Under a Blue Moon

 

It's always a challenge to get a decent picture of the entryway.  The light stinks and unless I stand outside and take a picture through the door you can't quite get the effect. 

There is the infamous silver tree I was see marching down Main St. in Pleasanton with.  My own little Christmas parade. 

 

Please ignore the plant which appears to be in ill-health.  It's not, in fact it is taking over the entryway.  I just needs a bit of a haircut.

I think I need more of those silver tabletop decorations, don't you?  Maybe a couple of shorter ones.

 

This was kind of tricky and could have easily ended in disaster.  I just turned the cloche upside down and filled it with ornaments then put the cake stand on top and very s..l..o..w..l..y turned it over. 

Friday we'll get the big tree and set it up over the weekend.  I'll post pictures but it will look EXACTLY like the tree last year and the year before.  Some traditions you just don't mess with.

 

I decided to mix things up a bit this year.  Well as much as I can mix things up since I pretty much decorate with silver and white.  This year the mantel is all creamy whites and the entryway is, well it's silver like it usually is but WAY more silver than usual.

You'll get silver pictures tomorrow.

 

I started off with a string of white lights that I just haphazardly placed on top of the mantel.  Then I covered it with a lacy table runner.  I took the two small glass lamps that Kelly gave me and bought $4 lampshades at Target.  I added some cluny lace to them and placed them on either end of the mantel.

Then anything I had that was creamy white was placed amongst the lights.  Those snowflakes don't want to stay up there.  I have double sided foam tape and sticks great to the wall but doesn't like the gritty surface of the snowflakes.  Every now and then one will plop down and I'll just hot glue it back to the double-sided tape.  That seems to work.

I like those lamps up there.  They may stay up after the new year.  I just have to figure out how to hide the cords better.

 

For a while anyway.  Seriously, Kelly is going to call me up and tell me to give everything back if I don't come up with a different topic now and then. 

Rick and I took all the assorted china out of this cabinet and then lined it was some old grey and white striped wallpaper I have been hanging on too (Laura Ashley circa 1991). 

 

I would love to paint that cabinet white but Rick's mother gave it to us and there is a matching piece floating around somewhere. 

I want to find some of that paper lace trim for the shelving.  Where does one buy that?  I covered the shelves with white paper (and you can see on the top shelf) so that the linens on the bottom of the pile don't get discolored.

 

I only put table linens and the hankies in here.  I figure since it is in the dining room that putting sheets or pillowcases wasn't really appropriate….

 

The hankies are so pretty I couldn't hide them away, now could I?

I promise the next post will be about Christmas decorating.  I am going to bring out the silver tree tomorrow.  I just need to figure out what to put on it, if anything.  It is about three feet tall and I do have some small, vintage glass ornaments I could use.  Or I could do all crystally things on it.  Or maybe nothing at all.  Just have it be naked.

One last linen shot: