HOOKED ON HOLIDAY HOMES TOUR and SHOW & TELL

Thank you so much for stopping by to take a peek inside our holiday home today. I realize that everyone is hustling and bustling around, so I'll not bother you with idle chit-chat, just pictures today with only the briefest of descriptions.

 

I'm linking up with the ever gracious hostess Julia of Hooked on Houses for her Hooked on Holiday Homes tour and with Melissa of The Inspired Room for Holiday Linky Friday ! Please visit these girls and check out their list of other participants, too.

Today is also Show and Tell Friday with our wonderful hostess Cindy of My Romantic Home. Stop by and visit her and all the other bloggers that are showing great items today. I'll be sharing about my Santa Collection!

I showed many parts of my home Thursday when I linked with Rhoda's Holiday Home tour. You may see those pics of many rooms in my home here. I also am participating in Susan's Deck The Hall Tuesdays where you can view past posts of mine here and here.

~Remember to click on pics to enlarge~

My favorite PINK Belsnickle and my pink tree from my tot-hood!

I'm in love with churches and village cottages

This one lights up.......

and even changes colors!

So does this one!!!! Love how it reflects against my floral etched glass antique mirror!

And yes, I bought 2 , no, actually 3 of these ~ gave one to my dear girlfriend.

I've been busy cross-stitching PINK SANTAS

Note to self:  Need to make one for ME!

An elegant Santa in our living room

One of my bday Santas with his own sleigh ~ sometimes I put sleighs and Santas along the stairway on each step.

I originally posted the below pic for my holiday home tour, but failed to mention something about the silver goblet that is holding the white bottle brush tree and why it is so special....

The goblet is one of 6 that my husband and his brother purchased for their mother years ago when they were little boys. They would save their allowance and money from odd jobs and gift her with them, one at a time, as their finances would allow on special ocassions. Isn't that so sweet?!?

I have the Christmas spirit all year long, as evidenced by our Barrister's bookcase in our office. Several shelves have some of my favorite Santas on display year-round.

The small card on the left of all these Santas was the tag on a gift from me to hubby the first Christmas after we were married.

These are some of my larger wooden Santas ~ I used to buy these each year when we went to Salado on vacation at a shop called The Dusty Rose.

Small Avon Bottle Santa with box and pretty Victorian tin box

Tiny hunched back Santa is a thimble

One of my very favorite Santas ~ this one is jointed and was another bday gift from my parents years ago

A small cross-stitch ornament I made

and a vintage chalkware Santa from my childhood (that my mother wanted to sell for 25 cents in a garage sale!)

My roly poly handpainted gourd Santa

A very favorite Standing Father Christmas in very soft colors purchased with my mother on a fun shopping/home tour expedition

One pictured especially for Amy of Bunny Rose Cottage with a sweet bunny in his sack

My hubby bought this musical one as a surprise for me ~ I have to giggle at him telling me how he fought the women at an after~Christmas sale~he said they were r-u-d-e!

These are musical, too

Love the graphics on this box

Papier Mache` box handpainted by a local artist

Another bday present, an Enesco Christmas Carosel that I bought for hubby to give me!

It is musical, turns, the figures go up and down, and it even lights up with over 40 teensy lights.

If you are as big a lover of decorating with cloches as I am, take a look at my post here!

Next time I'll be sharing a favorite Christmas decoration and why it is so special to me for PINK SATURDAY! Til then.....

Christmas Hugs,

Sleigh Bells Ring.....Are You Listenin'?

Sleigh Bells Ring.....Are You Listenin'?

This year I've gone a little crazy adding lights UNDER lots of lacey fabric. Here is a pic of my sofa table with some of my favorite things on it. I collect Santas & bottle brush trees, and angels, & all manner of BLING!
This pic shows just a few of my fav things from some of my fav girls, my PRH sisters. Katie of Rose*Breeze*Boutique made me the bling-y pink & chocolate sachet for my daughter's wedding & it is just too pretty to put away, so out it stays with one of my angels from Lorena & my sequined heart pillow with BLING from Rhea!
Lorena of RoseChicFriends handpainted this awesome PINK Santa & Sleigh & I was lucky enough to purchase it from her! If you are ever fortunate enough to own one of her pieces, you will be THRILLED! She does awesome work! The roses are so beautiful that I can't bear to put anything in the sleigh that might cover them up! Sorry Lorena, I knew you were expecting it full of bling, but I think it is so beautiful as is. Santa is holding a pretty PINK sack with white beads & pearl adornments, too! Doesn't it look like he is on a snowy mountain top?
So.......I decided that I would do the same treatment UNDER our little tree in the family room. I added tons of little white lights underneath a lacey curtain panel & then gathered it all up in ....... a pew bow......yes, a pew bow decorated with one of Bertie's medallions from our daughter's wedding last month! How's that for recycling?!?!?!

A little dimestore felt that shimmers like icicles taped to the base of a shabby white coffee table lift the small 6' tree up off the floor & make a cute place to store packages beneath ~ none of which have been wrapped yet because very few have been purchased so far!
This year besides several new PINK pieces that I'm incorporating into our holiday decorating, I'm really going out on a limb & using a little aqua. I just love it so here is a sneak peak ......
Bling goes with everything, right?

This is how I usually decorate our staircase. Not quite sure if that will get done this year but here is last year's pic

This is a new necklacee that I wore to church Sunday. It is an adorable little Santa Bell....I tinkled everywhere I went! Now that doesn't sound right, does it?!?!
Have to leave you tonight with two of the neatest items. My friend Mary of Oh Merci! made this oh so adorable little pink church! The detailing is wonderful ~ love the words Faith Hope Love beside the church doors, & gotta love that little bottle brush wreath!

My sweet PRH friend Karen of SecondHand Rose made this lovely tag ~ it even says PRH SISTER!! Beautiful graphics, pretty ribbon & just a hint of glitter make for a beautiful remembrance! She has really got a gift for making these altered art tags!!

Now, I must go dust & clean & get ready for Karla's party, What I love about my Holiday Home on Wed., the 12th. I know she says dust won't show & to just shove the mess out of the way but Mother raised me to always CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN before anyone comes over, so off to clean I go! Hope to see you at the party Wednesday!

And don't forget to enter all the comments you want for my birthday giveaway late Saturday night!
Hugs,

Stephanie