Day 2 of Visions of Sugar Plums: Altered Christmas Tea Set

The other day, my friend Marilyn came by. She was hanging out with my MIL and they both know a little something about antiques.

I was showing them my very not so silver tea & creamer set. I had bought them with the hopes I could polish them back to silver. Sadly, nothing worked and I came to the theory that perhaps they were pewter.

Marilyn cleared it right up. She said, nope, they probably were silver plated and someone didn't use the right stuff on them at some point...

And THAT my friends, gave me permission to haul out the gold spray & silver spray paint and glitter.

Kinda mixed up the gold and the silver a bit. And then decorated simply with some really luscious roses I found at the local green house/gift shop. They were a wee bit nicer than the kind you get at a big box craft store, plus I was buying local!

The gold twigs came from our trees and also got a spray paint treatment.

My post was created specially for a very cool holiday hop sponsored by Lori Hairston who blogs at ChouxChoux and has organized some fun for us at Christmas!

If you have a minute, take a trip through the blogs below. Some fantastic giveaways and inspiration.

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Mitra - http://mitralee.blogspot.com/

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                   $10 gift certificate- Paper Sweeties - http://www.papersweeties.com/

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And for the very fine print:

You get your name entered for the day's giveaways every time you leave a comment.  So visit each blog and leave a comment on each one.  Lori will check out the comments every day, so if you comment on 5 blogs, you have your name put in the drawing five times for that day.  She keeps a record over the whole week so if you comment each day on 5 blogs, you have your name in her BIG All-Week-Long giveaway 25 times.

And in case you missed the glittery feet on the tea set...

Happy Tuesday and enjoy the hop! I'm back again Thursday, this time with MY giveway...here is a sneaky peaky!