Welcome to Saturday Nite Special #136, the multi themed DIY link party!
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Flowers are beautiful in their own right, however when paired up with creative containers, they make for amazing focal points.
Beautiful freshly cut blooms look better tucked inside a vintage lemon puff biscuit tin, wouldn’t you agree?
The deep toned laundry line wheels plus a vintage sewing machine drawer set the stage perfectly to highlight some bright yellow flowers set into a glass jar.
How about the planted variety?
Michael at Inspired by Charm has you covered there!
A mounted old shelf becomes a vision of wonder with a collection of old funnels and lots and lots of gorgeous flowers in full bloom.
The junker in me gasped when I caught hold of the chicken feeder planter. Isn’t this the coolest idea?
Oh yes, and then there’s the vintage hanging scale planter…
Isn’t this stunning?
And don’t forget about the food mill planter. We called this an apple sauce maker when I was a kid.
Simply outstanding, wouldn’t you agree? Thanks Michael!
*** The lucky winner for the 1 year of a magazine giveaway is:
Pat from Corn in my Coffee Pot!
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Donna, the theme link says it is set for 11:14.
thanks
Thanks Kim, caught it!
Thank you for hosting! Little Bit
I like to plant in galvanized pails and laundry tubs!
Such beautiful flowers and containers. I love to plant flowers in galvanized buckets. There’s something about the bright colors of the flowers against the plain bucket that makes me smile. Indoors, I have an old Stanley thermos that looks really good with cut flowers. Thanks for hosting Donna and for the giveaway chance:-)
Love the beautiful containers you featured! I love to use single blooms in a cluster of vintage bottles. Poinsettias blooms at Christmas time were my favorite.
Posted your Folk magazine giveaway on my Facebook page:-)
Love your planters, Donna…especially the scale! I love to plant flowers in an old wicker picnic basket! Thanks for hosting!…hugs…Debbie
I have never heard of this magazine- Where have I been? I don’t sign up for many giveaways but I DO LOVE magazines and have let most of my own expire since I quit working. Anyway, my NEW project is….I junk picked an old enamel stove in pretty decent shape and I have to get it moved around to my patio. I am going to fill pots and pans for the burners with flowers and open the bread warmers and oven and add plants there, too. I hope to do that this weekend. Hope you have a great weekend! xo Diana
I have posted your giveaway on my blog FB page! :-)…Debbie
Hi, Donna!! My first time on your blog!
Leanne from Because (I think) I can told me about your blog!
I bought 2 old kettles to use as planters in a garage sale 2 weeks ago.
I also bought 3 old pickle jars, but they are BIG, like planters. They have numbers printed on them.
So these will be planters (hopefully this weekend) too.
I am not much of a gardner so I thought interesting pots would “save” me, LOL!
Nice to “meet” you!!!!
I adore the flowers in the vintage biscuit tin! Thanks for hosting 🙂
Greetings from Australia♥
~Pernilla
I love planting in all kinds of containers! I just planted succulents in a vintage yellow colander!
Love all the flowers in different containers. Beautiful!!
I LOVE to plant flowers in an old wheelbarrow that was my Dad’s.
Though it’s very old and a pinkish, reddish color
and falling apart, I can’t let go of it. He passed away 12 yrs ago.
sandraallen260@centurytel.net
Thanks for hosting Donna! This year I found planting and decorating a picnic basket that I had laying around for years to be so much fun!
I finally got my act together and signed up to follow you through email. I never can keep up on what my favorite bloggers are doing unless it lands in my email. So looking forward to catching up with all your junky goodies. Have a great weekend. -K
Thank you for kicking off our weekends!
Kerry at HouseTalkN
Just linked up my post with the snowball blooms in glass bottles nestled in a wood tote sitting in my living room.
I enjoyed all your creative ideas of things to use as planters and thanks for the opportunity to win Folk magazine.
xoxo
Kathleen
I have two favorite flower planters … but my all-time fave is plain old mason jars! If they’re blue, even better!
I linked up a flower post for a second chance to win. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
Finally, I blogged about the giveaway. Have a great weekend, Donna!
Thanks for hosting the party! I wanted a unique planter under my kitchen window. I hung 3 sap buckets under the window and it makes the perfect planter. My favorite flowers are zinnias…of course, they are too big for my sap buckets but I plant a huge area of them every year and keep mason jars filled with them in my house!
Hi Donna! My favorite thing to display flowers in is pretty much anything! 🙂 But I do love flowers in tarnished silver- and linked a post showing pink roses in tarnished silver in the themed link up this week too! 🙂 Thanks for hosting! 🙂
One of my favorites is a green glass pitcher from Japan. It dates to the mid 50’s and was made from discarded Coca-cola bottles. The Japanese also used the bottles to make fishing floats. I like to use the teeny tiny silver cups that were used to hold cigarettes in the living room, and an old crystal sugar caster that has lost its top. And anything copper. Ann
I totally forgot two of my favorites. I like to put red geraniums in galvanized minnow buckets. I also have a cream bucket and its original wooden box that makes two more planters.
