A Little Antiquing

Hello Everyone! We finally got out this past weekend and went to the Scott's Antique Show in Columbus. I got to meet my first fellow Ohio blogger, Kathy, from Sylvia's Vintage Daughter. She is so nice and she had some lovely things! Btw, she is having a giveaway that you don't want to miss! Please check out her blog! One of the great things that I found from her, was this really nice silver tray. I have been looking for one for a while now and it was the perfect size. It is major heavy! Mr. CRC had to lug it right out to the car since it was just too heavy to walk around with.

I love the patina on it! I am going to use it in our bedroom on a nightstand next to the bed to hold all of my necessities.

I also got a pair of teacups that I thought were so pretty with a green trim. They were made in Occupied Japan. She also had sets in blue and deep cranberry. I set myself a budget to spend only so much, so I only got these 2. I'm happy!

Last but not least is my beautiful bouquet of pink tulips that my husband brought home to me from work the other day!

They are so pretty and just the right thing to get through these last few days of a cold and blustery January. Thank you Mr. CRC! Love You!

I Finally Found One!

I have been looking for a white chenille bedspread for the longest time and I finally found a vintage one at an antique store in my town. It is not completely all white but for the price and the condition it was in I was pretty happy with my purchase!

I have a chair in my bedroom that didn't really match anything. It is actually navy blue...from my "americana period" of decorating. Perfectly good chair though, and I thought a white chenille bedspread as a cover up might work just great.

This bedspread has a pastel starfish design on it. I love it!

So comfy looking that it makes you want to curl up in it and read a good book!

Happy 1st Day of 2010!

Well, it's finally here! Hope you all had a wonderful New Years Eve and that you are enjoying this start to a brand new year! I got up this morning like I usually do on Jan 1 and started to take the tree down. I remember the days when I would get up before everyone else in the house and have everything down and packed away before 9am! Boy, are those days a distant memory! Now it take the two of us all day to accomplish this! All the time I am putting things away I am thinking, ok, talking out loud, that next year I should be much simpler in my decorations. My husband mumbles as I say this because he loves lots of decorations and insists on our tree be a full length tree in the living room and not a table top one. He is a tremendous help though with all the decorating...I can't complain! Oh well....I have another 11 months to think about it... In the meantime for the month of January I usually put up my snowmen to get through the next few weeks of cold dreary days. Here is a few pics of what I accomplished today.

I usually decorate around the fireplace and the mantle.

Sorry these pics are kind of dark....I think I have inferior batteries in my camera.

I like to keep some of my lights up on the little trees ...gives it a little atmosphere! See you soon!~Patti

This Is What Christmas Is All About!

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas! This is what it was all about for me!

Merry Christmas Everyone

I can hardly believe that tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I am just about ready except for wrapping a few more presents and making some cheese balls and some other goodies for when my family arrives on Christmas Day. I wanted to show you a few pics of my house and some of my decorating for the holidays. The above pic is of my fireplace mantel.

A couple of my Santas standing guard next to the fireplace.

My tree with an antique lace table cloth that I used for a skirt.

We had a beautiful snowfall this past Saturday and this is looking out my front window of my lawn.

It was like a "winter wonderland" for a few days around here!

I hope everyone has a beautiful Christmas!

Holiday Light Show In Cambridge, Ohio

I wanted to do an earlier post but I have been having problems with finding my photos on my computer. Don't ask....it's a long story! Anyways........Last weekend we drove over to the nearby town of Cambridge( home of Cambridge Glass) to see their holiday light show at their county courthouse. It was freezing cold and I tried to take pictures of the lights that were in time with the music of Mannheim Steamroller. I guess I didn't set it on the right exposure so the lights did not turn out like I would have wanted them. The last photo on the bottom is just one of the courthouse that I caught that shows some of the colors it turned with the music.

After watching the light show this quaint little town had their Main Street decked out in holiday finery! The windows were all decorated for Christmas.

There are several Antique and Gift shops on Main Street.

They even had carriage rides!

A little hair salon was in the spirit too!

Cambridge is also known for the Dickens characters that are scattered throughout the downtown. Some are caroling.......

Some are sitting on benches gazing in brightly lit holiday store windows.

Some are getting into mischief!

These are only a few of the Dickens characters. They were everywhere! My fingers were so cold it was hard to capture all of them! We are going back this weekend and taking our grandson. The bad news is that it suppose to be even colder than last weekend!

Starting to Look Like Christmas!

It's starting to look like Christmas around here! We are still eating turkey leftovers while decorating and hanging lights inside and out. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving...we certainly did! I will be back in a few days with more pictures of our house decorated for the holidays. In the meantime, snow is predicted for the end of this week...our first snow of the season!