Happy November dear readers. How swiftly did October come and go, much too soon to say goodbye to my favorite month!
“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
-Henry Rollins
Welcome to Monday Morning Blooms! I always look forward to the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month when I join my talented friends to share floral inspiration. I am excited that we are offering a wonderful giveaway. You will find all the details on how to enter near the bottom of this post.
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Matthew 5:5
For this edition of Monday Morning Blooms, I am in my happy place, the Sunshine Cottage! I suggest you pour yourself a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and get comfortable. I am cozy and warm as I putter around inside the cottage enjoying my cup of Snickerdoodle coffee.
Lidy, Mary, Shirley, and I are collaborating with The Magnolia Company to offer you a chance to win a fresh and beautiful hand-crafted wreath for the Christmas season.
The Magnolia Company graciously gifted each of us an eighteen inch wreath of our choice. I decided to place mine on the window above the counter in the cottage. The counter offers the opportunity to display a vignette or a table for two, I did both!
When the box arrived on my kitchen porch, I was excited to open my fresh “Colonial Trimmings” wreath. I was most impressed with how carefully it was boxed for protection as it traveled from Florida to Alabama.
“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks.
Make every day a day of Thanksgiving.”
-Charmaine J. Ford
The Magnolia Company Farm is located in Central Florida where sunshine and frequent rain showers blanket their groves of Southern Magnolia Trees. These two critical elements coupled with care and attention from their professional tree growing staff provide the foundation for producing beautiful magnolia trees. These trees provide crop after crop of vibrant magnolia leaves to be harvested. Each stem is hand selected for the perfect combination of a deep green, glossy surface and a rich copper, velvet textured back. This rich contrast is the starting point in producing their wonderfully designed wreaths!
The “Colonial Trimmings” wreath is ideal for the autumn season or Christmas. We are still very much in the fall season with Thanksgiving approaching soon, but I will also be using this wreath in my Christmas decor. Fresh Magnolia designs are hand-made with leaves from their family farm. The products dry naturally once hung or displayed, and can last for several years in their dried state with minimal care.
Below the wreath, I placed my trio of velvet pumpkins and a wool plaid one, nesting them on a bed of moss upon a distressed plateau. I have noticed it seems to be all about the pumpkin stems, have you?! I also love the addition of feathers to these handcrafted pumpkins.
English estate boxwood intermingle with fresh magnolia leaves while lotus pods, berries, and faux fruit create a rich medley of accents.
The Magnolia Company’s products have been featured in Southern Living, Southern Lady, Oprah’s O List, HGTV Magazine and other well-known publications. Not only have they been featured in print, but they have graced The White House and The Waldorf Astoria.
The lush wreath that I chose, “Colonial Trimmings”, is featured throughout the interior of the Southern Living Idea House in Nashville, TN, this holiday season. Hanging in their kitchen as a statement piece and around every window in the dining room this magnolia wreath is gorgeous!
A folded plaid throw softens the wood counter and gives a seasonal foundation for a tablesetting for two. The plate stack of rattan chargers, majolica dinner plates, Spode “woodlands” octagonal salad plates, and “always grateful” and “gather together” salad/dessert plates by Mud Pie combine for a fall setting to compliment the Colonial Trimmings wreath!
Sunlight peeked off and on through the window to bring light and shadows to the pumpkins!
Below is the beautiful wreath that Magnolia Company will be giving to one of my readers!
For a chance to win the 18 inch festive Magnolia Elegance Wreath valued at $131.00:
1) Visit The Magnolia Company and let me know your favorite wreath.
2) Follow The Magnolia Company on Instagram and/or Facebook and leave me a comment letting me know.
3) Follow me on Pinterest and/or Instagram and leave me a comment letting me know.
This giveaway is open to residents in the continental U.S. through midnight November 13th.
In addition to the giveaway, The Magnolia Company is offering my readers a
15 % discount with the coupon code Everydayliving15. This applies on all their fresh wreaths, as well as their bunches and branches of fresh Magnolia, Carolina Sapphire, and Golden Cedar Bunches. The coupon code is valid from November 1st through November 15th.
For more chances to win, be sure to visit Shirley, Lidy, and Mary via their links below.
Shirley ~ Housepitality Designs
Lidy ~ FrenchGardenHouse
Mary ~ Home Is Where The Boat Is
I wish to thank The Magnolia Company for providing me with the gorgeous Colonial Trimmings wreath and sponsoring this post.
