Today is the Day!

Yep, today is the day to get started on your advent calendar!  I've picked out a few of my favorite ones to show you.  Click on photos to be taken to shops!

 

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art is this wonderful advent tree:

From the Vermont Christmas Company comes this jumbo Santa advent:

Check out this cuckoo clock advent!  From Bronner's Christmas Wonderland:

If you hurry, you can still purchase this one and catch up!  From OhHelloMagpie:

And want to do it yourself?  Here's some printable ones!

From LuckyLadyPaperCrafts is this beautiful countdown calendar:

And this one from printyourparty:

And I want to add these two items.  Vintage style Christmas cards!

From TheRetroChristmasCardCompany, take a look at the wonderful cards you can get!

From Great Greeting Card Company:

Again, please click directly on photos to be taken to shops!  Hope you enjoy the images and find something you just can't live without!

Stay tuned to the blog!  Next week we'll start decorating the tree!  Can't wait to see what each person contributes!

Have a great day!

VS

IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME!

It was almost time for out-of-town company to begin arriving and I was putting the finishing touches on the house.  Thanksgiving was going to be a smooth and flawless day this year.  Then it happened! The towel rod in the guest bath fell off the wall for the last time.  It had always been a problem and this time it just gave up. Totally!

This is what I found on the floor.

Out to the garage I go, mentally trying to figure out a solution, a really fast solution!  The first idea wasted about two hours before I finally decided it was never going to happen.  So I grabbed an unpainted shelf and a can of paint, the brushes, and some screws.

First thing was to patch those huge holes.

We have really terrible dry wall and it's very difficult to hang anything on the walls and have it stay.  So I decided to hang the shelf first and with my Dad's help we got it secure.  Then I was afraid to take it down to paint it so I painted it on the wall.  Not the best idea I've ever had, but the shelf  is still secure.

Next began the search through boxes I hadn't had a chance to unpack yet, looking for four hooks that at least almost matched, and items to put up.  You can't just have a plain white shelf you know.

At last, after going through a huge bag of hooks and about five boxes, it's coming together.  I think I like it so much better than that horrible towel rod.

Here's the finished arrangement.  I admit I bought the green candle sticks a couple of days after Thanksgiving.

We had a wonderful family Thanksgiving and now I have a shelf in the guest bath I can decorate for Christmas too.  How terrific is that!

(Okay, as friends and family know, it still didn't go smooth and flawless.  My wonderful Norwegian baker poisoned my sister and she ended up in ER.  But you'll have to ask her for the details, her name is Vintage Embellishment.)

  Have a great week! Pepper