A New Year is Coming- Post Not Published in 2017

Hi Everyone!  Hope your 2017 Christmas was a wonderful one. 

I wanted to let everyone know that I just published two posts from 2017 for viewing that I had saved as drafts.
1. Was a post about a table that I bought, and 2 was a post from the Country Living Fair in Atlanta.  I hope that you find something in them that you will enjoy.  We all have good intentions and I meant to post them this fall and got way to busy getting ready for Christmas.  At least that sounds like a good excuse.

Can't wait until 2018 and we have some new interest to posts about.  Wonder what the new year will hold?  I pray it's a great one for you all.  I wish everyone safety, health and wisdom for the upcoming year.  God has blessed us all so immeasurably that it's hard to even want or think of more isn't it?  Lord, help us to be so grateful for what we have and except the things we cannot make better. 

Happy New year in blogland everyone!

English/French Country vs. Cottage Table

I wanted to tell everyone in blog land about my new table that truly wasn’t expensive but such a great find.  I was having lunch with my sister in Douglasville, GA when we went to this shop 4^th Time Around.  You can find it on Facebook and they have some very interesting old pieces and new items.  The sweet lady at the shop told me this was an antique from the 1930-40s and was called an antique Spindle Spool Table maybe Victorian?  Well it had been washed with white paint and looked chippy in the finish.  It had to come home with me!  I love it. 

Look at the detail. I think it's so pretty.  I had never seen a table like this one in all of my history of antique shopping.  I'm sure it's not that rare, but for $125.00 I thought it was a true steal.

 It replaced a Ballard’s side table that was narrow and had magazine storage in the bottom.  That table was moved to my sewing room.  I love this new spindle spool table.  It is so intricate and looks so great in my den.  It has a larger table top and could be used as a card table.  It allows for my pottery jug lamp to sit nicely there and also holds a lot more on top than the old table.  Plus I can up my Longaberger baskets stacked underneath for storage of my grandchildren’s puzzles and magazines.

My question to you is do you know or have any of this type furniture.  Please leave a comment below I would love to hear from you. 

Also, I think it definitely fits in my cottage/English country den.  Don’t you? 

2017 Country Living Fair

On Friday, October 27th I went all by myself to the Country Living Fair in Stone Mountain, GA.  I had a ball!  I had asked several girlfriends to go but all were busy with other things and couldn't go.  Mister D usually goes with me and he and I even attended the Ohio Country Living Fair before.   I have been many times with my BFF, Patsy but never by myself.  I thought I would have a great time just meandering around looking and buying of course. But never thought I would enjoy it as much as I did!!!!!

I was even able to go to two different workshops that I would have never done had someone been with me.  I attended one about decorating and mixing prints with these two guys, Jason Oliver Nixon and John Loecke of Madcap Cottage. http://www.madcapcottage.com

I had my lunch while just sitting, enjoying the beautiful fall weather, listening and gathering ideas from these two gentlemen. 

The other was with Norma Murphy from The Connecticut Home.  Check her out on Facebook.  I learned that she has been a decorator and designer for Ethan Allen Furnishing among other ventures.  But more importantly she is to be featured in the Country Living Magazine in December with her Connecticut home for Christmas.  It's all about tartan plaid and how to decorate with it.  She showed screen shots of the beautiful magazine pages and explained how she went about decorating for the shoot.  It was glorious!

Below are a few of the pics that I took during the day.  The first being a cotton wreath that everyone needs to have in their Southern home.  It was only $65.00 but I already have one in my kitchen so I passed on the buy.

This was beautiful as it was so simply done.  I could have so seen this in my daughter, Meg's home.  But when I shot her a pic she shot me one back of the one that she already had. 

This was something that I saw from a distance that I thought might be interesting.  It was a cart that had the beginning stages of being decorated.  I have one of these in my sewing room with rolls of decorating fabric stored in it.  I lined my cart with painter's cloth and thought that I might be able to add the rag tassel's to my cart when I had the time to work on it.  Hence the idea below.

This is the find of the day.  I was so excited as I am a big lover of old quilts.  I have about 12.  That's not as many as some of you out there have. This one is a navy polka dot and cream.  It was only $78.00 and a steal. 

I didn't take a pic of the masking tape on the inside border but it has a strip of masking tape that had the date of when it was last washed.  The lady I bought it from said that she purchased it from this lady that was selling some of her mom's quilts that her mother had quilted it in a quilting bee club.   It was hard for her to part with it, but her mom had so many t choose from and she couldn't keep them all. 

In the quilting club the members would wash the quilts they sewed and put the tape on them with the date of last washed on there.  I thought that was so sweet as they loved each and every one they quilted.

This was a strange find.  This is a Chinese man and I was attracted to it because I have 3 Chinese great nieces and 2 Chinese great nephews.

I immediately texted my niece, Tiffany and asked if she wanted it.  It was only $5.00 and I knew she would.  She collect these and has them all over her sweet little house.

Here is a close up of the cart again.  I think it will be so cute when I get mine done.  I'll make sure that I try to blog about it when I start the process. 

This is a banner that I bought from a guest star of the fair, April Cornell.  Yes, she was there in person and so I bought a spring banner from her and a few other Christmas gifts.  I even had the fore thought to have her autograph it.  I should have had our picture made together.  That was a real treat to hear about her fall collection that was displayed in the booth.  She is a sweet lady and so cute.

Well, that was my day at the Country Living Fair in Stone Mountain.  I hope you enjoyed it and will think about going next year to find a prize you can't live without. 

Stay tuned to see the blog posting of my cart!

Christmas at the Baggarlys 2017

My daughter has a new home in Cumming, Georgia and moved in several months ago.  I didn't post her Thanksgiving pics but she hosted all our family and her husband's family for Thanksgiving and it was simply beautiful.  She did a great job. Now on to Christmas.  Please keep in mind she will grow in her decorations in years to come but for now she is using what she has.  She and her family lived in a condo for about 12 years before being able to move to this spacious home.  So with that said, her decorations are limited but beautiful. 

 This is her dining room hutch, you can't tell but it's painted the most beautiful blue.  I love her nativity scene that she has placed here.  The Reason for the Season.

 She has a gray sofa and has place some plaid pillows on their and since her colors for her house are grays, creams and navy. Love this Pottery Barn pillow that came from her condo.  The black on it mixes well with the navy, red green and blue plaid pillows.

 Here's another shot of her dining room table.  I think the tree variations are pretty and simple.  Notice how she mixed the same plaid and the navy ticking placemats together.  Great combination of fabric choices.

 Love this sweet kitchen tablescape.  The merry and bright is adorable. 

 Again, she has pulled the same plaid into the kitchen area.  I'm a firm believer in this along with bows used on wreaths need to be the same all the way through your decorating.  There are some instances you can get always with using a mixture of ribbon but one choice always works.

 This little table goes between her two cream sofas in the sitting room but during Christmas she used it to display her children's photography from Richard's Studio in Tyrone, GA where she has always had their Santa pictures and childhood pics made of her two children.  I love this and such a FAMILY thing.

Finally the Christmas tree. In this picture the tree replaces her second cream sofa that moved to her bedroom until after Christmas. The picture doesn't do the tree justice as its a little dark, but this tree is simply beautiful. The burlap tree skirt is monogrammed. She used burlap streamers/garland throughout the tree. She also has used some gorgeous sliver blue and cream ornaments that she purchased last year from Frontgate along with some burlap poinsettas. We have given each of our children an ornament every year since they have been married, including our grandsons. All her family ornaments she has used on the children's trees in another part of the house.

I think she did a fantastic job and can't wait until next year to see how she decorates outside! So proud of our daughter.