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Ideas for Decorating with Sand and Shells

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Happy Thursday!  I am excited to be here with you.  I have a few Ideas for Decorating with Sand and Shells, today.  I hope you can incorporate them into your home decor.

I told you a few weeks ago how much I like collecting shells.  While my son, his wife and their baby were in Bermuda last month, they brought me back some amazing shells and sand.  The bottle of sand was found while my son was scuba diving.  How cool is that???

I like various shells, their colors and shapes.  They each seem to have their own personality, don’t they???

Ideas for Decorating with Sand and Shells

 I have many shells of this type, but never one this big.  Can you believe the spikes on the bottom one?  Crazy.

Ideas for Decorating with Sand and Shells

 Bermuda is known for it’s pink sand.  I love all the flecks of pink in the bottle.

Ideas for Decorating with Sand and Shells

 And then the tiny little shells inside are a perfect touch.

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I’ve Got The Monday Blues with Living Room Winter Decor

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It’s the first Monday in January.  Isn’t that crazy??  Wasn’t I just sharing Thanksgiving ideas and recipes with you?? Today, since we are in the middle of Winter everywhere in the northern hemisphere, I’ve Got The Monday Blues with Living Room Winter Decor.  And I think you will really like it.

Using what I already own, I moved a few things around for a new look in our living room/dining area.

As you walk in to our home and look straight ahead, this is what you will see.

I brought in the large mirror that was in the Office/ TV Room and switched it out with a family frame with pictures of our 7 kids and their families..

I have got to say-I am loving the Winter look in our home.

I thought by removing the Christmas ornaments, it looks more like a Winter feel.

It all started when I was putting together my Winter shelves.

This Winter vignette is on my thrifted buffet which has only been primed.  (My Dad got really sick, Thanksgiving was here, kids were visiting and then it was Christmas.  Hopefully next week I will get to painting it)

Anyway, I kept my crystallized wreath from Christmas, and used my candlesticks as holders for the prettiest white glitter “pine coneish” ornaments.  I just HAD to keep them as part of my Winter look.

The pecan and pine cone garland and the white ceramic birds are rustic enough for Winter, as well.   The little white specs are crystals that resemble ice.

I am in L O V E with the new look here on my vintage cupboard.  I like using the candy canes to add a little red reminder of Christmas and Valentines Day coming soon.

The balance of the clear glass with the mirrors is perfect.  I can still the mirrors without taking away from there beauty.

I used gold paint for  the pecans on my Winter Shelves and I thought silver pecans would look really good with some Epsom salts on this cupboard, too.

Now on to the living room.

I have so much fun filling my Grandpa’s croquet box.  I kept most of the Christmas look along with the vintage blue bottles.  I think it looks great on our thrifted coffee table!!

The wire basket is filled with wood, pine cones and glittered spheres.  (No, I don’t have a fire place.  I am just pretending that I do.)  Weird???

a close up of the croquet box and vintage bottles.  By the way, each bottle was a thrift find.

And yet another look at the croquet box.  Can you tell I am a little obsessed with it???  I love using book page cones, too.  I like filling jars and bottles with them all year long.

So, if you were to enter our home right now, this very day you would know that I’ve Got The Monday Blues with Living Room Winter Decor, right???

PS-I have to give a HUGE shout out to Hubby for the new camera he got me for Christmas!  That’s why my pictures are now clear and detailed!!  Thanks Hubby!!

Thanks everyone for stopping by today and joining me for I’ve Got The Monday Blues with Living Room Winter Decor.  It gets my creative juices going for a whole new post about my thrifted buffet.  (Can’t wait to finish that puppy!!)

Make it a blue Monday!

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Change It Up For The New Year

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While putting away our Christmas I decided it would  be fun to change it up for the new year!  I felt the creative juices flowing to move things around and get a new look for the new year.   Do you do the same thing?  I like moving the furniture around and bringing in a Winter feel to our home.  Even though it can still be pretty warm around here.

I like to start with the shelves in my kitchen as a focal point.  I used some of what I had from my Christmas shelves and my Epsom Salt Jars.

Instead of keeping with all natural colors, I thought it would be fun to add some gold.  My Mom gave me lots and lots of pecans.

I also used them on my Anthro Inspired Pecan and Pine Cone Garland.

I used Krylon Metallic Indoor Gold to paint my pecans.  Don’t they look ready for a new year???

Using the jars from my Epsom Salts, I partially filled my jars with salt and my newly painted pecans.

I love that I even have a small gold stick to add to my jar, too.  I also removed all of the Christmas ornaments from each jar, giving the shelves a more winter feel, rather than Christmas.

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Easy peasy!  I bought the small crystallized wreath from HL (at 50 % off, of course).    The wooden stump candle holders were also used on my Christmas Shelves.

I have a whole new look for the shelves to change it up for the new year.  All it took was some rearranging and a little spray paint.  I love when that happens!!  Now I have Winter shelves and a new look for our home.

Make it a marvelous Monday and change it up somewhere in your home to welcome in the new year!!
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Pecan and Pine Cone Garland

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The past few days have been crazy for me.  I got the flu and BAM-I was D O W N!  It is so hard to be sick when you have SO much to do. Especially at Christmastime.  I still have all of our presents to wrap.  I don’t have time to be sick. Do you? I am feeling MUCH better today. So good in fact, that I made a Pecan and Pine Cone Garland.

This week, I am having fun sharing some of the inexpensive ways I like to decorate for Christmas.  I am excited to show you one of my fave and easy peasy projects.  Not only that-BUT I LOVE to use it with my Christmas decorations.

A few years ago, I added a pine cone garland to an Epsom Salt display for Christmas.  And with a few extra ideas and creativity, I made a new, fuller version…

pine-cone-and-pecan-garland

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