Winner and Dining Room Christmas

Hello my friends! I hope that you are all having a wonderful start to this week! Some of you are busy preparing for Thanksgiving and hopefully you are all able to spend some time with loved ones!

I just wanted to thank you again for all your support and comments of friendship and inspiration! I am so happy to have started blogging and even happier that I have met all of you!!

~HUGS~

I truly wish I could get everyone of you something!

I am happy to announce that the winner of my "A BIG

THANK YOU" giveaway is

Shari @ Little Blue Deer

Shari does custom blog designs and is so talented! Her blog is full of beautiful inspirations!

Congrats!!!

Just send me an email with your address and I will get that to you!

Thank You!!!

I am finished decorating my Dining area/kitchen!

I went with simple, natural and soft colors with pops of red here and there!

I showed you some of my kitchen decor here, with my red skates and trees!

My beautiful scale that my wonderful friend Tracy gave to me is now decorated with evergreens, white tipped pine cones and sparkly white pine cones!

A larger view of my little vignette from here.

I just added some evergreen branches to my hutch along with a wreath and a few of my favorites from Christmas's past.

(I think that I need a bigger wreath)

The little thing in front of the picture is actually a small frame that holds three pictures. I painted it black, put some coffee filters in and then put small glass votives on top of those to add a little texture!

I purchased the lace table runner a long time ago and haven't used it until now!

Also, today is my birthday, 37 years young!

I have to say that in those years I have survived my big brother tormenting me, school, many jobs, childbirth, surgeries including two heart attacks and open heart, trying to raise two wonderful children, 14 years of marriage (and still going strong) and of course all the wonderful things that life throws at me on a day to day basis!

However,

nothing has prepared me for

THIS!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually it is the third one that I have found this year (yes I am counting).

Might have to go buy a little box-o-color!!!

Look What I Won!!!

I know, two posts in one day, I am such an over achiever, or something like that....

Anyway, I was so excited about the these great pillows that I won last week over at

Laura Trevey's Bright, Bold and Beautiful that I HAD to show you!!!

(Her blog is also a must see, so many wonderful inspirations, and she is a phenomenal watercolor painter and designer!)

They are from Pillows and Pillows and are gorgeous!

I got to choose TWO pillows and these were my choices!

They go so perfect with Tracy's pillow that she sent me!

(sorry about the pictures, I was in a hurry)

Thank you Laura and thank you Pillows and Pillows!!

I hope everyone has a great weekend, mine will be busy with my daughters volleyball and finishing up some projects that I will share with you next week!!

Emerald Cove Jewelry Give Away Winner

Good morning everyone! We had some pretty good storms roll through our area last night. Lucky we stayed out of the path of the most severe. I hope those that were not able to are safe this morning. That is another benefit of living by the lake, we are protected from tornadoes that start forming over the water!

Anyway, I am here to announce the winner of my first Emerald Cove Jewelry Give Away!

The winner is.................

Maya of Completely Coastal and Daily Vitamin Sea!!!!

CONGRATS!!!!

Check out her wonderful blogs about the life by the sea and sea-side inspirations!

Thank you all so much for entering and leaving such wonderful comments below! I am pretty new at blogging and you all mean so much to me!

I have a busy day at a craft fair with the frames that I make, hope the weather cooperates!

I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend!