I really wanted to be like all of you other patient and organized bloggers and hold off on showing anything Christmas-y until I had enough to do a massive "house tour" post. Weeell....
"Patient" and "organized" and not words my husband uses to describe what he loves about me. In fact, you won't be seeing the entire dining room yet because I have to clean up the mess I made creating this light extravaganza!
Here is the one area of the house that is completely ready for Christmas. I just want to sit in this corner all day and dream about ChRiStMaS. Haha!
This year I wanted to do a "snow" theme somewhere in the house. My dining room is my "all white" room, so it was the perfect backdrop for a snowball wonderland.
And living in Houston, I have to create my own snowy wonderland you see...
My mom bought this wooden angel and aged it herself when I was a little girl. I'm so glad I "rescued" it from her give away pile.
Sprinkle in some old sheet music and ironstone pieces...
I have sets of buckets with snowballs for sale in my Etsy shop, just like the one above! Click HERE
Sorry kids...this one is empty.
This awesome old apple crate turned bookshelf came from one of my favorite Texas shops...Smitten, in Fredericksburg.
And here is a sneak peek of something I'm working on for my entryway. Can you tell what this used to be?
I'd like to put some little lights in it. Wouldn't that look neat?
So, I'll just keep doing a little bit of holiday decorating at a time.
Now to go check out what you all have been up to...
Linsey here, from The Farmhouse Porch. Before I move on to the party stuff, I want to remind you about our mega party coming up. It is a "Creating Fall Vignettes" themed, week long show and tell, featuring day after day of inspiration and fabulous photos and how-to's, by your favorite bloggers! Here are the dates and a schedule:
Hi everyone! My name is Suzy and I blog at Worthing Court.
I'm a Southern girl living right smack in the middle of North Carolina. My goal at Worthing Court is is to inspire others to beautify their surroundings and their lives by sharing home decor, decorating tips and how-to's, diy projects, crafts, recipes and more.
In addition, I have a weekly series every Friday called House Snoopers where I get other bloggers to let us come inside and snoop around their homes. At House Snoopers you'll find homes decorated in every style and on all types of budgets.
I am honored to be visiting at The Scoop with you this week! The Scoop has long been one of my favorite places to party. There are so many talented people who link up that I never fail to find oodles of inspiration. Now comes the really tough part - narrowing it down to just a few favorites.
I'll start with Debbie at Painted Therapy who repurposed a piece of furniture and created this fabulous bench.
Go check it out. You won't believe what it started out as.
Duane at Cottage In The Oaks put together a wonderful center for beverages that will take them all the way through the winter.
Note to self - must get a tiered galvanized metal stand.
Krista from The Happy Housie created a unique and cute door hanging for Halloween.
You''ll want to take a look at the rest of her cute Halloween porch too.
If you're looking for a super easy appetizer or snack for Fall, you'll want to grab this recipe from Linda at Crafts A La Mode.
You'll be surprised at what I call the secret ingredient. Definitely gonna try this one.
Tammy at One More Time Events shares a great idea for displaying and serving Fall and Thanksgiving dishes.
Now I need to go cut down a tree. lol
Over at Number Fifty-Three, Angela has been steadily working to give new life to her oak cabinet filled kitchen.
I love the eclectic modern, country look that she's putting together.
Thank you ladies, for having me over to visit at The Scoop today! Thank YOU Miss Suzy Q! We were so glad to have you help us pick out some "featurees" this week. ~Linsey at The Farmhouse Porch
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Something about old time-y general stores appeals to me greatly. Maybe because it is the polar opposite shopping experience to the modern grocery store. Creaky wood floors, natural rustic grains, sugars, coffee and produce nestled into neat rows of barrels. Jars of peppermint sticks behind a bead board counter and fresh meat wrapped in butcher paper and twine. And of course canned goods and household necessities lining the tall shelves around the rest of the one room display.
I borrowed this Library of congress photo from HERE, a great blog post about the history of the antiques inside CB restaurants and how they are acquired.
