CHRISTMAS TOUR 2014

Hello all –

Just a little tour of our home – Hoping you are having a wonderful Christmas season.

It was so much fun decorating this year. I kept it simple – not too many things around, because when you take everything away it look quite empty…It usually takes me a couple of weeks to get use to the house again.

This is a picture of my perpetual calendar – I purchased this 20 yrs ago.

2014 Christmas Tree…..*****

The packages are wrapped in (Dollar Store) brown paper and added some ribbon, then stamped the side of the package with this cute string of lights.

So simple.

One in green… Oh and the tags are the tags I made with Christmas cards I received last year…

Looking from the Dining Room

Dining Room

Close up of the centerpiece. Gift from Pete’s cousin –

Mantel 2014

Love my little snowmen…..

New this year are the pine cones

And in the kitchen *** This is used for fresh fruit, but had to put a little Christmas in the kitchen as well.

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and an amazing 2015.

Much love,

Rose

CHRISTMAS MANTEL 2014

Hi Everyone, hope you are all well and having a wonderful time decorating for the holidays.

I would like to share our 2014 Christmas mantel. and a few other decorations with you all ***

It’s been fun decorating this year. Pete is fully retired and is participating in helping me decorate & I am loving it.

Snowflake pillow compliments of Yvonne from Stone Gable – just followed her instructions.She is one of my favorite bloggers to follow

This is how it will look – with the little pillow in front. Just wanted you to see the snowflake up close.

See you all in around a week or so

Much love,

Rose

As you can tell I love snow men…..

This is the sofa table I have moved to the dining room…

I will send more pictures by end of the week…

Just a close up of the Christmas sign.

Another project I tried from Yvonne at Stone Gable

She has the most beautiful home and shares her wonderful crafts step by step with you…

FALL TABLE

Had friends over and wanted to share my fall table ***

Love setting the table for the seasons –

ENJOY ***

The soup bowl was purchased in Home Goods

Same with the table cloth and napkins.

The little pumpkins, dinner plates, water goblets, and the large serving platter in the middle of the table, all Pottery Barn *

I made the place card…

Have a beautiful day

Much love,

Rose

FALL MANTEL ******

Before Fall is over I wanted to share my fall mantel with you all…

I love the fall – so crisp and cool outside… The days are meant for sharing with family and friends…

Enjoy your day today everyone…Be kind to someone … it’s a good feeling…

ENJOY *****

This is the window from my parents home – the only one left, so glad I got it…

The cute little porcelain teddy bears were given to me by my Mom for Kristin & Aly one year for Halloween, can’t believe they are still in one piece – she must have given them to the girls about 15/20 years ago.

Have a wonderful day.

Much love,

Rose

A NEW LOOK FOR THE FAMILY ROOM

After 5 weeks of waiting for the Family Room to be completed – I can finally share this with you –

My friend Barbara made the beautiful cornice – I love how it came out.

It’s a bit dark – but it looks cozy….

I did the cross stitched WELCOME and Barbara made the pillow.

New Chair… I love it…Thanks hun……….

SNEAK PEAK

Well here it is….the newest addition to my family room…

Not finished yet with this room – still need curtains and a cute little pillow for this beautiful chair…

I am so excited to share this with you.

Have a wonderful day..

Much love,

Rose

Coming Soon ***

COMING SOON***********

Well we are almost there – we finished the mold issue – will be having the rugs installed on Thursday ***YEA*** (need to get this house back to normal)

Painted the railings – they look beautiful —— Thanks Hun…..

painted, painted, and painted some more.

Will be redoing the dining room a bit different.

We will be using a mirror on the only wall – so the hutch will be placed near the family room – (you can still see it from the dining room)

Here is a sneak peak of the mirror

We went shopping in our home for this one and saved $350 that’s a bargain – It use to be cream and Pete painted it white. I love the white..

Did purchase a new lamp for the buffet –

Vienna Full Spectrum

It matches my chandelier. Purchased it on Lamps Plus “

So until next week I send lots of Love and a wonderful weekend.

Much love,

Rose

GOOD MORNING ****

Good Morning Everyone-

It’s been a real long time since I have posted anything on my blog.

We have had a very busy summer, graduations, showers, and a beautiful wedding.

To get back home and figure out what we are doing with our retired lives.

We thought we might want to leave New York, so we took a trip to Florida and looked at a house (fell in love with it) but realized we are really North Easterners – we truly love the 4 seasons.

So now that we are staying in NY we decided to change the rugs in our condo.

After Pete removed the rugs we found mold by the door to the deck.

We had to postpone the rug install until Oct 23rd. We have someone fixing the mold problem – its a bit involved, but the end result will be so much better.

Can’t wait to get our home back to normal. We are living on concrete floors and one chair and the sofa.

Everything else is scattered throughout the house.

Dust everywhere, but I guess it is a good time to do home improvement, the windows can be opened, for the dust, and I will be fall cleaning after this anyway.

Just a couple of pictures where we are now.