On Saturday I popped in to let you guys know that I’ve been busy preparing for a small gathering at my home. Saturday came and went and I must say that I had the greatest time hanging with my friends! We’re usually so busy that its rare that were are all together.
Everything was perfect. The food was great, but the company was even better!
I think the sangria made me tell everyone to pose for a picture! We look so cheesy
What did you do over the weekend?!
Hi guys! Today I wanted to drop in and show you my table decorated for Christmas. I couldn’t get a really good picture ( I never can), so you are really going to have to trust me when I say it looks pretty good!
Remember when I told you I had a chandelier to hang that I found at Goodwill? There it is (more on that later!)
My most favorite thing on this table has to be my bread board! I ordered it from Diana over at Our Vintage Home Love. I can’t wait to place my muffins on top of it for Christmas breakfast.
Well, that’s about it for now. I need to finish doing some cleaning around the house and start on my powder room “secret” project.
I hope you like the table. If you think its not all that, I would love to have you over for dinner to change your mind. We’re having pot roast tonight
Catch you later!
Hi guys! I just wanted to pop in and show you a few snippets of my home as I slowly but surely decorate it for the holidays
Here are a few snapshots of my living room
Here a few snippets of my dining table
(the tarnished silverware is only for decoration!)
Well, that’s it! I have a few more things to do and I’ll show you everything
Have you started decorating for the holidays?!
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Well hello out there! How’s Tuesday morning treating you? I hope its better than Monday morning because we all know that Monday morning is the worse with it being the start of the week and all
Last night, I wrangled in the big Christmas tree from the garage. Well lets back up, I guess if my husband brought it in and I stood there and watched with a I DON’T WANT THIS TREE IN MY HOUSE look on my face, I really didn’t do much huh? Anyway that’s not the point. The point is I didn’t want the tree in because:
a) it’s too big for my living room.
b) I have to rearrange the entire space to make it fit.
c) it’s too big for my living room.
After he brought it in, I stood there and looked at the box for a while (wishing and hoping it would suddenly decrease in size) and then began to just go with it and put it together.
With artificial trees, there are like 3 or 4 parts that you must put together to build the tree. Well…… Here is where I cheated. Instead of using all of the pieces that came with the tree, I left out a section. Cheating? Yes. Winning? ABSOFREAKINLUTELY!
My living room still had to be rearranged to accommodate the tree, but at least I don’t have to use a step ladder to decorate the tree. Oh and use all of those ornaments…
(the tree is kinda fat at the bottom, but whatever!)
I thought it was so cool to have a huge tree, but this year I would have preferred this
No worries. I have a mini tree (2 to be exact!)
So there you have it, I cheated and won! Now I just have to finish decorating the tree and put the room back together!
If you have a chance, please stop by and check out Vicki’s blog. She featured me in her Coast to Coast series today!
Can I just say thank you for all the love I got on my living room?! Seriously, who would have thought I would have gotten such a reaction. I think I’m gonna start decorating like this all of the time!
Today I wanted to share my Thanksgiving tablescape with you. Btw, is tablescape a word or is it something we bloggers came up with? Anywho, I already told you that I wanted my table to consist of mostly things from nature. I should have said things that humans made to look like stuff from nature because everything I used is fake, faux, whatever you want to call it!
I started with some fabric that I used last year for my Christmas table. On top of that, I used kraft paper. You know those rolls of kraft paper that you see at Lowes or Home Depot? I’ve even seen them at Target, but mine came from Lowes because I grabbed a roll for when I’m painting my furniture. Next up, I pulled out”some” of my milk glass. I have a lot. No seriously, I have A LOT!
I stuffed them with a bunch of faux foliage (stems I picked up from Target last year, some moss I had in the garage, and some plum colored plant thingy from Michaels). The plum colored plants I bought recently because they were 80% off plus I had a 25% off coupon which made them 79 cents BOOYAH!
The plates I already had which I always pull out when I’m setting the table. These plates were mentioned in one of my first posts (2 years ago!).
The green glasses are from Goodwill. I went back and forth on if I should buy them because they were priced individually. I really hate when they do that
I pulled out my pretty little napkin rings I used last year for Christmas, but then I thought about the paper I had in my craft drawer. Plum colored paper was just the perfect touch for this casual table. I cut little strips of paper, wrapped it around the napkins and tied it with twin. How easy is that?!
The pumpkins came from Hobby Lobby last year and the pinecones are a mix of the regular kind and some that I spray painted gold.
I really don’t know how to take good pictures of table settings. I ‘m going to try some more to see if I can get a few more shots that are a little better. I still have a lot to do in this tiny little space. Well, not really a lot. I have a chandelier that I picked up from GW last year that has been sitting in my garage. It’s time to hang that baby! Plus, I’m make some of those little paper wheels (is that what you call them?) to hang of the back wall. I’ll be sure to show you that.
So, what do you think?! Have you put together your Thanksgiving table?!
