Candlelight Vignette

Cold winter days and nights led me to create a candlelight vignette...my collection of glass candle holders, some old, some new, and white candles occupy my vintage buffet in the living room. I love the round mirror above the buffet, but I will tell you that it is hard to hang any artwork around it...What I have right now are some leaf prints in spectacular mirrored frames and I like how it looks, but, it's a good size wall, and really could stand some additional artwork.

This lamp I love, I know it is a little different, yes it is vintage, and if you could have seen the condition it was in when I saw it sitting atop a shelf in one of the most atrocious thrift shops I've ever been in, and to look at it now after all the TLC...well you'd love it too! I call it my beehive lamp.


I love curly willow and because of the vaulted ceilings in the living room, I can stand the height, the vase is from Z Gallerie (love that store!)

I've had these candle holders for a while, from Target

The tall candle holders are from my workplace

Are you sick of seeing my bowl of pine cones yet !?! I really love the pine cones here in Missouri, they are so different from the pine cones I'm use to in NC.

Thanks for coming by! I hope you are inspired to try a candlelight vignette to get you through the cold winter months ahead!

Head over to Grits and Glamour to see all the wonderful Tabletop Vignettes! Thanks for hosting Barb!

Holiday Tour: Christmas 2009

Hello and Welcome to The Holiday Tour 2009! Thanks for stopping by!

This is my first virtual home tour for Christmas and I don't know what to expect {or what you expect} but...I am all decorated and I basically started taking pictures and creating mosaics {or this would be REALLY long} and I'm going for it! Welcome and I hope you stay a while!
First of all, the kitchen:

I like it Vintage...

I like it Retro...

...a little whimsy....and a whole lotta CANDY!

This is the really festive part of the house, full of fanciful color and cheerful merriment, candy canes and gumdrops, and you can't forget the ginger bread man!







BUT WAIT! I also like this look....still vintage in flavor, yet with a bit o' chalet thrown in the mix....and who doesn't like hounds tooth? I mean really...


If you would like to view this entire tablescape, click on "Hounds Tooth Holiday" on my sidebar or click here.















Now let's go into the living room, it's a little more muted in there....



Cool silver of mercury glass...



Soothing textures of burlap


Elements of nature....
Add in some touches of crisp white and bold black...



Soft brown...
...Amber and gold...
Warm candleglow...



Thank you for joining me for my Holiday tour... I'll be editing this post to add more so stay tuned! Linking to the following gracious hostesses:






Rhoda @ Southern Hospitality

Julia @ Hooked on Houses

Melissa @ The Inspired Room


Sarah @ Thrifty Decor Chick

The Nester

Thank you for hosting Ladies!

Cloche Party

Welcome!

Hello everyone! Thanks for dropping by, I am really in the holiday spirit and I have been decorating up a storm! After a lot of decorating it seems like I have a lot of cleaning to do too.....what's that about? Here in the Kitchen I have gotten the Candy Land Tree done and have started the detail stuff now. You might remember this cloche that I used for my Halloween display


Now I have it with a silver tree candle

I like doing the trees and then decorating...Marty's Cloche Party is the perfect time to show you some {I mean} all three of my cloches!

I love my cloche base that I made last summer and I have gotten a lot of use out of it.
I use it now to display one of my favorite vintage Santa guys

I love this guy and I don't know if it's just me or not, but I can't find decent looking Christmas figures out there....it seems like they are trying to see how cheap they can make stuff-and it's really showing. I have had this guy for many years.

My dear MIL bought this vintage looking tree for me-love it! I have more going on in the kitchen {probably too much} but let's go ahead and move in to the living room.

I have kept the color in here to a minimum, but I like that right now with so much color in the kitchen, the living area is plain and simple.




Plain and simple doesn't mean I skimp on the details.

It can't be any easier than this: Snow, snowflake, and a few ornaments!

I love my milk glass collection and I use several pieces for everything, especially this little vase, which I have multiples of







I love green and brown together and throwing in silver for the holidays, well friends, it makes me: happy! Putting ornaments in apothecary jars is simple and beautiful! I used a collection of glass and glitterey ornaments. This would be a great way to display odd ornaments

Dressing up candles, you've seen these before, with holiday ribbon, and they are feeling festive too!






I recently got this silver tray at my favorite thrift store and I really love it! It cleaned up purdy! Chalk that one up to Thrifty Love!

Well I can't seem to do anything with out having pinecones! So here they are! Nestled all together in a not so big cloche and a milk glass base-to me, this is perfection


Thank you Marty for hosting this great party! Be sure to visit all the clocheness at A Stroll Thru Life!

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my bits and snipets of the house. If you would like to, join me at facebook; click the button at the top left corner. I think it would be easier to ask questions and talk via facebook than emails, plus you can see what I'm up to more often!

One more thing, don't forget that I have free shipping until Christmas at my Etsy Shop. I have made countless gingerbread men and you can have your very own! Just click on my Shop on my side bar and it will take you straight to my Shop!

Oops! One more thing, thank you to all who commented on the Dwell Studio Modern Thanksgiving Contest on my behalf!