Salty Sister Decorates - Fa la la what?

After working in the living room and decorating the fireplace mantle, I thought I would come in the kitchen and work on this mantle.

So I laid an apple swag up there and stepped back, I was looking to see of it was going to work and then . . . BAM! it hit me.  So I ran upstairs and grabbed these, my all time favorite painting products.

Yep, this is the way my brain works, right in the middle of Christmas decorating, I decided to do one of my 2010 todo's.

Like I discussed in my table vignette, I start with a vague idea of what I want and then, I just work with it.  I have learned to trust the idea, even if it is just a smiggin of an idea.  Not really tutorial, teach me kind of stuff.  More of an adventure in decorating kind of stuff.

Yesterday as I worked on Christmas decorating in the kitchen, I kept my eye on this lovely little project and decided the texture was a little to rough.

Things are about to get ugly, stay tuned . . .

I better get busy, the honey's gonna want dinner.  :))

See ya.

Salty Sister Decorates - Christmas Table Vignette

Welcome and thank you for stopping by.  I love Christmas and Christmas decorations.  I am thankful to the ladies that are hosting the link parties this year.  At the bottom of this post are the links for more beautiful decorations.

One thing to know about this Salty Sister is I'm slow when it comes to adding Christmas decorations.  If it wasn't for these linky parties and my desire to participate, I probably wouldn't have much done yet.  They are motivation to help me get it done!

I love decorated homes and I can get into decorating but I'm kind of slow.  Took me all day yesterday to do this table.   I start off with only a vague idea of what I am going to do and then it's like putting puzzle pieces together.

I kept adding things but it felt like I was fighting with it, my decorating philosophy is when you have to force something to work, it's not working.  So once I realized that, it was time to start taking things away.

One thing I love about decorating for Christmas is that I feel like I have permission to use glitter and girls I do love glitter!  I also love velvet and rich opulent fabrics and shiny, sparkly things.

Rejoice in the Lord always.  I will say it again: Rejoice!  Let your gentleness be evident to all.  The Lord is near.  Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in christ Jesus.

I pray you have peace that surpasses all understanding this Christmas.

Merry Christmas.


Linking with Rhoda at Southern Hospitality
                      Julia at Hooked on Houses

Salty Sister Decorates - Christmas Mantle 2010

Hi everyone.  I hope your Thanksgiving was great.  We had a full house, I fed 10 adults and 7 children.  It was fun and all had a good time.

But, you know there has to be a but, and fortunately with that much family around there wasn't a butt, but there was sickness.  Our two 1 year olds came down with upper respiratory infections, viruses they call um, and four of us adults came down with the stomach flu.  Oh Yea, that was some fun.

All is well now and I'm off to tackle some Christmas decorating.

Linking with Layla at The Lettered Cottage
                      Julia at Hooked on Houses

So here it is I hope you like it and thank you for stopping by.

Thank you for looking hope you are having a good time looking at all the fabulous mantles.  Please let me know you came by with some comment love, I would love to come visit you as well.

See ya.

What a Cutie

I have a love affair with all things burro/donkey.  Love this little guy.

From his big brown eyes to the tuff between his ears.

Honestly, what I really want to say is, "now there's an ass".  I know, this is a family rated blog but this technically is an a_ _.  If ever you want to think of someone as an a _ _, think of this guy, he really is one!  Not your honey, he's not, he's just a man.