I Will Honour Christmas In My Heart

I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Thursday, December 8, 2011

HOME TOUR 2011, PART 7 , UPSTAIRS AND 6 MORE TREES!

Welcome to the last part of our HOME TOUR, Part 7, the UPSTAIRS.

I hope you have enjoyed your our of our Home decorated for Christmas!!

I should have most likely split this post in 2 but I wanted to complete Our Home Tour in time for all the Christmas Blog Parties!

If You missed Part 1, the Front Yard, Please click HERE

If you missed Part 2, the Kitchen, please click HERE

If you missed Part 3, the Dining Room, please click HERE

If you missed Part 4, the Living Room, please click HERE

If you missed Part 5, the Den, please click HERE

If you missed Part 6, the Powder Room, please click HERE

Now grab a cup of tea and I will take you upstairs.....

I finally finished the garland on the railing....

When I posted about the Living Room, I did not have it up as I was still decorating and it is far easier to carry boxes and tubs up and down all the steps without having to watch where you grab the railing....

You can see the lights on the garland reflecting on the pictures on the wall....

I have weaved a berry and red velvet garland through the evergreen garland.....

One of my Teddy Bear's that sing sitting on the steps.....

I have white light and a set of 40 candle lights on the garland....

The bow matches all the swag and the tree topper in the Living Room....

I have Victorian Emphera Santa's hanging from the garland.....

And Thomas KinKaide Stockings hanging at the top.....

The top of the stairs....

Some of my lusterware collection....

Now I know many of you would have painted this fan another color but I am a Victorian Style gal and I love the gold.....

Another angel....

More of my Lusterware Collection in the Hallway....

Love this pic with the sun shining through the Craft Room window into the Hall way....

A Nativity figurine of Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus ......

Love the colors with the sun shining on it. I actually took this by mistake leaving the candle light feature on but love the way this came out.....

This is the wreath that I made last year for the door to my very small bathroom.

It is the smallest bathroom known to man .

The color scheme of the bathroom is tan, purple and sage green....

Last year, this bathroom was the only room with out a Christmas tree in the house.

I decided to change that this year...

I used my white feather tree and added ornaments that I bought at a flea market to the tree...

So this is Tree # 10

The tree is set up on the shelf unit above the toilet.

The bathroom is so small that I really can not take any other pics of it ( plus I have to clean it)

Now we will go into the Master Bedroom...

This is Tree # 11 and it is my Vintage Tree, the tree of my Childhood.

This is a 4 foot pre lit tree that I added more lights too and is identical to the one that is in my Den.

I have decorated it with all vintage glass ball ornaments and a glass topper.

And I also used silver tinsel like they used in the 60's when I was growing up.


There are also some vintage putz house ornaments on this tree...



Below is a combination Plasticville and Vintage Putz house village.....

The Plasticville red barn and blue house were always under my parent's tree on the platform that my Dad built. The rest of the pieces were flea market finds.....

The reindeer and chalk figures were my parent's.....

And lit up at night when it just sparkles.....





If you look at my side bar, you can see my childhood tree looks quite similar....

And then over in the alcove which is Joe's Pittsburgh Shrine, I have decorated a little Pittsburgh Tree for Joe....

Many of you already know that we have season tickets for the Pittsburgh Penguins AHL team, the Wilkes Barre - Scranton Penguins. Joe is also an avid Pittsburgh Steeler fan....

You can see all of his Bobble Heads....

This is tree # 12 and is set up on a roll top desk....

The tree is decorated with red presents, wooden Penguin ornaments and Steeler and Penguin ornaments....


I bought this hat for Joe to wear the week of Christmas when he is delivering mail.....

If you would like to see more of my Master Bedroom , please click HERE

And now we will go into the Craft Room....

This is a little vignette on one of the shelf units that houses my Craft supplies....

The house came from Target and was a mere $5.00 after Christmas for 75% off several years ago....

And of course the white tree is Tree # 13....


The tree is decorated with mini angel head and Victorian ornaments....



Here is a pic again taken by mistake with the candle light feature left on my camera....


And lit up at night....

Here is the Craft Room Tree which is Tree # 14....

It is a 6 foot slim tree that I bought at a church flea market .....

I call it my Shabby Chic Tree since it is decorated in colors of Pink, Green and White.....

On top of the tree, is a bow , white feathers and a doll's head....

I used white shimmery garland that looks almost like snow....


Once again, here are those mistake pics with the candle light feature....

I think I might actually use this feature again in the day time as I love the look....

I decorated this tree with pink , white and green ornaments.....

Now this tree stays up year round. I turn it into a Valentine's Day tree and then into a tea cup and rose summer tree..

And you can see the Christmas Spider in this pic.

