even more WONDERFUL, our dear friend Lynn at Paris Hotel Boutique is helping us celebrate the 5K milestone by adding this spectacular hotel silver teapot AND antique French menu to the giveaway. Isn't that incredibly generous? She sells the most stunning antiques and fabulous jewelry from her website ParisHotelBoutique.com (be sure to wear a bib when you visit, because otherwise you'll drool all over your keyboard).
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| © Paris Hotel Boutique |
Here's what you do.
1. Follow Quince Cottage on Instagram here.
2. Follow Paris Hotel Boutique on Instagram here.
3. Leave your Instagram name on both our posts about the Giveaway (those will go up Sunday May 22, 2016. Be sure to "like" the posts. Tag as many friends as you want, one per line, (each tag will count as an entry for you).
4. Contest only open to those 18 years of age or older, who live within the contiguous U.S. (sorry, the shipping costs too much otherwise).
Boom! Done! The contest will be open Sunday - Wednesday May 25, 2016. The winner will be chosen randomly. We will announce the winner Saturday May 28, 2016. The contest is not affiliated with Instagram in any way.
Buster passed out when he heard about this giveaway.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Quince Cottage Style is #agrarianchic - a mix of old and new, rustic and opulent.
Our goal is to make our new subdivision house look inviting, beautiful,
and as though it wasn't born yesterday!
Monday, December 21, 2015
Setting the Holiday Table
Welcome to Quince Cottage!
It's getting pretty close to Christmas, and we've figured out the menu. How about you? Once the food questions were decided, we turned our attention to setting the table.
We like things to be easy whenever possible and yet, we get bored when things always look the same. Here's a little tutorial meant to inspire you. We didn't spend hours layering china patterns, creating elaborate centerpieces, or hand-writing place cards. These looks are simple and practical, but offer variety, with very little effort. Also, none of the china, glassware, or napkins are specifically Christmas. We don't know about you, but our storage space is limited, and we like our tableware to work for more than one occasion.
Start with your basic centerpiece concept, whatever that might be. This year we decided to include some of our favorite things: milk glass, pine cones, mercury glass and pompoms! In all the tablescapes below there's a faux fur runner and three compotes filled with either the pine cones or the pompoms.
Look #1. we went with a natural and neutral theme, using taupe gingham place mats, beige/white damask napkins and white china plates and milk glass tumblers.
Look #2. Here we incorporated cheery red with a tablecloth, napkins, and Bohemian crystal glassware. The plates stayed the same.
Here's a closer look at some of those snowmen. Aren't they cute?
Look #3 is basically the same but we fancied up the napkins a tiny bit by tying a glass pine cone ornament on with twine.
Look #4. Here we used brown transferware plates and a colorful plaid napkin. That's a lot of pattern, so we simplified the glassware to clear crystal tumblers.
Look #5. By the way, it's perfectly okay to mix plaids, stripes, ginghams and other prints. Just be sure there's something uniting them - in this case, the color red. White plates again, a pine cone "garnish" and the crystal juice glasses. This would be a fun breakfast setting, wouldn't it?
Look #6. Back to the red glassware, and a napkin ring with Russian khokhloma painting.
Look #7 This one is quite playful, isn't it? Normally we use our jadeite in the summer, but we thought it looked cool with this plaid napkin, a vintage Shiny Bright ornament, and a mason jar mug.
All these place settings were the work of about three minutes each, and the combinations are practically endless. Stealing decorative items from other vignettes or Mother Nature is highly recommended. We used to have a book on artsy napkin-folding and if you have the time and interest, by all means impress your guests with your skills.
Which look is your favorite?
Daisy provided moral support, or maybe she was just hoping a meal was about to be served in the dining room.
It's getting pretty close to Christmas, and we've figured out the menu. How about you? Once the food questions were decided, we turned our attention to setting the table.
We like things to be easy whenever possible and yet, we get bored when things always look the same. Here's a little tutorial meant to inspire you. We didn't spend hours layering china patterns, creating elaborate centerpieces, or hand-writing place cards. These looks are simple and practical, but offer variety, with very little effort. Also, none of the china, glassware, or napkins are specifically Christmas. We don't know about you, but our storage space is limited, and we like our tableware to work for more than one occasion.
Start with your basic centerpiece concept, whatever that might be. This year we decided to include some of our favorite things: milk glass, pine cones, mercury glass and pompoms! In all the tablescapes below there's a faux fur runner and three compotes filled with either the pine cones or the pompoms.
Look #1. we went with a natural and neutral theme, using taupe gingham place mats, beige/white damask napkins and white china plates and milk glass tumblers.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Look #2. Here we incorporated cheery red with a tablecloth, napkins, and Bohemian crystal glassware. The plates stayed the same.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Look #5. By the way, it's perfectly okay to mix plaids, stripes, ginghams and other prints. Just be sure there's something uniting them - in this case, the color red. White plates again, a pine cone "garnish" and the crystal juice glasses. This would be a fun breakfast setting, wouldn't it?
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Which look is your favorite?
