Creating A Picnic Basket Vignette

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A picnic basket is a wonderful base that opens up all kinds of possibilities to inspire a creative vignette in your home.

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If you have a vintage picnic basket, you don’t have to use it just for picnics. You could go with a particular theme or add decor randomly.

For instance, you could spray-paint the picnic basket blue and go for a seaside theme inside it. Or choose green and have a nature theme. Or of course, just leave it in its vintage glory. I spray-painted this one red years ago when I was painting just about everything red.

The sky is the limit with a picnic basket. And not just put food in it for a picnic! You can use it for storage or decoration. Or both.

I’d been looking online for inspiration about decorating with baskets; of all the ways to repurpose them, this idea came to me. I found all kinds of ideas for upcycled thrift store baskets.

I’ll have that for you next time. A lot of talented people out there look at something in its current state and see far beyond it.

Adding A Plant To Your Picnic Basket:

I realize that simply adding a houseplant to my picnic basket isn’t all that creative. So I made it into a vignette within a vignette. I saw the plant, popped it into the basket, and liked how it looked.

You could add decor like vintage washboards to the back, or drape linens across the top; whatever springs to mind.

So I’m bringing back the reds. I love my red decor. But I also like my relaxing shades of green. I always thought putting red and green together would be a tad too “Christmas-y.”

But I guess what they say about beauty being in the eye of the beholder is really true. I put these two red and green colors together, and to heck with worrying about them conjuring up Christmas. This picnic basket decorating vignette is a good example.

Just go with what you like, and it will work out.

The Hunt For A Home Continues:

To update you on the home search, we have been struggling to find something in my price range. Finding a diamond in the rough would probably be more likely. It just depends on how “rough!”

We’d like to have some of the big items ticked off, such as a house needed a new roof, and just deal with cosmetic changes. But real estate prices are high. And if a house is within my price range, it typically needs a good bit of work.

Kendra keeps saying, “Well, I don’t want you to live in an unsafe area.”

But people have to live where they can afford to, don’t they? And in a city, you have good parts of town and bad parts of town. Some of the prettiest little houses I see online are in what is considered “the bad side of town.”

I’ve never inherited money or received equity from selling a house. My down payment is just what I’ve managed to save over the past 5-6 years.

A Vignette Within A Vignette:

I added the candle as a nod to fall. You’ve seen me layer wooden cutting boards before. There’s just something about the composition of seeing the wood layered together that appeals to me. I added pitchers and dishes on a cake stand.

Some of you may remember that I purchased the red pitcher back in Tyler, Texas, back when I lived there. I remember strolling around this antique mall. And I kept going back down the aisle where this red pitcher was.

I told myself it was too much. Fifteen dollars. But I just couldn’t leave without it, so I bought it. Luckily, I’ve managed not to break or chip it. I love the raised design. That’s what sold me on this pitcher. And it fits perfectly within my picnic basket vignette.

I’ve had the red picnic basket forever too. I spray-painted it red a long time ago. Back when I was spray-painting everything in the world red.

Dishes are nice to add to a vignette because you can stand them up horizontally or lay them down vertically. Choosing colorful dishware and adding it to a white cake stand brings a color theme to your vignette.

I bought the cake stand some time ago. It’s very heavy. I’m always afraid I’ll break it. I like the beaded look around the rim, and it adds an elegant touch to my picnic basket vignette.

Red Is A Bold Color:

I consider red a spirited color. It’s bold and sassy. It taps you on the shoulder and says “hey, look at me!”

I’m certainly not an extrovert or the kind of person who likes to draw attention to myself. I’m a true introvert. But for some reason, the color red has always called my name.

Red has the audacity to make a statement.

I like neutrals for furniture backgrounds. Neutrals give you a base to build on. And then you can work your magic with other colors and change them up whenever you want.

You can go with green for a calming vibe or red when you want something to really stand out. Or put them together, and who knows what it means!

Whatever colors you happen to like and are drawn to will work when decorating your home.