Happy Thanksgiving to all Kate's Creative blog.

I hope you had a great time with family and friends.  I had a lovely dinner with my family.

It is time again, I had to get one box out and fluff bows, worked on my outdoor wreaths and cleaned out my antique sleds.

I want to share this beautiful house in Connecticut, it was featured in COuntry Living, and I so miss Connecticut at this time of the year, loved its hills, country roads, stone fences and the quiet of it all.  I lived there for a long time, and have beautiful memories.




I admire their taste and Christmas decorations.
I love the tree with the plain, rustic touch.
I think today we are all loving the old farm tables a la "pottery barn",  cozy rooms, confy chairs to sip a cup of tea, read a book,
watch TV or a movie on our DVD's.
The world is changing and home and family are so important to us today.



I love pinterest, and I decided to look for some inspiration for my own house.

From our favorite "Pottery Barn" stairs, lovely,

From the "handmade home"

a lovely shelf decorated and so sweet.



A gorgeous entrance by "French garden home.com



Hope you enjoyed the inspiration, and send me your pictures, I will post them for all to admire,

XOXO

Martha

Welcome to the Holidays,





Inspiration:

Let the handmade tree decorations begin,,,

classic and beautiful via pinterest

This magazine on line is beautiful, go and enjoy,

Selling folowers in Nantucket













I got a bit sidetracked, but this stylist from Germany is one of my favorites.


West Elm market, just beautiful.



Love the vintage, a la Ralph Lauren blanket,!!!!courtesy of pinterest



Very English and simple.


 Courtesy of Pinterest


THis is the first of a handmade Christmas ornament.  Suprirse, next.


Hope you are inspired and ready to shar,


Happy Holidays


Katecreativesalvage

Fall and handmade pumpkins

I love everything handmade, I found lots of great ideas on how to make these great pumpkins.

First, these foam pumpkins covered with fabric and soaked husk leaves, just darling,



These beautiful pumkins by "Craftimakes"

These great pumkins from "finding silver pennies"  are so cute,

Now my favorite:

Old book pages decoupage pumpkin at Etsy:





Great Inspiration~~~~~~~ hope you enjoyed.

Hello Friends:

I took a little time off from blogging, to catch up on my orders. I was running behind, so I needed to concentrate and work very hard. Made lots of tags, knobs, and shipped them all.  I also made some steampunk lamps, (they take a while to make).

Now to decorating:  some beautiful inspiration for all of you to decorate your homes for the fall and holidays.
HGTV,  love the simple
way to welcome your guests at your
Sarah Richardson, company is coming, great table setting.

Another entrance idea from HGTV, just beautiful.

Hope you enjoyed the inspiration photos, and have a great Sunday,

martha

Hello Friends:

Fall is here and the beautiful leave's changing season in the NE.

I made some "Dreams" tags for a customer and I'm really into "dreams" myself.  Some of my dreams
came to pass these past two weeks, others are still
great "dreams" in my "dream board"

I made a lot of progress this week, painted and distressed the second French desk.  Sold my beautiful typewriter, its so cute, but is gone to a new home.  I worked on an antique tray and a beautiful antique frame.  It could be a chalkboard or a mirror.  I'm leaving it blank. Its very ornate, and I used ASCP, gesso and some antique glaze.
I want to keep them because they came out beatiful.

On another note, I saw this house and its going up on my board, love the open space and the stone fireplace. Its just a beautiful house.

love the kitchen ,
love the bathroom.



This is a beautiful place to enjoy some good music, grab a cup of tea, on a chilly night and enjoy the music.  This is the house from the movie
"The Notebook"  I could watch this movie every weekend, love the different houses and the Nursing Home, sign me up!!!!!  a dream nursing home.

the famous blue shutters, I love blue and white.

I'm getting a blog overhauled, and there are some more surprises in the horizon coming soon.

love to you all

martha