To read about the Legend of the Christmas Spider, please click HERE




And the base of the tree....

Lit up at night and I have white and soft pink lights on this tree....




Teddy Bears , Dolls and Skates...




And the top of my Antique Sewing Machine that was Joe's Grandmother's....


The picture frame has a saying about December Babies.

Both my son's were born in December.

And that is one of their infamous Screaming Santa pictures. Please look at my side bar to see more...

LOL!!

And this mirror is above my sewing machine....

Can you see the reflection of the tree in the mirror???

If you would like to see more of my Craft/Sewing Room, please click HERE

Let's go into the Guest Room now....

Here is Tree # 15....

This tree is a 6 foot potted tree.

It is decorated in mostly bright pink and white.

It fits perfectly in this small room that is only 10 x 10!

You can see my hat rack next to the tree...

I used a vintage topper on top of the tree with a bow made out of bright pink shimmery ribbon...

The tree is decorated with some vintage glass balls , shatterproof balls, hand crocheted snowflakes , about 60 clear icicles and other specialty ornaments...



Baby's First Christmas ornament...

Dolls, an angel and bunnies at the base of the tree....

There are bright pink and white lights on this tree...





My little round table and chair.....

On the table is a church Flea market find.

Another one of the those great Sam's Club sets that they no longer carry...

I just love the pastel colors of the pieces....

The bottle brush tree is from the Christmas Tree Shop....

More of my Old World Santa's....

This one was a gift from a friend....

This is my faux fireplace mantle.....

It was a strange piece of furniture given to me for free that I turned into a fireplace mantle....

Bright pink Snowflakes.....

The top of the Mantle....

Pastel snowmen....

More of those Target houses or I guess I should say churches....

The mantle scarf was bought at an estate sale for $1.00!!



The hanger was a gift from my dear friend, Rose Marie , who just passed away on December 6th.

If you would like to see Rose Marie's beautiful home decorated for Christmas 2 years ago, please click HERE


My Teddy Bear Tea Party.....



Love the sun shining on these flowers....

And all lit up ......







The angel was a flea market sign that I embellished.....

If you would like to see more of my Guest Room, please click HERE

And that concludes the HOME TOUR of our Home decorated for Christmas.....

I hope you enjoyed it. We loved having all of you come and visit us for the Holidays!

I have linked all the posts together so if you start with Part one, our Front Yard, you can click on the links at the end of each post and continue from room to room.

Joe and I enjoyed sharing our home with all of you.....

So you have seen 15 trees and I have now added two 12 inch lit trees in the Living room so I guess you can say that I now have 17 trees lit or decorated in our home!!

Click HERE to see my 17 trees !!!

I am linking up to these parties:

Show and Tell Friday

Home Sweet Home Friday

Vintage Inspiration Friday

Potpourri Friday- O Christmas Tree

Deck the Halls Friday

Pink Saturday

Seasonal Sunday

Sundays with Santa

Metamorphosis Monday

Amaze Me Monday

Masterpiece Monday

Mod mix Monday

TableTop Tuesday

WOW Us Wednesday

Rednesday

Open House Thursday Party

Vintage Thingie Thursday

And these Christmas parties:

I'll Be Home for Christmas Linky Party

Itz Festival Time

Show Your Glow Party

http://www.aholidayhaven.com/

Christmas Cheer Blogger Block Party:

Holiday Mantles @ Michelle's

http://www.athoughtfulplaceblog.com/

http://honeywerehome.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-cheer-link-party-christmas.html

Holiday Decor @ Michaela Noelle Designs

Christmas Blogger Block Party

Bannisters

Hooked on Houses Holiday Home Tour

Holly Blogger Christmas

I hope you can pay a visit to all the host of these parties and some of the participants....

Thanks so very much for joining me on my Home Tour this season!!

Hugs,
Debbie

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

With Heavy Heart

It is with a very heavy heart that I tell you today that my dear friend, Rose Marie has passed away.

She sold Victorian Style crafts under the name of Victorian Rose and her husband, Joe, who was always at her side, called to tell me that our Victorian Rose was no longer with us.

She was truly one of the most elegant women I knew and fought a long hard battle against breast cancer that had spread to her bones and other places for the past 27 years.

I will miss her greatly......

I featured her beautiful home decorated for Christmas a while ago.

If you missed it or care to see it again, please click HERE

I would appreciate it if you would be so kind to include her wonderful family in her prayers....

Hugs,
Debbie

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

HOME TOUR 2011, Part 6 , the POWDER ROOM

Welcome to Part 6 in our HOME TOUR.

Remember to click on the link at the end of this post to continue on to the next part of our Home Tour!!

Today I will be showing you our Powder Room.

