Deco Mesh

Christmas Home Tour 2017

December 18, 2017

Christmas Home Tour 2017


The Christmas Home Tour 2017 at Kopy Kat Kottage starts
as you come down the street. Festive and bright big lollipops
and other types of candy greet you in the front yard. Normally
we don't have snow at Christmas time but we did get a little 
dusting last week here in Alabama. Since it does look more
Christmas-y, we'll look those pictures. 

If you want to know how to make your own big candy for Christmas, birthday parties,
 Candy Crush events or just for fun here is the link "How To Make Big Candy".


Want to know how to make a curly deco mesh topper for your



Each of the six windows across the front of the house has
a deco mesh wreath in the same colors as the candy. 



The front door is surrounded by a deco mesh garland
embellished with more big candy. 

A Christmas tree made of painted burlap adorns the front door. 

Come on inside to get out of the cold!
There is not much of a foyer at the kottage...you are
practically stepping into the dining room from the front door. 

While the theme outside is colorful, child-like and playful,
 inside this year is mostly whites and greenery. 

Honestly, I am not entertaining much this Christmas so I'm 
not going to pretend to put out a table setting. Two white
boxes are pushed together to make one long greenery 
arrangement on the dining room table. 


The (now) white hutch behind the dining room table also
 has  Christmas greenery in (now) white vessels.

The glare from the old wavy glass in the hutch makes it 
hard to see in pictures what is behind the glass. 
I'll open the doors so you can see what is behind the
glass more clearly. 



Also in the dining room is a buffet.

It holds a large greenery arrangement made of various
stems of holly, magnolia, cedar and boxwood. 



As we leave the dining room...

...a statue on a pedestal also is adorned with greenery.



The largest greenery arrangements are in the living 
room on the mantel. 


We rarely have to use the fireplace. I made this firebox cover with faux log slices. 

I recently got this faux window frame to put in my 
bathroom actually but I am using it on the mantel for now.

The holly and magnolia stems seem to hold up the best.
Artificial stems of red berries were also added to the real.

A single bookcase is to the left of the mantel.

This terra cotta Mother and Child was my mother's.



There is a double bookcase on the other side of the mantel.








Across the room from the large window is a sideboard.

Christmas cards are displayed on framed chicken wire. 

At night when the battery operated candles come on the
room is especially cozy. 



Just a little decorating in the kitchen...





...and at the backdoor.




Thank you for taking time to join my Christmas home tour!

I'm sharing this post at these blog parties...
Amaze Me Monday @ Dwellings
Metamorphosis Monday @ Between Naps on the Porch
Show and Share @ Coastal Charm
Inspire Me Tuesday @Thrifty and Chic on a Budget 
The Scoop @ Cedar Hill Farmhouse & others
Wow Us Wednesday @ Savvy Southern Style 

Best Valentine Ideas

January 12, 2015

Best Valentine Ideas



Here are the best Valentine posts that have
 been on "Miss Kopy Kat" blog. 

Click on the highlighted text above the picture to go to 
the actual blog post to see more details. 

The most viewed post for sure is the one that shows how to 
make deco mesh wreaths.  It had a round wreath and a heart-
shaped wreath. This post was done before deco mesh was 
readily available and was my first attempts at using deco mesh. 

If you would like to see more deco mesh tutorials that I have done since this post,
click this link Deco Mesh Tutorials or the text on the navigation bar at the top of the page. 

Another deco mesh wreath that was done a year later for
Valentine's Day is a lot bigger...

The most ambitious Valentine decor that I have done was 
decorating the living room with vintage-looking papers.

Here is the mantle...
Vintage Valentine Mantle

This is a tutorial for one of the wreaths...

... lollies made from aged book pages and ribbons...

...and another vignette in the room also...

The dining room hutch that same year had a different look
 than the living room using mostly Dollar Tree items...

A fun and inexpensive gift idea also from that year...

This last idea could be used any time of year for parties, weddings,
etc. but I used my Valentine roses to experiment more with
submerging flowers. It makes your flowers last a long time and
gives a dozen roses a lot of visual impact. 


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