Thank you for your visit and gracious comments. Wishing you a wonderful first week of November!
Linking with:
Pieced Pastimes, Between Naps on the Porch, Katherines Corner, Follow The Yellow Brick Home,
Imparting Grace,Life and Linda
Oh dear Pam…I am always so happy to see anything that you create in your beautiful Sunshine Cottage…love, love your Colonial Trimmings wreath…perfect choice for your home! The vignette of your beautiful pumpkins and you know how much I love your Spode Woodland dishes, just set the beautiful tone for the wreath. I would love to one day have a cup of tea and maybe a snickerdoodle with you in your most precious Sunshine Cottage. It is a great pleasure to be joining you today for this special MMB. Good luck to your readers!
Thank you, Shirley. I would so enjoy sharing tea with you!
Good Morning Pam, I love your autumnal vignette and table in the Sunshine Cottage! Your wreath is beautiful and ideal to make the transition from fall to Christmas. I love the accents of orange from your napkins, plaid stripe, pumpkin and candle pillars and long admired your velvet and fabric pumpkins with feathers. Your new ‘gather together’ and ‘always grateful’ plates are so sweet too! It’s always a treat to start my Mondays with you, Shirley and Lidy. I hope you had a wonderful birthday dinner and celebration. Happy November. ♥
Thanks, Mary. The birthday celebration was perfect!
Beautiful wreath! Favorite is Colonial Trimmings. I follow The Magnolia Company on FB and IG. I follow you on IG.
Thank you, Merilynn!
What a delightful way to start my day! I’m following you on Instagram and I also follow The Magnolia Company there.
Thank you, Martha!
Pam, you put together such a lovely vignette! I could spend hours sitting at the window and daydreaming with a cup of your snickerdoodle coffee. October flew by and we are looking at our first round of truly cold weather. Magnolia wreaths are beautiful!
Roxanne, it would be so much fun for you to visit the cottage. I know we could talk for hours!
I always love when you decorate in The Sunshine Cottage. My favorite wreath is the Feather and artichoke wreath.
Thank you, Gail!
Beautiful MMB post in your Sunshine Cottage. I love how you styled your velvet pumpkins with several kinds of moss for added color, softness, and texture. The feathers on your pumpkins add a special touch. I agree, the pumpkin stems draw the eye for variety and interest. Love your plateau and plaid throw.
The beautiful wreath is breathtaking and you have the perfect place to enjoy it. How lovely and generous Magnolia Company ‘s giveaway is!
My favorite wreath is Colonial Trimmings. I followed The Magnolia Company on FB and IG.
I also follow you on FB and IG.
Thank you, Bonnie. Colonial Trimmings is beautiful!
The wreath and your setting are lovely, but what I like best about this post is the quote reminding to be grateful. I try to acknowledge my gratitude each day.
I need reminders to be grateful and count my blessings. Thanks, Linda!
The Autumn harvest wreath is my favorite I follow you on Ig and follow Magnolia house on IG as well
Thank you, Judy!
Whenever you share the cottage I can’t get here fast enough, Pam! So much festive warmth and down home elegance here this morning!
How sweet, Linda!
Oh Pam, this is so so pretty! How clever you are to make your holiday wreath blend with your beautiful faux pumpkins to create a fabulous Fall vignette and tablescape! I love the way the wreath has the same colors as your pumpkins and it all comes together to say “here come the holidays!” I just spent considerable time on the Magnolia Company’s website, they have so many incredible wreaths! It is awfully hard to choose one favorite, but I was drawn to the Golden Merlot in the gold collection. I follow you on IG and will sign up to follow Magnolia Co, I can’t wait to get lots of inspiration from them!
Jenna
Thank you, Jenna! It is hard to choose a favorite, they are all beautiful!
This is tremendously striking and beautiful. It’s a hard choice, isn’t it? I lean toward Colonial Trimmings, but truly, each one is stunning.
It is a beautiful wreath, Jeanie!
Hi Pam,
I love the Colonial Trimmings wreath! I follow you on Pinterest and Instagram. Love your ideas!
Thank you, Pat!
Did I do everything necessary to get in line for your choice of a wreath? I did follow you on Instagram and Pinterest. My choice is the plain magnolia wreath because we had a big magnolia tree in our yard. Every year we used that tree to decorate our home and my sweet first cousin would make us and others a magnolia wreath. She is in her heavenly home now and magnolia trees don’t grow in Colorado. . Many thanks for offering this beauty.
