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Christmas BLOG PARTY DECO

Party til ya drop! I can't WAIT to sit here with a cuppa coffee checking out everyone else's decor! This year I am finding I could use a lil inspiration. Feels like I've been decorating for days BUT when I was taking pics tonight it sure didn't seem like a lot! I currently have 5 of the 6 trees up and WHEW was it exhasuting! BUT I LOVE the outcome....love to sit back and enjoy just the lights from the trees at night. SO, ON WITH THE SHOW!! This year for the first time I put a tree up in my dining room and I LOVE it! Love having a tree in there (I can see it from the kitchen) and LOVE all the white ornaments... With flash...
Without...
You may have noticed the cute lil white iron plant stand to the left of the tree...I have added some christmas things including an embellished silver tray...
BEFORE:
AFTER:
I found decorating my new to me China Cabinet a challenge. I have these white dishes with Christmas Holly that I knew I would display and I have a TON of white dishware...the challenge came in when I realized I already packed almost ALL my whiteware away (as I will be moving within the next 6 months) and I wasn't about to unpack it...SO, I made do and I LOVE the way it came out.

Idea inspired from the cover of COuntry Living's book (vintage ornaments as bottle stops in vintage glass bottles)
Ok, onto the kitchen....I am going to stop with the wordy posts and get on with the pics...if ya have any questions, feel free to leave me a comment :)

Vintage Chip Clip is holding my mom's handwritten, authentically stained recipe cards and a few lil penants my bestie Tia and I made last year...


Family Room...

MY girl Tia and I made Advent Calendars....
I will be posting more over the next few days....my laundry room, tree in the loft w?handmade vintage inspired ornaments and much more! Come back!

A Quicky....

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Chrsitmas, I've Decked The Halls,Hung the stockings by the chimney with care....getting ready for all the holiday blog parties and open houses! Here's a quick lil project I did (these have been all over blog world) A glass knob, candle sconce cup and an "I don't know what" milk glass base from GW....
AFTER...
I'm thinkin a lil ribbon around the knob would be FAB...whatcha think? The bottle brush tree was made by moi! I just took a green bottle brush tree and dipped it in bleach...and viola! A vintage creamy looking bottle brush tree (I did this last year and when I opened them I wondered where I had gotten the vintage trees from AND it was at that moment I remember I made them last year!). Embellished with vintage pearl jewelry and german glass glitter. COME BACK Saturday to see all (well all that will be up by them) my holiday decor!

I'm dreaming....

....of a White Christmas. YES, I am jumping on the holiday band wagon (sort of) just wanted to show a before and semi-after. Found this FAB (card?) tree at The Salvation Army last year after christmas....I think I paid $2.00. It looked like this...
Since I am loving the shabby chippy look, I had to paint it...
NOW the fun begins as I have been combing the house for fun "non" traditional items to tuck into the loops or hang from ribbon in creamy natural shades. Will post the dressed version December 5th for Bella Dreams Christmas tour! BACK TO FALL Started with this...
Added these...
This would have been just fine the way it was BUT not for me...I added this...
"Autumn Blessings" banner from my stash of papers...I printed this last year and never used it. She was on fire again last night (reading the blogs will do that to a girl). I found one site (can't remember the name cause it was a blog of another blog that wasn't even one of my regulars and NOW I widh I had saved it)...anyway, she added "jewelry" to her pumpkin in what looked like a christmas ornament frame...WAIT, I have some of those and I have a pumkpkin...
Added a key to the center of the frame...
And VIOLA!

She's on FIRE....

...NOT literally and NOT the Train song! The other day I was feelin all artsy and creative (I LOVE days like that!). I was looking through blog land and saw a wreath on the background of the Queen of Tarte's holiday open house and thought, "I can MAKE that!" So off to the closet I went to get this....
Cut the hanger on the side (I had planned to use the hook to hang the wreath BUT decided that would look too much like a hanger). Wove vintage book pages on there and VIOLA!
Wreath is FOR SALE $17.00 plus $5.95 shipping. Leave a comment to purchase

Fall Decor

Like many of y'all I figured I'd better post pics of my fall decor BEFORE I get all Christmas crazy! Silver Tray with paper leaves and vintage flashcard (I will be listing MORE silver trays for sale soon if y'all are looking for any)
Cute lil sign on the side of my kitchen cabinets (LOVE those command adhesives)
My son gathered all the acorns himself from our front tree and he was SO PROUD....so you know I had to find a way to display them....
Simple reminders....Be Thankful and Blessed...

