As I always do, I’m using traditional Christmas colors of red and green in the kitchen. It just goes in there so well, so I go with it and it is my happy place of Christmas cheer. But I have to say, every year it gets more difficult to come up with fresh ideas as a blogger. I don’t go out and buy all new stuff and these things I have collected over the years and love it all, so I just can’t change it. I know it probably gets a little boring to see and as a blogger, we are “supposed” to do things all different from year to year, but it’s hard to do that for me. I can’t see changing things all up so here it is again! You’ve seen it all before, since this is my 10th Christmas in blogland.
I know that reality is many of us do not go out and buy all new things. I try to freshen up my look every year, but for the most part, it’s very much the same. Hope you enjoy!
I did change this up a bit this year and added this old green box to prop my tree in that I found antiquing last year. The color worked perfectly with my Christmas decor.
The tree is still in a red and white metal cylinder and sits in the box.
I love all the sparkly red and green in here, it makes for a festive kitchen during the Holidays.
I collected these ornaments years ago and still enjoy getting them all out.
You might notice there’s a new red and green wreath in the kitchen too! I made this one out of an old grapevine wreath I had, so I’ll be sharing the how-to later this week. I haven’t gotten my hot glue gun out in ages, but did for this project. The biggest ornaments came from Tree Classics and they are shatterproof. I really love how it turned out, it adds so much to my kitchen. Ribbon is from Michaels.
Better Not Pout little sign is one I’ve had for years and fits right in on the wreath.
More of my collected red and green than I’ve had for years. These cheery Christmas colors are the best!
Over on my rustic wall shelves, I just added some pretty red and green things to liven it up for the Holidays.
Red tulle, boxwood wreath, and different ornaments scattered around makes it all festive and cheery.
I love boxwood in so many settings. The Fa La La towel I’ve had for a long time too, probably came from Homegoods.
A little skinny hand painted Santa that came from a friend long ago.
Just by adding pretty and special ornaments on a shelf, it’s an instant way to add Christmas to any flat surface.
I always add this little assortment on my window sill above the sink and love staring at it during the Christmas season. Red bottlebrush trees, nostalgic Santas and a couple of faux paperwhites I picked up while in Birmingham, are the stars of the window. A few little shiny ornaments scattered around add a lot to the season.
My little chalkboard in the kitchen got a crowning Christmas wreath touch.
Along with a Christmas towel and a peek to the dining room, that’s it for my kitchen tour. Thank you as always for stopping by and celebrating Christmas with me!
Love it all Rhoda! The red and white ornaments look great with your green kitchen.
Rhoda, I have more respect for you since you use your items again and again like most folks. Yes, it would be easy to go to HobLob and Michael’s and start over with a fresh plan every year, but that is extravagant and lessens the value of keepsakes and treasured family items. Folks can and should do whatever they want to….new or old or a combination, but I love that my family prefers to see many of our same items year after year. Your post was still very inspirational, and I was inspired , for example, to place some pretty vintage ornaments here and there like you did.
HI, Melanie, thank you for saying that. I do sometimes feel like I don’t have enough new and exciting things to share for Christmas and the blog tours all look so fresh and pretty and picture perfect. I just have to enjoy my own house and be inspired by everyone else. I do feel that blogland has created a “buy more” mentality so much and I just don’t want to always be pushing that.
Everything……and everyone…… is beautiful…….in their own way ! I like your Christmas kitchen alot !!!! I appreciate your philosophy, which is one I embrace also. I grew up with parents who were raised in the Depression-era and they never wasted not and certainly did not have alot of “things” or get alot of gifts for Christmas. We’d do well as a society if we’d focus less on ‘getting’……perhaps your lovely parents can relate! The relentless pursuit of acquiring more and more is exhausting .
Everything looks just beautiful Rhoda. Thanks so much for all the great pics! I especially love your very fancy ornaments sitting on shelves, and your new red and green wreath in the kitchen! Yours is a Christmas House for sure! Thanks for sharing and giving all of us great ideas!
Rhoda, I love your Christmas photos. Trust me we can’t remember certain objects or photos year to year!! I enjoy your blog and am inspired by it. Just getting things decorated and looking so good are an inspiration to me.
I love your Christmas kitchen, Rhoda. In a throwaway society, I find this not only refreshing to see, but also cheerfully inspiring.