Thanks for hosting and for a very cool giveaway! I don’t really have a fav place to plant flowers, they usually just go in the ground around here. I have a very large yard with loads of perennial beds and fruit trees that blossom in the spring. You’ve given me some awesome new ideas though!
I would LOVE to win this giveaway! Thanks so much for the opportunity! I love displaying flowers in about anything that can hold water or be planted! I just planted petunias in an old metal bicycle basket. I used burlap to line the bottom then filled with dirt. The old vintage bicycle stands guard in my perennial bed!
Thanks so much for the great linky party, as always. I linked up my toolbox planter, but I also just planted in a chicken feeder like the one shown. I planted herbs in it, thyme all along the bottom part, rosemary and oregano and basil in the top–smells so yummy!
I plant in anything I can find – I love unusual containers much more than pots. My favorite is an old chair my grandfather made with a red enamelware washpan in the seat.
For years I had one of those old-fashion mop buckets on casters with a wringer for the mop and a long wooden handle. I would fill it with red geraniums. A local garden club wanted to use it for a raffle so I let it go. My other favorite was one of those round wire laundry basket on metal legs – I get to see it every day in my neighbor’s yard! (I hope I’m in her will.)
Forgot it was Friday and didn’t take my nap. Saying nighty-night and will see more links tomorrow! Thanks for hosting, Donna!
Distressed Donna Down Home
How nice of the folks at “Folks Magazine” What a nice give away!
Entry # 1 I’ve been enjoying planting in some hypertufa bowls that my husband and I made a couple of years ago.
Thank you for hosting this fun linky!
Geneva
Entry # 2 and 3. I’ve linked up to your flower party and posted a link about this giveaway on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MyHeartsSong
Thanks for hosting!!!
Thanks for hosting! I LOVE the hanging scale planter! So pretty!
I am boring. I have always used pots.
Thanks for hosting Donna, you may set a record for # of entries with this one, so many great links already! I’m Linked up! Love the win the Folk, I’m getting it now, but it will run out… Have a Great Weekend!
I love using vintage jars and bottles for flowers. Thanks for hosting.
Thanks for hosting Donna. Loved the photos you took at Scout.
Hi Donna – so happy I wrote a post about my poppies this week. I didn’t pick them so the containers are their own leaves. Thanks so much for hosting, I’m from Abbotsford and its so great to read posts from a BC Fraser Valley area blogger who is TERRIFIC as well as a great inspiration.
Denise
Thank you for hosting Donna! I love planting in rustic, recycled containers and linked up my 12 creative junk flower containers (#76). I already have a subscription to FOLK, but would love to win one so I could give it to my mother-in-law. She would love it!
Thank you Donna! Love all the neat ideas for containers for plants so far!
I love your blog and look forward to friday night so I can see all the great posts.
Maybe one day soon I’ll have something to link up.. Till then theres lots of folks to visit..
Thank you so much for hosting Donna! I used to have an old chicken feeder that made a really fun planter. 🙂
love the fabulous ideas linked up! thanks for the chance and for hosting us, donna:)
i love enamel containers to hold my flowers, and i did blog your giveaway!
shabbystory@hotmail.com
Junk and flowers…just plain “meant to be”!!! I’m still working on a couple of “flowery” projects outside…I hope to share them later today. But I linked up my vintage headboard patio fence in home decor for now 🙂
PS…thanks for hosting 🙂 Laurel
Great theme idea! Any flower looks better in a blue mason jar.
I love to plant in anything out of the ordinary. I have a .50 old rusty cash box that’s just waiting for some blooms.
What a fun theme Donna! Love all of the ideas!
I love to plant in old boots and chairs. Succulents look great in them and love growing in them. I want to in this magazine!
I Love using blue mason jars and old wood boxes.
I just added this to my facebook .
Thank you for hosting.
Hi! I’m Sheila @ Blissfully Shabby. First, I want you to know your blog was one of my main inspirations to start my own blog, thank you! I love to decorate with junk, am learning how to do so many things, enjoying every minute of it:)
I love my junk planters and have several going on right now, and the flowers are doing great! I used a stroller, two water coolers, a long chicken feeder, army ammo boxes, wheelbarrow, double wash tub, milk can, and several painters benches (one of my serious addictions!) Check it out on my Junkin’ Garden Style link above.
Have a fabulous day!
I tweeted and facebooked about your giveaway! YAY!
