Christmas House Tour 2015 Christmas in The Bedroom

Welcome to my Christmas house tour 2015: Christmas in the Bedroom. Today I want to show you our bedroom.  It all started when I went to Magpie’s Vintage Treasures, a little shop in Matthews, near where I live, that only opens for a weekend, seasonally.  This cute little toile bear jumped into my arms as I was browsing in the store.

 She insisted that I decorate our bedroom for Christmas, and let her be the star.  So…

 Here she is making herself quite comfortable on our bed.  I switched the blue and white quilt for this all white bedspread, and added a couple of red and white stripe pillowcases.

 Then I folded one of the red and white quilts I made at the foot of the bed.

Some greens from our yard in white ironstone, classic and simple.  It looks so good with the brass lamp behind it.  

 Got a pair of brass lamps for $2 each recently and Hobby Lobby had lampshades 50% off the same day, so I the lamps only cost me $17 each!

 Some more greenery: cedar, nandina berries and holly on the other side of the bed with something I printed and framed last year.  There were hardly any berries on our holly this year.  Not sure why.

 Last year my feather tree had a button garland and these little cloth blue and white hearts.  At the insistence of my little bear, red balls and a red bead garland were added.

A vintage bunny and some of the Christmas hearts are nestled under the tree.

Thanks little bear.  I like how it turned out!  I’m thinking about painting the walls, dark blue.  What do you think?  Actually you may not be able to respond because yesterday the comments weren’t working and I couldn’t figure out how to fix them.  If you’ve ever had that problem I’d love you to email me and tell me how to fix it!!

Come back in a few days and I’ll show you some more of my Christmas house tour.

Rhondi x0

Christmas Open House 2014 part 2

Welcome to my Christmas open house part 2. Today I’m inviting you into my kitchen.  No smells of christmas baking here and not a homemade cookie in sight!

Everything in here is pretty simple.  A wood advent tree I got at a yard sale years ago. I just added some fake apples and real greens from neighbor’s yard.  There is nothing behind the numbered doors and the red cookie tin is empty.

 A big basket full of giant pinecones I collected, tied with a big bow.  All I had to buy was the ribbon.

 Bright red apple swags over the sink and wall oven.  I just leave the nails there from year to year which makes it easy to hang next year.

 I have a few Christmas dishes and some red ones too which I put on the shelves in the china cabinet.

 My snowman teapot and mug add some cheer above the stove.

 Every room has to have candles.  Ikea has the best candles.  These ones came from there.  The cardinals remind me of the ones we have at our birdfeeder and birdbath this time of year.

 In the corner of the kitchen counter I always have things ready for tea.  This past year I was lucky enough to find these Christmas cups and saucers and teapot.  Have you read The Christmas Cup of Tea?  I know you would enjoy it. It’s a delightful little book.

 I have a little snack of tea and toast ( no cookies remember?) and it’s sitting in front of my clock that plays a Christmas carol every hour.

 I invited a few neighbors in for tea this morning. The table is set, just need to brew the tea. Would love to have you join us if you could.

Rhondi xo

Christmas House Tour 2013

Hi I am so glad you came to visit today for my Christmas home tour 2013.  I am very excited to be a part of The Nester’s 5th Annual Christmas Tour of Homes.

Instead of showing you pictures I did a video tour of our home.

Please click HERE to see it.  (I had a cold when I did this, so my voice sounds pretty bad.  You might want to turn the volume off and just look at the pictures.)

To see more wonderful homes all decorated for Christmas go to  Nesting Place

Thanks for coming to my Christmas home tour  today!  Rhondi xo