Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

Today, I'm taking you on a partial tour of the house all decorated for Christmas. On the front door, I have a spray rather than a wreath. Just inside, in the foyer, is this piece that was given to the men at church for Father's Day.  I kept the 3 crosses on the inside, and draped, garland, poinsetias, and lights on the hooks on the front. Next to the foyer is the dining room, where the tree is located. The tree is new, and was the display tree at Lowe's, so I bought it already put together, fluffed,etc.  I came home and all I had to do was decorate it. Touches of red brighten the china cabinet.  I inserted red ornaments and berries into various dishes.    Accross from the front door is the hall tree.  I have an angel tree topper on it this year and love the way it looks there. Next up is the mantel and other areas in the living room. I've changed the mantel some since I took this photo.  Just a l...

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving.  We sure did.  We went to my sister's in law and on Thanksgiving Day, to my daughter's.  My grandson and his wife were here and I enjoyed them tremendously!! Today, I'm sharing our Christmas Tree.  I saw it on display at Lowe's prior to Thanksgiving and actually bought the display.  Since it was already assembled and "fluffed", I went ahead and put it up and decorated it.  Here it is with mostly new ornaments from the Dollar Tree, where they had so many pretty ones this year.   This ornament is three dimensional on both sides.  So nice!!   This one is full of bling!!   Some came two to a set.  Love these two above! The angel wings came in pink, white, silver, gold.   I really like the new tree.  It's not that much larger than my other one, but the greenery is more realistic.  I plan to take my old one to the lake house....

I had energy for some reason today, and had my closet purged before 10 AM.!  Yay, me!!  Of course I gave my daughter a huge bag of stuff to go through to see if she wanted it, and took 6 bags to GW.  As usual, I had about 100 empty clothes hangers after doing this.  My husband was going to throw away the wire hangers when I remembered a YouTube tutorial for making a Christmas tree from wire hangers.  Here is how you do it: You'll need: 6 wire hangers masking tape garland or geo mesh lights (plug in or battery operated) mine are battery operated ornaments or other Christmas decor First interlock two of the hangers by placing the hooks inside the opposite hanger and hooking it in place, tape at the top and along the sides to hold together. Make three of these, using all 6 hangers.  Be sure to tape as shown. Make 3 of these, then interlock them and use the tape to hold the form together.  When all 6 are taped together, they will look s...