Sprucing up a Few Things

I've been getting the house back to "normal" little by little. I left the snowmen out, as I mentioned in the last post but I hadn't gotten the groupings together right yet.
We went to a home show at our expo center last Friday and got some great ideas. We also picked up a few pine cones from Lake Tahoe. They are from the Ponderosa Pines. They are huge compared to the small ones on the ground here. They are picky, like you wouldn't believe. We put them on the mantle with Mr. & Mrs. Snow. I had to get some height in those red candle holders to balance things out. Mr. & Mrs. Snow are quite tall.

We didn't get the cones when we first saw them and my sweet hubby went back and surprised me with six of them.

I did a grouping on the pass through between the kitchen and great room. The big guy is a cookie jar.

I found him on clearance a couple of weeks ago for $7. He had two chips in his scarf around the neck. I tell some of the girls in my decorating class not to pass up things that are slightly damaged because paint covers a multitude of sins. lol (Notice the white chipped out spots?)

I took my paints and had to mix a couple of them to get the right green and red but it works so well. My hubby couldn't find the spots at first.

I moved my gourd snowman to the front staircase and grouped him with some snowballs and a little playmate. They are there to greet you when you come to visit.

I did another group on the sofa table in the great room.

I have been busy giving my garage a bit of a makeover. Whew, I can't believe how much junk you can accumulate in 7 years. My motto was if we hadn't used it in that time... it was tossed.
What have you been up to? Would love to hear about it.

Thanks for stopping!