Yes, I think you covered it all. Sweet magnolia memories, Alice!
In response to the question of which wreath I like best, I seem to be very influenced by each post that is part of this giveaway. I originally thought I could not choose, and then can up with a short list. The Colonial Trimmings was on that list of favorites, and now after seeing how you included in it your home, I am more impressed. OF course, to be honest, I have also been drawn to several others. What fun it is every first and third Monday to see what you and your other three blogging friends share with us. Thank you so much. MM
Thank you Marie for your sweet comments. The Colonial Trimmings wreath is a real beauty!
Beautiful photos! My favorite wreath is the Colonial Trimmings. I am following Magnolia Company on Facebook and I follow you on Pinterest.
It is a beautiful wreath, Marsha!
Beautiful wreath and I love your Sunshine Cottage where you can play with dishes and pretty things to your heart’s content. I hope you had a wonderful birthday this past week. Belated birthday blessings wished for you!
Thank you, Rita. I had a wonderful birthday!
Thanks, Pam, for this opportunity! A choice of a wreath is hard! I liked several, but I choose Little Gem and Berries. Have long been signed up with you, but I did sign up with Magnolia Company. Hope I win!
Thanks so much, Martha!
Hi Pam, Have followed you for years, and love your sharing of our faith. I have followed you, and The Magnolia Company, as well on both IG and Pinterest. …and Facebook! Since we are a wedding venue, I saw this company at market and fell in love with this line. It is excellence …and of course I recommend their wedding favors to my brides especially. My husband and I spent time earlier this fall in Williamsburg, Yorktown and fell in love with the colonial way of decorating…so I would LOVE to win this beautiful wreath and share it with one of our brides. Much love to you and thank you for the shout out to such a wonderful company. HUGS!!
Yes, their wreaths are beautiful. I love Williamsburg!
Hi my friend…Your sunshine cottage is adorned so beautifully as usual. You have such a talent for details and I would love to be able to play house in one like yours someday. However, we live in a city/town with very strict ordinances and they don’t allow separate structures without lots of red tape and plenty of ‘lot space’ and high costing permits and specifications, so I will live vicariously through your lovely cottage. 🙂
I have to agree with most of your followers…My favorite wreath is also Colonial Trimmings. I followed The Magnolia Company on FB and IG. ….and I have followed you on IG and Pinterest for a long time now. 🙂 I hope you had a great birthday, I will be celebrating mine (Praise God) on the 13th of November…your cut off date for this give away. I normally don’t participate in the give aways because I always feel there are others who need it more, but I have always loved the Magnolia Company as I adore the background story and the magnolias! I guess I have considered myself a ‘steel magnolia’ ever since that movie of the same name came out. LOL
Blessings to you and Butch always!
Thank you, Kari. I had a wonderful birthday. Wishing you a blessed upcoming birthday♥️
Hi Pam, I always love the warm vignettes you put together in the Sunshine Cottage! There are so many beautiful wreaths, how can you choose?! I did narrow it down to the Golden Garden wreath but it was tough. I have followed The Magnolia Company on IG and have followed Everyday Living on Pinterest.
Thank you, Debbie. It is hard to choose a favorite!
Hi Pam! I like the Colonial Trimmings wreath, although I admit it was difficult to choose just one. I am following The Magnolia Company on Facebook and following you on Pinterest
It is hard to choose a favorite!
Pam my favorite wreath is the red collection I follow you on pinterest and Magnolia on instagram
Marion
Thank you, Marion!
How beautiful your decor with the gorgeous magnolia wreath! And an awesome giveaway! I have followed you and The Magnolia Co. Their wreaths are amazing! I am in love with the Prairie Collection wreath.
Thanks so much!
Love the feather and artichoke wreath, but they are all wonderful. I follow you on Pinterest!
Yes, they are beautiful!
Wonderful vignettes and great giveaway! Blessings,dear Pam!
Thank you, Maristella!
Pam, The Sunshine Cottage is beautifully adorned. Love the gorgeous wreath mixed with the pretty pumpkins. I do believe the natural stems and feathers add so much to the pumpkins. Your tablescape is perfect. Can’t believe it is November already! Enjoy your week. Clara ❤️
Thanks so much. Happy Tuesday, Clara ♥️
I love your site and all the wonderful, beautiful ideas you create. Seeing them is such inspiration to me. Thank you for sharing your gift and talent. My favorite Magnolia wreath is the Sugarcone. I love the variety in the wreath. Have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Thank you, Carol. Blessings~
How I love spending time with you at your Sunshine Cottage! What a lovely way to start my day! Your wreath is quite stunning! And I think snickerdoodle coffee sounds delicious!
