Snowflakes at the little red house under the tall, tall pines

Every window is covered with my paper snowflakes. I am known at this time of the year as "the snowflake lady". I have been cutting them and saving them for more than 15 years now. I also offer some for sale on my Etsy shop.  I find it very therapeutic and oh so relaxing to cut flake after flake after...



At night when the lights are on inside the house the flakes resemble lace curtains. The flakes remain on the windows until at least the beginning of February.

A peek before the snowmen invade-

I took pictures of the kids'/guest bathroom with a wine, sepia and roses theme. It is time now that it be transformed into snowmen and will remain so until probably the end of January. I had shown you a project that kicked off this theme and you can review it by clicking here, and here.

The metal candle holder and plate rack were a great clearance buy from Hobby Lobby at the end of the summer season.

Vintage dictionary and sheet music pages rolled with ribbon. All the pink pottery pieces (say that 3 times fast!) were discovered over many years at garage sales for cheap!

Nope! She's not one of my relatives; only a smiling face I adopted from an estate sale once upon a time. I felt like her bobbed hair, pearl necklace photo would tuck nicely into this vignette of roses and such. Did you ever think that the first thousand women that bobbed their hair were rebels and the next hundred thousand that did were just copycats?!!

I like the old, stained, crackly look of the glaze on this old pitcher. It is fun to stack the china items in a layered fashion.

Metal bird hook from Hobby Lobby clearance sale. The silhouettes were from my neighbor's garage sale, given to me free since I admired them for so long. They have that great kind of convex glass with reverse painting and once hung over his sister's bed as a child. I asked why his sister didn't want them. He said "Why would she?" I was shocked but I guess I am just too sentimental compared to other people! The bird shadow box frame was found at another garage sale and has real twigs and feather covered birds.

Nope! I don't know these wedding people. They are just people I have adopted into my family because of their great taste in wedding finery!! 

A second candle holder from Hobby Lobby clearance sale sits atop the 1950's chrome soap holder.

I scanned a piece (I couldn't bear to use the real piece)
of vintage sheet music and wrapped it around a plastic cup that the kids keep their battery operated toothbrushes in. The toothbrushes don't fit into the 1950's chrome holder. The music is held in place with some twine. The mirror is from the dollar store and allows the kids to see themselves easily -as the big mirror is too high. 

Metal candle stand is again from HL clearance. It's hard to see but there are little candles shaped like roses on it in two places. I like the little metal bird on it. The pink tin bucket usually has hair brushes.  The doily in leaded glass was a wedding gift. I hung it from iridescent ribbon.

The next decor theme of this room will be snowmen.