Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Mockingbird Hill Cottage

Pink Saturday

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Time for another Pink Saturday! Our hostess, Beverly, has asked us to speak about our favorite holiday decorations this week. I have a lot of vintage ornaments that I love, but my favorite ornaments are these rather new bottlebrush ornaments. Heidi carries them in her shop and I’ve bought about 8 or 9 of them over the past 3 years. They are big – about 6 inches across – and really have an impact on the tree. Plus, they are just wonderfully old-fashioned, which I love.

Who knows? I may buy some more this year!
In keeping with Pink Saturday, I also want to show one of my favorite vintage ornaments:

I am helping out at my friend’s shop today, so I will be away part of the day. I will be sure to visit everyone over the weekend.

Please stop by How Sweet the Sound to see a list of everyone participating.

Decorating

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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree… today we went tree shopping and brought home our lovely Noble Fir. We’re letting the branches settle overnight and tomorrow we will decorate. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a little decorating in other parts of the house.

The simplest decoration: some pine cones next to the parakeet lamp.


The garland on the stairway.


Santa on the spinet desk.


Oh, and this handsome guy. My favorite decoration. I wanted to share this photo of my husband that I took for his website. As you know he is a singer/songwriter as well as an actor. I took a bunch of shots of him the other day. We used the porch as our setting. Just in the nick of time – the next day, this particular area of the porch was covered in snow!

The Plow & the Wreaths

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I like to keep things positive here…not complain too much…so I will just let this photo tell you what my day has been like.


Enough said. Okay, on to prettier things. The wreaths have been hung and I really love them.

The view has changed since I took this – the ground is totally covered in snow.




I thank you, Big Lots! No Christmas tree today, the snow has kept us shoveling until mid afternoon and now we are plumb tuckered out. I did put up our outdoor lights – just white lights that we drape between the posts on the porch. Simple, but effective. I also dragged in the Christmas ornament bins from the shed.

So, hopefully, tomorrow we get the tree and decorate on Friday.

Talk to you soon!

Lambs Like to Party

Lambs Like to Party

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