Cardinals and Christmas in my Kitchen

I have always loved Cardinals!  

I remember when we first moved from California to Michigan 

and I saw my first Cardinal outside the window in the snow.  

I was in love.  

I took this picture last winter from my kitchen window.  

Thank you telephoto lens you kept me warm inside 

while I snapped away.  

This Cardinal hangs around in a tree right outside the kitchen 

for most of the winter. 

I watch him as I make coffee or do dishes.  

So I thought it was fitting that I filled my dish cabinet 

in the kitchen with sweet little Cardinals 

that I found last year at Target.  

Besides, they fit my red and white decor and dishes perfectly.

I haven't taken my red and white transferware 

out of my dish cupboard since I found it 

at an Estate Sale this summer.  

I have found a few more pieces and I am always hunting.  

I like to mix the old and the new, so I placed some 

William's Sonoma dishes that I have 

in with the red and white.  

These are the 12 days of Christmas salad plates.  

More "new" with the old.  

I'm always afraid of things looking too much like 

Grandma's house so I mix it up 

until I find the right balance.  

Crate and Barrel mixing bowls 

and an old Johnson Brother's platter pair well.  

Just a little greenery and some fluffy snow 

and you get the Christmas feeling.

Little mini stockings from the dollar bin at Target 

mixed with a runner from an Estate Sale.  

Vintage stockings hang below.  

My toile linens are wrapped up like a gift 

with a green grosgrain bow.  

I think it's going to be Christmas for a long time 

in this dish cupboard!  

I love this arrangement.

Of course you know that I decorated the top of the cabinet.  

More transferware in the lantern and an ironstone platter that I embellished by sticking letters onto it.  

Don't worry they will wash off.  

My new olive bucket is filled with real and fake greens.  

I tucked in a toile pillow for color.  

I hung up my new transferware pieces 

above replacing the green plates that hung there.

Yep, that's a lid up there too!  

Well, sometimes you have to improvise right?  

It's so pretty I can't let it sit in storage.  

I hope your decorating is going well.  

I loved having the music on and trimming the tree with Miss Beaux yesterday (OK, I had to bribe her with a Starbucks).  

We had fun looking at all of the old ornaments 

and laughing together.  

That's what the season is all about right?  

Mixing the old and the new... 

and a few Cardinals too!

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves,

XO Cindy

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