Love to display flowers in old glass bottles.
Thank you for hosting, Donna! I linked up, and you’ll see that I love to plant flowers in just about anything- stumps, cream cans, whiskey barrels… I’m always just so grateful that winter is gone that I tend to go a little nuts…
Have a great weekend!
This is always my favorite place to play on Saturday mornings…with coffee in hand! Thanks so much for hosting such a QUALITY-filled linky! -diane
Another great weekend of ideas; thanks for hosting!! A favourite for potted plants is a Coke bucket. On the lookout now for an ‘applesauce maker thingie’! 🙂
Thank you so much for hosting every week, so excited to be part of such awesome talent each week!
Tanya 🙂
I LOVE Funky Junk! Turning ‘junk’ into art is my fave!!! {that is why I am here A LOT, getting inspired!}
I display my vintage roses {not making this up, these bushes are so old, you can’t even buy this type of rose bush anymore} in all kinds of eclectic items, my latest fave are some tin buckets that I wrapped in a floral fabric. BUT WOW, did I see some great inspiration from the links!!
Oh and I would LOVE a year of FOLK, how cool!!!
XO
Andrea -QueenBandMe.blogspot.com
I love to plant in anything galvanized or rustic!
Thanks for hosting Donna. Its been a week of cleaning up in my Dad’s garage, cleaning and painting the garage door (and fixing the ‘missing’ link in the door opening chain). I painted some more wooden furniture turquoise.
Thanks for Hosting this. I love to put fresh flowers in my great grandmother’s old electric coffee pot that I rescued from her crumbling tin roof house in South Carolina.
I have a large cobalt blue ceramic planter, with a bright white rim. I love it beyond reason but I like rustic, re-purposed planters too! Every year I plant a different arrangement. You inspire me, thanks!
Hi Donna, planting in unusual planters is one of my favorite things to do. At my house if it’s old, metal, and will hold dirt it’s usually getting planted. Thanks for this fun party. I wish I would have realized earlier and I would have done a specific post. I linked up a couple of items that I had pics of. Thanks for the opportunity to win this great magazine. I have heard of it, but have never seen and issue. I loved all of the fun ideas you showed. Thanks again, Jann
I forgot to tell you that my new favorite item I planted is an old fertilizer spreader. I am sharing your party on fb.
Hugs,
Jann
I like how flowers look in a wine cooler that I have. Great giveaway! Love your blog.
Blogged about your giveaway! Hope to win!
THANKS FOR HOSTING THE LINKY and THE GIVEAWAY.
I have several spatterware buckets and tubs that I love to plant flowers in.
Okay, now Im headed to post about you folks on my FACEBOOK page.
Thanks again.
Okay, I’ve shared about the giveaway on my PERSONAL page AND my SHOP page on FACEBOOK, so I hope this gives me extra entries. THANKS!!!
Love peonies! Ephemeral and what a smell. Just have to be patient a few years to get the gorgeous buds!
OK now I will have to go back to WalMart to buy some geraniums. My favorite thing to put red geraniums in is an old delapidated childs baby buggy. It is probably at least 75 years old and not in the best shape, but when it is full of red geramiums it rocks. I will try to get some and post them.
I have many favorite containers to put my flowers! I love buckets, pitcher but my absolute fav is white ironstone pitchers!! I would love a year of FOLK. Di
I like to plant or display flowers in orphaned teapots who have lost their lids. LOL Also like to fill my little red wagon with plants in terracota pots. I would LOVE to win the 6 editions of Folk!! Wish me luck, Sandy B
I added another link and posted on my blog!! Love your party. Di
I l i ke to plant either in old unique things or in brightly painted pots.
the one thing I plant in every year is a old wheel barrel I also have several wash tubs that make great planters and a old rusty ice cream parlor stool with the seat missing i put a planter in
I love to plant in any kind of old kettle. Ivy and gardenia look beautiful in them. Would love to win this! Thanks for the giveaway.
What a lot of wonderful ideas..Thank you..
Thank you so much for hosting!
I like to put flowers of all kinds in a giant glass vase that used to belong to my grandmother this is an amazing thing to me that is hasnt broken ..I am usually breaking anything glass. But I love this vase it has a little bit of purple in the glass and it a fluted shape.
-KAT-
I have an old metal bucket w/ a worn wooden piece still on the handle. Since it’s so rustic, it looks nice with dainty, delicate flowers.
Oh Fun!! I love this give away 🙂 Ok…
~Entry #1…I have a few favorite things to plant in, but 2 I really like are the wire sphere and the 1/4 pallet I featured in my link up this week.
~Entry #2 …link up #131.
~Entry #3…Tweeted 🙂
Thank you for hosting, lot’s of great link ups this week!!
