A little gift for the cottage.......

Hi Ladies, I've missed you! I trust you've all been well and happy, and for most of you, preparing for your upcoming Thanksgiving season? Since we don't celebrate Thanksgiving here, Down Under, I have started decorating our little Jacaranda Cottage for the Christmas season. Our family loves Christmas very much, so Princess and I were delighted to drag out all the boxes from the shed last weekend and start decorating! Today I thought I'd show you just a few little areas that we've been working on........

Princess was in charge of decorating all of our Christmas trees this year. This little tree sits upon our dining table and has a pink and silver theme to it. I think my daughter did a really nice job of it too. Thank you for all your help my angelheart!


It's amazing how one thing leads to another around here and nothing ever turns out to be as simple as I first think. Since last Christmas I have collected quite a few soup tureens, which normally grace the top of the china cabinet through out the year. Now that Christmas is coming, naturally I wanted to decorate the china cabinet with a more festive look, so that meant that I had to re-house the tureens. I had the brilliant idea of putting them up on the top of the kitchen cabinets, and of course that meant a big clean out of the things that were already up there.......you get the idea. Sorting, cleaning, rearranging.....and this is what it looks like now.


All of my soup tureens couldn't quite fit in the kitchen so a couple of them had to spill over onto the hutch..........


I'm still pottering and tweaking with decorations, but this is the current look. Planning on going thrifting again soon, so this is highly likely to change, yet again, depending on what I find! lol


I took this photo of the dining area to mainly show you the lighting. I really dislike the down light above the dining table, so I have decided to treat our little Jacaranda Cottage to an early Christmas gift......


and here it is.......


this gorgeous light is just what I've been wanting for this area and I believe that it will really lift the whole area and make it more inviting. I'm not a big online shopper, but only because I am a very hands on type person and I'm always out and about poking through the stores (both new and thrift) looking for a lovely bargain for the cottage. Recently though I happened upon this online lighting store called buyster lighting and found so many beautiful lamps and lights that I was almost beside myself with excitement! After a good long look through the store, I controlled my drooling over the chandeliers, and placed an order for this little sweetie. Hopefully it will arrive asap and I will have my handy, handsome husband to install the new light. Naturally you will be the first to know when this happens my dear friends!

Anyhoo, I guess I should shake my tail feather and get hopping. Life is officially hectic here right now. Princess is just about to complete her final year of school, also she has her end of year dance concert very soon, and we're preparing for our darling little girl, our baby, to go for her........drivers license! Throw all that on top of the regular stuff life sends our way and well.........busy and stressed! Please just hang in there with me for another couple of weeks and then things should be far more settled and I'll have time for regular blogging and visiting. Until then though, just know that I am thinking of you and wishing you all the most wonderful season ahead!

Lots of love and hugs........Amanda xxx