Christmas in Our Kitchen~2011

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at our home and today I'm sharing our kitchen!

I'm still using lots of white, naturals and greenery for our Christmas decorating, but in the kitchen I was inspired by our metal dairy sign and vintage rolling pins to add traditonal Christmas colours.

Strings of red wooden berries fill a mercury glass footed bowl as a centerpiece on the kitchen table. There are at least a dozen strands in that bowl (and more on the family room tree.) Back in the late 80's I bought every package I could get my hands on at the now closed White Rose Nursuries. Ha! I'm 46 and making myself sound like an old hoarder. More beads, little silver and cream glass balls, pine and aromatic cedar fill the silver tray.

Repeating the white dishes, greenery and pinecones from Christmas in our dining room with red, green and blue added.

The breakfast counter got a little vignette too. It was fun taking our everyday items and using our Christmas stuff in a new way. Didn't have to buy a thing!

This might be my favourite little spot with my vintage rolling pins and cookie cutters in a glass cannister and the quilted ball I made. My neice Heather (13 now) was helping me bake one day and accidently broke the lid but I kept the container for storing cookie cutters and icing tips. I used a bit of raffia to tie a large gingerbread man cutter to the front. Can you see it?

Love the simplicity of white pitchers and greenery. Hate popcorn ceilings ;)

An advent calendar I quilted when my boys were little.

Digging out my red china chargers added a big pop of red to the buffet and hutch.

Greenery, pinecones and a little sheet music wrapped gift on oval diner/ restaurant ware plates. The smell of the aromatic cedar is just wonderful.

The old Christmas string bulbs gave me a reason not to put away my much loved aqua Crown mason jars.

See a theme here? I kept the broken cannister and also several strands of red berries when the string broke. They make great filler.

I didn't even move my vintage kitchen scale, just added the wood berries.

Okay, just one more photo because I think the etching on these mercury glass candleholders is so cute. A lot cuter than the etching scratches on my refinished farmhouse tabletop.

Thanks for stopping by (and for making it this far with so many photos!) If you missed our dining room you can see it here.

I'm sharing this with the following holiday link parties....
Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch
Nifty Thrifty Tuesday at Coastal Charm
WOW us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style
At The Picket Fence Blogger Block Party ~In the Kitchen

Categories: Christmas , decorating , kitchen , our home