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Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the weekend. I have a little more Christmas decorating to show you but first I wanted  to take this opportunity to  thank you all!

I now have 100 Followers!

I know it’s just a number but it shows that you all cared about and liked what you saw enough to take time out  to hit the follow button.  It means a lot to me and I’m very greatful to you all!

I managed to finish my Christmas decorating today and ended up in the dining room. I have a mantel in here and didn’t digress too much from my theme in the family room. I continued using greens, pinecones and some sparkle which came from lights and candles.

At one end of the dining room I have the mantel and my montauk. The montauk is a beast of a chair or as some may know it… a chair and a half! It is all down filled and is so comfy!

I added some pointsettias in white!

I continued using birch as well and I made one of my little logs into a candle holder in the same way I did with my driftwood candle holder. The tutorial for that is here.http://www.kimpowerstyle.com/driftwood-candle-holder-tutoria/

I added this lovely planter with greens, birch logs, pinecones and battery operated lights.

I have my harvest table in the middle of the room. I just draped it in a red toile PB table runner and placed some candles on it with a bit of greenery.

At the other end of the room, I have two armoires that I use for storage as my kitchen is really small and lacks a lot of space. You can see where I finally put my coffee filter wreath! I love draping greenery everywhere.

These are my paper whites in all their glory!

I’ve Been Featured!!!!

I want to thank Michelle over at Emerald Cove for featuring me on her blog today!

Michelle has been so gracious and encouraging, please take a look when you get a chance.

I would also like to thank Bonnie at House of Grace and

Kristin at My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

for featuring my breakfast nook table this week!

I’m so greatful for all the gifted and supportive women I’ve met here in blogland!

Hi everyone!
For years my daughters and I have made a gingerbread house every Christmas.

When we first started our tradition, I would design my own house, bake it and we would put it together with the myriad of candies we would buy from the bulk store.
Once I went back to school and then to work I discovered these wonderful little kits with everything included!  So easy!

We’ve managed to keep the tradition alive (unlike our annual tree cutting which ended last Christmas which I won’t go into now because I  may start sobbing.)
So…even though my daughters are in their twenties they managed to make one of these…

Isn’t it lovely? Complete with accompanying laughter, candy- eating -with -me- yelling- at -them- not- to and cat -playing -with -tiny- ball- candy!

I think they did a wonderful job! (much better than my girlfriend’s and my attempt a couple weeks ago with two kits of our own!)

Thanks for joining me today and yes even when they’re older you still display their artwork like it’s the greatest creation ever!

Hello everyone!
We’ve seen them all over blogland lately…those wonderful coffee filter wreaths. They’ve come in different colours, some coffee stained, some tea stained, some au naturel and I love them all!
I just had to make my own. I don’t know if I did something wrong but this little gal took me
over 3 hours to make!
I used a green foam base, don’t know how many filters I used as I didn’t count! And a glue gun. It’s the first time I’ve used in a glue gun in years! And I have the burns to prove it!

I’ve been wondering where I should put it. It was a toss up between the breakfast nook and over the dining room mantel.

Here she is

She is so pretty that she looks good just resting on the table…

or on the wainscotting…

My Mantel has been done for a week or so and my greens are a little wilted now. I may still change it up but here it is for now!
I really wanted to stick with my old stand by of light and sparkle juxtaposed against the rustic birch and pine cones. Love that look.

I took pics with the lights on and off.

The weather has been rainy and  it was very dark, not the best for taking pics, but my little point and shoot did ok. (Hoping for something a little better under the Christmas Tree this year! Fingers crossed)

I flanked the fireplace with these two little buckets. I had a vintage galvanized bucket but couldn’t find another one so I bought this little guy on the left at the dollar store. I was going to cover them both in burlap but used the burlap for the bottom of my tree.

It is a winter wonderland mess but I really like it.

This wreath was the only item I bought new for the mantel. It was $16.00, I had everything else. I just loved the sparkle, which doesn’t show well in the pics.

I bought these little battery operated lights that fit so nicely into my buckets. It looks really magical at night when they are lit up.

Hey everybody, I just won my first bloggy land award from Sue at Beach Bungalow!    Sue was my first follower and has helped  me along on this wonderful journey of blogging! Thanks sue for this award!  You can go take a peek at her lovely blog.         

In accepting this award I must:

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded me this.

2. Share 8 things about myself.

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers I’ve recently discovered.

4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about their awards.   

Here are 8 Kim facts:

1. I married my best friend and we will be celebrating # 24  in a couple of months.

2. I have 3 lovely daughters named Charity, Faith and Hope. (No I am not a hippy! Lol)

3 With names like that you can guess that I love the bible and have a strong faith in Jesus.

4. I love to travel and have been to some places where I have literally prayed “God don’t let me die here!” lol.

5. I’ve travelled to some places where I have prayed “God I could die here”!

6. After 28 years of swearing we would never get a dog, my daughter Faith walked in the door with a puppy…and I was smitten! He is a long haired chihuahua named Butters and I heart him!

7. I love to live by the water. My parents and their parents and so on…were all born on a small island in the atlantic.

8. I love to blog and am so impressed with the giftedness I see everyday here in blogland!

Now I need to give this award to 8 others. You can check them out too!

AKA Design
Fern Creek Cottage
Shells Shabby Shack
And Then There was Home

Sweet as June
Desire to Decorate
JunkRestore   

I kept my previous chairs with it. The chairs that came with the set need some work that I don’t have time to do just yet!

It is so comfy and cozy in there now! So much roomier with the round table than with my little harvest table.

I found a pair of these at value village.

Here is a little peek at my topiary outside the sliding glass doors in the breakfast nook
(Just thought I’d throw it in!)

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends!

I hope that everyone is enjoying this festive time of year and taking time to give thanks and to share with family and friends.

I recently went to the Seasons Christmas Show and was so inspired by all the wonderful Christmas decor. I felt like a kid in a candy store!

One of my favourite things to do is decorate and redecorate and this show offered up plenty of inspiration for the season. Please take out a few minutes of your busyness, grab a cup of cocoa, find a comfy chair and  be inspired!

Loved these urns filled with greenery!

It needn’t be expensive as many of these items could be found in your yard. Some greenery, a few branches in the center, I’ve even placed green apples on sticks and placed them in my urn one year along with everything else and it looked great!

Another great urn.

Isn’t this a lovely wreath? Apparently it’s made from rattan. I like the little variegated boxwood wreaths beside it too.

 

A few little real trees in some dirt in a box and presto! Place a few berry picks and you have a real show stopper. Love it.

Love the sparkle with the old linen. I just began making some new stockings. This one is almost finished. They are a little large… but I fill them up!

Yep, I think this is where I’m going…

I hope everybody has enjoyed a wonderful weekend with family and friends! I’ve been busy working on a couple of projects along with preparing for Christmas decorating.  I noticed that the Christmas stockings that I made about 10 years ago are a little outdated (and quite colourful!) which is nice but just not in keeping with my current style.  I found a lovely linen table cloth from value village that I used to make some “new” ones, they are simple but nice. I will show these in an upcoming post.

Here is one of the projects I worked on this weekend. Remember that little thrift store table I got for $19.99?

This is what she looks like with a little paint on!

Trying out a few Christmas decorations

Hoped you enjoyed this little restoration project, thanks for stopping by. I will partying with these ladies this week: