(In case you didn’t know, Wednesdays are 50% off Family Days at the Salvation Army.)

I love Wednesdays, and am bound to find something at one of the local thrift stores. Last week I found the funkiest hanging light! Right now it’s covered in dust and pink $1.00 stickers, but someday it will be hanging in a breakfast nook in my future home. :)

I think it would go quite well with a set of these chairs and the pillow I snatched up from Jamaica‘s etsy shop, don’t you think?

Now if only I had Eero Saarinen’s tulip table, the cozy corner would be complete. Perhaps one day I’ll stumble across one at a thrift store? Impossible? Never know what you’ll find! Anything’s possible.

So, what’s your favorite thrift store decor find?

I’m pretty traditional when it comes to Christmas colors. Red and Green. And lately, lots of white. I’m loving everyone else’s colorful Christmas decor… but the reds and greens are just too cozy for the freezing holiday weather.

So. There’s the tree. And since we have no mantle yet, I was stumped about what to do for our stockings. Well, I was stumped for about a minute. Then I came up with the solution. And when I have time to MAKE the solution this weekend, you’ll be the first to know! :)

but no fire inside of it. All is well, though. We’ve got our candles to keep us warm. :)

This is my first Christmas crafty project I’m sharing here. More to come! I just started photographing the decorating progress. This particular project is one of my favorites, though. I got some dried out birch logs (with burl and all!) that came from fallen trees. Then I sliced them using a table saw (I know most people don’t have these, but you could probably use a hack saw, or borrow someone’s!) and then had a couple of muscular men hold them tight while I drilled into them using a special circle bit bought to use on a drill press (which is basically a ginormous power drill). The custom circle cutter drill bit was a splurge, but my pop bought it, claiming that he would surely use it again. :) I love him for that. (and for lots of other things, of course!) So, after I had sliced up birch loges with cylindrical holes in them, I procured some polyurethane spray (good ol dad!) which I used on the logs, bought some votive candles to fit in the holders I had (I bought the circle bit to match the size of my candle holders) and voila! A candlescape for my large coffee table! (after I let the polyurethane fumes dry out for a week or so!) It’s perfectly cozy, and everyone who comes over just loves them. But honestly, I could care less if they love them (so I tell myself!), I just think they’re the greatest and… well, “I’m in love, I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it!”