“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:5
Hello sweet friends, I am so glad you are here. Welcome to day three of our Inaugural Monday Morning Blooms special Christmas tour! I am excited to be offering a fabulous GIVEAWAY, so you will want to make sure to read to the end of the post for a chance to win!
If you are new to Everyday Living, we are blessed that our days at home are spent in the country on about 25 acres in the Appalachian foothills. We always have a country Christmas!
As you step up to my small front porch, you will see and smell the fresh greenery. The beautiful wreath is from Lynch Creek Farm, a family owned business since 1980. It is surrounded by fresh pine garland that My Renaissance Man cuts each year and hangs on our porches.
It is always a pleasure to join my blogging friends Shirley, Mary, and Lidy. We are extending a warm welcome to our new member, Yvonne of StoneGable. Each of us is offering a giveaway. You will want to visit these talented ladies and comment for a chance to win! The links are provided at the bottom of this post.
Since we live in the country, I chose Winter Adventure, a rustic wreath with a sweet red cardinal and a white-washed birdhouse. Frosted ponderosa pine cones, faux red berries, and a gray and white gingham bow adorn the wreath made of noble fir, incense cedar, juniper, and white pine.
Adding color on the porch is a sweet little rug featuring a red truck!
Using a garden urn, I placed a grapevine wreath to add support for cypress, cedar, apples, and a hurricane candle stand.
There isn’t enough space for much else on my porch!
As you open the door, you get a glimpse of our tree in the family room. Come on in, I have prepared a little treat.
Today is only a mini tour of our family room, you are invited back next week
to see more.
For my coffee table, I chose the Wildlife Centerpiece. A pair of red cardinals and their nest accent the lush greens of Western red, incense, and Port Orford cedars embellished with a red candle and hurricane holder.
In the background of the centerpiece is a nativity that I always place on my hearth. It is the center of our Christmas!
I decided to simplify this year with small touches of Christmas scattered on this side of the room.
We love a good appetizer before dinner and I prepared a new recipe that I will be sharing soon. These Cranberry Brie tarts with orange marmalade are delicious especially served with hot spiced tea!
A new Christmas pillow from TJ Maxx suddenly appeared in my shopping cart a few weeks ago. I also added a faux garland to the oil painting, just a little merry and bright touch!
Thank you for your sweet visit, I hope you enjoyed yourself. And now for the all important GIVEAWAY!
Lynch Creek Farm has generously offered to give away the Winter Adventure Wreath to one of my readers!
To enter the giveaway leave me a comment telling me your favorite Christmas carol! How easy is that!!!
The deadline for this giveaway is midnight (EST) Saturday, December 8, 2018. The giveaway is limited to residents of the continental U.S. only.
Please be sure your email is correct in the comment section so that the winner can be notified and the wreath will arrive in a timely fashion for you to enjoy for the holidays.
For more chances to win, please visit my Monday Morning Blooms friends and comment according to their direction.
Mary of Home Is Where The Boat Is
Shirley of Housepitality Designs
The Monday Morning Blooms Tour Lineup
Monday
Mary • Home Is Where The Boat Is
Tuesday
Shirley • Housepitality Designs
Wednesday
Pam • Everyday Living
Thursday
Yvonne • StoneGable
Friday
Lidy • FrenchGardenHouse
Thank you dear friends and have a joy-filled day!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes,, Dwellings-Heart of Your Home, Savvy Southern Style, French Country Cottage, Stone Gable, Confessions of a Plate Addict, Worthing Court, Between Naps on the Porch, Cedar Hill Farmhouse, A Stroll Thru Life, The Charm of Home, Katherines Corner,Petit Haus, Follow The Yellow Brick Home, Vintage Mama’s Cottage, Marilyn’s Treats Eclectic Red Barn, Love Of Home, My Soulful Home, Celebrating Everyday Life, Little Farmstead, Starfish Cottage, Rustic & Refined,The Freckled Rose, Life and Linda, DIY 180, Celebrate & Decorate, Sweet Sensations, The Dedicated House, Shabby Fufu, Designthusiasm, Imparting Grace, Calypso in the Country
Your porch is lovely and the center piece is stunning! Don’t enter me in your wonderful giveaway, as I already won a Lynch wreath from another giveaway.
