Favorite things

Dining room mantel

I moved my antique mantel again!!! It was in my bedroom before but I thought the dining room wall needed some bling!!!! I really love it here for now.You never know where my mantel will appear next!!! LOL!!!

Xmas prep

Today I decorated my mantel in our bedroom.I added two of our stockings for Santa to fill!!!! The pink one is from the "Shabby Chic" line(at Target). I really haven't bought anything new this year except my mini tree.I am going to wait until after Xmas and buy it all on sale!!!!!! The kids made a gingerbread house w/ a kit I picked up.It turned out really cute and luckily I took photos because it fell apart 15 minutes after we were done!!! LOL!!!! I think they put too much candy on it!!!

New camera!!!!

Finally I can take photos again!!!! Hubby bought me a new camera!!!! It is not the professional one I wanted but it takes good pictures for now. I appreciate being able to have it anytime I want instead of bugging him to use his iphone. This weekend was very mellow.It was my husband's birthday and we didn't have anything to do around the house!!!!! We slept late , cooked out,drank coffee, it was great!!!!! Today I am cleaning our room and then I will organize the rest of the house. I am having trouble with the clutter!!!! I have a love /hate relationship with clutter!!!! I like having displays but do not like seeing the day to day 'stuff'.In our bedroom, we have a lot of vitamins laying around and there is no where to put them so they look tidy.It drives me crazy!!!!! I know if I put them away out of sight then it becomes out of mind as well. We are on a health kick so we actually take them daily. Our kitchen would be my ideal spot for them but we do not have a lot of cabinet space. For now I try hiding them in baskets. I moved the vintage mantel from the kitchen to the bedroom a while back.I love how it looks in the room. It is a good place to add all my perfume bottles and candles (the good clutter!!!!) here are a few photos.