Winter Decor

From the sounds of it most people around blog land have been rejuvenated by the New Year.  I took down all of the Christmas decor and generally de-cluttered, but I think I am in a little post Christmas funk.  After everything has been put away I feel like my home is empty, and I haven't found any type of motivation to get crackin' on remedying that.  That was until Courtney over at A Thoughtful Place re-posted about a little DIY project she had done about two months ago.  I read her blog daily and don't know how I missed that post as I have been eying that cable knit bowl and vase she has for months!  I won't re-post the tutorial as I followed her exact cable knit vase tutorial here.

So now that I had some fun new pieces to work with I decided that I would start in my entryway.  As those of you who have been following for awhile know it got a little spruce up with a stencil wall, but I still hadn't figured out what I wanted to display in the cabinets cubbyholes.   I fell in love with the Arthur Court dog treat bowl while remodeling one of my clients kitchens a few years back.   

See it there on the counter next to the cake dish?

  

I had this on our kitchen counter for awhile as well, but it was just getting in the way.  I moved it into one of the cubbyholes, and added toy baskets to the bottom shelves where little sticky hands like to grab.  Below are what look to be like the same photo, but look closely they're different.  We had tried installing undercabinet lights in this cabinet years ago when we lived in our first apartment.  We about blew up the place trying to attach the plug to the wires and gave up.  While at The Dollar Store I picked up a few battery operated lights, and while they give off a slightly blue tint I didn't blow the house up!

No Lights

Lights

 

 

Cable knit vase check, dog treat bowl check, under cabinet lights check.  One room down, fifty billion left to go {who am I kidding, I live in a ranch}!  I do need a little of your help, see that bowl with brown ball looking things in it?  Little man and I picked those up before Christmas to make a cute wreath, but then I got to laying around busy and didn't get to it.  Now I don't know what to do with them, any ideas I'm stumped.