Snowy Days and Christmas Displays

Brrrr....Snowy Days in New England just never end this Winter. We seem to be having a major snowstorm once a week. I thought I'd share a couple pics of one of our many snowstorms...this one was a wet and heavy snow as you can see how it's bending my little tree.This pic was taken from my window out towards my neighborsThis is my neighbors home on the other side. Aren't the branches so pretty "laced" with the snow?

Here are my little Winter Snowfriends that come out each year to play.

They like to stand guard by my white tree with burlap bow This has been my table centerpiece for Chrismas and Winter. I used a lot of "natural" items around the candle and really loved the look it gave.

This is one wall of my dining room that got "dressed up" for Christmas.

I tried to stick with a lot naturals this year, creams, browns, silver.

I loved putting little groupings of trees in bowls, planters, or even silver gravy boats in this case!

Here is the upper part of that display shelf
Just ending with a showing of some of my Winter Wonderland Houses. I adore these and am slowly collecting them.
I'd love to hear any and all comments...be sure to let me know how "YOUR"

Winter is going.....

Hugs, Karen

Deck the Halls

When I was at the Shop on Tuesday, I snapped pics of Christmas displays all around the store. Let me take you on a little tour.....

This is my space decked out for Christmas. Lot's of bottlebrush trees, wreaths, and candy canes galore.

Here's another view...
These are some of my homemade ornaments hanging on the tree...
Here's a closer look
They really sparkle when the lights hit them
Lots of glitter
and trimmed in german glitter glass
Some vintage aqua ornaments

Here's a wall of country ornaments from Pam B.
A lovely mantel display from Mary Ellen

How sweet is this?

Mary has some sweet shabby treasures

Karen K. has plenty of Christmas decor for everyone

Pam has a way with displaying her primitive Christmas goodies...

Just love this store window display

More goodies from Mary Ellen

Jeanine and Susan have lots to ooh and ahh over...

Sandi made this precious advent type calendar

Toile stockings in a suitcase...

White Christmas anyone?

So cozy and inviting...

A lovely display from Maureen and Peter...

Hope you've enjoyed this shabby chic, french, country, primitive, vintage Christmas offering from the girls at the Wrentham Country Store.

White Wednesday Creations

First of all, I want to send my sincere apologies for being away from blogging for so long. I'm ashamed to say my last post was August 24th. So much has happened in my life since then...change of job, change of church, and a complete kitchen remodel just to name three. I've missed you all and will have fun catching up on all your blogs. I promise NOT to be away so long again. I'm looking forward to sharing pics soon of our kitchen remodel, along with goodies and treasures from my little space at the Wrentham Country Store. For now, I'm hooking up with Kathleen over at Faded Charm for a little White Wednesday magic. I wanted to show you a couple of my creations.

I took a vintage white ice-skate that belonged to my mom and filled it with some winter wonderland goodies and some pale pink flowers. Sort of an ice-skate vase if you will. I have it for sale in my spot at the store. I just love it and may have to keep it.... Next, I made some ornaments this year. These particular ones are made from a vintage hymnal and then glittered and edged out with german glitter glass. I just love how they came out.

Amazing Grace...how sweet the sound
Hope you've enjoyed my "return to blogging" post My next one will be longer...just you wait and see! Until next time....blessings and hugs to each of you!

White Wednesday Make Over

For White Wednesday, I wanted to show you a sweetie we came across three weeks ago. I wish I had taken "before" pics of this old nightstand. She had a dark brown finish and was in need of an update. Upon closer inspection, my hubby and I saw the pretty detailing of this vintage nightstand. Very heavy solid wood with beautiful dove-tailed drawers. We took it home where it received a much needed white makeover. (pardon my basement background, but that's where my pieces usually get their work over)

See inside the top drawer... the Link Taylor logo? Blurry pic I know!

Hubby wire- brushed the hardware, which brought it back to it's lovely original state.
What I really love about this piece is it's lines and detail! Just look at the curve of each drawer. The legs are very graceful and the front edges of the piece have design running up the length of it which you can see in the pics. Overall, I think it has a french look to it. After much TLC and shabby white paint, I've placed this beauty in my space at WCS for someone else to enjoy.

Hope you've enjoyed my White Wednesday Makeover! I'm linking up with Kathleen at Faded Charm. Be sure to pop in and say hello to her!

Show & Tell Your Best Summer Bargains

I thought it would be fun to show some of the best bargains/deals/thrifty steals we got this summer, so I hope all you ladies will join in with me. First, I've been dying to show you an incredible deal I got early this summer at an inside sale at a local senior center. A beautiful set of vintage Homer Laughlin Eggshell Georgian Wayside Pink dinnerware! And I do mean set! Dinner plates... bowls...salad plates...

Teacups...saucers

And even the sugar bowl...

...and creamer!!

When I saw this set, I asked the folks how much it was going for and they said...are you ready for this?

$8.00 total!! My heart started pounding and as you can well imagine, I couldn't get the set into the boxes fast enough as there were so many folks streaming in and milling about. This is definitely a "keeper" for me and will be lovely to put out on holidays and special occasion, don't you think?
Next, although this is not vintage and looks to be maybe from Home Goods, I couldn't resist this sweet metal washstand with bowl. I picked it up at an estate sale for the merry tune of $5.00. The bowl was later filled with petunias and resides on my porch.

Just look at this lovely green, heavy metal tea cart with glass shelves. It was tagged for $4.00 at a yard sale, and when the man running the sale saw me looking it over, he said "Do you want it for $3.00?" How fast do you think it took me to scoop that baby up???
This is a lovely vintage brass, french look chandelier that I scored for $10.00 at a yard sale last weekend.

It will need to be rewired, but lucky for me I have an electrician in the family.
This chandelier is extremely heavy, and what makes it so unique is the detailing, plus it has cream colored accents mixed in with brass...

See....here....

Once this is safely rewired, I'm thinking it will hang in my entryway, where my shabby little office is.

Lastly, I've been working on a key fetish, and I was thrilled to find these three lovely keys over the summer.

The largest one was $4.00, the one in the middle is actually one of a set of 3 that I got for $1.00. They were vintage gold Syroco, but hubby painted them white for me. The last key is extremely heavy iron, and was grabbed for $3.00.

These are just a few of the treasures I found this Summer at way low prices! So ladies, do a little "Show and Tell" with me and share your best Summer bargains with the rest of us.

Until next time ~ Be blessed!