it's all about the hospitable home
Hello Dear Readers!
I am getting near the finish line
toward the end of the Christmas decorating
(however, is there really an end?).
Today, I thought that I would take you
into the room where we spend the most time in….
the Great Room. It is not really a large area
as it is divided by a small sitting area to its
left…but I do love the coziness of it.
The Great Room for Christmas.
Hello Dear Readers!
Welcome to another great Monday Morning Blooms!
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
Today, I, along with my flower passionate friends,
Lidy, Pam, and Mary, are presenting inspiration
for your home and gardens with beautiful flowers.
The links to their posts are at the
bottom of this post below their beautiful images.
I am a bit “out of the box” today… presenting
A Fall Tablescape Using Blue, White and Green.
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.
I must say that things are progressing at the Berry Patch house.
Not as fast as we would like it, but we need to allow ourselves to enjoy life
and not be too intense about organizing our new spaces.
Well, that is what we keep telling ourselves!
There is still lots of work to be done.
I guess we could just live among the boxes with the bare minimum of what we need around us,
since the Berry Patch House is temporary; however, it is not us.
We both need a sense of calm, organization and “pretty”.
Which makes me think of what my mom always says about us:
that we are “two pods in a pea” . . . she gives new meaning to “two peas in a pod” Gotta love her!
I thought I would be a bit methodical and after the Berry Patch Dining Room was done,
what better room to start off with than the room as you enter the house. The Foyer.
So here is my Foyer Reveal with the Louis XVI Antique Mirror.
For the first decorated room/area reveal this Christmas season is the room/area
that you first see when you enter my home . . . The Foyer for Christmas.
This year, rather than filling the house with many of my Christmas treasures that
I have collected over the years, I am trying to embellish the things that I already have.
This way I do not have to banish lots of accessories into the attic.
Now it is not to say that I am not using many of my Christmas treasures,
just scaling down a bit.
They say that first impressions are important.
The curb appeal of your home is definitely a first impression of your property.
A beautiful door can also be the first impression of your personality.
A yellow door of happiness, a purple door of creativeness . . .
When you enter through the doors of a home, I would say the first impression
of the soul of the house is in the foyer/entry.
Before I left for Tennessee last week to join the Boys of Summer,
I re-potted some topiaries into blue and white containers.
I had been wanting to do that for a while now, and finally got around to it
as I wanted to create a simple summer blue and white vignette
for the French buffet in the foyer.
A while back I presented one of my favorite consignments shops
that has wonderful things for all things home.
If you missed that post, you can see what I am referring to
as my favorite consignment shop.
I presented one of my finds there in this post of my sunroom
of a Chelsea House Chinoiserie table.
However, I found another piece there that I want to share with you today
and the items that my friend Sherri took home with her too!
The foyer is simply decorated for Winter.
However, there is a little surprise in the foyer.
Something very unique that I found on my birthday.
I needed something to place my blue and white ginger jars on to gain more height.
I only had one small pedestal that I use to prop things on, but needed two.
I came across a second set of Pottery Barn candleholders that were put away
on my staging shelves in the attic. I then got the epiphany, the light bulb moment.
