Starting Out The New Year

While I wait for rugs and slipcovers to arrive for my new project of making over my living room.   I thought I would review and go back through a few posts that everyone seemed to enjoy.  It is fun to look back at all you accomplished and all the fun and joy found from the year.

We started out 2017 with Terry finally finding a new position as a fire chief.  It was a long stressful two years before he found this wonderful position.  We were blessed to know we could begin to go forward into 2017 in a better place.
You can read this post here.

With Terry finding a new position further north we had to sell Junk Chic Cottage II and move further north of where we were living.
You can read about this here.

Then after adopting this sweet lug of love named Cooper we found out he had an aggressive cancer that spreads quickly.  Weeks to only maybe a few months to live.  We had a great Vet that helped to research some options for him.  It gave him a year to live and enjoy the sweet life with us.
You can read that post here.

I will always remember how he loved car rides.

And how he smiled all the time.  This little guy had a rough first part of his life and after we rescued him he really found our forever home to be his sanctuary.  He was loved and happy.  We got joy from him each and every day.  RIP little man.

We found a new cottage home.  I was embracing living large in a small space.  I finally had my dream little cottage style home.  With this came lots of renovations and a garage build.  We bought the home in May and did not actually get to move in this sweet place until October.  It was a long journey with lots of ups and downs but we finally are settled.

I feel blessed to be settled and getting back into a new normal for us.  Sometimes Life's journey can be hard and sad but with everything in life there is a lesson learned.  Ours was that no matter how hard or stressful or sad life was we always were blessed with family and friends to be there for us.

Did a major DIY on the new kitchen decor.
You can see the transformation here.

A DIY Living room transformation seen here.

A full bathroom reveal here.

Then a beautiful bright spot in life.  We adopted another rescue basset hound.  Her name is Peggy and while we still miss Cooper, Peggy seems to have filled that hole in our hearts.

Peggy loves my white chairs!!!!

You indulged me with my sharing of the two most precious peeps in our lives.  Our two sweet Granddaughters Charlotte and Abby.

I was honored by KerryAnne asking to publish my 2106  Christmas Decor in her beautiful magazine.

Now that Christmas has passed and we are into a brand new year.  Lets hope and pray we all see beautiful blessing in our lives.  I have been blessed with all your visits to my blog posts and have enjoyed your gifted friendships throughout the year.  May the new year bring us all lots of Happiness, Good Health and lots and lots of DIY and fun Decor adventures.
Happy New Year.
xoxo
Kris

You know how one thing leads to another!!!!

Hi Everyone.  Hope the ringing in of the New Year was fun for all of you.  

I took down all my Christmas decor and some of you may understand how doing one thing like that can lead to another and another lol!

This was a snapshot of my living room before I began my Christmas Decor.  My little assistant Peggy getting in the shot!

Then I added some Christmas to this room for the holidays.

After I took the Christmas decor down I was thinking hmmmm,  I really hate that my window that lets a lot of light in this room is always covered up by my large reclining sofa. 

This room is so small and the only person that sits in here is me.  We use our family room downstairs for all other activities like watching TV and entertaining.

I made a decision to make some changes in this room for the new year.  I moved most of the furniture out of the room or over to the side.  I did a little cleaning of baseboards etc. and now the open space is ready for a transformation.

This room will get a little cottage style re love.  It is going to involve some slipcovers, chippy pieces,  and a new rug.  I am waiting on the rug to arrive and then I can finally get this room put together.  

I enjoy change and I think I am going to love the new and more open feel I get in this small living room.

Have a great start to the new year.  I always love that you stay connected and leave your sweet comments.  I am looking forward to a new year of following your blogs and being inspired with new decor adventures.

Hugs,

Kris

It's A New Year

Hope your holiday gatherings were fabulous.  I felt so much love and celebrated all the blessing of my life as we all gathered to celebrate together.  Lots of fun, too much food and lots of heart filled joy.

Now on to a new year.

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Hope you take paths less traveled in the new year to discover new opportunities and discover joy, happiness and blessings in the most unlikely of places.

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Go out in the fresh snow and make snow angels.

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Most of all remember to always have your heart and eyes open to see magic in your everyday life.

May you all have a wonderful start to the new year.  Wishing all of you lots of love, happiness, joy and new adventures.

