Welcome 2012!

I am extremely excited for 2012 to get under way!  We have one trip planned so far, a couple weekend getaways in the works, and plans to paint our kitchen cabinets (seen here)!  Well, let me rephrase, we will be hiring someone to paint our cabinets, since we don't have the time, patience or confidence to do it ourselves.  I have been debating on whether to paint them a straight color or paint and glaze them.  I am pretty set on Benjamin Moore's Linen White but can't decide if I want to coat it with a bronze glaze.  Is it crazy that painted cabinets are what I'm most excited about?  I think not.  We got a great quote today, so soooon, creamy white cabinets will be all mine!

Of course my kitchen still won't be as big and beautiful as the pics above, but definite improvement :)

Happy New Year!

Merry Merry Christmas!

Happy gift giving and gift getting!  Enjoy this wonderful time of year!

Festive Bedroom

Before Christmas (one week away!) I wanted to share a few more of my holiday spaces.  This year, I brought in a little Christmas to our bedroom.  I brought some red in that we're lacking in the living room.

I cut out a page from Better Homes magazine that has holiday words in different fonts with a red background.  I plopped it in to a frame that was already on our bureau.  I also added some garland.

I really love going in there and still feeling the Christmas spirit.  And that is a new chandelier that I mentioned in this post.  Loving it!

Thanks for checking out my festive bedroom!

Silver and Gold and Burlap too

This year I stayed away from red in my living room Christmas decor and went for silver, gold and natural tones (especially burlap, my fav).  I am liking this little woodland creature vignette I created at our bar.  I took the vase of branches I had on my Halloween mantle and added some sparkley owls from HomeGoods.  I put a little pine branch in a wine decanter and added my gold dove and bronze squirrel that I got on sale after Christmas last year at West Elm.

And I am loving this cute little pillow I just got in the mail from Pottery Barn.  It has burlap trim : )  Excuse its wrinkliness, it had a long journey.

Here are some more shots of the living room decked out this year.  Sorry about the stinky pictures.

O I love Christmas!  The living room is going to look so empty without that big fat goofy tree next month!