Christmas 2010 - Kitchen

I {heart} my kitchen.  An addition to our home a few years ago took my kitchen from tiny to the kitchen of my dreams.  I enjoy adding a few decorations here and there in the kitchen with each season.  A favorite decorating spot is the shelves on either end of the cabinets.  To the left is my Santa boot collection and to the right are small Lenox Holiday pieces, a collection started in high school.

The chalk Santa on the top shelf and the plastic skier Santa were my grandmother’s.  The boots were purchased in antique stores over the years.

Each Lenox piece was a gift.  It’s nice when you collect something because it makes it easy for friends and relatives to pick out something you’ll like!

I enjoy hanging a seasonal tea towel on my stove.  This one was purchased at the King Arthur Flour store in Vermont.

My newest Christmas decoration purchase is an egg nog set that I found last weekend for $18.  I couldn’t pass it up for that price.  The cookie cutters were my grandmother’s, the Santa mug was my great-aunt’s, and the Santa ornament was my brother’s first ornament, given to him by my grandmother when he was a newborn in the hospital.


Looking this way you can see my second Christmas punch bowl set.  I think I just may have started a new collection.


The other side of the kitchen hold my very favorite appliance, the coffee pot. 


I used more of my Lenox and a vintage flower pot to add a Christmas touch to the coffee area.

Are you ready for the weekend?  I sure am!  It has been a week of longggggg days and I’m definitely ready for some down time.  I also am looking forward to blog reading.  I’ve had almost zero reading time this week and I can’t wait to catch up with my favorite bloggers this weekend. 

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