Wednesday, December 7, 2011

dining room, living room and kitchen holiday tour


After last years decorating overload I felt the need to pair down and really edit. It feels less like a Christmas display at a shoppe and more like a homey home this year. The burlap runner from Thanksgiving stuck around but the place mats were replaced with my fave board toile mats from Williams-Sonoma that I picked up on clearance a few years ago.












In the kitchen I made a new JOY banner from vintage sheet music.








I'll share the rest of the house in part III Monday including our entry, sun room and master bedroom. Hope you have a beautiful evening!
Sarah

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Holiday Mantel and Lucy's Room


Good morning! Today I wanted to share with you our Christmas mantle and Lucy's room as part 1 of my holiday home tour. Like I mentioned in previous posts I worked with what I had this year including more natural outdoorsy type items like pine cone's found in our yard.










In Lucy's room I added just a few fun holiday touches. 
She loves looking at the ornaments on her tiny tree and pointing out each one asking "what's that?"


















I hope you have a beautiful Tuesday!

Sarah

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Breakfast with Santa


Good morning! How's your weekend going? Feels like it's flying by too fast for me but that's really nothing new. We went to Breakfast with Santa at our local middle school yesterday. When we got there there were only a couple people in line to see the big guy so we figured we'd do that part first..... In hindsight maybe we should have eaten first. All was going so great at first, Lucy was smiling and waving to Santa, then we got a little caulky and tried to hand her over to him and that's when things went downhill fast. I love this picture my mother in law snapped! It really captured the scene. I really wish I hadn't already printed my Christmas cards. 




She quickly recovered after breakfast though once she found the band room instrument "petting zoo." It was such a cute idea to let the kids explore and bang on the different instruments.




They also had about a dozen or so different craft tables set up. 




Lucy kept going back to the petting zoo, she was in heaven.




I was at the table guarding our things when Nick snapped this photo of her with the violin. He said she picked it up, hugged it and then tried to casually stroll off with it. 


 Hope you all have a beautiful Sunday. I'll be back tomorrow with part 1 of our holiday house tour!

Sarah

Wednesday, November 30, 2011


Ahhh sweet knitting! It's one of the greatest cold weather activities and I got to pick it back up again today. After dropping Lucy off at grandma's house this morning {thanks Sandy!} I headed off to meet up with all the ladies I missed so much because I hadn't been since just before Lucy broke her leg 6 weeks ago. I needed to get back though because I wanted to get started on a hat for Nick.

Our first little round of snow last night was followed by beautiful sunny skies today and I was able to photograph a lot of our Christmas decor. I still need to shoot Lucy's room and our entry and after that I can't wait to share. I've sort of paired things down this year and I'm going for a more natural look. 




I hope you all have a beautiful evening!

Sarah

Monday, November 28, 2011

Shop is reopen!


Just a quick note to let you all know the shop is open again just in time for the holidays! I will be adding new things weekly so check back often!











Happy Monday!
Sarah