I wrote about orphan creamers on April 14th and teased that I would tell you how I use orphan sugar bowls latter. Well later it is. Re-purposing items is one of the hall marks of a thrifty lifestyle but it doesn't have to mean that you can't have any loveliness in your life.
Vintage and antique sugar bowls that have elaborate handles on their sides often look like miniature trophies. While I am using glass and crystal ones here, these suggestions can also work for lovely ceramic or silver sugar bowls. You can often find sugar bowls at thrift stores and garage sales for under $1.
Vintage and antique sugar bowls that have elaborate handles on their sides often look like miniature trophies. While I am using glass and crystal ones here, these suggestions can also work for lovely ceramic or silver sugar bowls. You can often find sugar bowls at thrift stores and garage sales for under $1.
These always look great in a bathroom when they are filled with cotton balls, cotton swabs, face scrubs, mini-soaps, or bath salts with a small scoop. A few of them lined up on a glass tray has a real spa feeling to it.
Use them on a fireplace mantle to store matches or splits (tight rolls of paper or small sticks that you use to start a fire).
They are great to use on a bar to hold bar fixings like olives, stir sticks, umbrellas, or nibbles like cheese straws.
On your desk you can use them as a pencil holder or for displaying buttons or marbles. The larger ones make very pretty potpourri bowls especially if you tie a bow to the handles.
If you have several of the same style consider using them as a dessert dish or if you are having a ice cream buffet they can hold the cherries or other fruit toppings.
Last but not least, like creamers they can make very pretty little vases.
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Copyright Ingrid Talpak 2010
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Use them on a fireplace mantle to store matches or splits (tight rolls of paper or small sticks that you use to start a fire).
They are great to use on a bar to hold bar fixings like olives, stir sticks, umbrellas, or nibbles like cheese straws.
On your desk you can use them as a pencil holder or for displaying buttons or marbles. The larger ones make very pretty potpourri bowls especially if you tie a bow to the handles.
If you have several of the same style consider using them as a dessert dish or if you are having a ice cream buffet they can hold the cherries or other fruit toppings.
Last but not least, like creamers they can make very pretty little vases.
Content and Photography
Copyright Ingrid Talpak 2010
Morestylethancash
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