Happy New Year
xoxo
Kris
2018

Imagine and Create

Good Morning Everyone.  I put up my last post for the year yesterday with my Merry Christmas Card to each of you then something fun and sweet happened after I posted.  I want to share this and thank this sweet blogger and friend.

Kim over at Exquisitely Unremarkable sent me this sweet angel she made.  This special little angel is made out of macaroni.  So looks who's hanging with my sweet birds!

Kim is so crafty and at one time in her life taught school kids.  I bet they just loved having her as a teacher with all her creative ideas that are so much fun.  This little angel just makes me smile so she had to go up into my kitchen Christmas tree with my birds.

Along with the sweet macaroni angel she gave me these two Rae Dunn mugs.  Kim said when she saw them she new they were perfect for Terry and I.  I imagine and then Terry with his trusty tools creates for me.  Gosh I love these Kim.  Thank you so much sweet friend.

I have to say as we move on down into Christmas and think about all the blessings in our lives.  I have met and become friends with so many of you sweet bloggers.  My life changed so much when I started my little chippy white decor blog over 6 years ago.  I have met and become friends with so many of you sweet friends that I probably would have never met if it were not for blogging.

To this day it still amazes me how people from all over the world can meet and become friends and click instantly and feel like life long friends without ever meeting in some cases.

I truly love all of you that I have come to know.
I wish all of you that celebrate Christmas a very Merry one and I wish all of you most of all a brand new year filled with happiness, health and most of all peace.

Love,
Kris

My Wish

Wishing each of you love, good health and happiness in the new year.
Merry Christmas.
xoxo
Kris

Let it Snow

Good Monday Morning Everyone.

Wooooo Hooooo!  We are on the last week before the big day.  Hope you all are enjoying your pretty homes all decorated, cookies, wrapping and getting ready for the big day.

As we begin this last week before Christmas I wanted to share a little something special with all of you.

My friend Diana from Nana Diana Takes A Break blog and Cottage on the Cove came to my annual girlfriend party this year.  As a gift from one of the other girls that came to my party I received this cute snowman.

Diana took one look at this sweet and cute little snowman and said she could make something very similar.  Each year she gives a gift to her family members that she makes to remember that year of Christmas.  She thought a little snowman or snowgirl like mine would be the perfect gift.

These are a few of the sweet little snow peeps she came up with.  Are they not the cutest.  She gifted me the pink hat snow girl on the left for my snowman.  He was excited to get a Snowmail Order Bride!!!!  She also gifted me the little snow baby too.  Now my snowman has a sweet little family.

Little Snow Baby

The other three I bought from Diana for gifts.  These little snow peeps are soft and oh so cute.  I think Diana did a great job making these from just looking at mine.  Oh how I wish I had that crafting talent.

Diana still has some of these left in her Etsy Shop here.  The snow babies are just adorable and would make great gifts.  Thank you Diana for these beautiful snow peeps.  I love my little snow family and I know my daughters and my mom will love the ones I gift them.

Enjoy the rest of this sweet week before Christmas.  I am trying to enjoy every day.  This time of year moves way too quickly.

Hugs,

Kris

Angelic Gift

Hi Everyone,

Oh my do you feel like the month of December is going waaayyy to fast?!   I love this time of year and it seems like it just goes to quickly.

This is the time of year that sweet surprises arrive at your doorstep.  This happened to me just the other day.  Vera from Instagram Rowhomesandcobblestones sent me a beautiful and sweet gift.  Vera knows my love of angels and Madonna's and she sent me this beautiful new Madonna for my collection.

This angel is from the Holy Journey series that is a tribute to Christian Faith.  The sculptures in this series are of the people and events during Christ's brief time here on earth.  The pieces are just beautiful by Veronese Designs.

She joins with some of my other angels and Madonna's that hold special rosaries from family members that have passed.  These beautiful angels and Madonna's give me such peace.
Thank you sweet Vera for making my heart sing when I opened up this lovely thoughtful gift from you.  I will treasure her.

I wanted to show you this sweet little mannequin Christmas tree I found at Marshall's.  Just was too adorable to pass up.  I have her on my makeup table.

I have to tell you I am having the best time with these sweet little birds from Target.  When I come into the kitchen in the morning they just make me smile.

Hope you are having fun with all your decorating around your homes.  This is such a fun time of year.  Enjoy and have a great week ahead.

xoxo

Kris