Showing posts with label holiday cupboard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday cupboard. Show all posts
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Green and Pink and Cottage All Over
Hey Everyone, Green is my favorite color this time of year. Not only outside, but inside. We're having a small "green-up" around here with grass and a few blooming trees, but my tulip tree's blooms were frozen this last few days which is really disheartening. It's still too early for much other green outdoors, but inside I can gather some of my green items and make myself feel like Spring is just around the corner... with no overnight freezes.
Labels:
early spring,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
March,
pastels,
pillows,
quilts,
spring,
St. Patrick's Day,
wicker
Saturday, March 11, 2023
St. Patrick's Day Seed Box Vignette
Hi Friends, so glad you came by for some extra special St. Patrick's Day inspiration! Today I'm joining a super fun group of gals sharing some amazing Tablescapes, Vignettes, Crafts, and Irish Heritage posts celebrating "All things St. Patrick's Day."
Friday, March 3, 2023
Bring on the Green in the Holiday Cupboard
March always sees the green transferware show up in the Holiday Cupboard, since St. Patrick's Day is my unofficial start to (early) Spring. And it's my birthday month too, so I make it a fresh start after a long cold and dreary winter. When I first started collecting green transferware I thought I'd be limited in displaying them. But now they come out in late February and stick around through Spring and early Summer until July 4th decorating.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Valentine's Day in the Holiday Cupboard
Welcome to February...
let's have some fun in the Holiday Cupboard!
Do you have a favorite place to "putter" with decor? I've mentioned before how much I love playing in this cupboard with dishes and knick knacks. It goes back to my old days of having vintage goods spaces where every inch was fair game to "decorate" for holidays and seasons. Besides, it's good therapy for me to design and create with dishes and ephemera. And since it's Valentine's Day I'm gathering all things floral, sweet, pink, and teensy bits of red!
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Vintage Cottage Weekend and the January Cupboard
Hello friends and Happy Weekend! For a few weeks in January we have a small bit of time that's totally dedicated to warm, cozy, and comfy. After Christmas and before Valentines Day; it's a time to relax in front ot the fire, read a good book, watch a movie, and curl up in a soft warm blanket... without a ton of shopping, big meals to cook or a deadline looming on the calender.
Labels:
Brown Transferware,
cupboard,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
holidays,
ironstone,
January
Friday, December 23, 2022
Gathered For Christmas in the Holiday Cupboard
This has been such a busy month that Im running behind (what else is new?) But it's not every Christmas that your first grandbaby arrives! Christmas will be here in a few days and I have to start getting ready for overnight guests and bake a few desserts.
Labels:
Christmas,
copper,
December,
Garden Room,
Gingerbread Houses,
holiday cupboard,
transferware,
tureens
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Sunday, October 23, 2022
The Holiday Cupboard Dressed for Fall
This week I'm doing some decor tweaking for Thanksgiving and gathering some ideas for Christmas, so I thought I'd share a few pics of the Holiday Cupboard dressed up for late October. I like to try to create something new each season here. Last year I put together a few shabby frenchy pieces and created "Romancing the October Holiday Cupboard", and two years before, the post "October Whimsy in the Holiday Cupboard". The first year here in 2019, I had finally organized the old piesafe and it became The Holiday Cupboard 2.0.
Labels:
Autumn,
fall,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Savoring September in the Holiday Cupboard
The highlight of any season is putting together the ever-changing Holiday Cupboard. And since Fall is my favorite time of the year, it takes on a new and different theme each year. I put this look together for September a few weeks ago. At that time I wanted to keep the pumpkins at a minimum and highlight the wild little black-eyed-susans and bits of bittersweet and mini gourds.
Labels:
Brown Transferware,
fall,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
pitchers,
September
Friday, September 16, 2022
Boho Quilted Throw in the Garden Room
Maybe you've noticed, I have a "thing" for quilts. Big, small, throws, runners... all sizes, colors, designs and ages. I've been blessed with a mother-in-law who quilted and gifted us with many, and I've been fortunate to find a few vintage ones in my antiquing days that didn't break the bank. I love the different prints and patterns, and even if they're frayed and a bit tattered, they still speak to me.
Labels:
bench,
coffee table,
early Fall,
fall,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
quilts,
sitting area,
wicker settee
Sunday, July 10, 2022
Majolica and Crockery in the Summer Holiday Cupboard
Hi friends, today I'm sharing A Cottage Re-View of my Long Lost Crockery in the Holiday Cupboard in Mid-Summer. I hope you'll enjoy seeing a few posts from years past of fun vintage summer decorating. I love peeking into the archives of my favorite blogs. So many times I've missed that particular post, so getting a chance to "view it again" always brings inspiration and fresh new ideas. Today I'm sharing some of my pieces of old crockery and Majolica.
Labels:
crockery,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
Majolica,
mid-summer,
summer
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Cozy Wicker Seating with Patriotic Color
As you all know, I like to keep things changed up in the Garden Room, and especially in the little wicker seating area next to the Holiday Cupboard and the baker's rack. During June and July it's filled with red, white, and blue accents and decor. I have several vintage quilts and coverlets that get to set the stage with mix and match pillows.
Labels:
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
July 4th,
June,
patriotic,
quilt,
sitting area,
wicker settee
Friday, June 3, 2022
Summer Patriotic Cupboard with Red Transferware
June is here and it's time to add a bit of the RED/WHITE/BLUE to the decor around the house and inside the Holiday Cupboard. This year I thought I'd try something a little different by combining my usual "summer" dishes, my French faience, along with the few red transferware pieces I've collected through the years.
Labels:
dishes,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
July 4th,
June,
patriotic,
red transferware
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Vintage Cottage Weekend: Spring to Summer Birds in the Garden Room
Hello, my friends. Here we are with Memorial Day this weekend. (so hard to believe) At Vintage Cottage Weekend we share how we use vintage cottage elements in our decorating. Starting in June I'll be decorating with a patriotic summer theme, but for this last week of May I wanted to share a few pics from the Garden Room with one of my favorite late Spring themes. Birds!
Labels:
baker's rack,
birds,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
spring,
summer
Monday, May 16, 2022
Vintage Cottage Weekend: Flower Pot Wreath with a Garden Update
What do you get when you combine vintage French seed packet labels and whitewashed clay flower pots on a grapevine wreath? Well, you get a wonderfully unique Spring wreath full of vintage garden-y goodness! Over the years there have been so many beautiful renditions of flower pot wreaths; each one slightly different as they take on the decor personality of the creator.
Friday, April 8, 2022
Cottage Garden Easter in the Holiday Cupboard
Hi Friends, Springtime is non-stop fun in the Holiday Cupboard. First comes Valentine's Day... then St. Patrick's Day ...and now Easter. The green transferware and Ivy dishes are still here from St. Patty's, so they make a pretty "garden-y" base, dish display for the pastels of early Spring and Easter. I added a few pieces of my French faience to bring in some florals along with a gorgeous tulip pitcher, my vintage cauliflower teapot, cabbage veggie tureen, and a majolica rabbit themed pitcher.
Labels:
April,
bunnies,
Easter,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
spring,
vintage garden
Friday, March 18, 2022
Coffee Table Garden Room Vignette
Hello Friends, Happy St. Patty's Day! Are you wearing green today and preparing your slow cooker dinner of corned beef and cabbage? I am wearing green, and I do love corned beef, but I can't get there with the cooked cabbage... Anyway, I'm celebrating today that I'm a teensy bit Irish. I thought I'd share a little bit of St. Patrick's Day out here in the Garden Room with a new Shamrock plant and an old pink/green quilt on the wicker settee.
Labels:
bench,
coffee table,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
March,
quilts,
spring,
St. Patrick's Day,
wicker settee
Thursday, March 3, 2022
St. Patrick's Day in the Holiday Cupboard
Here in the lower Midwest, March is coming in like a lamb, and what a wonderful way to start my birthday month. We have a week of upper 60's and low 70's. It won't last of course, but it's a lovely, optimistic way to bring on thoughts of Spring. I'm just hoping that buds won't pop out and then we have a freezing spree.
Labels:
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
March,
moss shamrock,
spring,
St. Patrick's Day
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Romantic French Couples in the Holiday Cupboard
Love is in the air in the Holiday Cupboard!
In my meager quest for a bit of organization after Christmas, I went through a few more unopened boxes in my storage room in the basement. One of them has been in plain view but haunting me for the last 3 years because I just didn't have a place for the contents. Two houses ago I had a curio cabinet in the dining room where I kept a few of my more delicate pieces of porcelain and china. During my "shabby" French-y phase I collected a few porcelain couple figurines... but they've been packed away for the last 9 years. It was time to open the box and enjoy them again.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
A Winter's Walk in the Holiday Cupboard
Hello friends, since Valentine's Day will be here in a few weeks, I knew I needed to share my January edition of the Holiday Cupboard. January has been cold and often dreary here, but I'm trying to be present and look for the good to enjoy each season... including winter. One of the fun ways I celebrate each month and season is to refresh my old pie safe, aka "The Holiday Cupboard".
Labels:
Brown Transferware,
Garden Room,
holiday cupboard,
ironstone,
January,
winter,
winter decor
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