Happy November!
Thanks for spending time with me this morning. Happy Tuesday!
Such a opportunity to be able to have a chance to win a beautiful wreath from Magnolia Company. I love the Simple Cedar wreath- I am sure it smells amazing! Monday Morning Blooms is a favorite, thank you ladies you always deliver!
Thank you Denise!
Good morning, Pam! That wreath looks gorgeous gracing your beautiful Sunshine Cottage. I was just on their website the other day, and loved the very wreath you were gifted. I think it’s perfect because it works for both the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. It certainly compliments the pretty autumn display you created. Happy November, sweet friend!
Thank you Shannon. I plan on using the wreath during the Christmas season! Happy Tuesday!
Pam, this is a beautiful addition to your Sunshine Cottage. The velvet pumpkins and place settings look beautiful with your wreath. The magnolia is definitely one of my favorite trees. I love wreaths and these are surely some of the most beautiful. Wreaths can be used in so many ways. Eager to see how you use it many times during our holidays. Yes, October flew by but I tried to take in every precious moment. Blessings!
Thank you Dianne. We have a magnolia that we planted when we built our home. It is almost 43 years old. I love using their leaves during the Christmas season! Thank you dear friend!
The wreath you chose is beautiful. I so enjoy your posts. Your home is beautiful and the pictures you take are beautiful. I so enjoy your Sunday posts. I do lots of praying as I read them and enjoy the pictures. The wreath I would choose for myself is the Original Magnolia Wreath. I love the beauty of the Magnolia leaves, both the front and the back. Thank you for sharing Monday Morning Blooms. The flowers are lovely and the arrangement to are such a delight to see. Enjoy your family and this lovely time of the year.
Thanks so much, Lu Ann. Wishing you a beautiful November!
Dear Pam, your cottage is beautiful, as are all the wreaths. Someone is going to be so lucky, not to mention thrilled! Have a wonderful day and remainder of the week.
Thank you, Sandra. Take care my friend!
Pam, I love all of your beautiful Fall decor in your Sunshine cottage. The colors are so warm and vivid. All the wreaths are very pretty. Who wouldn’t like to win one? I hope that you have a blessed November. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
Thank you, Cindy. I hope you are enjoying some fall weather!
Hi Pam. Magnolia is a beautiful website. . I love the Prairie Fields collection but everything is very organic which is my style.
Thank you, Vicky!
I like the “Seasons Bounty” wreath. I follow your e-mails. Love your pictures of nature and your grandchildren and your beautiful flower gardens.
Thank you, Donna!
Pam, it’s always so delightful to join you in you Sunshine Cottage! Yes, please, I’d love a snickerdoodle coffee! ( that sound SO delicious!) Your setting is so lovely, with the wreath hanging above it. I can imagine you serving lunch or tea for very special (little) guests – how they would love that. It’s always such a blessing to join you on our Monday Morning Blooms, dear friend. xo Lidy
Thank you, Lidy. I would love for you to join me for a snickerdoodle coffee!
What a lovely wreath you choose. It will transition beautifully from now through Christmas and certainly does go with your Spode Woodland dishes.
Thank you, Karen. I always get excited about Christmas decorating!
Hi Pam, what a wonderful way to start my day by discovering your blog. I loved seeing your Sunshine Cottage and the beautiful way you decorated. So creative the way you mixed the wreath with the pumpkins and other Items used to decorate your tables. I love the mixture of the different pumpkins. Just lovely. All of the wreaths are beautiful at The Magnolia Company. One of my favorites is the Merlot Valley Wreath. I’m following them now on Facebook and of course you on Instagram! Thank you for the opportunity and for providing your readers with such beautiful inspiration.
Such a beautiful wreath you selected, and it will certainly carry you thru this entire holiday season. Living now in Arizona, live mangolias are indeed a rarity! It is difficult to select a favorite, but mine would be the Golden Garden wreath. Thanks to you, and the Magnolia Company, for this opportunity.
Pam, I think all the wreaths are gorgeous on the website but I am partial to the Dr Colonial Trimmings wreath. I already follow you on Pinterest. I now follow Magnolia Wreath. Happy Friday!
Thank you my friend!