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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Winter Breakfast Room 2019

Good morning! It certainly has been winter here the last few days! Temps in the single digits and low teens and wind chills below zero! BRRRR!!!! Today it went up to 48 and it felt like a heat wave:):) After the Christmas snowmen were put away I wanted to decorate for winter with lots of texture and also throw in some tropical touches, in preparation of us going SOUTH for Feb.!!!! I can't wait! So have a seat and I'll bring you some coffee! For those of you who are new here, my hubby built me this hutch for the last house. It is like an Amish hutch that we saw and he did it the same way. You can not see any nails or screws. I love it and love it in this house too.

More of my baskets are around the hutch.

On the top of the hutch I am using my black lantern, a faux plant and another large basket. I like to drape a garland across here too.

On the shelves I have my demijohns, some pottery and 2 palm tree plates.

In the 2 corners of the room, by the windows are these 2 shelf units that are actually plant stands. They are about 35 years old now.

I placed some small pine cones in a tiny urn and under a cloche.

On the tan wall are a basket, a metal leaf piece and a pottery piece.

More baskets are on this wall too.

Joe got these prints at a craft show and I had them framed for him....after he chose what he wanted:)

I remembered that I had this palm tree lamp so brought it out for on the hutch.

I found it at Walmart, years ago.

Here are some nighttime shots.

Joe built this table too. He made 2 for the last house and I like this here.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Stay warm, where ever you are!
XO, Pinky

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Breakfast Room Changes

I did get tired of looking at the snowmen, even though winter has just really begun! I am sick of it already though! So, I took them all down and packed them away, CLEANED the kitchen and breakfast room, and got things back to "normal". It was strange seeing the kitchen and breakfast room empty for awhile! I will share the kitchen soon too. I didn't have the hutch here yet this time last year so enjoyed doing that. I am really liking this look and don't think I will tire of it. I started on the top of the hutch with this large lantern. It has a battery operated candle on a timer so comes on by itself for a few hours at night. LOVE that feature! The bird is a stone like material and I added a green bottle/vase and a sprig of greens.

These are candle sticks that I have had for many years. They are carved wood.

I recently got this little wire cloche and placed this iron bird under it. I am looking for something to use as "seed" cause if I use real seed it will attract the varmits:):)

A wicker wrapped bottle holds some faux flowers and ivy and a rope ball sits next to that.

One of my demijohns and another cute bird. We have 3 bird feeders right outside the windows in here so I love seeing birds in here too! I might add a few other garden elements soon. You never know:)

I had this little pail and placed a wicker ball in it.

Bee skeps are another favorite.

On the right side of the hutch top I have a larger demijohn filled with greens and sticks. And another bee skep.

The square basket stays up here all the time. It had a wreath on it for Christmas.

Isn't he cute?:)

I brought this little bike planter from my office for the bottom of the hutch.

I also put the bird and cloche on an iron stand. I added a turtle shell to this vignette too.

Tada!!! There you have it. The house calms me after all the glitz and glam of Christmas is put away. Hope you are warmer than we are, wherever you are. We are getting some snow later today so I will be back to organizing some spaces and NOT going out! Have a beautiful week my friends!!! XO, Pinky

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

~Some Changes are Going On~

Good Morning! I have been "under the weather" this week but still trying to keep moving. I decided that I wanted to move the bakers rack out of the breakfast room and replace it with the hutch that Joe had made me for the old house. I LOOOOVE the change!!! It FEELS much better now. This is what it looked like with the bakers rack last week.

TA DA!!! Here is the hutch in place now! I am SO glad I decided to do this, I feel it is a much better fit. I like the wood of the hutch with the wood of the table and chairs.

I did a total restyling of it too.

I gathered the 3 "faux" (wish they were real), demijohns that I LOVE, and some other favorite pieces to dress the hutch.

I found this bird at Home Goods the other day and knew it would be perfect here.

This candle holder was a gift from our dear Yvonne when we moved in. I know you are all praying for her to recover from her latest surgery!!! I see my amaryllis is on it's last legs:):) I better get that out of here:):)

In the winter when it is COLD and BLUSTERY I dream of being somewhere warm and tropical so surround myself with a collection of palm tree accessories. You'll see more of these when I show you the rest of the kitchen and my new table setting.

I haven't decided what to put into the iron basket on the top of the hutch.

The sun is shining brightly this morning but don't let that fool you, it is 12 degrees right now, up from 7 when these were taken:):) Thanks so much for stopping by. I am trying to resolve the fact that noone is getting their e-mail notifications from me when I do a post. I realized it when I wasn't getting them. If anyone out there can tell me how to fix this I would appreciate that. Have a beautiful day and stay warm my friends!!!! XO, Pinky