If you missed Part 1, the Front Yard, please click HERE

If you missed Part 2, the Kitchen, please click HERE

If you missed Part 3, the Dining Room , please click HERE

If you missed Part 4, the Living Room, please Click HERE

If you missed Part 5, the Den, please click HERE

First , I want to say THANK YOU to all those who are leaving comments, to my new followers and to all those who simply stop by but do not comment. I watch my stats and see how many of you are visiting and I understand that everyone does not have the time to comment!

THANK YOU so much for your visits!!!

I have a small Powder Room downstairs but my washer and dryer is in there behind Bifold doors so it actually gets a lot of use...

Normally, I have pink frilly Victorian style decor in the Powder Room but for Winter, I change it into a Winter Wonderland....

When you walk in the door and look to the left, this is what you see....

I pulled the blue color out of the border and have a Snow Buddy Theme in this room.....

Now many of you have seen this room decorated like this before but some have not.....

And angel hanging and a wreath that I many MANY years ago....

A Snow Man picture....

I love the blue slate that I have hung above the Medicine Cabinet...

This was actually a mistake... I zoomed in a bit much and the camera took the pic but I sort of like the close up....

On a little shelf above my sink....

Not much of a sink but I do have the smallest bathrooms known to man in this house!!

And we are turning....

The shelf above the toilet....

Penguins for Joe (we have season tickets to AHL WB- Scranton Penguin Hockey)....

The middle figurine says " Penguins Hockey"!!

Below the shelf....

One of my after Clearance Target buys for $3.50!

It has batteries and lights up blue!

Now you may think how in the world is she going to get a tree on that estagere , let alone a 3 foot one....

When there is a will , there is a way!!

The tree is wired to the toile tray hanging on the wall and to the stand itself so it will not fall over or be knocked down.....

Then I straighten out all the branches right through the shelf itself....

And there it is......

And now here it is!! Tree # 9!

I can not use lights on this tree since it is not near a receptacle but for next year, I am think battery operated LED warm white lights or I may actually go with the Cool white since they do look blue and that would work in this room...

I added beaded garland, Snow Buddy ornaments, sparkly evergreen picks and blue berries along with buffalo snow stuck into the tree to fill it out!


As you can see the tree is right through the shelf...



Underneath the tree is another Target find that was $6.00 on Clearance and also lights up via battery...


Another little stand next to the estagere....

And I have Buffalo Snow under the tree......

One more shelf unit....

A swag I made...

I hang ornaments just about anywhere...

More snow Buddies....

Every Snow Buddy on this shelf has a special meaning to me....

The one of the left reminds me of my mother , who still had a wringer washer when I was a child, emptying the wringer washer with buckets.
And the one of the right is in honor of my Dad who was a carpenter by trade, see his little tool belt.

From the left, "Shop til you Drop", need I say more?
The along those same lines is "Charge!!"
And the next one is "Tea Party"

Again from the left,
"Oooops!!" , I am not the most agile person!
"Remodeling", my house is in a constant state of remodel....
And " Hill Thrill", I loved to sleigh ride as a kid since I lived on a big hill....

This is above the Bifold doors that house the washer and dryer....

And above the door way...

And here is what it looks like at night.....




Now this room will stay this way all Winter. I will change out the Christmas Snow Buddies for some Valentine's Day Snow Buddies.

Well, there is only one more Part in our HOME TOUR, the Upstairs!!

So far I have shared with you 9 trees....

There are 6 more upstairs......Click HERE to continue to the last part of our Home Tour to see the Upstairs!!

Yes, there are 15 Trees for 2011!!

They will be coming to take me away to the Funny Farm shortly.....

AND I AM FINALLY DONE DECORATING!!!

So I will have some time to start to visit everyone again and catch up!!

I am linking up to these great parties:

WOW US Wednesday

Open House Party Thursday

Show and Tell Friday

Home Sweet Home Friday

Potpourri Friday

Vintage Inspiration Party

Pink Saturday

Seasonal Sunday

Metamorphosis Monday

Masterpiece Monday

Amaze me Monday

Blue Monday

Mod Mix Monday

Tabletop Tuesday

And these Christmas blog Parties:

Show your Glow Linky Party

http://www.aholidayhaven.com/

I'll Be Home For Christmas Linky Party

Christmas Blogger Block Party

Itz Festival Time

Christmas Cheer Blogger Party:

http://www.athoughtfulplaceblog.com/2011/11/holiday-vignette.html

http://honeywerehome.blogspot.com/

Holiday Decor @ Michaela Noelle Designs

Hooked on Houses Holiday Home Tour

Holly Blogger Christmas

Please take some time to visit all the wonderful hosts of these great parties and all those who are playing along!!

Thanks so much for visiting me today and every day that you take the time to do so!!

Hugs,

Debbie

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