Apparently if you let the rabbits chew down the spirea to about a foot in height, the year after, they put on a good show. Believe it or not, but that was a "dwarf" I bought at Wally World for 6 bucks! It's now a good five feet high, and will get a serious trimming after bloom, as it's taking over that end of the bed. Hope everyone has a nice sunny weekend! The sun came out today after 4 days of overcast and cold. Don't need the earmuffs today!

Jeanne, beautiful display on your cabinet. Love your fancy deer with your birch tree. I knew it was you when I seen it. A basket with pinecones, lovely candle and lantern, under that neat picture. I remember your pheasants you painted for DH. That little chubby santa cracks me up. I thought he had his mouth open when I first looked. Apache Tears huh? U had me on that one! Love the old bottle caps in the jug and your pinecone wreath. I have a foot warmer messager under my feet right now but it's not as cute as your snowie. MR & Mrs and your ceramic Christmas tree is a must to see every year!Yeah Your canvas painted snowman on the door is so neat. I've never seen them that I remember any how. Let's not go there.haha Birds have come to enjoy your vine tree now!sigh Gorgeous scene behind your sweet little angel and votives. Oh, love your real female Cardinal picture. They are so Lucky to live at your home and so r we so you can share w/us. Your home must be exploding w/decor!woot,woot It's been so fun coming here and seeing all the decor this year. I tried to post on this post last night and it wouldn't let me type. Had a tough time at first tonight too but I hung in there and showed it who's BOSS!haha Punk

The chairs are entirely different story. I bought them off some antique dealers site on ebay from New York. Got all them for like $125 but it cost me a total of almost $600 by the time shipping factored in. Still a deal in "chair world". They had some hideous old gold brocade fabric on them. I refinished and recoverd them myself. They are two arm chairs too. DH was so worried that they wouldn't go with the table. "How can you know" he asked? And I told him... " I just know they'll be perfect... trust me". When they delivered them it was funny. they came at night when my husband 60's style band was practicing at night at my home. These boys have been together for over 40 years... since they were kids. Anyways, the delivery man was a Jamaican man who was not familiar with the music. So I told him to stay and have some dinner. (Had made baked ziti for the boys). "what's baked ziti" he asked. Well I sat that young man down to a big plate with home made bread.He devoured it and kept asking... "this is called baked ziti"... "seconds please"... He got up and sang some wiht the guys and was dancing. I gave a big fat tip and he left a happy kid. DH will no longer question me on my choices at all. He'll say, I never would have picked those colors/whatever... but it looks tremendous.

Oh, and my folks have been without power for the last few hours, along with hundreds of other people in this area. The winds are wreaking havoc with the power lines! My sis fired up their generator for coffee and TVs, plus they have propane for heat, so they'll be OK. Sure is miserable, though, even from inside the house! Some places north and west of us this morning already had 1-2' snow drifts from just a few inches of snow - that's how hard it was blowing!