I Asked AI To Create A Vintage Kitchen - Here Are The Results!

 

Who doesn't love a vintage kitchen? The heart of the home, filled with all the best things that make up the very essence of our lives - family, old recipes and favorite foods, hand-me-down cookie cutters and grandma's dishes: all the best things in life!

And if you love antiques and vintage things, then you probably also like checking out vintage kitchens in all their worn glory. 

I've been so excited since the availability of AI (artificial intelligence) to create so many wonderful, different things. Sometimes these are the very things that we can try to describe but just can't completely visualize because we don't have an image or photo.  

I'm not going to talk too much about AI today because then I will never get to telling you about these photos (but I will talk about AI more in future blog posts because I am so passionate about it and it's possibilities.) But for now, enjoy looking at and thinking about the vintage kitchens on this page. I created each one using AI by brainstorming words, detailed descriptions, things I could imagine and see in my head and wanted to see in reality and not just in my daydreams. I hope you like them! 

And by the way, they are unedited, and wonderfully imperfect. Don't be a stickler for details in this case, just take in the general feel of each kitchen. AI isn't perfect by any means, and neither am I! 

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Have a great week! 
Laura

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Antique Shop Curiosities: Unusual & Creative Things Found At An Antique Shop

The creativity of people never ceases to amaze me - even in an antique shop - sometimes especially in an antique shop - where you can find all kinds of contraptions and thingamajigs made or crafted long ago by someone's creative spark. It's kind of odd how the person is long ago gone, but the item still remains, isn't it? After all, it's just a "thing" made by a human who is so complex and who has such great potential. Yet the thing is what remains, years and years later, long after the person has died. In some ways, it is the mark that that person left upon the world. A creative finger print.

In the "old days" folks would create things with innovation, using odds and ends of bits and pieces of what they had on hand. Not because it was trendy to upcycle or that they were environmentally conscious (not that they weren't,) but because those bits and pieces might have been all they had on hand to use. These folks actually had to think to create something, not stop by their local big box craft retailer or flip on QVC to purchase the latest boxed craft project, or even subscribe to receive a box in the mail at timed intervals, all parts included. 

Today I'll share with you just a couple of things I came across last week when I visited a local antique shop. I hope these things inspire you to create something unique as well!

First up (photo above and below,) behold the humble piece of broken jewelry and junk drawer oddity, creatively transformed into a miniature diorama! Yes, the doll house sized rooms you see above and below are created from bits and pieces of old jewelry, findings, and odds and ends. 

Mini rooms created from bits of old jewelry and miscellaneous findings

Mini rooms created from bits of old jewelry and miscellaneous findings

My heart made a little jump when I came across this next one, and if you are a quilter or love to sew, you are sure to love it too. 

Yes, this one made me grab my camera! How cute is that? This little sewing bird looks to be handmade and has a hole for scissors that give the bird his beak. Wooden pegs hold spools of thread - with one serving as a hat - and other sewing notions surround him. Love it!

This next one was found at the same shop, and though not antique, I thought it was creative and pretty, so out came the camera. This person took pressed leaves and flowers and decoupaged them to distressed wood cabinet doors, a small cabinet, and canvases. There were a few areas of the flowers that looked very delicate that could have used more glue, decoupage medium, or even a thin coat of liquid resin to increase their life because you could see them pulling away from the wood, but they were pretty either way and I hope they serve as creative inspiration for  you!

Let me know what do you think!

Which do you like best?

Have a great week!

Laura

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My Visit To the Philadelphia Museum of Art - Part 3

In my last two blog posts I shared some photos of my trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and showed you the outside of the museum and some antique historical china plates and other goodies. Here are a few more photos of some things that I thought were very special... 

I'm forever amazed at art, fine craftsmanship, antiquities and historical items. The spoons below are from around 1680-1710. And you thought your mom's spoons from the 70's were old!

There was a small collection of fine silver jewelry and other small objects in the American Art section (one of my favorite areas of the museum!) I thought this Boatswain's Whistle was particularly cool.

I couldn't not include a photo or two of the fabulous miniature painted eye jewelry...these are romantic tiny portraits of lovers eyes...sigh...

I didn't take many photos of the paintings in the museum. With lots of folks milling around the masters like the Van Goghs, Rembrants, Monets and Matisses, I reserved my photos for things that struck me as unusual...(I have to add though that I almost died when the 8 or 9 year old girl with her dad in front me at Sunflowers asked her dad if she could touch it!! Gah!! Seriously?! Thank goodness he said NO and thank goodness it was behind glass!)

Then I came across these guys...things that make you go...hmmm...

Hi I'm a lion. Hi I'm a leopard.

I also have a thing for really old woodwork, and doors. Reeeeeely old woodwork....like 1518 old....

Sigh...

After visiting the European Art we took a break and had a great lunch in the cafeteria (there is a restaurant too, if you want to spend $$$, or the cafeteria if you want to spend $$.) After lunch we checked out the museum gift shop (pricey at $$$) and then made our way upstairs...

Another of my very very favorite sections of the museum is the armor. Wow just wow. This mail shirt was HUGE! And of course it was from Transylvania! Gah!

My daughter's face when she discovered the armor for toddlers...what?! whoa!

I hope you enjoyed this very small peek into the enormous Philadelphia Museum of Art! This is a museum that you need to spend more than one day at. There is just so much to see and do. I hope to go back again one day soon and spend more time in the Asian Art section, which we only got a glimpse of before we left. We had strolled about three miles through the museum and had our fill after a full day of looking at the amazing art. I hope one day you can see it too. 

(Read part 1 - Visit to Philly Museum of Art)
(Read part 2 - Visit to Philly Museum of Art)

(Read part 3 - Visit to Philly Museum of Art)

Have a great week!
love,

 Laura

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