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Collecting Old Clocks: Always on Lake Time Where Time Stands Still

whitearrowshome@gmail.com — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:13:55 +0000

I love collecting old clocks that have been stopped in time. I say they are on lake time, where time stands still.

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THRIFTING WITH THE GALS

Its fun sharing thrifting adventures with you over on Instagram Stories as I shop my local antique shops in Minocqua, Wisconsin and on my travels.

My Thrifting With The Gals friends share too from where they live around the country, in Vermont and Maine, North Carolina and Florida, Texas and Minnesota.

Search our hashtag, #thriftingwiththegals to follow the series I love passing on their adventures to you too.

Monthly we Thrifting Gals hosts come together for a blog hop sharing how we decorate with our finds in our homes.

Usually there are some amazing upcycling projects too.

Thanks so much to Ann Dabbling & Decorating starting this fun group years ago.

SUBSCRIBE HERE so you don’t miss any inspiration!

MEET THE GALS

Ann @ Dabbling & Decorating | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Rachel @ The Ponds Farmhouse | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Kristin @ White Arrows Home | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Robyn @ Robyn’s French Nest | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Lora B @ Create and Ponder | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

And Our Guest Host

Cindy @ DIY Beautify | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

If you are coming over from Cindy’s at DIY Beautify and her beautiful wooden pedestal and cloche post, welcome now to Wisconsin and our lake house.

You’ll find links to all the gals blogs at the bottom of this post.

WELCOME TO CAMP PARADISE

We live on the shores of a gin clear lake in the Northwoods of Wisconsin where hundreds of lakes provide recreation opportunities and quiet, peaceful moments.

Visitors come from all over to vacation here and even though we live here full time, we never take the blessing of this place for granted.

When you are at the lake it is like time stands still, you can have no agenda, get lost in your activity or book or take a nap.

THRIFTING WITH THE GALS

Over the years of sharing with my Thrifting Gals, you’ve gotten a peek into many of my collections and favorite vintage finds.

You can watch on YouTube too for videos of me sharing my treasures.

You can also read some of my previous posts:

This month I’m sharing my vintage clock collection which brings me back to that lake time thought.

Most of my old clocks don’t work anymore or I haven’t wound them up.

They are frozen in time.

So I say they are on lake time.

Vintage Clocks

I love to style these old clocks all around my house.

One of the best things about beginning to collect old clocks is that they can be found so inexpensively.

I also run across them often, but not so often that it doesn’t feel like a treasure hunt.

One of my favorite things about antique and vintage items is wondering what their story is.

Who did these clocks belong to?

Where did they keep them?

What was happening in their life when the clock stopped on the time that is on the face now?

With different shapes and sizes of clocks I can style them into bookcases, place them on nightstands, on desks or end tables.

They look great anywhere!

Pocket Watches

I also have a little milk glass bowl full of pocket watches that I love.

White Arrows Home the Shop

Did you know I own an antique shop?

It’s worth coming to Wisconsin to visit White Arrows Home!

Not able to make the trip?

You can always shop online from anywhere. Our entire store is online.

We bring new treasures into The Shop every day.

We post all week, but on Monday’s I do a LIVE Tour on the Shop’s Instagram and Fridays I host Kristin’s Friday Favorites LIVE Sale over on Facebook where 8-10 items from the different collections around the shop are 15% OFF!

Thermos Thursday

Love the thermos in the photo above? Are you a collector?

Join me on Thursdays over on Instagram for #thermosthursday, the weekly hashtag party where fellow collectors of vintage thermos, jugs and coolers come together to show their finds.

There is so much inspiration and its such a great way to meet new friends.

Shop Vintage Clocks

Next up you are headed over to my talented friend Robyn’s house and blog Robyn’s French Nest where she is sharing 15 ideas to decorate for free.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

TAKE THE TOUR

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT?

FOLLOW ALONG

Instagram ~ Facebook ~ Pinterest ~ X ~ YouTube ~ Tik Tok ~ Liketoknow.it ~Threads

YOU CAN JOIN ONE OF MY FREE FACEBOOK GROUPS:

Join my Fireside Book Club over on Facebook. Request to join HERE.

Join my Call Me Old Fashioned Group over on Facebook. Request to join HERE.

Join my Fun Finds + Fabulous Deals Group over on Facebook. Request to join HERE.

Join the White Arrows Home Wellness Society HERE.

LOOKING FOR CONNECTION?

Join one of the clubs at my shop located in our Paddle Club.

We have game nights, book clubs, cookbook clubs, craft clubs, workshops and events.

You can see what’s coming up next and sign up HERE.

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Come Over For Cake: Beautiful Thrifted Vintage Cake Plates and Cake Carriers

whitearrowshome@gmail.com — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:21:00 +0000

(Affiliate links are used for your convenience. Read my full disclosure here.)

THRIFTING WITH THE GALS

Its fun sharing thrifting adventures with you over on Instagram Stories as I shop my local antique shops in Minocqua, Wisconsin and on my travels.

My Thrifting With The Gals friends share too from where they live around the country, in Vermont and Maine, North Carolina and Florida, Texas and Minnesota.

Search our hashtag, #thriftingwiththegals to follow the series I love passing on their adventures to you too.