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I have a top to an old sewing machine. I turned it upside down and planted herbs in it.
Finally found the right spot for my one entry, woohoo!! lol I love to plant flowers in old rusty pails, just found another one this weekend, all displayed on my shabby shed’s porch!! Thanks for a sweet giveaway!!
Thanks for offering this giveaway! I have large funnel hanging from my herb garden fence that I plant flowers in-I think it’s my favorite container.
Hi Donna,
I’m a little late linking but I finally got my post up 🙂
Have a great week.
Jane
Thanks so much for hosting, Donna! I love all the creative containers I’m seeing. Some of my favorite containers are two rusty smokers I got on clearance from Walmart.:-)
I enJOY using old dishes or any container I find in yard sales and second hand stores. However, while on The HWY 68, 400 Mile Yard Sale, I came across an old truck used as a flower container that I wanted to share. Hope you enjoy it.
I have an old Coleman red and white drink cooler that I love to use as a centerpiece for parties. I put whatever is in bloom from my garden in it and it is bright and cheerful. I always get lots of compliments.
Love the SNS party….always so much fun to see how creative everyone is !
I liked you on FB.
I like to use old kitchenware- especially enamelware- to plant flowers and herbs in. Colanders are nice, too, with their built-in drainage holes. I like the sparkle of the silver-colored metal against the green leaves and colorful flowers. My favorite thing to plant in is an old chair that had a caned seat, mostly missing the caning when I found it. I removed the caning, stapled some soft nylon screen in its place, filled it with moss and potting soil and plant it with different flowers every year. It sits on my front porch, greeting visitors with color and whimsy.
Tweeted about your giveaway. I’m mostcreative1.
https://twitter.com/mostcreative1/status/209633025208754177
Donna,
I love planting in old cheese and butter boxes.
Dana
CookingAtCafeD.com
I like to put potted plants in baskets.
flgirl1987 AT yahoo DOT com
I use an old galvanized watering pitcher to put flowers in or an old galvanized bucket. Looks great with a punch of colorful flowers spilling out of it!!
Hi Donna, I plant petunias every year, and I choose them by their fragrance first and color second. They usually end up in a galvanized bucket. Thanks for the opportunity to win the ‘Folk’ magazine.
Donna, what a fun post! My favorite “pot” for planting flowers on my deck is a campfire coffee pot. I set it right next to a bushel barrel full of flowers. For indoors, I usually use mason jars. Also, thank you for the continued chances to win FOLK.
Donna, this was one of the best ones yet. I really like fairy gardens. Maybe you could do a sub-section on those sometime. I have some of those metal stamper things. I bought them to stamp on wood. I saw an old rustic coffee table that had a poem stamped on it once. It was thrilling. I might go around as a sneaky stamping graffittier. In the garage, near the woodshed, on the fence, on the backside of the mailbox post. Who knows? Ann
According to me flower is the most important part of decorate your house and also offices. It is best way for freshness your house or office.
I’m not a great gardener, but I do like to plant in old teacups and teapots.
My favorite thing to plant in is something unexpected, not the usual ‘flower pot’…anything with a little whimsy!
for instance…on old coffee pot, a pair of rain boots, a rusted wheel barrel. My personal favorite is my Momma’s washpot.
Pat
I have several favorites but one I really like is an old wooden drawer.
love, love, love!
Love flower bouquets in old pitchers and teapots.
I love to plant flowers in antique enamel ware pots, pans, coffee pots, tea pots to plant in and use old enamelware plates as saucers under them
I have an old washpot I found at a yardsale. I love it because is is not “normal” I love your blog. It is my favorite. I can’t not wait to see what you have each day. Keep up the great work of inspiring.
I have an old ricer of my grandmothers. I put moss inside, peeking through, and then sweet peas (purple). So sweet.
Marsha
Anything old/rustic mixed with blooming flowers or herbs is my cup of tea.
I love that there are likeminded “folk” out there. I love all the old rusty tin pieces we have collected over the years. I love to plant flowers in old pots with rusted out bottoms – instant drainage!! thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize!!
I love to plant flowers in galvanized buckets. Hope I win! This looks like a great mag!
I planted my flowers in a metal wheel next I “borrowed” my husband’s canvas water bucket and last I tin punched a tin bucket with a cool design n and put a tower in it. I have the old wooden rack that held wash basins and use it for height in my bay window with plants!
No photo to post, but my favorite is the old red radio flyer loaded full of annuals!
I really like the chicken feeder and the hanging scale ideas. We have a chicken feeder, but i think we’d have some ticked off chickens if i used it. Right now i’m pretty boring with plain old containers…but these are great suggestions…thanks .
I plant in galvanized watering troughs. Use it in my rock garden.
Hugs
SueAnn