Oh the Places I've been - this week!

 

 

Oh Boy! The places I've been. This week. And none of them were what I planned to show. :-(

Who recognizes the first picture?

 

Pinterest. Addicting. A great repository of all the pretty things on the web. I was a bit shocked at the number of pins. And the number of boards. Boards are like file folders. And you save pictures into the folders. Yours, from followers, from those you are following, from the web, yep.

 

 

I try to keep my folders in alphabetical order. It's that a-type personality disorder.

 

These are just some of the things I "pinned" today. Notice the mailbox pictures at the top? Why mailboxes???? I won one today!!! Yippee. I'll have to do a before and after shot of that change. We never changed the one that was here when we moved it. It will be a shocker. I promise.

 

Oh, and then there is Ebay. A box got delivered today. On Mr. CJ's afternoon off. Of course he wanted to know what was in it. Guess!

 

We are also relaying brick in the back yard. That was the queenly we. Not me personally. Being the only female in the house has it's benefits. When I say "We need to....", the men folk know it doesn't involve me! This is really much easier than it looks, if you have the skills. We have sons. They have skills.

 

And we went to watch our youngest perform. His genre of music is so different than ours. But it was fun.

 

And last, but not least, I was in the studio this week. I'll share this cute remake later. Getting ready for a table setting. Soon. I hope your week was a bit more exciting than ours! Next week, we'll travel to France, or maybe Mexico!

 

 

Linking to The Tablescaper's new Friday (Thursday evening) party - the places I've been - posts about places we've seen.. I hope you will join us!

 

Advent Calender 2012 - Old Michael Church

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I saw this picture, well one from this blog, on Pinterest.  Jill from Feathers and Flight  created this gorgeous vignette. Do click and see her gorgeous table!!! It was my inspiration. I certainly didn't have those charming putz houses nor the various containers, nor this sweet lady's decorating style... but I tried. I wanted to display my Old Michael Church from the Dept 56 Heritage Village collection. I used to put up an entire village and let's just say, the desire left in our house fire.. My son replaced the church and I a few other pieces and they are now tucked here and there.. so perfect.

I pulled out my silver tray, freshly polished from Thanksgivings. The church, some bleached bottle brush trees, some ornaments, a crystal champagne glass and candelstick, the single pewter goblet from my father-in-law and a bag of Dept 56 snow. Oh and mom's St. Nikolaus from the Alpine Village.

In the pewter goblet, some greenery and an ornament that looks like a giant snowflake.

Happy St. Nikolaus day to you! Yep, it's today. Did you get coal or some sweet treats? You can read more HERE.

 In the snowfilled vintage champagne glass, I placed this vintage looking ornament from Michael's a few years ago.

 These bottle brush trees were placed in a bleach bath to lighten them. I had them lying around. Really I did. Be careful. Once the bleaching process begins, you can go from green to white in 0.3 seconds flat!

 I am still loving the candleholders from Pottery Barn last year. I filled the empty space in the candle tray with mini pinecones vase filler.

 After I "snowed" the tray (do not use rock salt or any salt on silver!!! it will pit it and eat away the silver) I added pinecones and small ornaments.

 See how the light from the candles reflects in the shiny ornaments? Old Shiny Brites would have been suh-weet in this vignette.

Thanks so much for coming along for the Advent Calendar ride.. I love to see you've been here! Be blessed.