A Christmas Tree Party!

How COOL is this?? I love all the linky parties each week and lately seem to spend more time looking at all the other blogs in blogland instead of doing anything with my own! haha! There are so many wonderful Christmas decor and handmade crafts and foodies and so much more out there during the Christmas season.

This is a link party for Christmas trees! There's over 500 links so far. Check it out here:

Thrifty Decor Chick: A Christmas Tree Party!

I used to decorate quite a few Christmas trees and each one had a theme of some sort. Now that we are in a smaller home, space is an issue so I only have one tree up. It's a "slim" tree! I have to admit that as much as I enjoyed the years of multi-trees and a house full of decorations -- it's rather nice to have my tree up and decorated in record time!


Birds are my favorite ornament.



Especially clip-on birds, and more especially, glass birds.



Glass birds with feathers!



The Three Wise Men is my other favorite.



More Three Kings.



Clip-on butterflies in the aqua color I like.



Glass Partridge in a Pear Tree.



One of my cherished glass birds. A gift from my mother-in-law.



Mostly copper, aqua and gold on my tree.



Peacock feathers at the top.



This little tree is on my kitchen counter. Clip-on gold butterfly for the top.



Tiny glass Santa with cute ornament hooks.



And of course, more birds!


Thanks for visiting!

The Guest House: The table arrives!

While working on our guest house, the one item that is noticeably missing is somewhere to sit down. So we have been on the lookout for a table and chairs to fit into the little nook area. Because this is a very small living/dining/kitchen area, our original plan was to put in a large table and six chairs -- and not use the space as a living room. We have a large room upstairs where we will eventually put a family room of sorts that can also be used as a 2nd bedroom.

Plan B: find a table that fit the area. Requirements: had to be small and round and have at least four chairs. And not expensive -- after all, it is not going to be used very much. However, this is so much easier said than done! We began looking last fall and all the tables we liked were much too large for the space. We considered a round table with drop-down sides and we did find a couple that would work -- but in order to use the table with four chairs, it would always have to be pulled out. Not to mention two chairs look great at a table like this -- but the other two chairs would need to be kept elsewhere.

Last week, while looking at one of my favorite websites -- Slickdeals -- someone posted a link for dining sets on sale at JC Penney online. One of them (the Fitzgerald) looked absolutely perfect for what we had been searching for! Plus, it was only $135 with all of the coupon codes instead of the original retail of $399.99.

So we ordered it!

It arrived at our local JC Penney store last week and we picked it up yesterday. One big box. Assembly required. (Two words my hubby loathes...)

From the moment we opened the box; removed all the pieces; took them into the house and put them together; then carried them over to the guest house and set them up -- only 95 minutes. 

We're very happy with our first item of furniture at the guest house!

The box arrives in the garage!

All pieces out of the box and into our house. Holly is our little helper. She sniffed each piece to make sure they were ok.

More "stuff" to put put it together.

 

Four chairs done! They were very easy and quite sturdy.



Table went together very fast. It's 36" in diameter. Perfect for the small space we need it for.

  

We carried the table and chairs over to the guest house and set them in place. Perfect size!

The "before" photo

 


The "after" photo

 Thanks for reading my blog!


Linking to:

Debbiedoo's Newbie Party 

and