Rhonda I think it is refreshing . I am so tired of all the same looks in blog land white white and more white with blue stuck in there. It all looks the same . I have a 12foot radko tree with tinsel and I don’t ever change it. I enjoy your blog
Rhoda it all looks so festive! I love the fact you reuse, those things mean something to you. I find some bloggers just switch pillows and stuff around way too much and there is no real content to their blog. Your blog is excellent. You keep things real and stay true to yourself. Keep showing us your cute self and home however you choose! Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas season x
I think it can be challenging to come up with new ways to use things you’ve had for years. I overheard a conversation at a gathering I attended yesterday, a woman saying her mother had put out the same things in the same places every year and a number of her companions said their mothers did the same thing. I like to use the things I love in new ways, both for my pleasure as well as my guests, who may recognize something from last year just because it’s in an unexpected place. It messes with their heads, lol.
Glad to see a blogger reuse their stuff. That is more realistic to the way the rest of us do it. And thank goodness for the red and green! I am so tired of all the bloggers doing white. I love traditional Christmas colors.
I love your Christmas kitchen. I remember your old kitchen in Bham and how you used the brighter Christmas Green and Red and I will confess, I “stole” some of your ideas. I have lots of those colors in my dining room.
Rhoda – I never tire of looking at your kitchen especially at Christmas time!! Your ornaments and decorations you’ve collected over the years look so pretty together! It just looks so ‘happy’!!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
Celia
It all looks amazing. I love the ornament wreath and the decorations on the shelves. It must be so much fun to be in the kitchen enjoying all the Christmas. Love it all!
I enjoyed your Christmas kitchen post. I don’t go out and buy more stuff either at Christmas because I don’t even use half of what I already have. I just get some out and set it up. It is usually in a different place each year because I never remember how I used it last year. So that is the new for me! Your kitchen looks very festive!
Your decor looks grand to me! Like one person stated, who can remember EXACTLY what you used last year and where…I can’t always remember how I’ve decorated from year to year. LOL
My late-mother in law used the same decorations for the 30 plus years she was in my life and she NEVER veered off course at putting everything in the EXACT same place year after year. I had my eye on her vintage nativity scene with the little wooden stall and had asked to own it in the ‘distant future.’ Sadly, in her latter years, she developed dementia and mysteriously one year most of her Christmas decorations disappeared. We never were for sure if she accidentally threw out the nativity or if one of her sitters enjoyed it a little too much. All this to say, if your mother or in-laws, or whoever has a treasure you’d like to keep in the family think about how to do that before it’s too late. Merry Christmas, Rhoda.
Hi, Becky, thank you, that’s a sweet story. My mom doesn’t decorate much for Christmas anymore and she has already passed on the boxes of Shiny Brite ornaments that we had growing up. I’ll use them now and eventually pass them on to my niece, Lauren, for her to use with her family.
Love your traditional Christmas colors. I too agree with Sherrell. I don’t get these white or neutral colors unless you live at the beach. Also I think you can overdo it too. Some trees have so much stuff on them that they look like department store trees. I am trying to learn that I don’t have to display everything I own. Simple is better. Everything you do is just enough and is beautiful.
Thank you, Cindy, I do use more neutrals in my living room and dining room, but it just seems to work better in those rooms with my furnishings. I’ve always had a mix of gold and silver and really enjoy those neutral metallics. But my Shiny Brite tree in the den is really pretty too and I’l be sharing all of that as well.
What they all said! Many of us use the same things and just change it around a little for a fresh look. I know I do! If I buy anything new, I usually get it at a great price at after-Christmas clearances. I always keep in mind if the new will go with the old. I’ve been reading your blog for years and years, and was delighted to see the bunny lamp make an appearance in the kitchen. I’m a bunny lover, too, and always keep one or two out no matter what time of the year (along with MY bunny lamp). Your home is a classy and beautiful, just like you. I’ll never tire of looking at it, and it’s always inspiring!
Love your kitchen!
I love the red and green! I don’t spend any time looking at a blogger whose home is decorated in all neutrals especially at Christmas. Christmas time just begs for lots of color! Thanks for sharing your home with us.
Rhoda, for one, I think most of us who read blogs can’t remember who has what from year to year……so it’s always new to me! Secondly, I think it takes more creativity to use the same things different each year than it does to buy all new. Most of us can’t afford to replace Christmas décor yearly anyway. SO….make no apologies! It’s cheerful and lovely and most importantly is a reflection of you and what YOU LOVE!
Rhoda, your kitchen looks lovely. It doesn’t bother me one bit that you don’t competely re-do your room(s) each year. I like that you live in the real world with the rest of us. Seeing you decorations gives me inspiration each year.