A Crooked Creek Christmas. . .Living Room

Christmas in On Crooked Creek's Living Room
finds every surface and tabletop transformed into a festive Christmas Spirit.

One of my favorite table tops to design is atop
the vintage four drawer dresser gifted to me 20 years ago by our son.
Instead of our European Goebel Nativity Set,
this year I chose to place a Holy Family figurine
within a suitcase surrounded by Sheet music of Christmas Hymns.

One of my trademarks,
especially when employed at our local Antique and Gift Shop,
is combining more than one wreath to create a one~of~a~kind design.

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For this unique Christmas wreath,
I've placed a smaller cedar bough wreath inside of a larger evergreen wreath.

Then,
I placed a set of mercury twin silver bells on a stand of the grey and white
wired ribbon and styled one of my signature 'fat' bows
to create this Christmas wreath.

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On the opposite side of the room,

atop an heirloom cherry end table,
I purchased miniature gold, silver and white ornaments
and tied them to my feather tree with black and white stripe ribbon.

Continuing around On Crooked Creek's Living Room

brings us to our natural and neutral color palette Christmas Tree.
( A more detailed view can be seen in this early post [ here].

At the opposite end of the room,

is an heirloom vintage Sewing Machine Cabinet.

This year,
I chose to make a neutral and natural faux evergreen arrangement
to accent the snow filled artwork and the bronze sconces filled with
faux evergreen boughs and pine cones.

My Santos Angel appears to be the perfect accent aside a golden orb.

Directly across from On Crooked Creek's sofa is our Entertainment Center.

I adore the handmade NOEL blocks "Mr. Ed" made many years ago!
They are the perfect size to compliment his heirloom Family Farmhouse Window!

In keeping with a simplistic design,
I used my 'brown paper covered books' to fill in the void

between the vintage oil lamps and the faux evergreen and pine cone garland.

On the open shelf beneath,
I filled my creamy ivory urns with gold orbs and filled in with faux cedar boughs.

Within the shelves of On Crooked Creek's Entertainment Center,
I added touches of neutral and natural elements to the existing design.

White bottle brush trees within glass cloches. . .

oversize ornaments within an heirloom McCoy bowl. . .

an optical illuminated Nativity Scene within a P E A C E Box
and a miniature porcelain Angel tree topper. . .

a pair of newly purchased wooden bells. . .

ornate ornaments atop a rustic wrought iron pedestal
and my Dad's vintage shoe stretchers. . .

and the French busts with a faux bough of cedar
combined with a crystal and mercury glass teardrop ornament
completes the Christmas decor in On Crooked Creek's Entertainment Center.

One last tabletop vignette featuring the candy dish from my childhood,
a faux cedar bough wreath featuring a vintage miniature silver tray ornament.

Simplistic styling with a natural and neutral color palette
atop each and every surface within On Crooked Creek's Living Room
has set a festive tone for our Christmas 2019 Celebration.



Until next time. . .