Tablescape Tuesday

Susan at Between Naps On The Porch is hosting Tablescape Tuesday. Please visit her site and see many other creative tables.

I've only participated in a couple table scapes, so far. Today I wanted to do one of our kitchen table with plates I purchased at an after Christmas sale (75% off) at A. C. Moore's. Just by chance, I spotted these and they were marked down to a $1.20. I thought they would go great with the colors in my house and were very pretty for the winter.

Thanks for taking a peek and I hope you're having a happy week!


I used a round green place mat with red chargers to set the dishes on. I found little black snack plates at Ross's that I used for coasters. The plates have little snowflakes so I thought I could keep them out for the winter.

I had napkin rings that had pine cones on them and decided to use them with black napkins to accent the black in the plates.

I used a snowflake plate from Cracker Barrel under the glass globe centerpiece with a black dinner plate, red charger, and place mat.

I already had real pine cones and dug them out and used as place cards.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

I've been Tagged

Charolotte at http://char72.wordpress.com/ has tagged me.

Name five things in your purse:

1. glasses
2. keys
3. ink pen
4. driver's license
5. insurance cards

Name five things in your work room:

1. acrylic paints
2. oil paints
3. ironing board
4. iron
5. sewing machine

Name five things you've always wanted to do:

1. Go to Europe
2. Play the piano
3. Go to Australia
4. Go to the North West States
5. See the Holy Land

Name five things you're into:

1. My husband
2. My family
3. My friends
4. My church
5. Reading, painting, decorating, & exercising.

Name five bloggers to do the tag: Ladies you're it!

1. Ceekay @ Thinkin' of Home
2. Shannon @Bless Our Nest
3. Melissa @Heart and Home
4. Kathy @ Mimi's Garden
5. Katherine @Yellow Rose Arbor

It's Still Winter

It's Show & Tell at Kelli's again.
The weeks are flying by, aren't they? January is more than half over.
I still consider it snowmen worthy decorating time, so I thought I would post what I left up after Christmas.
Here's a big gourd snowman.

A few on the mantle.

A cute personal mug I purchased at Old Time Pottery for .86 cents. (after Christmas sale)

I've had this little guy forever.

Snowmen hanging from the kitchen light fixture over the island.

A snowman plate with another snowman that is a salt and pepper shaker on the kitchen counter.

A snowflake plate with the new tea pot Katherine gave me.

Some snowmen plates and mugs with the cutest gold ribbon handle that is removable. Picked it up in a shop in MI.

A few snowmen that our grandson loves to play with and push their buttons to hear music.

A "couple" more in the Living Room.

I even hung a snowball in the kitchen window.

Last for not least, is the big guy on the frig. Made from construction paper and held up with magnets.

Thanks for stopping today and have a happy weekend.

Out of Town Company

We were excited to have Katherine and her hubby visit our home and town last week. We had lunch downtown, walked by the park and showed them the sites on Monday. (which neither of us had our regular cameras.) I did however, have a disposable one in the car and used it. I need to take it in and have the film developed. We had dinner at home and they had a chance to meet our daughter and grandchildren.

On Tuesday morning I had breakfast for them at our house. I had to watch Jonas (our grandson) in the early morning so his mom could keep a doctors apt. Here's Katherine and her sweet hubby.

Katherine and Jonas really hit it off. We thought it was so sweet how he warmed up to her. They were watching the movie "Cars" together.

They make a cute pair, don't you think?

As soon as Sarah returned to pick up Jonas, we headed to the mountains to a "A Day In The Country". It's a beautiful shop set in an old Victorian house. We had lunch, shopped, and a fun time together. Here we are on the front steps.

Near the end, the guys, which were very good sports, sat on the porch waiting for us.

Katherine and hubby headed up the mountains toward Knoxville, TN and we headed home. It was such an enjoyable visit.

Katherine gave me this sweet gift that I will always have as a reminder of her visit.
She had it in this cute bag.

Inside was this adorable tea pot.

Thanks Katherine. We'll look forward to another visit.

Hope you all are having a happy week thus far. Thanks for visiting!

A Christmas Card

Hi Ladies,

Are we all done packing up Christmas decorations? It's a job, that's for sure.

While organizing things, I ran across an interesting card that I have kept for a few years and thought I'd share it with you today. In fact, you gals can give me some ideas as to how to keep or display it. You all are so creative.

It's the White House Christmas card that we were privileged enough to receive.

This is the envelope. The card has a picture of the White House, the Jackson Magnolia with Barney, Miss Beazley and India Bush. (their dogs and cat) Done by American artist Jamie Wyeth.

There is a Bible verse (Psalm 28:7) with the Bush's best wishes for the holiday season.

As President Bush's term in office is drawing to an end soon, I want to thank President and Mrs. Bush for their sacrificial service and courageous leadership. I am grateful for their hard work and commitment to America and wish them the best in the years ahead.

Let's not forget to pray for our new President and his family as they begin to serve our great country.

Thanks for visiting today and I wish you the best in 2009!

Let The Cleanup Begin

Katherine and hubby from Yellow Rose Arbor left after visiting for a couple of days, I will post about that later, so I thought I'd best get busy taking down the Christmas decor.

If you will remember I had to get much of it down myself, due to hubby's surgery. I wanted to make things a little more accessible for both of us so I suggested we insulate some eaves and store them in there rather than up in the attic. It would be much easier to access but the eaves were too hot in summer and too cold in the winter. I decided to try my hand at putting in some insulation and organizing all the outside decor and the garland that was on the banisters inside of the house. Yes, hubby lent a helping hand.

I was off, first to Lowe's then to Walmart for some tubs.

Here's the insulation that comes in a roll. Here's the eaves before.

Here's part of it afterwards.

I'm using a stapling gun to put it up.

Only one minor wound. No, it wasn't the stapling gun, it was from an xacto knife while cutting the insulation to fit.


A few hours later and it was all done. Hubby hurried to get all the outside decorations down and I helped him with some of the inside and stored it in our new tubs.

This is so much easier, neater and cleaner. Tomorrow we start the decorations inside that we store in the garage.

The large tub is on wheels and is easy to put in and pull out. I'm all for making life easier, aren't you?

Many of you are probably all done and back to normal. I hope to join you by the end of the week. Whew, this is a lot of work, but it was so pretty while it was up.

I hope you're having a good week. See you in a few.

I'm a Winner

I was fortunate enough to be picked for a giveaway that Carrie at: http://carolanativitygallery.blogspot.com/ was hosting.

I was out of town for the Christmas holiday and the post office was holding my mail. When I returned it was like Christmas all over again.

Carrie had this beautiful card attached to the box that contained a lovely nativity plate. It has beautiful rich colors. My house is decorated in many of these colors, too.

It came with this certificate of authenticity.

Thank you Carrie! Please stop over and visit her blog when you get a chance.

I hope your New Year is getting off to a great start. Mine is! I'm getting a visit tomorrow from Katerine at Yellow Rose Arbor.

She's passing through my hometown and I'll have the pleasure of hosting her and her hubby.

See you in a few. Until then take care.