Cozy Christmas

Hello and welcome to day 2 of the Cozy at Christmas
Holiday Blog Tour.
 
 
A big thank you to Katie Let's Add Sprinkles for putting this together for us!
 
I'm so happy that you've taken time out of your busy day to hop over for a visit!
 
I love the Christmas season and am so excited to share our holiday home with you!
 
This year I've gone with a lot of Naked Greenery out on the front porch that helped bring about my dream of having a Tree Farm of my own.
 
 
I also included a cocoa bar for some sippin and dippin
of candy canes.
 

 
Although were going naked out on the porch, step inside and you'll see that it is far from that.
Yes, I'll be the first to admit that I am not a minimalist.  My mothers motto was, "the more the merrier"; and I'm afraid I adopted the same attitude.  :)
 
I use many of the same things every year, but move them around for a totally different look.  I am crazy in love with plaid and this year it landed in my entry.
 
 
I've corralled together my collection of picnic tins and thermoses.  Our family has a love for the outdoors.  Hoping we find some time to snowshoe this year.
 
 
 
Years ago I taught Tole painting.  I have to keep a couple of things that I painted.  This Night Before Christmas book is one of them.
 
 
 
My style is very eclectic and I don't stick with one theme throughout my home.
 
I found this metal deer at a damaged goods store.  I dressed him up for my living room mantle with a vintage beaded garland and baubles around his neck.
 
 
 
I love creating and made this little scene in an old drawer I picked up at a thrift shop for $.50 cents.  The deer is an old perfume bottle.


 
My favorite new creation is this ornament tree.  We made them in craft group and it was so fun!

 
A few of my thermoses found their way into a tray with one of my blow mold Santas and a thrift find candle.
 

 
My Maleig elf has found the perfect spot to sit and enjoy his Christmas book!
 
 
Hubby made this peg board for me so I would have somewhere to display my cute chairs that I scored in Colorado. 
 
 
Remember the year that lime green and red were really popular?  Well, I have one tote full.  I decided to use it in our
 bedroom this year.

 
 

 
Now let's step into the family room.
 
 
A few presents have been wrapped and placed under the tree.  I used a hand crochet spread for the tree skirt.
 
 
I will be sharing more of my mantle in a later post.
 
 
 
Christmas is definitely a Holly Jolly time of year.  I am loving the chalk art my friends daughter did for me!
 
I made the ornament wreath a couple years ago.
 

 
This year in the kitchen I am going for a 50's theme.
 
I'll be sharing more of it next week for our 'Creating Christmas' link party.  My theme is 'a dish addicts Christmas'.  I confess, I definitely am one!
 
I love using my jadite dishes at Christmas!  This shade of green is delightful with red.
 
 
Vintage Christmas is my favorite and I have created vignettes throughout our home using some of my favorite finds.
 
 
A collection of tree toppers light up and twinkle at night.
 
 
I adore my collection of pinecone elves.  They have the
 sweetest faces!
 
 
A Christmas scene I created on a large tart tin.

 
 
I hope you enjoyed visiting our home!
 
It has felt like spring lately here in UT.  Yesterday morning we woke up to snow and it really helped to bring about the Christmas spirit!
 
 
I'm wishing you all the merriest of Christmases! 
 
hugs,
Jann
 
Please visit the other participants.  They have so much wonderful inspiration to share with us all!
 
 
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Cozy At Christmas 





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Naked Greenery

>Hello my friends,
last night I was in my car driving to a wedding reception when the radio announcer mentioned that this years trend was that of
'Naked Greenery'.
She said that the Pinterest search was up more than 400%
What is naked greenery?  Garlands, wreaths, and trees with no ornaments.  Nothing to distract from the beauties that they are in their natural state.
Who knew that this old gal was right on trend when she had a vision late one night as to what she wanted to do on her porch?  (tee-hee)
Yup, I imagined a tree farm with lots of (you guessed it), naked greenery.  :)

I added it to my chandelier.  I may have cheated just a little by hanging the shiny bulbs.  However, that greenery is entirely naked.


Hubby and I, and our youngest daughter got permits and cut 4 trees to make my 'tree farm' vision come to life.  It was from an area where they allow cutting a small amount of trees each year in order to clear the area.


Two trees were placed on the right end of the porch.

I placed them in buckets to keep them fresh.  Our daughter had a
Tree Farm sign created using a lazer machine and hubby
 added an arrow point. 


 I asked myself, "if you had a real tree farm what would you want it to consist of?"  I knew I would want a cocoa station to keep myself and my customers warm and toasty.

Two kinds of cocoa, candy canes for dipping, and cups and spoons for sippin.


I draped my drop leaf table with a plaid tablecloth and topped it with a small sled.  I sat my red toolbox on top hoping it would hold the cocoa bar supplies, but it just didn't work.  So instead I filled it with more 'naked greenery'.


Then I tucked in a star and some vintage red bells.


I filled a jar with marshmallows and a red Coleman cooler is on hand for holding hot water.





We have a tree stand ready to hold a tree picked from our tree farm.



Tree number three is a Juniper.  I tied my wooden star to the top and tucked the saw I painted a few years ago in amongst the branches



The live wreath on the door is plain and simple. . .more naked greenery.


And did you notice the beautiful new door color?  We had it restained a couple weeks ago.


I hung more greenery from the ladder on the left side of the porch.


I also tucked them into my two urns and added a couple of old lanterns.


The fourth tree is tied to a ladder to help keep it from falling over.  My chippy red step stool holds an old green heater to keep us warm if winter ever comes to Utah.  Seriously, it has felt like spring for quite some time now.  I am loving it, but we really need the snow!



I cut logs from my sons home and placed them here and there around the porch.

More naked greenery in my creamer and almost naked branches.





I am loving all of the 'naked greenery' at my tree farm!

Here's a couple of pictures of it lit up at night.





Oh, and I decided to search 'naked greenery' on Pinterest to see what came up.  I mainly got naked cakes, so I'm not sure what the radio announcer was talking about.  lol!

hugs,
Jann

Sharing with these fun parties:
Sundays at Home

I'm excited for the Cozy Christmas tour starting on Monday.

I will be sharing on Tuesday.


Also, I hope you are getting your posts ready to share for our Creating Christmas link party.

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