Christmas Tour 2016 at Brookhollow Lane

Welcome to Brookhollow Lane! Come on in.

 If this is your first visit to Brookhollow Lane, my style is cottage, vintage with a little farmhouse thrown in. I love adding thrifted vintage stuff to my house. I love adding little touches here and there to turn my house into a cozy home.

I kept the decorations pretty minimal this year. The house is smallish and I didn't want it to feel cluttered, especially when my boys come home and are hanging out.

 Home is where you hang your hat. I made this little hat hanger from old hooks and piece of scrap wood.

Entryway primitive cabinet.

 Look closely at the letter to Santa.

My Mom's red cardinal always comes out at Christmas time.

 Come on in to the family room and make yourself comfortable. I change out my fall colors for red and white in the winter. The tree is pretty naked, because we wait for our boys to come home to decorate it.

 My salt shaker snowmen and glittered candles in an old tool box tray.

 These candles are so easy to make and are so pretty when they are lit.

Curtains panels are made from Ikea fabric. Just hemmed with straight stitch.

 The stockings are hung.

The tree at night.

 My favorite Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life, so I painted this sign on a scrap from an old oak headboard.

 A piece of vintage wrapping paper put in a frame behind my old pick up truck. It was found for a few dollars at an antique store, because it was missing a wheel. I added a wood wheel that I painted black from Hobby Lobby. Perfect for hauling a Christmas tree.

 Stitched this pillow a few years ago.

 I collect vintage children's Christmas books. The Night Before Christmas was mine when I was a little girl. I read it to my boys each Christmas Eve.

On to the little breakfast area. I switch out my seat covers to red check in December. Four thrifted red and white stockings hang at each chair.

 If you've visited before, you know how much fun I have doing up the kitchen hutch.

 I found the metal sign this year at an antique store. New, but looks old.

I change out the knobs and pulls to red and jadite green for December.

 A view into the kitchen. I just add a few touches of red and a vintage tea towel. Gotta keep it pretty clear, because we do tons of cooking over the holidays when the boys come home. Joyeux Noel was given to me by my Mom when she went to Paris so I hung it on the pantry door in honor of son's first homecoming from Montreal. (Microwave over stove just died-trying to decide on a vent hood).

  Little touches here and there.

I hope you had fun touring my home and maybe got a few ideas. I'll be sharing the rest of my decor next week. Be sure to continue the tour here. Lots of pretty decor and great ideas.

Cozy At Christmas Blog Tour
Monday:
Let's Add Sprinkles/ Hyacinths for the Soul/ Southern DayDreams/ White Spray Paint/ Garden Up Green/ Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson/ Ellie and Elizabeth  
Tuesday:
Brookhollow Lane/ At Home With Jemma/ My Heart Lives Here/ The B Farm/ Botanic Bleu/ Kitty's Kozy Kitchen/ Art and Sand/ Ash Tree Cottage
Wednesday:
Sweet Nothings/ At Rivercrest Cottage/ Opulent Cottage/ Decor to Adore/ Fern Creek Cottage/ The Dedicated House/ Bluesky Kitchen

Thanks again Katie from Let's Add Sprinkles for putting this tour together.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you!
Leslie

Enjoying The Season, Fa La La La La

I'm sitting here looking at the Christmas tree lights. The tree is still not decorated, but we did add the lights. We're waiting for the kids to come home to finish decorating the tree. I can see my blowmold Santa lit up on the entryway table like a giant nightlight. I've been listening to Christmas music all day long. I have been cooking ahead-enchiladas and beans, for when the kids are all here. Baking cookies and chocolate banana bread, scones, and cinnamon rolls. Just nesting and enjoying the season. I even sent some Christmas cards this year. Last year they got away from me, and never got done. I still have a tiny bit of shopping to do, and then the wrapping. I look forward to that, so can listen to some more music. 

 A few more things I haven't shown you. I stitched this from a kit a few years back. It hangs on the front door knob to welcome you.

 Last year after Christmas I started this tree skirt. The embroidery goes all the way around. I guess I should have taken a pic before I put it under the tree. I borrowed ideas from Pinterest for the houses and made it from felt.

 Some of the baking going on around here. I didn't get much done last week. I had a friend visiting from out of town and she stayed here. We shopped and ate and went to son's Christmas Concert. Alot of fun.

 Notice the missing cookie.I had to make sure they were okay to eat-you never know! Just enjoying the season. I hope you are doing the same-whatever makes you happy. Thanks so much for all the comments on my little house tour. They really made my week! You guys are great. Have a wonderful week!
Leslie

Deck The Halls at Brookhollow Lane

Welcome to Brookhollow Lane! Here's a tour of my home decorated for Christmas. I won't write alot-just let you scroll through. Just to let you know the first 2 pic's are from last year-no snow here yet! My theme is red and vintage. Hope you enjoy the tour!

 Entryway-

 Got this idea from someone at Cozy Little House.

 Dining room

 Family Room

 Here's an overview of the whole room-so hard to photograph.

 Breakfast nook-

 Some of you saw this last week

 A Christmas touch in the guest room.

 Favorite ornaments in the bathroom.

As you can see I didn't include the tree-its not decorated yet. We wait for the boys to get together to do it as a family.
I hope you got a few ideas. As you can see I love retro, vintage and red. Hope you enjoy touring some more homes and link to Cozy Little House, Thanks for stopping by and come back any time. Happy December!
Leslie

New Camera, New Friend and Newly Decorated Hutch

I met a fellow blogger that lives in my town. It was Celeste from Celestina MarieDesign and her blog is Southern Day Dreams. It's a beautiful blog and Celeste is soooo creative and such a sweet person. We met and had a wonderful lunch and got to know each other. It felt like we were old friends with many common interests. Of course my camera was still on the fritz, but I finally got a picture of the pretty pumpkin she made for me.

 It went perfectly with my fall decor. So cute. Here's the post she did about our fun meeting, since she was a good blogger and took many pic's that day. Thanks Celeste and hope to see you soon so we can go junkin' together!

 I finally got a new camera. Now I need to figure out how to use it, but I managed to get some shots of my Christmas kitchen hutch.

 I decided to do jadite and red for a fun vintage look.

 I found the green teapot at the thrift store and it matches the Jadite perfectly.

 I've been Christmas decorating and finishing up the craftroom mini re-do. I'll put some pic's up real soon.

 I have some new listings in my Etsy shop. Use the coupon code Santa1 and you'll get 15% off your Etsy purchases. Sale will go through Dec. 7, 2015.

We had a fun but rainy Thanksgiving. Very relaxing. Now the rush begins. I hope you all had a great break. Let the merrymaking begin!

Leslie