~white enamelware pitcher up for grabs~

Happy Monday everyone! Just wanted to remind you to sign up for my Ikea goodies giveaway.

Click ~HERE~ to go to the giveaway post.

You have until Friday Feb 24th midnight!

Have a lovely week!

Tracey

~simple enamelware centrepiece~

Well I'm back online after 3 days of computer woes, I was able to visit my bloggy friends from my ipad, but have all my photos stored on our main computer.

So with just five sleeps to go I wanted to show you the really simple centrepiece I put together for our kitchen table.

I picked up this awesome enamelware sometime this past year, and when it came to market time I pulled it out of my stash, knowing it would be awesome to use on the table. It's a shallow rectangular shape and just perfect as a centrepiece.

Filled it with a bunch of cut greens, just regular fir clippings. I'll probably have to refresh them before Christmas, they dry out really fast inside the house. Oh, and a few sprigs of fresh holly of course!

Tucked in some shiny red ornaments I've had for years, as well as some cute white pinecone ornaments. I'm noticing a few touches of red popping up in my Christmas decor this year. We have the kid's uber-colorful tree next to this table, so the red fits in just fine here!

We started that tradition some years ago, the kids just have SO many decorations so we put up a fake tree in early December and they get to decorate it however they want. Then later in December we cut a family tree for the living room, which Mamma has a bit more say in decorating:-)

{This year I have been really big on family involvement however, so decorating it was a combined effort....}

Anyway, back to the centrepiece!

Tucked in some candles!

I like these plain white candles from Target, they are truly white, fragrance-free and reasonably priced. They come in a set of 3.

And there you have it, simple but christmasy.

linking up to Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

Tracey

goldilock's little chair...

I couldn't resist this cute little "goldilock's chair" a while back, for 50c how could I resist...

it just reminded me of goldilocks and the three bears!

of course, I forgot the before picture AGAIN!

but basically it was bare wood and a little creaky

fixed it up with wood glue and primer

then painted it white and shabbied it up

it looks super cute on my porch, but needed a little something

so I planted up one of my smaller enamel basins, this one has a cute red rim

white bacopa and dianthus, pretty blue lobelia

...right outside my front door!

now I have to confess I was tempted to paint it colonial red or wildflower blue...

but for now it is shabby white

and here are a couple more porch photos, just because...

can you tell I like flowers, and white, and chippy and vintage and....

I'm linking up to these wonderful blogs

Just something I whipped up Monday

I made the world cuter today

Metamorphosis Monday

Made it Monday

Take a look Tuesday

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

Anything related Tuesday

Toot your horn Tuesday

2nd time around Tuesday

Get your craft on Tuesday

Lucky Linky Tuesday

Show and Tell Friday

Weekend Wrap up

happy days,

Tracey

white welcome

remember my white enamelware pot...

well, finally got it planted up....

still got some growing to do...

but it's a friendly white welcome on my porch stairs!

happy white wednesday - I'm linking up to Kathleen's White Wednesday
and Cindy's Show and Tell 

happy days

Tracey