I have a few decorating "staples" when it comes to faux flowers; tried and true floral elements that I know I can use no matter what the Season or Holiday. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter I can always count on slightly wild and natural grapevine twiggy wreaths, lifelike Hydrangeas, and my favorite for this time of year... Paperwhites.
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Showing posts with label Entry. Show all posts
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
Hoo's in the October Entry?
I think you all know how much I love Fall and look forward to it all year. I wait all year for the crisp air, brilliant blue skies, and kaleidoscope of Fall foliage. So many of us have fond memories of "Trick or Treating" when we were kids. Even though we might not "celebrate" Halloween, we still enjoy the fun and nostalgia of vintage ephemera, Jack-O-Lanterns, costumes, and decorations from our young years.
Labels:
Autumn,
birdcage,
Entry,
entry console,
Entry Hall,
fall,
Halloween,
October,
prints,
pumpkins
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Welcome to my un"Official" Fall Home Tour
Hi Friends, this is a post from our previous home in 2017. We may no longer live there but it's still one of my favorite Fall "Home Tours".
I think I have all the photos together now to put together my annual Fall Home Tour that I will keep on the sidebar for the rest of the season. Each year, I like to bring all the Fall Decor into one post to remind myself how I decorated that year. So I'll keep the words to a minimum and let you look around. Welcome!
Labels:
Autumn,
Dining Room,
Entry,
fall,
Fall Home tours,
Fall Open House,
kitchen,
Kitchen Sitting Area,
Living Room
Monday, July 10, 2017
The Power of a Print...
Do you want to change the feel of a room or space? There are several low cost ways to get a new feeling or vibe to your space, but my favorite is to consider what you have hanging on your walls: artwork and prints in this case.
Labels:
artwork,
Entry,
entry console,
Entry Hall,
flowers,
gardening,
hydrangeas,
lambs,
prints,
sheep,
summer
Sunday, April 30, 2017
The Official, better late than never, Spring Home Tour
Hi Friends, after the last post, there's probably no doubt in your minds that I've been a little cray-cray this year, but I realized that I've never posted a complete Spring Home Tour. I like to keep an "Official" Tour on my sidebar and on my "pages" for each season. I just rounded up most of my photos from earlier this Spring...before Easter, so here they are, all in one spot.
Labels:
Blog Hop,
Dining Room,
Entry,
home tour,
House Tour,
kitchen,
Kitchen Sitting Area,
Living Room,
spring
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Entry Urn for Spring
Up until last week I had the urn, here in the Entry, filled with Faux Paperwhites; they are my favorite "go-to" flower year round. Paperwhites fit any season with their delicate orchid like blooms, but I was ready for something a little different so I decided to go with a natural Springtime woodsy look using faux blooming branches, sticks and pussy willows.
Labels:
Easter,
Entry,
entry console,
Entry Hall,
faux flowers,
spring,
urn
Thursday, March 30, 2017
A Spring Entry
...and talking sheep...
You know me, during each season I usually change things up more than once. For Easter, I like things a little more pastel. Easter is about the only time you'll see "pastel" being used around here. But for earlier in the Spring Season I've used various shades of browns and greens, mostly in the Kitchen Sitting Area, since I like to use my brown and pink floral quilt. I went with the same colors here in the Entry, using a brown and green check ribbon to hang my mossy O, and then my sheep print on canvas.
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Easter,
Entry,
entry console,
faux flowers,
lambs,
paperwhites,
prints,
ribbon,
seasonal,
sheep,
spring,
tromp l'oeil,
urns,
vintage postcards
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Valentine Entry
I have a few vintage favorite pieces I've used for Valentine's for years.
I mix and match and move them around each year, and this year
I'm using my vintage ceramic mold here as an accent on the Dining Room Table.
Labels:
antique,
Dining Room,
Entry,
hearts,
tray,
Valentine's Day,
Valentines Day,
Vintage
Sunday, January 8, 2017
A January Entry
I always tend to lean toward a more neutral and white color palette during the month of January. Whether it's due to the oversaturation of color during Fall and Christmas, or because it's bleak and snowy outside, I seem to crave a clean look after the new year. Clean and fresh feeling whites and neutrals are what I need, because once Spring starts to creep up out of the landscape the rest of the year means "color".
Saturday, November 12, 2016
A Thanksgiving Entry
I'm about ready for Christmas and I know that you all are too, but because I consider this blog to be sort of a "virtual diary", I have a few more pics of Thanksgiving I'd like to share. Each year I go back through my photos to see what I did back then, and try to come up with something different. I don't want to be tempted to do the same thing each year just because it's easy.
Labels:
Christmas Tree,
Entry,
entry console,
fall,
prints,
pumpkins,
Thanksgiving
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Late Fall Lookback...
