Christmas is here!!!!!!

December 1, 2011


Christmas is here friends, baking. decorating, the tree, the mantle,
wrapping gifts, visiting friends, parties, just enjoying family and
friends, celebrating and enjoying this month.


Most of us are busy decorating the house.  It takes time, and effort
to decorate homes, the front door, put our Christmas lights outside,
open our ornament's boxes, create the magic of Christmas.


I hope you enjoy this month, and have fun doing the traditional activities with the kids, and family.


A little inspiration to keep us going:

Source: Country Living  love the simplicity and elegance.

Martha Stewart, just lovely and unique

Mary McDonald,

I love the arrangement, simple and elegant, not too much, but enough,
stick to the design rules, sometimes the rules do work.
















I always look at decorating for the holidays from the point of view of someone who doesn't live in an home that allows for a full size Christmas tree. So I've been collecting inspiring images of tabletop tannenbaums that are perfect for smaller spaces. Martha Stewart (above) is full of ideas for these types of trees but I have found a few more that are just as beautiful. Enjoy!








Hope you love the inspiration, Martha Stewart and other designers, please email me
your pictures and I will publish them all in my blog.  Enjoy the decorating, and Christmas fun.
Make sure you "chill", this is the season to decorate, get and wrap gifts, eat great dinners, and desserts, enjoy friends for a hot taddy, or a glass of wine, and RELAX by the fire, enjoying your decorations, the tree, and your family.
Kids love traditions and it should be all about them.  Making cookies, decorating the Christmas cookies, making ornaments, simple for the kids.
Its all about children, they grow so fast, you need to enjoy it.  You will have time to shop for antiques, and all, you will have time to remodel the house, but children do grow up and that time will not return ever.

blessings this Christmas

martha

BLACK FRIDAY what a fun day

 adventuresindinner said...

The Happiest of Days to you too :-)

November 24, 2011 2:07 PM

Dear friends:

Hope you enjoyed your turkey, trimmings, family, stories, laughs, cries, jokes, and all the good things that family brings to us.

I have great memories when we went to "Grandma's house" for the holidays, some years we drove all night and half of the day, the urgency to see family and to eat together, I remember all the holidays at "Grandma's" the stories, the food, the news,

the pets, and more.

In this very confusing and trouble world, it is comfort that we all seek, and the only place to find it after God is our families.

It doesn't matter how big or small, kids need family.

Black Friday is big around here, people camping out, eating, in the cold waiting for the stores to open, running to buy the

bargains.  I personally, don't like that kind of shopping, even if it is for a big bargain. I prefer, the quiet shopping. But, after

watching the news I guess they were real BARGAINS in spite of the deep recession that we face as a country.

Today, we can start decorating and having fun, Christmas is my favorite holiday, here is a little inspiration to get us going,shall we?

Now, we can start decorating for the most fun holiday of the year.

A different way to hang your wreath, Source: Southern Living

the ribbon is from Michaels,  BlackFriday sale, LOL 

A sweet craft.

Set a Christmas breakfast in your kitchen Island, courtesy of Southern Living.






Decorating our table
































Hope you enjoyed the inspiration,

martha

GIVE THANKS

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends,
I had a great year and give thanks for
my family, my friends in blogland, and
for this beautiful country.

courtesy of HGTV

I wish you a great day, and lots of fun and great food with your family,


martha

GREAT SUNDAY INSPIRATION

Good Morning friends of Kate Creative Salvage"


I was visiting some friends on "blogland".  A lot of bloggers are trying to find their niche in the world of "blogland".  Some want to advertise their shops and make lots of money, some others, like to make things and create as much as possible, Some just want to DO IT ALL, write, get lots of followers, sell their creations, sell advertisement through google ads,or through other bloggers who want to advertise their shops or blog, many out there write the "e magazines" or the "e books", or the very ambitious, write wonderful decorating books.
It is just wonderful how everyone in "blogland"
works so hard to achieve dreams and goals.


Back to reality, I'm part of the "blogland" it is a slow journey, my passion is to take an item that nobody wants, and make it into something beautiful for the home.
I don't have the time to do this very often, it
takes me a long time to paint, or distress items, I don't have the powerful sprayers, so all I paint is by hand, this takes time.  I
don't know how to build tables or molding etc.
so, all I do is paint frames, antiques, vintage items, ceiling tiles, baskets and that is all for now.  The mister does absolutely nothing DYI.
This sounds like I'm complaining but I'm not.


INSPIRATION:  This is my kind of passion, actually the last photo is  very similar to my bookcase,I have two bookcases in my study one I'm decoupaging (it takes forever), the other one I cannot paint, because it is a real antique with brass on top, and beautiful oak. It is huge, so I change things all the time, it has everything, books, trunks, old pictures, mercury glass, white pottery, you name it, it goes in this wonderful old bookcase.  I'm taking pictures for you soon. I love to read and thus I love books, being a teacher I have tons of books for school and my personal collection.  I have very very old books, from garage sales, and thrift stores. I have them in buckets in my basement. To display all my books I need tons of bookcases, so I keep them in buckets. I think the "e books" are great but kids need to learn to love the real books first.  It is very hard to teach from an "e book" not that I don't like the "kindle" or whatever, but reading an "e magazine" today, I really prefer the "real magazine" there is nothing better than my "Country Living" or "House Beautiful", my mug with hot coffee, and enjoying and reading the articles.  I really think that the new "e magazine" are too small, I like the long articles.


What do you like, I will post your comment, please write to me.

A Nautical room  everything in this room is just about from Home Goods, Marshalls and TJ Max,
my favorite budget stores.  You can create this for about $200.00 or less. The trunk is old, but the rest
is not.

This living room is a mixture, but what I like is that they kind of hide the big
tv above the mantle   oh what happened to the traditional mantle????

Love the storage in those suitcases, (I have six of them full to capacity)
love the books, small travel trunks, french chairs, and hanging lamp,
check the curtain,




Now this is just inspiration, lets go and rearrange our rooms, great ideas here???

martha

HAPPY SATURDAY THANKSGIVING IS ALMOST HERE

 adventuresindinner said...

God gravy! These look fantastic

I agree, the brownie dessert is so yum.

Now, we need to decorate our tables, here is some inspiration for you....

easy and so much impact, I think three of these in the center of your table would be great.

simple branches from the yard, pumpkins, gourds, berries and pine cones, easy easy!!!!!

simple candle and the backyard leaves, from Country Living

This is from Better Homes and gardens, love the mixture of white and orange







My favorite



Just stamp or write on a card, so impressive and easy.



The best of the best, do you like it??? Let me know,






I hope you are inspired to create a unique table setting this holiday,

Happy Saturday with happy thoughts,

martha