Saturday, December 8, 2012

Christmas kitchen 2012

My favorite part of decorating the kitchen is putting the wreaths in the windows. I love the festiveness it brings to the kitchen !


I have a few little vignettes , including this one with the miniature hallmark tree.


 A few vintage ornaments on the tray

 I finally got a cloche , its covering a little glittery house . Got them both at homegoods.

I have alot of fitz and floyd pieces scattered in the kitchen and alot of them in the cabinet.


This Santa my husband got me a few years ago.. He is a big Fitz and Floyd piece.

The roosters with their lighted  and evergreen garland.. also a banner spelling out the word Merry. Made this with my Cricut last year.. I NEED to paint this cabinet , someone tell me it will be easy !


The only tree in the kitchen is decorated with red/ white candy canes, and other red/ white ornaments , garlands.

This little cabinet has some snowmen, the printers tray I made using my cricut, I also made the red teddy bear ( he is mohair ) and the long legged Santa..

Love this little ice skate ornament I tied on this basket with berries and evergreen pics.

This is our kitchen table with the subway art runner I made a few weeks ago.Another fitz and floyd piece is on the table.

The light over the table is wrapped with evergreen garland berry pics, red/ white check bows and candy canes.



Over the refridgerator there is more space for a few Fitz and Floyd santas..

This week was a rough one for my family.. My Father-in-law passed away last Saturday. We traveled to Florida for his funeral, and are now back at home. He will be greatly missed !
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Christmas family room 2012

Here is our family room decorated for Christmas.. On our mantel I used 3 glitter houses a couple snowy trees , and some icy branches tucked in there. I made the merry little Christmas sign after seeing them all over the internet last year. I cut the letters out with my cricut and traced around them and handpainted the letters. All the stocking I made , they are all counted cross stitch except for the 2nd from left . Its crewel embroidery. When we had the surround built for the fireplace my husband had the builder add little rings to the side to hold the stockings. :) I added a flocked garland over the ribbon holding the stockings.

The scrapbook tree is on the left and the snowman tree on the right. My stepmother made all the beutiful Christmas quilts for my kids a few years ago and we always put them out in the family room.

The other snowman tree, subway art and a wooden santa from a craft show. The cross stitch in front I made a long time ago . Its a stoney creek design and I think it was the first cross stitch I did for Christmas.

The view from the kitchen.

The top of the entertaiment center ..I have alot of dries hydrangias, and the lizzie kate abc Christmas. Theres also a dept. 56 Santa up there.
The scrapbook tree. with a no sew ruffle tree skirt I made from muslin last year .. Cheap and cute !
All the ornaments are small wallet size photos or the ornaments the kids made in school with their pictures. This tree rotates so theres lots of ornaments!
Theres also red decomesh , and pola dot ribbon.




The patriotic tree.. all red white and blue ornaments. Star wired garlands.

some of the cute patriotic ornaments .. Love this tree.


The snowman tree.. only snowmen ornaments.. snowflake garlands .. I used alot of blue and silver pics for the topper.. Love the way it looks this year !




Three santas on the fireplace hearth. My childhood stocking that my aunt made..



All the stockings..




 

Side table with some dept. 56 snowmen , fitz and floyd cookie jar and a little tree in a tin.One of our Jack Russells, Reagan..Hope you all have a wonderful week ! Thanks as always for your visits and comments !
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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Christmas front porch



Here is our front porch decorated for Christmas . We have a decomesh garland around the front door. It is on an evergreen garland base , with 2 colors of decomesh and large ornaments and white lights. I made the JOY sign last year after I saw a pin on pinterest. I used one of my old craft show shelves. Yesterday I decided to redo it and painted the shelf and added the distressing , cut letters from my cricut and traced around them and painted them.

Got this snowman at The Christmas tree shop in Kentucky when we went to visit the college boy..

The santa is a vintage plastic yard decoration. We repainted him a few years ago because he was really faded.

The snowman in the bucket next to the door has white lights, and some branches from our real tree stuffed in the bucket with him.

The wreath is made from decomesh on a base of a evergreen wreath. 2 colors of decomesh , ribbon and sparkly red pics.
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