Daisy provided moral support, or maybe she was just hoping a meal was about to be served in the dining room.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Quince Cottage Style mixes old and new, rustic and opulent.
Our goal is to make our new subdivision house look inviting, beautiful,
and as though it wasn't born yesterday!
Friday, December 4, 2015
Quince Cottage Holiday Home Tour
Welcome to Quince Cottage!
We've been busy adding holiday touches to our home and we'd like to share them with you.
Let's begin with a few photos of our front porch.
Isn't that red and white metal picnic basket fun?
As you can see, we didn't hang the snowflake garland straight across, you know, the "normal" way. Instead we wanted to give the effect of a little snow flurry in one corner of the porch.
Once inside, we moved some of our milk glass to the cubby display, and added some greenery, cotton, plaid, and vintage Shiny Bright ornaments.
In the dining room, we hung a pompom twig wreath in each of the four windows. For the DIY, click here.
We also assembled our snowman collection on our buffet, and did a quick 'n' easy greenery arrangement in our $5 yard sale silver-plated champagne bucket.
And we've been playing around with various table settings. Here's one featuring more of our milk glass collection (and more pompoms).
Okay, Rhiann is a bit obsessed with pompoms.
On to the living room! We filled the basket on our coffee table with greenery, a candle, and a jumbo pine cone we picked up (literally) on the University campus in Wilmington (wish we'd taken some more).
As you can see, we've done a gallery wall behind the sofa. We have a plan for what to put in the picture frames, but for now we used leftover scraps of fabrics we've used for pillows in the room.
We were so happy to have this antique cabinet for a display space. We'll be doing a DIY post on how we freshened up its look. Right now it's playing host to our collections of white pitchers and mercury glass, and to a winter wonderland just for our Snow Babies. The greenery up on top is an ordinary fake evergreen garland, augmented with more artificial greenery, glass ornaments, an owl, and some wired burlap ribbon.
A close up...
Our mantel is always Rhiann's favorite part of the house to decorate.
This is a close up of the left side. We just love using cotton, and this is the real deal, not the artificial version. We're lucky to have cotton fields in our part of North Carolina. For those of you who might not have seen what one of those looks like, here you go.
Magical isn't it?
Here's a close up of the right side of the mantle. We're totally in love with that rusty bird and vine garland. We got it at a shop called Affordable Chic in Raleigh.
Here's our house angel. Rhiann made a little seasonal crown for her. She looks pleased.
Finally, the piece de resistance, our Christmas tree! This year we took some branches from a nearby wooded area, gave them a "birch" look with some white paint, wired glass icicles onto them, and stuck them into the tree. The topper is paper. Our ornaments are mostly glass and have been collected over time.
Look what we found this year to add to the tree!
Here's a last little touch of Christmas - can you believe we scored these vintage Shiny Bright ornaments at a charity thrift shop for $1.79 (for all 15 of them!)?
Buster and Daisy have been VERY good doggies.
We've been busy adding holiday touches to our home and we'd like to share them with you.
Let's begin with a few photos of our front porch.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
As you can see, we didn't hang the snowflake garland straight across, you know, the "normal" way. Instead we wanted to give the effect of a little snow flurry in one corner of the porch.
Once inside, we moved some of our milk glass to the cubby display, and added some greenery, cotton, plaid, and vintage Shiny Bright ornaments.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
We also assembled our snowman collection on our buffet, and did a quick 'n' easy greenery arrangement in our $5 yard sale silver-plated champagne bucket.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
And we've been playing around with various table settings. Here's one featuring more of our milk glass collection (and more pompoms).
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Okay, Rhiann is a bit obsessed with pompoms.
On to the living room! We filled the basket on our coffee table with greenery, a candle, and a jumbo pine cone we picked up (literally) on the University campus in Wilmington (wish we'd taken some more).
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
We were so happy to have this antique cabinet for a display space. We'll be doing a DIY post on how we freshened up its look. Right now it's playing host to our collections of white pitchers and mercury glass, and to a winter wonderland just for our Snow Babies. The greenery up on top is an ordinary fake evergreen garland, augmented with more artificial greenery, glass ornaments, an owl, and some wired burlap ribbon.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nole |
Our mantel is always Rhiann's favorite part of the house to decorate.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
The morning sunlight is really pretty, don't you think? Even better with the fire lit!
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Here's a close up of the right side of the mantle. We're totally in love with that rusty bird and vine garland. We got it at a shop called Affordable Chic in Raleigh.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Here's our house angel. Rhiann made a little seasonal crown for her. She looks pleased.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Finally, the piece de resistance, our Christmas tree! This year we took some branches from a nearby wooded area, gave them a "birch" look with some white paint, wired glass icicles onto them, and stuck them into the tree. The topper is paper. Our ornaments are mostly glass and have been collected over time.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Buster and Daisy have been VERY good doggies.
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| © Rhiann Wynn-Nolet |
Quince Cottage Style mixes old and new, rustic and opulent.
Our goal is to make our new subdivision house look inviting, beautiful,
and as though it wasn't born yesterday!
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