Good Bye 2012

Good bye 2012!!!!

Can you believe it??  Its that time, after all the
Christmas bustle and fun, now we think and reflect in a gone year.  2012 meant a lot of different things to each of us.  Its fun to remember the great times, the achievements, the gains, but also the losses, the failures, the not so good times, our love ones that are gone, and turn the page to a new year.
As we reflect alone and patiently, for me the
biggest lost happened not to long ago when all those little angels went to heaven too early, in Newtown Ct.  It was a shocking
tragedy that affected all of us in different ways.  However, many of us had a great year, and on the positive side are grateful to God for the blessings of being alive together with our families.


Something new:

Great designs.

MT Casa ways to decorate with a new Washi tape.

 

This is a great way to decorate walls, glass, candles etc.etc.



 

NEW YEAR, NEW DECOR...

A beautiful "cake stand a la shabby"



Handcrafted:
Image credits: Table runner from A Beautiful Cliche, Ruffled burlap table runner from Cotton Buds, Monogrammed table runner found on In Spaces Between, Caligraphy printed table runner from Ditsydodo, Caligraphy quote from Trading Phrases.

Our tablesetting:











GREAT 2013 kitchen.


DREAM BIG 2013

XOXO

martha

My favorite Christmas decor,

Some of my favorite Christmas decor includes mantles, trees, vignettes, doors,and more.
Enjoy this as much as I did.
Get a cup of hot chocolate,

great traditional mantle.

and enjoy some beautiful decor.

gorgeous mantle I love!!

Great door, just beautiful and so welcoming.


love her home, so much vintage and great classic taste.


cookies, cookies, cookies, I had so much fun baking my christmas cookies.
I'm into small banana breads, so fun.

Her family room is outstanding, so so cozy, you don't ever want to move.

Love the gift wrapping, so so beautiful.


I hope you enjoy my favorites, have a wonderful holiday,


XOXOX

Martha

 

Some of my favorite things.

These are some of my favorite things, pillows, furniture,
and more, take a look.


Love these pillows and the simple fleur de lis.

Love the flannel and burlap couch from Market

love this settee from Waterhouse
Market, she does some amazing work.


love this sign its sold thou,



love the desk so unique!!!


Have fun with my favorites, more tomorow, on Christmas favorites.


XOXO

martha











 

Christmas Inspiration

Our hearts are heavy in the midst of the Connecticut tragedy.  I would like to remember the heroic acts of the teachers, principal, and students while experiencing something so so horrible.

I learned about it around 5:00 PM in the afternoon, I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child. May God comfort and sustain the families.

Back to our inspiration of beautiful homes:

Holly's tree is so cute with her special ornaments for a toddler. just great.

Holly Mathis living room is just beautiful, legos and all.

love the chalkboard, so cute.



I love the mantle and the stockings classic and vintage.


Hope you enjoyed the inspiration, stay safe.








 

Christmas traditions

Hello friends:

One of the most important activities of the Christmas Holidays is memories and traditions.
Our children will remember not the toys they received from Santa, but the TIME spent in the kitchen making cookies for Santa and others, decorating the tree with ornaments they made with Mom and Dad, at school, or just the simple gingerbread cookies, hang on the tree.
They will treasure the "First Christmas" ornament, as a baby, they handmade popcorn garlands, and the cranberries handmade garland. 

On that note here are some things to remember and begin new traditions for our children:


Big and little snow globes, I made them with baby food jars, kids love them.




This is from Country Living Kraft paper rectangles stamped with ornaments.  Great idea.

Upgrade a simple ornament with a little bit of snow and a tiny tree, a feather, so simple and again the dollar store.

Love the little

Love the little trees, (dollar store)  great price.


PINECONES FROM THE WOODS< AND BIRDS FROM THE DOLLAR STORE~!!!!!!!












 

Christmas decorations

Love the Christmas decorations.  I took a little
"Christmas Field Trip"  to my favorite places:

Michaels, Anthro, Dollar Store, in that order.
tons of people, and of course lots of inspirations.
Anthropology is into wrapping papers, twine, and
gorgeous paper, but I took pictures of some of my
favorite vignettes.  Pictures below.

At the Dollar Store I got some great tissue paper, kraft paper and I'm going back because they have those sweet "Christmas Village  houses"  so cute,
and you know how expensive they are, but here there are only a dollar and they even have the lights, snow blankets, and accesories, like the little trees, I have some ideas, I'm going to paint them white, and add some white glitter, and more
LOL, also they just got today more of the large ornaments, I mean the super large, like the ones at the Christmas Tree shop, (next shopping trip)
of course, but I prefer the $ store, don't you?  As usual, I was talking to some girls about the SUPEr
big ORNAMENTS, WE SHARED SOME IDEAS:
1, use fishing line and hang them from the ceiling.
2, Hang them in front of the big window at different heights.
3.  Fill a large bowl with greens and the SUPER ornaments, it makes a great centerpiece.

Great ideas, but if you have a $ store where you live, RUN and get the little village houses, they are going like hot cakes everyone is buying them.


Love the glass blocks, just white lights, some greens and a great bow, from Lorri Heiling's blog.


Some easy cute gifts:  chalk labels, so sweet,



Make a paper back book tree:



Go to her blog for directions:  Kayla Amiees blog.  Just beautiful

Our family Thanksgiving table, beautiful English china, silver flatware, and fresh flowers. This was a "Tofuturkey" from
wHOLE fOODS,  DELICIOUS, crnberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, asparagus soup, roastes sweet potatoes, fresh rolls, wine, and of course dessert and more coffee.  JUST DELICIOUS.



This is the "make believe" pilgrim's village for the kids. Just fun.



The Main course with the vegies, just delicious, the stuffing was to die for, it had all kinds of things, just  yum, yum.

Sofia with Sunny just so cute, she loves her dog, she really enjoyed the party.

Anthro's decorations

Anthro gorgeous dresser knobs.

Anthro's mercury glass knobs, LOL

Anthro's twine.

Antrho's wall decor, love this..

MY NEW CLAY ORNAMENTS AND TAGS.  JUST MADE BY ME. I SPENT ALL AFTERNOON MAKING THEM, LOVE CLAY.
THE NEW COLLECTION IS AT MY ETSY SHOP WHILE THEY LAST
PEOPLE LOVE HANDMADE.   I HAVE THREE MINI TREES FOR THESE
SWEET ORNAMENTS. I LOVE THE SMALL TREES, I ALSO USE MY MUSIC BIRDS.THEY ADD SO MUCH TO THE TREE.


more handmade ornaments to come,

hope you are inspired,

XOXO

martha