Some of you know my take on decorating for Christmas…my mom always had our house completely decorated by Thanksgiving week. Her thought was that she’d be able to better enjoy the holidays from Thanksgiving Day through New Year’s Day, if her house were ready. So that’s what I do! With that in mind…let’s have a look at my small dinning room…I’m almost done decorating my it, so I thought I’d show you what I’ve done so far!
I had the dinning room done in deep red in years past.
But this year it’s hues of tranquil teal, icy silver and splashes of pink…
It’s a budget year so I couldn’t spend a bunch of money…I painted the glass hurricanes with an easy lacy technique and blogged it HERE.
See all the darker teal glittery ornaments? I got those at Walmart for almost nothing. I planned on spray painting them to soften the color, but fell in love with them when I started decorating. I did spray a matte finish over them so they would quit shedding glitter! It worked like a charm!
The Ornament centerpiece is just 3 cake plates with my Gramma’s super old pink ornaments and some newer tealish ones thrown in! No matter what colors I use to decorate I always pull out these pink Christmas balls. They are old, old, old and remind me of Sweet Gramma. (She loved pink!)
The snowflake on top is a tiny tree topper that started out white until I got hold of it…me and spray my spray paint! I loves me some spray paint!
These birds started out gold then they were blue and now…
The napkin rings are ornaments, only a dollar, at Walmart, tied on with some pretty ribbon~
The chargers started out shiny gold until I used bronze and silver spray paint to tone them down…
I love changing things up a bit and the challenge not to spend a lot was actually kinda fun!
I’m linking to the wonderful Hooked on Houses for her surprise Blog Party today!
I’m linking to Between Naps on the Porch today. It’s Tablescape Thursday and I’m counting on some great ideas~
Also linking to Vintage Thingies Thursday over at Colorado Lady’s fun blog-home!
And it’s the start of Melissa’s Holiday Linky Friday! Check it out at Inspired Rooms!
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Beautiful Robin, I’m w/Velvet…I love pink. The silver is very soft with the blue and pink. I have had silver hands all week, look like the tin man, everything this year is silver:) Nothing a little sterling silver spray paint won’t fix. I have a big silver sleigh that would look great in there. Keep your pictures coming, you decorate beautiful. I bought all the green goblets dollar tree had for my tablescape and found some beautiful holly platters at Goodwill. Isn’t bargain shopping so much fun.
Also, I saw your sister Debra and her daughters last night at the shop. They were all so sweet, wish you could have come with them. Take care.
I love pink too…what a lovely table. Your tree is beautiful too!
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RoB’ i think your house looks beautiful” like a million bucks ”, lovin the pink orna. of granny’s , the tree is also perfect ! i hope you have it all done by thanksgiving like your sweet momma so you can do as she did relax and enjoy ! much love to you and yours ,GinGer <3
It sure doesn’t look like you were on a budget! You did an awesome job on all of the decor. Thanks for the tip about the matte spray paint on the glitter balls. I always avoid those things, because I hate the glitter all over my house!
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ROBIN! It’s GORGEOUS!! will come over and play with me at my house?! LOL
My favorite is the 3 cake plates and the pink ornaments! LOVE how that looks!! I SO wish I had a dinning room!
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Show us a photo of your winter “JOY” above your hutch. You make me very anxious to get my Fall stuff down and Winter stuff up. Love your blog!
Robin–
This is drop-dead gorgeous! I was looking through the photos with my daughter Lily, and she said, “I want to live there.”
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Robin…wow, it’s all so beautiful! I adore your centerpiece. The colors are so pretty! Love the pink! You’re tree is just gorgeous! I am starting to see the wisdom of starting really early…you’re Mom (and You) are so smart to do that! Next year, I’m starting much earlier…won’t be so hectic that way.
Thanks for a wonderful Tablescape Thursday!
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