January, Sorting and Emptying my Office and Dish closet.

 

 

To start with i'm showing you my credenza.  I brought the white rooster back and built the look from there.  I try to find things that go with the picture.

 

 

These flower pots are new.  I got them from Terrain.  When I saw them I knew immediately where they were going to go.

 

So I began emptying out the dish closet in the small bedroom that I took over quite a few years ago.  I emptied everything (in several stages) and determined what I actually used and things that had been just hanging around.  This is just a sampling of everything I went through.  It truly was some of the hardest decisions I've made to let go of a lot of this.  There are stacks of chargers and placemats by the closet too.

 

This is one side of my closet now.  I also let go of a lot of wine glasses that I had accumulated and kept what I knew I would use for my tablescaping. My husband put this all together and it's supported heavily to take on the weight of all of this.  He made the wine glass rack too.

 

This is the other half.  I got a whole bunch of metal racks designed to hold pot lids, and rather than storing everything in stacks I was able to get all of the dinner plates on the racks, leaving the salad/dessert  plates to put in front.  I also went through a ton of placemats and chargers that I had accumulated.  I was heavily into Tuscan when I started blogging and I've transitioned to a different style over the years. 

 

Believe it or not this is far more organized than it was.  These are commonly used decorating items and I got them all on this shelf.  I've got more downstairs and that's on the project list too.

 

There are 4 napkin containers (there was 7) so I let go of a lot of them. Extra silverware is on the bottom and some more deco stuff.  The art on the right lower area is from my Grandson.  Forgive the dust I hadn't taken care of that yet.

 

Thi is a backed up view of my office which also serves as storage for the dishes and deco items.  I was too ashamed to take a picture of it before.  My sewing machine is stuffed underneath the printer.

 

My backyard garden area is in a frozen state!

 

Sigh.... can't wait for winter to be over!

Thanksgiving Decor 2019

I'll start in the kitchen dining area at the credenza.  I put down a runner runner that has pumpkins on each end.  

 I used this white pitcher with pumpkins on it and added the dark grass to it to tone down the look a bit and to pick up on some of the darker brown colors seen throughout. 

 Same farmhouse pumpkin decor.  I've gotten a lot of mileage out of that!

 I brought out my white turkey with sponge brown accents.  I liked how the white in the turkey picked up on the white in the pitcher.  The candle holder was a find at Hobby Lobby and I felt it unified everything.  The turkey dish is part of a 4 pc. set I think from Williams Sonoma.

Now onto the living room fireplace mantel...

 I brought in my MacKenzie Childs turkey and a pair of pheasants.

 This is how it looked during the fall and Halloween season. I took away a couple of pumpkins and rearranged the others.

 The pheasants were acquired from Pier 1 several years ago.  I like making it look like they are foraging.

 After I showed you my Fall mantel I got this owl.  It was centered under the picture but I decided to move it off to the right and raise it on a candlestick as though it was perching from a tree.

 The turkey is set lower as though it were on the ground.

I took some evening photos too...

Wishing You a Happy Thanksgiving!

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Vignette On The Credenza

 Well another week has flown by!  Thought I'd play around with my new credenza and see what I could come up with.

 I brought out this farm style tray that I had been using on the old black table that used to be here.  I nestled in the flock of sheep and a couple of other things.

 This sweet figurine was gifted to me by my daughter in-law during our Easter visit.

I staged a green cabbage plate behind her.

 Though these are faux forsythia they look very real.  We are seeing these bloom around here right now.

 I tucked in some creamy white pitchers underneath on the shelves.

So that's my new Vignette On The Credenza!