Pretty Old Junk

12/09/2026

Found → Loved → Home.

I wasn’t looking for it. I didn’t need it.
I just knew it was coming home with me.

And somehow, it looks like it was always supposed to be there.

This is my favorite kind of decorating. ❤️

02/09/2026

A little old junk. A little birthday cake. A whole lot to be grateful for. ❤️

That was August around here.

22/08/2026

Sometimes I just need to putter around the house and make something pretty. 🤎

This wall has bothered me forever. It wasn’t terrible. It was just… nothing.

So instead of going shopping for a bunch of new stuff, I started pulling together things I already had and things I’ve picked up along the way.

An old green shelf.
A little hanging basket.
Vintage spice jars.
Old books.
A crock full of flowers.
And that $3 copper pot I just brought home from an estate sale.

None of it was bought to “go together.”

But somehow it does.

And I think that’s what I love most about decorating with old things. You don’t have to know exactly where something is going when you find it. Eventually the right things seem to find each other.

This little wall makes me ridiculously happy now.

Things you won’t find on a Target run. 🤎

16/08/2026

This weekend’s estate sale finds: $3 and $4.

An old copper bowl with all the patina I could ask for and the sweetest little banded stone trinket box.

Neither is particularly fancy. Neither was expensive. But they’re interesting. They have age. They have texture. And they’re the kind of things that make a home feel collected instead of decorated.

Seven dollars well spent, if you ask me.

Things you won’t find on a Target run.

15/08/2026

I found a really good estate sale while visiting my dad in Atlanta.

The only problem? Whatever I bought had to make the trip home with me. So I had to be a little more selective than I would’ve liked. 😂

I came home with a vintage Belgian woven tapestry, a piece of uranium glass, three old Dove Brand milk glass spice jars, a hand-carved Italian alabaster trinket box, and two Italian books printed in 1930.

$82 in total.

Every piece was something I wanted to pick up, look at a little closer, and know more about.

That’s my favorite kind of old junk.

And yes… I’m still thinking about the things I left behind.

Things you won’t find on a Target run!

09/08/2026

08/08/2026

I’ve been thinking lately about why I love old things so much.

When I’m having a low day, I notice how much joy I get just looking around my home at things I’ve collected over the years.

A $2 thrift store find. An old pitcher filled with flowers. A weird little brass animal that made me laugh. Something I bought on a day out with someone I love.

None of it is particularly important. And that’s kind of the point.

They’re just little pieces of beauty scattered through ordinary life.

I think that’s one of the reasons I’ll always love thrifting and collecting. It’s never really been about having stuff.

It’s about finding little things that make home feel like mine.

Beauty takes time. 🤍

04/08/2026

I love decorating with pieces that shouldn’t work together… until they do.