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Hello Dear Readers!
Welcome to another magnificent Monday Morning Blooms,
when I and my fellow Monday Morning Bloom friends,
Lidy of FrenchGardenHouse, Pam of Everyday Living, and Mary of Home Is Where the Boat Is,
present our floral creations with a common theme.
Their beautiful images are below along with their links that will bring you
to their posts where you will truly be inspired to create!
Today’s common theme is using glass containers.
An Ensemble of Flowers in Glass
Hello Dear Readers!
I hate to admit this but I am still de-Christmasfying the house.
I have two more trees to take down and then call it a day.
The first thing that was removed was the Christmas decor on the mantel.
That came down first as it was fast and easy to “dis-mantel”
The mantel is also the first area that was transitioned from Christmas to Winter.
I knew what I was going to do as I received something beautiful right before Christmas.
It was a gorgeous magnolia garland from the fine people of The Magnolia Company.
I won this garland through a giveaway campaign that they were offering on Instagram. Yay!
Due of time constraints, I could not use it in my Holiday decor;
however, this garland had dried/preserved so beautifully that is was perfect
for the Winter Mantel featuring a magnolia garland.
Hello Dear Readers!
I am sure that many of you tuck away things to make room for Christmas decor as I do.
I had many blue and white pieces throughout the house and I kept placing those
pieces that have been displaced in one area.
That area was a demilune table that is in a little hallway that leads to the master bedroom.
As the Christmas decor was being put away, I went to that hallway area
to retrieve some blue and white pieces. But then as I gazed upon all the pretties
on the table and also underneath . . . I thought why not?!!
So a staging area turned into a pretty display of blue and white was born.
Happy Monday Dear Readers!
It’s one of my favorite Mondays as it is the first Monday of the Month
which means it’s Monday Morning Blooms, when I join my most wonderful Bloom friends,
Lidy (FrenchGardenHouse), Mary (Home Is Where The Boat Is), Pam (Everyday Living)
and joining us on the first Mondays of each Month, is our friend, Yvonne (StoneGable).
Their most beautiful images and post links are at the end of this post.
Today our common theme is using one type of flower. One, for the first, number one,
Monday Morning Blooms of the year.
My arrangement is A Mom’s Inspired Bouquet. It is one of her favorite flowers, the Oriental Lily.
Happy New Year Dear Readers!
I hope that you all had a most wonderful Christmas and celebration welcoming in the New Year.
To start off the New Year, I thought I would go back and present the many floral arrangements
that I had the pleasure of creating.
I love creating pretty floral arrangements which led me to create Floral Fridays
and then I thought, what better than to add more friends to offer their beautiful
talents of floral arranging … and now it has become Monday Morning Blooms.
It just keeps getting better! …. So for now, I would love to show you my many
floral arrangements that I have created in 2018. From the casual to the more elegant.
This arrangement was a “Kopy Kat” from the cover of a Southern Lady Magazine.
I used to decorate EVERY inch of my home for Christmas,
as my home was on a a few Christmas tours for a local charity.
One of the things that we did was to put my favorite title/sentiment of the Season,
above the doors in the Media Room.
We used those stick on letters. When my hubby completed the project,
our granddaughter, who was about 4 years old at the time looked up with amazement.
She asked, “why was the name Virginia there? It should say Graylyn.”
My hubby and I both looked at each other, smiled, and quickly there was a change made.
I then told her about the story of a little girl long ago, named Virginia.
I so love this story that I presented several years back and want to share it again.
Hello Dear Readers!
By now you all must be finishing up your Christmas Holiday preparations.
I still have some things to take care of …. a little shopping
for gift giving and for meal preparations.
Today, I thought I would do my Christmas Decor Recap and a Beautiful Giveaway.
The “Beautiful” giveaway details will be at the end of this post.
Welcome to my Christmas Recap/Tour of the Berry Patch House
and hopefully next year I will be decorating for Christmas at the new house!
Hello Dear Readers!
Are you dreaming of a White Christmas?
We had an early for us snow event a week ago.
It doesn’t usually snow this early in the season. It was a bit of an inconvenience but pretty!
Today, I join the wonderful and talented ladies Lidy, and Mary of Monday Morning Blooms
to bring you some beautiful floral inspiration.
I want to thank you all for entering our Lynch Creek Farm giveaway
and congrats to all of the winners!
Lidy’s and Mary’s most elegant images with their links are at the end of the post.
A last but certainly not least sort of thing!!!
Our common theme this week is “White Christmas”
Be sure to visit their exquisite arrangements that will KNOCK YOUR MITTENS OFF!!!
Unfortunately, Yvonne and Pam were unable to join us today; however, they will be
back for Monday Morning Blooms on January 7th. One not to miss.
Hope you enjoy my White Christmas Centerpiece – Monday Morning Blooms.
Hello Dear Readers!
It’s been a while since I promised a peek of the sunroom at the Berry Patch House.
When we were moving in, all things that were in the category of
“I do not know where I am going to put this” …. went into the sunroom.
This room is a collection of things that do not have it’s “own home,” however,
it will different once we move into the “right-sized” house.
Please come in and see the Sunroom Reveal at the Berry Patch House.
Hello Dear Readers!
I hope you all had a most Merry weekend. Our weekend was a special one
as we had our very first snow of the season. It was a Winter Wonderland of Snow.
About 6 to 8 inches of snow fell pretty much overnight,
and by the late afternoon it started melting due to the freezing rain.
Just hope it doesn’t turn to ice!
I have a couple of “snow photos” for you to see and
today, it is all about the Magnolia Foyer and a winner.
The foyer in the Berry Patch house is not large,
so simple Christmas decor is all it needs.
