With the onset of the cabin project I have come to love rustic decor more than I ever dreamt I would.  Before the cabin, it wasn't really my thing.  Now I can't wait to get started on the planning and design of the rest of the house (that will attach to the cabin some day), retire, move there, and be mountain rustic every day.

Until then, I will have to be satisfied with spending vacations and holidays there, and if regular rustic decorating has turned out to be loads of fun, rustic holiday decorating has turned out to be truckloads of fun.  



So far we spent last Thanksgiving at the cabin (can't wait to spend Christmas there and launch into Rustic Christmas) ...below are some highlights of what our first cabin Thanksgiving looked like...


Lots of texture and simple details...






My mom's dishes are now the cabin dishes and using them brings back many memories of every day meals and Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. Another reason to love being at the cabin.



The stag flatware was a Bass Pro purchase, not a place I would normally consider for decor, but I was trying to use up a gift card, and at the time these were perfect for our 5th wheel trailer.  Now they are perfect in the cabin.







This guy was also my mom's.  He sat on her fireplace mantle for years and was usually featured in her holiday decorating.







Sadly the pine cones from our pinon trees are small, squashed-looking little things and just don't work well for pine cone decorations.  I'm sure I got the pine cones on the table from a craft store...kind of silly for someone who owns 15 acres of pinon-juniper woodland, but the conifers with the nice looking pine cones are at higher elevations here.