Monthly we Thrifting Gals hosts come together for a blog hop sharing how we decorate with our finds in our homes.

Usually there are some amazing upcycling projects too.

Thanks so much to Ann Dabbling & Decorating starting this fun group years ago.

SUBSCRIBE HERE so you don’t miss any inspiration!

MEET THE GALS

Ann @ Dabbling & Decorating | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Rachel @ The Ponds Farmhouse | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Kristin @ White Arrows Home | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Robyn @ Robyn’s French Nest | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

Lora B @ Create and Ponder | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

And Our Guest Host

Joanna @Joanna Anastasia Lifestyle & Design | Pinterest | Instagram | Facebook

WELCOME TO CAMP PARADISE

Did you know I own an antique shop?

It’s worth coming to Wisconsin to visit White Arrows Home!

Not able to make the trip?

You can always shop online from anywhere. Our entire store is online.

We bring new treasures into The Shop every day.

Thrifting With the Gals

Over the years of sharing with my Thrifting Gals, you’ve gotten a peek into many of my collections and favorite vintage finds.

You can watch on YouTube too for videos of me sharing my treasures.

This month I’m sharing my cake stands and cake carriers.

Come Over For Cake

I love sharing decorating ideas and vintage decor, but my true passion is to share encouragement, especially helping you find more direction and connection in your life.

My cabin home is just the backdrop for the messages I pass on that are on my mind and from my heart.

My beautiful cake plates and cake carriers serve more purpose than just pretty accents, they serve a way to make a sweet connection.

Invite a friend over for a slice of cake and cup of tea.
Message a neighbor to stop over for a slice.
Take along a coffee cake to work on a Monday morning to add some sunshine.
Drop off a cake to someone needing a little extra joy.

Use Your Heirlooms to Entertain

Entertaining is the perfect time to use your pretty pieces whether you have just begun collecting or you have pieces that have been passed down in your family.

My Grandma Libby passed down the start of my mix matched tea cup collection and my cute lea pot too.

The embroidered napkins were my Grandma Patty’s and my mom passed them down to me.

Inviting someone over can be simple and easy, a no pressure way to show hospitality.

Maybe baking is one of your favorite hobbies and you love having someone to bake for, but if you don’t just stop and pick something up from a local bakery.

This snickerdoodle cake was one of many beautiful choices at our local Walmart.

Your gathering, whether big or small, one friend or a few can be pulled together in minutes.

Pull out your pretty plates, tea cups, forks and napkins.
Put your cake on a cake stand.
Then just add your smile as you welcome friends in to relax and enjoy catching up or getting to know each other better.

When I was visiting my daughter in Germany, her au pair family kept the tea pot warm on the table with one of these nifty little ceramic stands with a tea light candle inside.

Picking up mismatched tea cups and plates is a fun way to build a collection at an affordable price.

Collections are fun to gather too when you are able to pick up one new piece on each outing because you find these items often and usually they are only a few dollars.

In my shop we have a special room, our dish bar, where you can shop hundreds of dishes to collect!

Display Your Collections

There are pretty ways to keep the tea cups and plates on display all the time or you can keep them stored away, bringing them out as needed.

I do a bit of both, some are out and around my house and some are stored in my dish closet.

My dish closet was one of my favorite projects, where I did some switching around and turned my cleaning and coat closet into my dish pantry.

Vintage Cake Plates

Like the plates and tea cups, cake plates can also often be found inexpensively and in most shops.

A walk through the aisles of your local Good Will may send you home with a pretty one.

I’ve had my glass collection for years, purchasing my first small one in high school.

Having cake stands in different sizes and heights lets me use them in so many ways.

Even everyday occasions like a Saturday morning of pancakes calls for using a cake stand to stack them on.

You can elevate the usual to a memory making moment, by simply pulling in a pretty vintage piece like a cake stand.

It’s simple and it’s special.

Shop Cake Stands

Vintage Cake Carriers

When a cake carrier catches my eye, it may make it’s way home with me too.

This red hand painted piece is simply a cake cover that I add to the top of one of my cake stands to help the cake stay fresh longer.

Using a cake cover can also add a layer of surprise as you keep your treat covered until serving.

When you want to take your cake to share, carrying it in a vintage carrier is such an easy way to give it a more special appearance, an extra “no need to say it in words” way to communicate that you hope your sharing brings joy.

Shop Cake Carriers

Next up you are headed over to my talented friend Robyn’s house and blog Robyn’s French Nest where she is sharing 15 ideas to decorate for free.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Take the Tour

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT?

FOLLOW ALONG

Instagram ~ Facebook ~ Pinterest ~ X ~ YouTube ~ Tik Tok ~ Liketoknow.it ~Threads

YOU CAN JOIN ONE OF MY FREE FACEBOOK GROUPS:

Join my Fireside Book Club over on Facebook. Request to join HERE.

Join my Call Me Old Fashioned Group over on Facebook. Request to join HERE.

Join my Fun Finds + Fabulous Deals Group over on Facebook. Request to join HERE.

LOOKING FOR CONNECTION?

Join one of the clubs at my shop located in our Paddle Club.

We have game nights, book clubs, cookbook clubs, craft clubs, workshops and events.

You can see what’s coming up next and sign up HERE.

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