Southern Scraps

Come on in, take a look around. It's a blue and green theme with a pop of pink.  The entry way is decked with mini trees. A miniture blue tree takes center stage while an ornament tree , yarn tree , and button tree flock the left.  On the right are some glass pebble trees and an old ceramic tree. I previously used these trees in different places and ways. We took a look at the dining room table last week. It's a blue and green winter wonderland tablescape .    Come a little further in. We'll sit by the fireplace and take in the glow of the tree. The garland for the mantel was purchased this year from Michael's and the stockings came from the Target Dollar Spot. More of the handmade trees deck the mantel. The candy trees were previously used in a tablescape. The ornament topiary is out in the morning room again and the windows are decked with wreaths , all made a few years ago. Hope you enjoyed the tour. Many of...

  Welcome to my little Christmas home tour. I know I'm way off schedule and most have had home tours up for a bit now, but I still wanted to share.   We will start outside. I hope it stops raining soon so I can get a few shots of the lights at night, but for now this will do. We used lots more colored lights and color this year versus years past with white lights. Hubby fell in love with this wreath at Michael's and the colors really set of the theme and color scheme.   I had to have this swag. It was on sale for 50% off at Michael's and if I had wanted to make one, I could not have bought the materials for the price I paid. I had another coupon to stack on top of the 50% off. I didn't make any new decorations this year, just bought a few new pieces and used things from years past.     Let's sit for a while on the porch. I put out some pillow and a fleece blanket (thrift store find) to make it cozy. To add a little more color, I put som...

     I stumbled across a recipe for a Christmas candy made with just saltine crackers, brown sugar, butter, and chocolate chips on the web. It sounded like something that I wanted to try but we now eat 100% gluten free and about 80% Paleo since we discovered that the hubby has some major sensitivity to gluten and corn. He is also sensitive to butter. The Paleo diet overall makes us feel better and controls some health issues for us. But every now and again, we like a treat. So I set out the make this "crack" candy (as some call it) in a version we could eat. It took some trial and error. Just FYI, coconut sugar and ghee do not mix well. Since the purpose of the brown sugar and butter was to make a caramel like substance, I made myself some caramel sauce following this recipe and proceeded with my Christmas cracker candy. The sauce recipe only make a little bit so it was necessary to double the ingredients. Here is my final version: 1 box Organ rice crackers ...

Where did the last three months go? And how did it get to be Christmas next week?!! I'm sorry that I haven't made an appearance in the last three months. Life just got too busy to keep up here. I haven't had time to craft and no crafts mean no posts for me.  I haven't even made any gifts or done any Christmas crafts this year. All gifts were store bought and I used decorations made in years past.  Today I'm sharing my winter wonderland tablescape. I used a combination of blue ,white and green. I kept it simple and used a hurricane, bowl, and cloche filled with glass ornaments as a centerpiece.  Each place setting has a snowflake ornament (likely purchased at Dollar tree, Walmart, or Target I the past) and new snowflake placemats purchased at Pier One. I used these adorable penguin salt and pepper shakers purchased at Target last year. I think they go perfectly with a winter wonderland. I kept everything fairly simple but I'm pleased with the results. ...

The temperatures still aren't cooperating with fall around here, but I've decided to move forward with preparations and bringing bits of the season inside. This is a simple project that will take less than ten minutes but will bring lots of fall feeling to your home. It sure brings a little smile to my face seeing this sit by the kitchen sink. So, how can you get this little reminder of fall? Grab a 99 cent bottle of soap from Wal-mart or Target or a similar store. Remove the labels. Grab your stash of vinyl and some leaf punches and punch away. If you don't have punches, cut a bunch of leaves with your Silhouette or other electronic die machine. Adhere those leaves to your bottle and tie a scrap of ribbon around the neck. Done. If you like this check out my monogram soap bottles . Sharing this project here: Think Pink Sundays * Under the Table and Dreaming * Sundae Scoop * Suburb’s Mama Sunday link * DIY Sunday Showcase * The DIY’ers * Masterpiece Mon...

I'm way ahead of the curve for fall this year. I don't normally due any "fall" decorating until Thanksgiving. We just go from summer to Halloween. This year is different. After putting together my mason jar centerpiece , I just had to go ahead and complete a fall tablescape. The current tablescape had been there since February so it was time for a change. The leaf placemats and champagne colored napkins, along with the wood napkin rings were all purchased at one of our local thrift stores.  White plates, bowls, BHG leaf salad plates and a faux pumpkin in each bowl make up the place settings. A couple of more votives and some cute squirrel ornaments that I found at Tuesday Morning add to the centerpiece. I even stuck one of the squirrels in the tray with the jars. Hope you've enjoyed viewing my fall tablescape. I rounded up even more ideas HERE . Linking up with Tablescape Thursday and these great parties: Think Pink Sundays * Un...