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Learn how to assemble a decorative accent from embroidery hoops in the “Make an Embroidery Hoop Orb” episode featured on the Creative Living program on Annie’s Creative Studio. Look for Creative Living episodes on repurposing a drawer into a shelf, making a rustic coat rack, and more to appear soon. Annie’s Creative Studio members can watch each episode online on any device and can also download patterns or store them online on their Annie’s Creative Studio bookshelf. Annie’s Creative Studio offers a free trial, after which you pay a low monthly subscription price. Visit AnniesCreativeStudio.com to learn more.
At the Garden Shop
Country Sampler fan Jeaninia Taylor shares this darling garden display that combines a vintage shopping cart from a now-defunct local grocer with galvanized pails and a custom-made personalized sign. We’d love to see your creative decorating ideas—share them at www.facebook.com/ CountrySamplerMagazine.
Something Extra
Did you know you could get inventive country decorating ideas and tips delivered to your inbox every month? The May edition of our free Country Sampler EXTRA e-newsletter will include instructions for this decoupaged watermelon tray. Sign up today at www.countrysampler.com/ newsletter_signup.php.
Packets on Parade
To repin this sweet combination of vintage seed packets and flower frogs and gather other unique decorating ideas for spring, visit our Spring Inspiration Pinterest board, www.pinterest.com/ CountrySampler1/ spring-inspiration.
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Style Show-and-Tell
Mary Ruth Graybeal of Le Roy, Illinois, enjoys decorating her porch with vintage pieces and heirlooms. “I am a treasure hunter,” she says, noting her porch displays include an old wringer-type washer that belonged to her grandmother, a century-old railroad toolbox, an old movie projector and many pieces of enamel kitchenware, among other goods. “I love to decorate with my treasures because it brings me closer to my grandparents,” she says.
A vintage stove provides a perch for potted plants on Joyce Compton’s Pierce, Nebraska, porch. Once owned by her grandmother, the old stove was given to Joyce and her sister to use as a plaything. “As children, we used it to make our famous mud pies,” she recalls.
“I just love my screened-in porch,” says Billie Hayman of Greensburg, Louisiana, about the porch accessible from her master bedroom through a pair of French doors. “I was going for a little boho look out here and I just love color,” she adds, noting that floral linens from April Cornell complement the weathered green table, blue floor and old wicker chair that she revived with a coat of bright purple paint.