It's no secret that I haunt my local Cracker Barrel restaurant. True, it feels a little kitsch and granny-ish, but it's the retail equivalent of the food they sell- pure comfort. If my kids knew I was in there without them they'd be pretty upset. Maybe I can get a seasonal job there doing displays? Have I told you that my dream pantry will look like a general store?
♪♪♪ Ok so before you read on, press play and turn on the music . It enhances the experience of old time-y ness. I I just love this song...♪♪♪
As a kid did you ever imagine being locked in your favorite store overnight? I think there was a movie like that. Anyways, this is where I'd want to be locked. I could be blissfully content with the nostalgic candy, plush country blankets and glittery candles and lights and bluegrass cd's to entertain me. And then there's the lovely porch full of rockers and chess boards...ahh.
I wonder if I can rent it out for slumber parties. Slumber party in the Cracker barrel gift shop!! Who's with me?
Ok,ok. Stay with me here, there is a point to my Cracker Barrel ramblings. I made a little vignette in the corner of my kitchen dinette area that I'm calling "the general store". It all started with these vintage can labels.
These can labels are actual real food labels from the 1940's and 50's. I recently acquired a bunch of them. A factory went out of business back in the day, and somehow some stacks of these labels ended up stored away all these years. I have enough extra ones, in fact, that I'm going to sell them in my etsy shop, for those of you who are into these also. But of course I'll be saving a bunch for myself. They are just too authentically cute!! And this is only a third of the designs I have.
So "Driving Miss Daisy" dont'cha think? I simply attached them to new cans of green beans. Some are empty and I think they'd look darling with little flower arrangements in them, or as herb planters lined up in a window over the kitchen sink, or holding bright yellow pencils on a desk...
Squeal...clasp hands next to face...
Tell me this isn't Cracker Barrel General Store worthy!
Disclaimer- no biscuits were harmed during the shooting of this post. In fact they were quickly devoured 2 hours later with our Pioneer Woman chicken and rice soup. And yes, eating it in "The General Store" did make it that much more scrumptious. I made everyone wear bonnets and petticoats...
MMMM- Little House on the Texas Suburb Prairie...
Do you like this polka dot towel? I received it from Aunt Ruthie of Sugar Pie Farmhouse. It was made by Sweet Magnolia Farms Etsy shop. Thanks to Aunt Ruthie I am hooked to SMF now!
Better use a flame-less candle inside an old wooden pie safe. The key word is "safe" after all...
Now...I took this next photo AFTER dinner.
I wanted you to see how the display will REALLY look on a daily basis. I can't leave a colander of fresh baked biscuits out everyday for heavens sake! Our baby fur monster (aka Junebug, the 17 week old yellow lab) would help herself to every last biscuit in about 5 seconds flat...
...and then would probably help herself to the flour sack dish towel...and the pie safe...and anything else that had the faintest molecule of biscuit scent on it. And because I know you are extremely concerned about what I did with the little white shelf that had been in the dinette nook before, I included a photo of it in its' new home. In the "White" dining room.
See that big birds nest? It fell out of a crape myrtle at our last house during a tornado. We lived in Bedford, TX at that time and a small F0 tornado came down our street. I was in the closet with the kids and dog, we all had helmets on, and we were watching David Finfrock (I sure do miss my old news crew on nbc5i DFW. Isn't it funny how you feel like you know them after watching them for so many years?). Anyways, he was actually showing the rotation and saying our street NAME. That is SO SCARY, let me tell ya! We could see power lines breaking and I thought I was going to have a heart attack! Luckily it only blew down trees and fences and unfortunately, beautiful bird nests. So every time I see this nest it reminds me that God protected my nest and my baby chicks that day. And that we are extremely blessed and lucky to have such wonderful shelter in a world full of disaster and uncertainty.
Wishing you warmth and love and beautiful shelter in your nest today!
Love,
Linsey
*I was in no way reimbursed by Cracker Barrel for this post, nor am I affiliated with them in any way.
