Scenes of Winter...Burrrr!

I wanted to share with you these scenes of winter. These pictures were taken by the Queen's husband, 1 Frugal King. Winter is fast upon us this holiday season. I am sure there will be more to come. When I look at these pictures I always think of hibernating indoors with hot chocolate, fireplaces and great movies. I hope you enjoy the scenery.

The Nutcrackers...How Sweet!

I love nutcrackers. I have been collecting them for years. I don't quite know how all this nut cracking got started, but here they are.

These miniatures are actually ornaments, but I love putting all the nutcrackers together in one location.

These are the first 3 that I collected.

This is the king of diamonds. He is one of 3 that I found in a box at a flea market. The guy let me have all 3 for $5.00

King of Diamonds

I got this one because my husband plays golf.

Kitchen Makeover Finale!

View of kitchen curtains over the sink. These are old curtains that I simply tied left over black material over. I just cut strips and tied a bow. It took me 30minutes to do the 3 windows in the kitchen.

Before

After

Over the microwave view.

Beadboard

Before

This is after we painted the ceiling and the walls. The cafe style table legs were cut lower to accommodate the black chairs. The cafe chair legs were cut too. I will show you what I did with them later. The floor was already in the house when we moved in.

Finale!

Kitchen Makeover #7

Stuff in the Kitchen

This red vase used to be blue. Two years ago I painted it red. It fits well in the kitchen. I got it at a resale show for $4.

This is a simple grape vine wreath. I added artificial foliage.

I got this cream colored vase at a resale shop for $3

This is stuff on top of the refrigerator.

Cake platter $10, Apples $1 ea, white jug from resale shop $4

Foliage on counter. Tea jar from resale shop $2.99

Rabbit, valentines day gift from hubby. Egg $1 from dollar store.

Lamp, $6 from resale shop.

My hubby made the black table for our bedroom, but I found that it works perfect in this space at the end of the counter.

View of the counter and table.

Great space for baskets. I used them when I buy fruit to put on the counters. In the summer these baskets are great for veggies from our garden.

Table view

Counter View

I re finished the seat of these chairs in a french toile material.

Kitchen table