Congrats on already scoring a win!
My favorite is “I’ll Be Home For Christmas “ because I wish everyone could be.
How charming your Christmas vignettes are!Inspiring as ever!Great giveaway!Hugs!
Thank you so much Maristella!
There are so many beautiful holiday songs (and so fun to play on the piano), but my all time favorite is Silent Night. P.S. Your decor colors and furniture are just my style!
Silent Night is my favorite Christmas Carol; the older I get the more I truly enjoy the Christmas season! Great ideas for the porch and I truly love the red cardinals!
Your home is beautiful! I, too, love Silent Night because it always reminds me of the sharing of candlelight at our Christmas Eve worship service. It is steeped in family memories for me of many previous years.
Love your home and how you decorate for Christmas. Just beautiful! My favorite Christmas carol is Silent Night.
My favorite carol is O Come, O Come Immanuel. Love your teacups. I have the same pattern. ?
Merry Christmas?
I love your wreathes they are so beautiful. You home looks so cozy and comforting. I was a music teacher for 42 years and just retired, so I miss singing all of the beautiful carols with my kids at school, I think my favorite has to be Still, Still, Still. Merry Christmas from Texas
So beautiful, Pam! I love Joy to the World!!
Inspirational. I love OCome O Come Emanuel
Just ONE Christmas Carol? So hard to pick a favorite, but for the doctrinal truth and beauty of the melody, I’m going with Hark the Herald Angels Sing. The line, “Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die,” perfectly captures the beginning and the end of the babe in the manger. This is my first time to visit your blog and I love the peaceful, beauty of your home. Merry Christmas!
My favorite is Mary Did You Know.
I love your porch I can’t wait to decorate mine.
Merry Christmas!
I am so enjoying each day’s offering of beautiful Christmas decor. And, today it was your beautiful home that conveys the warm welcome. I love the wreath and centerpiece that you featured. Cardinals are a family favorite so you had my attention right on the porch. Thank you for sharing. For years I traveled hundreds of miles to be “home” for Christmas, and naturally my favorite song was, I’ll Be Home for Christmas”. As time and generations passed, I no longer had to travel, home was right where I was. I now have people coming to me. And with this shift, while the old song will always be special, I found great joy in “Oh Holy Night”. Wishing you a very special Christmas. MM
Your home is beautiful! I love all the fresh greenery. My favorite Christmas carol is “O Holy Night”
Your home is just beautiful! I love all the fresh greenery. My favorite Christmas is “O Holy Night”
Thanks for sharing your beautiful home!!! My favorite song is the one you sing about Mary and baby Jesus. Sorry, I don’t know the name of the song.
Silent Night of course. Thank you for the offer.
I am in love with the bow on this wreath.
Your home is gorgeous! My favorite song is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ?
This is awesome! I thought last year was over the top but the simplicity will take your breath away! Absolutely love it! Out in the country it truly is a ‘Silent Night’.
One word about your Christmas decor: BREATHTAKING! I love every festive detail. My favorite Christmas song is “Mary, Did You Know.” Enjoy your week, dear Pam.
Lovely decor, my favorite carol is Mary, did you know by the Pentatonics.
Beautiful! My fav song….Joy to the World!
Pam, your country home is so rich with textures, patterns and color! I love your choices from Lynch Creek too. Like you, I use several different looks throughout my home – country, whimsical, traditional…it’s so had to choose just one, and different areas of the home speak to how to decorate, I think.
Have Yourself a Merry LIttle Christmas I do believe is my favorite carol. Reminds me of those who have passed, and the importance of enjoying those still with us. XO
My favorite carol is What Child Is This? because it relates to the reason for the season. Your sneak peak is lovely, I especially love your sofa and that gorgeous pillow that jumped in your cart at TJ Maxx.
My favorite is Little Drummer Boy. It is so pure, the essence of the Christmas spirit and makes me shed a tear on occasion. Merry Christmas!
Your room is so beautiful! A trip to TJMaxx for that pillow needs to be in my immediate future. I chuckled over your comment about simplifying the decorations…I said that too until I started opening all my boxes and kept thinking “I have to use this, I love it” until all the boxes were empty! I have made up a jar of my mom’s spiced tea recipe so I shall look forward to your tarte recipe. My favorite joyous carol is Angels We Have Heard on High. Silent Night always makes me cry.
Hello Pam, just found your blog today and enjoyed the tour. Your room looks so festive, cozy and inviting. Enjoyed reading your testimony, thank you for sharing your faith and Christ’s love for us. I never get tired of listening to Christmas music so I don’t have a favorite, but Hark the Herald Angels Sing always lifts my spirit.Merry Christmas!!
When I drove past the front of my house, I thought, “My wreaths are so plain you can hardly see them!” So now . . . I know what to do! I’ll add a few pops of thingamajigs like you’ve done. It’s so pretty and really shows up against the greenery. Very pretty and festive! I love O Come O Come Emmanuel, but rarely hear it because it’s not a toe-tapper! Thanks for the good ideas as usual.
Your home is gorgeous and so beautifully styled for Christmas! I just love Christmas and all of the beautiful songs of the season so it’s hard to pick just one favorite. But I would have to say one I look forward to each season is O Holy Night. It’s causes my heart to stir with thoughts of Christ’s love for us!
I am a FIrst TIme Visitor and I can almost smell the pine…Love the front door wreath …So glad I was directed to you by Housespitality Designs.. It is so hard to pic just one…I just can’t…So my top 2 favorites are “Silent Night” and “O Holy Night”…I want to thank you for sharing your lovely home with us.
Hark how the bells all seem to say throw cares away. Seems like it should be so easy. Love your country Christmas.
“Walking In the Winter Wonderland” by Paul McCartney because I live in south GA and we don’t get many snow days. I always think of a beautiful snow covered church and children playing when I hear this song. I just found your blog via Stonegable and so glad to be here! Merry Christmas!!
What a feast for the eyes & encouragement for making the most of our season! Loved it all & reposted on my page for my friends & relatives to share! My favorite Christmas son is Beautiful star of Bethlehem by Terri & the Chiggerhill Boys. Be sure to look for the video on YouTube! Merry Christmas to all! XO
I am looking forward to seeing a clearer photo of your lovely nativity. I have an interesting one handmade by a well known New Mexico artisan with a Native American (I think a member of the Dine) shepherd! I sing my favorite hymn, “What Child Is This” all year long to my youngest granddaughter at bedtime. Eliza loves it too!
Joy To The World !!! Always will be and always has been ever since I heard The Ray Confiff Singers sing it. There is Joy in your with home and so inviting. JudyCinNC
Love the wreath and greens around your front door,I bet it smells wonderful ! One of my favorite Christmas songs is Come All Ye Faithful.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful decorations. My favorite Christmas Carol is Silent Night!
Your home is so beautiful! I have barely gotten started decorating and would love a fresh green wreath to bring that terrific fragrance into my home. I have so many favorite Christmas carols that it would be difficult to choose just one. Almost each Christmas song has a special memory for me. I must have liked “O Holy Night” as I was growing up, taking piano lessons, as it is one that I can play best. My father used to sing, “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” to me (wonder why?), so that brings special memories of him, now gone. And in church I always liked when we sang “We Three Kings.” I could go on and on–Christmas is my very favorite time of year!
Thanking you for sharing your Christmas decorations. Lovely. I love all the fresh greens you have used.
My favorite carol is also Silent Night especially sung by Anya the Irish singer.
Lovely, as always, Pam (dare I say stunning?). Looking forward to Monday Mornings now… just read about it on Yvonne’s blog. So fun! My fave carol is “Oh Holy Night” (sung by Andy Williams is the best, IMHO!) Hugs!
Such beautiful richness of color & texture Pam! ♥
Blessings,
Jennifer
Thank you Jennifer! Blessings~
My favorite Christmas song is “O Come O Come Emmanuel”. Thank you for sharing your love for Jesus through your beautiful blog. ?
Beautiful. Enjoy your blog. My favorite Christmas song is “Silent Night”.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful home all decked out for Christmas. My favorite Christmas Carol is The Little Drummer Boy.
Beautiful!!!! Lynch Creek Farms has gorgeous items! My favorite Christmas Carol is Silent Night
Silent Night
My favorite song is Oh Holy Night. I enjoy listening to the crooners sing their Christmas carols. Yes, I am old.
O Holy Night is a favorite of mine. Thank you for your lovely and inspirational posts.