Centerpiece Party at Funky Junk

Just gonna post some past centerpieces...for Donna's Party! 

 outside at a family Easter... 


                                                  A springy sewing day...lunch  

wild flowers...I use them all the time, can't beat 'em...

 Thanksgiving

 flowers from our tree for my "tree house"

                         a baby shower...

a country wedding...

a librarian's retirement...

 

 old mason jars...

A wedding shower...brown snuff bottles...

a retro  baby shower...

A January icy blue wedding....love the rock salt!

my bathroom centerpiece, lol

another wedding...the base are cardboard tubes, cement forms...the same used for the Thanksgiving centerpieces...and I just used them this week with brown lace paper on them...

I have a bunch more...but I've probably lost most of you by now...but the main idea is I decorate for lots of parties and I use what I have...a little differently each time...and I think adding a little vintage touch makes it substantial in some way... classy.

I did a really fun retirement party the other day and went to a great wedding, but didn't have my camera for either...I am slipping~

Publish Post

Lezlee

Yep, the Christmas Tour, AGAIN!

I know, I know, I've done sooo much about one room and a hallway...

AND here I go again!
I promise, no more after January! 
I'll save the rest for next year~

This chicken coop wire piece is  Moma's, leftover from her selling days...Market Hall, Edom, Town East Mall, and of course her "Smidgen Shop", to name just a few...

It resembled a stable to us...

My sister, Beverly did all the hard work of putting the lights in back and hanging the curtains...I did the roof with lights and branches...come to think of it, being the youngest sis, I did most of the high up stuff, lol...For the whole room, I brought in a whole pile of branches and when we were through we had used ever last twig, like I had measured or something.  

It all seemed to go together in this way...

Now, for some close ups...

The roof...

Panther paw paper spelling out our EXEMPLARY rating!

I love how the white ornaments looked against the rusted tree...
The white just gleamed when the candles were lit!
Have a great weekend!
LEZLEE

red leather club chairs

Yeah, yeah, I got some new big people furniture, too...

BUT, it just can't compare to my new grandmoma furniture!

Spoiled Grandmoma
LEZLEE

Parade of Homes Tour: The Mabank Village

Mabank water tower and the churches...Church of Christ...

Presbyterian...

                                                                   Methodist....

Boe's Cafe...a wonderful memory for many Mabank folks... with an active modern day e-mail club following. A place where town folks, pull up a chair, in front of their computer...poor a cup of coffee and promote the town's goings on, brag about grand kids, pray for the sick, go down memory lane and gently  shoot the breeze. It is a wonderful on line community, headed by the son of Boe's Cafe.

Bowls filled with amazing ornaments, pine cones, and snow...

The hardware store, remember when I blogged about, Where I come from, well this was the building we "cut through" to get to Market Street...the back of it faced the house, where I was born...

The old ice house...notice the blocks of ice out front.  When I was growing up the smaller part on the end was where my daddy played dominoes, with a bunch of other old men...Daddy would be 100, if he were still here.

                                               The movie theater where I lost my...

                                                                                                           first tooth!

First Baptist Church~ where I was baptized!!!  Central Baptist was also made, but I'm not finding a photo.

The village was nestled all snug in the garland...

while  visions of branches and pillars flickered  candlelight

as winter white penguins pranced up  a ladder and

  peeked through cloches  wanting to frolic all night!

Many of these buildings are sadly gone now, but thanks to the creative talents of Mary Ann Odom, local resident, who was Hallmark's very first consulting stylist, among many other distinguished achievements,  designed our village and along with the Garden Club members hard work and burnt fingers, we have these precious replicas to cherish...I heard a few comment this Christmas, saying as long as they had some sort of a tree, the Nativity, and their Mabank Village, that would be all the decorations they needed. I know I wouldn't take for mine.

These villages seem especially dear at this time.  New Year's Day we awoke to this...

Yes, we lost another building to fire, between tornadoes, fires, "progress"  and don't forget a flood, a tole has been taken on Market Street...  So thank you, ladies, who worked so diligently on our Mabank Christmas Village and thank you Dick for being the keeper of our small town memories with Boe's Cafe! But mostly, the biggest thank you to all of our fire department, police and city workers  and all the other folk, who took care of us on  New Year's Day.

I'll leave you with a happier picture...

 Lezlee

P. S.  
Josh made a replica of our house to go with my village, but I am to tired to hunt up the pics, another time...