Christmas Vignette's

In our house, the holiday decor only extends to two rooms, our living room and our dining room.  The living room is where the tree lives and of course the mantle gets spruced up.  And speaking of the mantle, thank you all who weighed in on the decor that shall stay up for the remainder of the season.  The results were a tie (with two votes each, ha! possibly I should blog on a regular basis? :)) between "Holiday Sparkle" and "Natural Holiday".  For now, "Holiday Sparkle" will remain (it looks so pretty with the candles lit at night) and "Natural Holiday" has been re-purposed in a dining room vignette.

This project started with these wooden frames that I picked up at Target back this summer.

At $3.48 each, I thought they were a good deal and I picked up nine (in retrospect, I should have picked up twelve to really fill the wall space above the buffet).  I knew I wanted to paint them gray but was at a loss as to what to put in them (and am still trying to decide what to do after Christmas).  Tuesday night, I was feeling crafty and remembered a set of filing folders that I purchased a while back (in March actually as seen in this post) and decided to quit feeling guilty over that impulse buy and put them to use.  So I cut the folders down to size and had three prints to choose from and three solid colors.  To make things move quickly (because that is sometimes the only way we can get things done around here), I chose to only cut and paste designs on four of the frames.

They make me really happy and who knows, since it's not overly Christmas, I might leave it up to get me through our dreary, gray winter day's we have in East Tennessee.

The other vignette that makes me insanely happy is the one on our server. 

I actually borrowed the two vases filled with ornaments from our mantle. :)

The colors just do me in!  And weirdly enough, even though I love blue and greens, I seem to steer clear of them when it comes to decorating the tree but I love to fill vases with those colors. These little blue ornaments have been filling my vases since 2005.  I need to find more because I manage to break at least one every year.

 

And one last shot of the room again:

I hope you enjoyed my vignettes.  I'm linking up to the vignette party over at Southern Hospitality.  Make sure you pop over if you want to see tons of inspiration!