Tom the Turkey (vintage wire planter? I bought several years ago when I lived in Minneapolis)
Vignette in my dining room (nestled in an outdoor iron planter) "FALL" Silver tray is FOR SALE $9.99 plus 6.95 shipping....

Don't Be Tardy For The Party....

....Did anyone else watch the RHOA (Real Housewives Of Atlanta)? I was addicted to that reality mess :) Linking in to Bella Dreams Holiday Open House....

Bullseye LOVE

I am LOVING Target (or Tarj`et) these days! I have found the BEST stuff there (some people are like yeah, whatev, Target's Target BUT no, all Target's are not created equal). You'll see! Sunday night I watched The Kardashian Wedding (I LOVE them...I know, guilty pleasure) and in one of the scenes the mom Kris was in the bathroom doing her make-up (I PROMISE this is going somewhere) and she had this cute little lucite chest of drawers (smaller, maybe 12" tall) w/drawers that held her make up. What a BRILLANT way to store and sort your make-up. SO, yesterday I went to Target in search of something like that and the Caboodles were all patterned and 45.00 -WHAT?!? that is crazy to spend on something I don't even like! BUT,as I purused the storage aisle, I found this:
"SNAPWARE" Snap 'N Stack seasonal holiday organizer. The "drawers" snap into one another, so it's easy to transport, clear so I can see what's in there AND it was only $6.99. LOVE IT! All opened and laid out....
All Neat and Tidy....
While I was there at Tar`jet that same day I found these glitter letters that spelled out the word "WISH" in green and turquoise....knew I'd put them on a plate or tray of some sort and it was the last one and at .99 how could I pass it up? After Tar`jet I went to GW and found a creamy white rectangular dish...being the left brain thinker I am, I only saw it's possabilities (it wasn't until much later when I was at home I realized it was the bottom 1/2 of a butter dish)....
and VIOLA! The finished product....
So for $1.98 I have this ADORABLE lil funky shaped "plate" that I plan to display for Christmas :)

FOR SALE

Hi y'all! Haven't posted in awhile, pretty busy with lots of life changes. I am going through all my accumulated treasures and deciding what I can and can't part with! These are being listed in my Etsy shop (hopefully daily...but that sounds pretty ambitious!)...the "feature of the day" is a FAB vintage silver (don't think it's sterling) ruffle edged tray.
FOR SALE 9.99 /6.95 S&H....if your're interested send me an email or leave a comment! SOLD! Thanks Katherine!

BEFORE and AFTER plus a sprinkle of Halloween

BEFORE
AFTER
I sprayed the frame black and replaced the lovely bathroom pic with a VINTAGE Tiffany's ad for Pearls....it was dated March 1928. I LOVE pearls and Tiffany's! She found a home nestled along my mannequin head for now...during Halloween.
WITH AD
Ordinarily I wouldn't pair the two together BUT this just goes to show you thinking outside the box works! (and because it's got a black frame and the print ad is very simple). Despite feeling under the weather I also added some halloween touches to the kids bathroom...
Clearly it didn't occur to me to turn the light on....hence the awful lighting!
Cats and Pumpkins! Where did I get a halloween shower curtain you ask? My mom made it for me about 10 years ago!

There's a chill in the air....

....which means Pumpkin Spice lattes from Starbucks, roaring fires in the fireplace and pumpkin candles burning all throughout the house. I L O V E fall! It's my favorite season. Did a lil Halloween decorating...
Front Porch...
Vintage Penoir...(sign reads "the witch is in")
Halloween Tree....
(Miguel said 'Mommy, this is the coolest Halloween tree EVER!' and he's four! That's why I do what I do...for my babies)