Last day of October, so I start thinking about tweaking my Fall things to head toward Thanksgiving. I got to looking back at my pics from last year at this time and I realized I didn't have everything "Thanksgiving" together in one blog post. So, to get things rolling and before I let all the turkeys out of the gate, I thought I'd share a post with the highlights from last year.
Labels:
Autumn,
Dining Room,
Entry,
Entry Hall,
fall,
ironstone,
Kitchen Sitting Area,
plaid,
pumpkins,
quilts,
Thanksgiving,
turkeys
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Blogger's Seasonal Harvest Tour
Hi Everyone, and Welcome to the
2016 Bloggers Seasonal Harvest Home Tour
this week, presented by Cozy Little House
Labels:
Autumn,
decorating,
Dining Room,
Entry,
fall,
Fall Open House,
home tour,
Kitchen Sitting Area,
Living Room
Monday, September 12, 2016
Early Fall Entry with a new Chalkboard Print
With each new season I try to create a vignette that's something a little different than I've done before. That's not always easy because there are tried and true elements that I'm happy with and just look "right". The lamp, the clock, and the shutters and mirror; those are all part of this spot. But I love to play with faux flowers, and then add a seasonal print, painting, or needlework... and what's a Fall Entry Vignette without at least one pumpkin?
Labels:
Entry,
entry console,
fall,
faux chalkboard,
faux flowers,
hydrangeas,
prints,
pumpkins,
urns
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Summertime Seashell Vignette
Since it's still Summer, I wanted to try to use my antique Blue Willow Transferware Tureen here on the Entry Hall Console. I've had it out with some other "blues" for my Patriotic decor so, I hunted down some of my shells to replace the summertime potpourri.
Labels:
Entry,
entry console,
Entry Hall,
seashells,
summer,
transferware,
tureen,
tureens
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Vintage Blooming Prints and the Consult
I don't have a lot of "blooms" around here yet. I've been putting off planting containers outside until I felt more like taking care of them. Some days I don't get much accomplished except laundry and putting something easy together for dinner. I'm really missing the color of my spring containers full of Geraniums, Million Bells and Lantana. So for now, I'm enjoying these old prints on the console in the Entry. Hopefully, I can get some plants out in a few weeks. It looks sort of bleak and forlorn around here.
Labels:
antiques,
being real,
Entry,
entry console,
health,
prints,
spring,
Vintage
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Christmas Entry, In and Out...
Hi Everyone, are you in overdrive this week, trying to get ready for Christmas? I'm making progress, but I need to start wrapping gifts. One thing I realized I needed to do was to share pics of my Entry and front porch. I've had to get them over a span of several days, and because of the blah weather they've not consistently turned out. So, again today, I gave it a try. I'm just an "accidental photographer", meaning it's an accident when I can get good photos...
Labels:
Christmas,
christmas decorations,
Christmas Tree,
door decor,
Entry,
entry console,
front door,
front porch,
plaid,
sofa table,
tins
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Nature Inspired Autumn Urn
I've had this Nature Inspired Autumn Urn in my head since last Spring, when I picked up a Victoria Magazine Special Edition, called Victoria Classic French Cottage . I'm hoping it will become a yearly publication, because it was filled with wonderful features of French and French Inspired Cottages. There was one particular image that completely captured my imagination, from an article called Living With The Past.
Labels:
antlers,
Autumn,
birds,
Dining Room,
Entry,
entry console,
fall,
natural elements,
urn,
urns
Monday, October 19, 2015
An October Entry
My house tends to look a bit overdone if I'm not careful;
especially this time of year.
OK...most of the time it's a little too cluttered.
Blame it on blogging and enjoying sharing it all with you.
Labels:
Autumn,
Bittersweet,
books,
Entry,
entry console,
fall,
mirror,
sheep,
transferware,
tureen,
velvet pumpkins
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Fall Birdies
Does that title sound like I've lost my marbles?
Like a crazy cat lady that spends all her time bird watching with her felines?
don't answer that...
Hope you all are having a great Labor Day Weekend. We stuck close to home except for a fun trip on Saturday to a new winery in the area. I'll show you a few pics and share a link with you soon. They also have a sheep farm, so that was the real draw for me. We've had a heat wave this last week, and it's supposed to break in the next few days. We had such a wonderful taste of cooler weather earlier. Hopefully, that will bring us back to the 70's. gosh, I'm more than ready.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Entry with a Vintage Sunflower Print
I hadn't done much if anything, different with my Entry Area since I received the wonderful Sheep Print from Canvas Pop, earlier in the year. But now it's time for a little more "Late Summer" sprinkled around in here.
Labels:
birds,
camping,
door decor,
Entry,
entry console,
Entry Hall,
goat cart,
late summer,
prints,
shutters,
silver,
summer,
Vintage,
wildflowers
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