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A Year in Review {2017}

12/29/2017 By Bre

29 Dec

It’s always fun to look back over the past year. As the new year approaches, and we wind down from the holidays. The last Christmas cookie is digested, and my pants seem to have gotten 2 sizes smaller in ONE week, I look forward to the New Year with great anticipation. With the kids home on from school on Christmas break, and family visiting, we have spent our days soaking in our time together, and it truly has been so much fun. However, I told my husband the other day, that this structure loving person is craving some routine. I never realized how much I crave routine, until it’s gone! With 2018 right around the corner, I always love to look back over the past year. There is something about reviewing the last year, that helps propel us into what’s next. So this is my year in review of 2017.

Styling a Christmas Vignette

12/17/2017 By Bre

17 Dec

One of the things I always do is style our buffet in our dining room to coordinate with the rest of my christmas decor. I get text messages from friends around the holidays with pictures of their buffets, or side tables, or books shelves asking for my design eye to take a look and make sure nothing is missing. I love helping others love the spaces they are in, so I love helping my friends make their homes festive for the holidays too! Vignettes have to be one of my favorite things to do, other than tablescapes of course! So today I’m sharing some photos with you on how I style a christmas vignette.

Christmas in the Dining Room {Part 2.}

12/13/2017 By Bre

13 Dec

Hello Friends! Sometimes I get asked the question, especially after I share an elaborate tablescape post, if my dining room always looks that way? The answer is always NO, because let’s face it, sometimes my dining room table gets lost under the piles of stuff that life can accumulate, to the point where my husband will ask if we still own a dining room table?! Ha Ha! For the most part our dining room looks like it did in the Holiday Housewalk this year. Well when I clean it for company ….

Frosted Winter Tablescape

12/12/2017 By Bre

12 Dec

Hello Friends!! I hope you are good as we countdown to Christmas!! We got our first snowfall over the weekend, with another one happening right now as we speak, so it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. Today I wanted to share with you the tablescape I created last year for the Better Homes & Gardens Christmas Ideas magazine (still out on newsstands now!). I’m titling this one the “Frosted Winter Tablescape”, because it’s full of “frosted” winter greens like dusty miller, and even some soft succulents, along with plenty of winter greens!

Miss Mustard Seed White Wax

12/06/2017 By Bre

6 Dec

You may remember when I shared our new dining room updates I mentioned our new table arriving “unfinished” in the sense that it was raw wood. So no poly or any protective layer to keep from damaging water rings, or other stains. I knew I wanted to use something that wouldn’t greatly alter the look of the wood, but I also didn’t want it to make the wood feel any warmer, which some products will do. I will put this disclaimer out first I’m a wax over poly person. Just am. That’s my preference, and I can’t say 100% why, I just like it better. When I apply a wax finish to wood it seems to make the richness in the wood come out, not to mention it also makes it buttery smooth – like silk, something poly just doesn’t do for me

Winter Wonderland Tablescape

12/04/2017 By Bre

4 Dec

Hello Friends! I’m so excited to be sharing a Winter Wonderland Tablescape with you today that I created. We are going to create this exact table for our Christmas eve dinner with the family. It was more per my daughters request, she said it looked just like a winter wonderland, and I quite agree. I’m teaming up with a few blogging friends for a christmas tablescape tour, hosted by Alicia from A Burst of Beautiful, and you are going to love what’s in store for today!

Hot Chocolate Bar

12/03/2017 By Bre

3 Dec

Hello Friends! We have been thoroughly enjoying our weekend. Watching christmas movies, making hot cocoa, and hosting our first holiday party of the season. I don’t know why but during the holidays I crave hot chocolate more than any other time throughout the year. It’s the perfect afternoon treat, and I find the kids craving it just as much as I have been lately. To keep things easy to reach I like to set up a little hot chocolate bar in our kitchen so you can make it whenever the cravings strike!

Holiday Housewalk 2017

12/01/2017 By Bre

1 Dec

Hello Friends!! Happy Friday! I am so excited to be joining in with all of my friends for the final day of the Holiday Housewalk! I’ve had the joy of participating in the housewalk for the last two years, and I am so excited to be joining in again this year!

Christmas in the Office

11/30/2017 By Bre

30 Nov

Today I’m sharing with you how I decorated my home office for Christmas. You may remember seeing some of it in our feature in this years Better Homes & Gardens Christmas Ideas magazine. So today I wanted to show a few more glimpse’s of Christmas in my office.

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