Lots of new and back-in-stock vintage groceries/general store items (like the Small Canning Jars at left) led me to Shannon Cooper’s Aunt Tess’s Cupboard artwork (so cute)!

Read on for lots of eye candy and tips for vintage art-ing from Shannon — and many supplies from Shannon’s project (psst: that’s a link to all of Shannon’s supplies… just a portion of the items in today’s sale collection)!

Don’t forget the sale COUPON below for an extra 20% off everything in the sale collection.

Aw… so darling! Shannon Cooper made a vintage cupboard (with paint appropriately cracked and with the “chicken wire” a little torn) using the Matchbox Cabinet and the back-in-stock Small Canning Jars and White Resin Cocoa Containers (and a big bunch of other bottles and labels)!

(Psst! Scroll down just a little to a wide photo to see the bottles on the inside shelves; there’s also a photo of the full cabinet with the door open farther down this page.)

My cabinet decided it wanted to be old, well-used, and suitable for maybe an aging farmhouse. It was glued together, gessoed, then painted with beige paint. Finally, it was covered with white glue and a coating of white acrylic paint, creating the aged effect. The center of the door was cut out and “chicken wire” was added.

Inside the cupboard is every sort of pantry item you could think of. Even a condiment bottle and cocoa container! Having a few different collage sheets of labels made it really easy to fill the shelves. In about an hour, I had a handful of items after gluing on labels and occasionally painting a lid. There are two jars, one with peach halves and one with pickles, that were made from polymer clay, an even tinier jar, resin, and a scrap of fabric. There was still room to cram in a spice rack and a few baby food jars worked perfectly as the spice containers. I love those jars. The lid comes off and you can fill it with (a tiny amount of) whatever you wish! I built a little rack from balsa wood and made concave sections to hold the jars at an angle by wrapping sandpaper around a thin dowel and sanding the wood. So simple.

The chicken wire is actually a piece of tulle netting that was colored with a silver Sharpie. The holes in the chicken wire were accidentally made with a heat gun, but I liked the look and left it.

That Shannon is so inventive! Tulle as chicken wire is perfect, and making a tiny spice rack for “spice jars” from the (incredibly tiny) baby food jars!

Here’s a link to Shannon’s supply list for Aunt Tess’s Cupboard, and stop by her blog to read more and see more photos.

Note: There was a follow-up post by Shannon (as I asked for comments about which tiny creation housed inside you’d like to have explained in a tutorial). Shannon went above and beyond again, as she made a tutorial for the top three requests! Here’s her tutorial post. Remember to use THIS supply list link as we moved the site since her original posts.

New or Back-in-Stock Preview

That top row are all items that Shannon used; and all of this first group are mainly bottles (just a few from the 22 new today).

White Resin Condiment Bottle	Black Window Pulls – Set of 6	White Oatmeal Box
Mini Mason Jars – Set of 3	Tiny Glass Candy Jar	8 Quart Vintage Metal Milk Can

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A Mini Box of Button is FREE with all orders placed today through Wednesday (ends at midnight June 5, 2024)!

6 tiny cards of buttons, glued into a chipboard box. Perfect for the check-out counter of a vintage fabric store.

And since these are NEW today, they’re also included in the sale (in case you’d like to order more)!

MORE New Items (no bottles in this group)

Whew… even more new or back-in-stock items are farther below, too!

Vintage Wall Thermometer	22mm Bronze Scales	Small Brown Paper Bags
Rustic Ceramic Jug	Mini Tabletop Candle Lantern	Rustic Splatter Ceramic Pitcher

Aunt Tess’s Cupboard SALE

Oh, those Wooden Buckets with Water at right are really nice: A tiny little bucket with a “rope” handle and resin faux water inside; about 3/4″ tall so works well for 1:12 scale… And see 6 more sale items after that second wide photo from Shannon’s artwork.

Use coupon GROCERIES when checking out to get an additional 20% off on EVERYTHING in this collection! That’s 20% off beyond current sale prices!

Over 30 items, including all the new items AND all of the supplies from Aunt Tess’s Cupboard.

The sale ends WEDNESDAY NIGHT, June 5th at midnight PST.

See the sale collection here!