It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Two years ago I did a blog post, here, about finding the inspiration photo below on decorating a stairway. I feel in love with this look and kept a copy in my inspiration folder. I hoped that someday, I would have a staircase to try this with. The first photo below is from BH&G.


In the photo below, you can see my version it it. After we bought this house in August, I went on EBAY and found some vintage ice skates. The garland is from the Christmas Tree farm we visited last week.



Here is a close up of the skates.

Yes, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here.
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Penny

Lighting Up My Life

Remember the post here, where I showed you our new dining room chandelier? We had purchased a whole grouping of lighting for our first floor. Normally, I don't buy things in "sets", but I did this time because every room on the first floor flows into the other and you can see each room from the next. So I wanted a little continuity.

Here is the old living room ceiling fixture. It was a verdigris finish. Nice, but not the look I was going for.


Here is the new living room light. It hangs from the ceiling about 7 inches. The glass has a old golden cast to it. The iron is finished in a old brass patina look.


Standing in my dining room you can see a part of the new dining chandelier, the foyer light (which is an exact copy of the living room light) and the living room light.


On the the kitchen. These are the old pendant lights that hung over the counter. They were silver with white glass shades.

Here are the new lights. They have the same vintage brass iron look, with old golden glass shades. I love the way they blend with the tile back splash.

Across from the kitchen is the eat in kitchen area. Below is the old chandelier. It was silver with white glass shades also. (Ignore the mess on the table - this was about a month ago when I was still unpacking).

I mentioned one of my sons is here visiting and he and Mr. Comforts of home installed the new chandelier over the kitchen table.

It is a smaller version of the one over our dining room table. This one only has 6 lights instead of nine.

This weekend I am going to do a little Christmas decorating. What are your plans?

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Penny

Announcing The Winner and A Trip To a Tree Farm

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We did here at The Comforts of Home. One of our 4 sons is visiting and on Wednesday afternoon, we took a drive out into the countryside to visit a "cut your own" tree farm to get our Christmas tree. The weather was wonderful. About 50 degrees and sunny.

Here are some pictures of the Christmas tree farm. It is called Sandy Hollar Farms and has been in business for 30 years.


The gift shop was deck out in wonderful fresh cut Cypress and Frasier fir garlands and wreaths. I bought a couple of the garlands and a wreath and will show you soon, how I am using them.


Isn't this just beautiful?

Without further adieu, the winner of the burlap/ french postcard print pillow cover giveaway was drawn by Random.org. There were 83 comments and the winner was number 15.

The winner is Stacey of Poofing the Pillows (how appropriate is that?). Congrats Stacey! Please email me your mailing address and I will send your pillow out to you right away! And thank you all for your sweet comments on this post.

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Penny

A Birthday Giveaway!

Guess what? Today is MY birthday! So in honor of my birthday I would love to have a giveaway!

I would love to give someone a French burlap pillow cover. This pillow cover is made by ME. It is burlap, with a vintage tea stained French post card applique.

I have this and other burlap pillow covers for sale on my website at Lavender Hill Studio. To enter my birthday giveaway, just leave a comment on this post. I will pick a winner via a random drawing on Thanksgiving Day.

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Penny